Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-15 | Page 15 | [Illegible] Mines File War Relief Claims

Jem mines FILE V.WAR RELIEF GLIB 1 . iminission Will 'Start Tour I to Include Salt Lake , Early in June. . 1 r-. ' "; "alms otrffresatins In amoint $152,-fhav'e $152,-fhav'e been nied up to date from the en 'states of Utah, Idaho and Nevada, th'o war minerals relief commission, jordins to the Mining Congress Jour- 'bs commission, composed of mining , lineers. mineralogists and geologists, ' -f- i leave Washington. P. C, early in; to make a tour of the west, beftin- V at Little nock. Ark. From there . t will proceed to Tucson, Ariz.; Cos Lies and San Francisco, CJ.: M.-.1-h Portland and Baker City. Ore.; Spo-,,' Spo-,,' wpsh ; Salt Lake and Denver, fr . 'hi oi'ject of Iho commission will be '-s.Hit and settle the clalm.s of those j nranies which operated at the request the government in producing war mtn-I mtn-I - l and which did so at a loss. The l;E con'-c-s voted a sum or $S.500,0OU ; the rulief of such companies, n L'tah five companies which mined rcanee will claim relief for a total n ot '"0OU; one company, for mining Ijtes S-o'JO, and one company, for min-v. min-v. ! tnnssten, T0o0. n Idaho, one company mined mansra-j-ie and claims JL'O.nOO, and one com-'l com-'l ' y fur- mining pyrites. $5000. In Nc-la Nc-la five companies which mined man-lese man-lese claim relief that totals 53000, and ( tungsten companies claim a total of '. Spurr has been recently appoint-'bv appoint-'bv the war minerals relief commis-ir-t' n to conduct physical examinations of ";i properties of those companies In Hi which have tiled claims for relief 3i the commission. Mr. Spurr has al-dy al-dy begun this work, it is stated.