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Show N31I1HT PUNS TO BUWGM5E Secretary of Interior Is Authorized Au-thorized to Purchase Ores. Utah Company Is Prepared to Furnish Big Tonnage Without Delay. Aih:onin to wonl nM'Wvcd yc-jtcnliiy from Washington, tho director oi' tlio bureau of niinos, acting umhir Secretary of tho Interior Lane, lias been ;ivcn lull authority to inako purchases of inananpsc ore and pyrites for the government. gov-ernment. Jrlt will bo readily recalled that not ifuuiy months ago, tho government, in r pursuance ol: action taken by congress, took stops to encourage tho cxUnsivu devclopniciit of manganese dposi Ls in the west, and al.-o thu development ol various other metal deposits. Some of 1 ho big manganei deposits of Utah; pari icularly thun in the Krickfon rlis-V rlis-V triet of West Tin tic, were examined Sby government experts and niado the Mibjeet of exhaustive reports, which were carefully considered beforo the pasture pas-ture of the war minerals bill. Response Is Prompt. In. Utah and all over the west there was a prompt response to the government's govern-ment's plana for securing speedy opening open-ing of manganese deposits, as Well as those of other metals desired for war purposes, and much capital was speedily invested by numerous individuals, who naturally built their hopes upon the i government s assumption that the war would eon tin no for at least a not her year. Now that the war is over, manv of theso who started development work at tho instance of tho government rind themselves facing a critical and difficult situation. Senator Kirvg;, at tho instance of prominent mining men and other t'tiihns, has, after eonbultatiou with Secretary Lane and li rector Manning of the bureau of mines, been assured that tho government will continue, for a time at least, t lie purchase of both ma nganeso and pyrites. Tho senator was alt-o promised that the government would stop the importation of manganese man-ganese from Spain and pyrites from Brazil in order that American mines may have a continued market for their output. To further guarantee the production pro-duction of American mining interests, Senator King is urging tho war trade board to generally bar tho importation of theso products until the market sup- . ply lias been exhausted and all these j ores now mined have been disposed of. 'This is the best news that we have hear.) for a long time," said Thomas I'. MeCarty, president of the Liberty Manganese company, when told of the government's lieHaiou in regard to continuing con-tinuing the purchase of manganese ore. ' ' The question of a permanent and stable market for our product has been ho unsettled that we hardly know what to do, but with a market assured we are ready to proceed promptly to tup-I tup-I ply a considerable tonnage." Significant to Utah. i 1'residi-nt MeCarty was in runsnlta-tion runsnlta-tion yesterday with" Captain S. Smith, ! ol' the h'rni of Smith & Green, I'restou, j Idaho, contractors and ore haulers, who ! are already sending down a large num-i num-i b'T of teams, wagons and t rucks for j ore hauling from the properties of the 1 Liberty company, situated about twenty-eight miles out of Lucern. Captain Smith said that ho was pre-p;i pre-p;i red to put on twenty-four six-horse teams and two big motor trucks, and that, six carloads of his outfit was aJ-rendy aJ-rendy on the way. He, said that the Liherty company had ten cars of ore ready to haul and a tonnage in sight that would seen operations on a largo scale for a considerable period. . |