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Show MLVE CITS SET IS PRICHF IC Government's Action Is to Aid Properties in This District. WASHINGTON". Feb. 14. President Wilton today approved an agree me nt reached by the war industries board and the producers of prado "A" zinc fixing a maximum price of 12 cents per pound, f. o. b. Kast St. .Louis, subject to revision on June 1. A maximum prion of II cen's per pound for plat zinc, f. o. b. at plants, and lo cents per pound for sheet ziii'-, f. o. b. at plants. v,as i'ioJ, subject to the usual trade discount. Announcement that a price on prime spelter had been decided upon by the government w;w martt: Several days aco in a private wne di.-p.it' h rt-veived by Hadu-cr Bro: lu-rs of Suit 1 a K e , but the !nforn;ation that the announcement was premature, to say the least, came a few davs later from A. Mn'-ktmzie, e-re-larv of tiie I'tah tdmpter of the American Mininvr con-i e.vs, vi )io was in Washington. Washing-ton. Fixir.ar the prive nf prime v.nc at 12 cents v. :!l be of material assistance to ft n'unVT of properti-s oueraiini: in tlie In-t In-t ermonntain ccuntry wmch ha e sul'ered e-n-tr-.-lv during re?ent months iioiiS'1 of t"- market price. Tlie pev;u!nc Pi ires were so low, in fa-t. t!.at rranv f the progenies wore prarii.-aily compelled to ?:c;vnd prod uc: ion of zinc ore--. It s beli-v.-d thai tiie prh-o named by the cov.-riiment will permit practi' ally all zinc properties in tiie int errnounta in region to market their ores at a profit. |