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Show ' lliinu Hkis ton. The r. i-f simi- lur to tl: i.iw.s vu- had Jj y...:r.;vv. . it is f.juud :ii i!;i(''T stall', v. h' .).' tu:-j tu:-j vuiiiH r.i ; vvuni d'i'.vri s i' nuiffial 1:1 tin: Y:ihs h:is 1"'' 11 v.'.'i-l.'.-'l ;i'.v:'.v, ! I'-avin; this wo: fr:i r:i i : r In ;h' din ::nJ j -il ream bir.ia. J have T : 1 1 i : t with a ! number ot p.Mi.li. who hav-' ln'Lii :u those field and imported l'rwn tin-in, ;u:'l they tell use its fast as a il. -po-.it was found the pf) (.-' would hock there from ali over the rnuu'ry, fnruiers aril all, and hoin mining tliis deposit, and in fomc places tlicv were very rich. ''I rememher a story of half a do.en coolies who found a deposit on island, across from ilouukun, and t'nt-y took out fr-'io.oiju worth of ore ia a t'-:w weeks. What there is lilt of those deposits, nobody knows; Ihat is, nobody no-body of any responsibility th.it 1 know of knows. There have been very lew while men I know of who know anything any-thing about tuns'.Ml minine; ill China, and we have no reports that are reliable re-liable of how mueh is left; but I am quite sure there is noini? to be a lot of ore come out of there yet, because tl.iey have not Kitten down to nui'iir,' the veins. Active in Burma. "In Burma they are milling both veins and placer deposits. As you Jtnow, Burma is under the British nov-ernment, nov-ernment, and their costs have been very low. They have had a lot of rich deposits. The Jlermerinny mine lias published a cost of less than nine shillings shil-lings per unit. That would brinj it' down, as I remember, counting the exchange ex-change and all, to pomelhine; like $J.ou' a unit. The ileryui mine is in south Burma, and the 11 ermerinyy mine is in northern Burma, ninety miles from a railroad, and they can lay down tungsten tung-sten ores in London at 7 a unit, at a prolit. I have that information from a consulting; minine; engineer hero and i um sure it is correct. "Xow, you can yet all soris of prices h-etwecn those in till those countries. "Bolivia is perhaps the third largest larg-est producer. Tho mines there are not quite so confined to the tin mines as some think, but there are many tungsten tung-sten v,eins which aro mined solely for the tungsten. And theso have been taken up by men of all nationalities, and especially by tho Germans and English. The Germans have teen in there for a long while, but the English En-glish make a special effort to get hold of all such mines, of course, because they expect to make that the basis of foreign trade, and they own some of the very best mines there, which do produce both tungsten and tin, and they also have as by-products copper and bismuth. Tlncir production will still grow, but it is not altogether cheap mining. "Portugal is the next largest producer, pro-ducer, the largest producing country in either Europe or Africa. The Portuguese Portu-guese mines can probably produce from 2000 to 3000 tons, if properly worked, per year." j TBlElllIS TO BE PRIMED House Passes Bill Friday Which Puts High Tariff on Metal. Chinese Take Wolframite in Large Quantities From Beds of Streams. Tho oullook for the tunsn industry, indus-try, which is ot' considerable importance impor-tance to mining men of the west, has brightened wilh the favorable report mado recently by the house ways nnd nieans commit U:o on tins tariff Mil providing pro-viding adcfpialo prot ection, and the passage pas-sage of said bill Friday by the house. The bill provides: "That on and after tho day following the passap-o of this act there shall be levied, collector! and paid upon the articles arti-cles nam,'d herein, when imported from tiny foreign counlry inlo tho United States or inlo any of its possessions, tlu; rati'S of duli.'s which are herein prescribed, namely: " First. Crude tungsten, ores and concentrates, $10 per unit of tungsten trioxido therein contained, a unit bcin herein defined as 1 per centum of tung-Htic. tung-Htic. trioxido in a short tou of 12000 pounds. "Hccond. Molallio tungsten, tungsten tung-sten powder, ferrot unslien (lump and pulverized), ferrotunyslen powder, commercial com-mercial tiiiiKstie acid, calcium tunHstatc, sodium tuiinstate, and all other salts of tungsten and other manufactured materials containing tungsten, incliid-iiiK incliid-iiiK hi(,'h-spoed tunKshen stool, all alloy steels containing tungsten, and all other compounds containing tungsten not specifically provided tor in this section, $1 per pound of tungsten contained con-tained therein." Hess Gives Testimony. Data of an interesting nature on the tungsten industry was given recently by i1. h. iicss, in his testimony before tfio ways and nieans committee. In tho course of his testimony, Mr. IIcss said: ''In this country wo have thrco principal prin-cipal fields: the Atolia field of southern south-ern California, which is practically confined con-fined to one mine, t lie mine of the Atolia Mining Co. There are a number of smaller veins and somo placer deposits, de-posits, which are located in tho one lit tk) village of Atolia. This Atolia Mining Co. mine produces a mineral known as shcelite, and it is the rich-- rich-- est tungsten mine ever discovered in tho world. It was discovered about 1905; or in that year, at any rate, tlho Atolia Mining Co. took it over. - I think it was found tho year before. They had, in the first place; in the Hopo Pass vein, a vein which was three fei't of solid shcclite. Hchcclito contains con-tains about SO per cent WOil, or eighty units to the ton. Just at tho time the war caino on, or after the war got going ahead and tungsten got up to tho highest price, in ono of the veins, Union 'o. 1, they had a vein that car- ricd nine feet of rich ore, and they sold that ore at the very highest prices; bo that that is one of tho very prosperous pros-perous companies. That mini; produces somewhere in the neighborhood of one-third one-third of tho total production in the United States. Nevada Field Is New. ' ' The second field, in Nevada, has been a coninarat ively recent addition, and is a totally different type of tungsten ore. There granito has been thrown up in the limestone, and with the ores that came up with the granite a little tungsten tung-sten was brought, and this has deposited depos-ited in tho limestone and changed the character of tho limestone altogether, and it looks nothing at all like limestone. lime-stone. And there is this little thin deposit of tungsten in tho limestone. It may be a foot broad and from three to 1000 feet long, or half a mile long, as it is in one case, and a few feet broad, and varying all tho way. There is no steadiness to the amount of the deposit. They had gotten into full production, pro-duction, that is. they had gotten into much larger production about tho timo the war closed. They produced something some-thing like S00 tons ot' ore last year, or a littlo less than that. "The third field is the Boulder field, in Boulder county, Colo. There they have a series of small veins which widen out into little rooms or pockets. And that field and Alolia have been teetering back and forth, as to which made the larger production. Becently t he Boulder field has been making tho larger production. But many of thoso mines aro cleaned up, and many of the deposits are completely depleted. The Primes Chemical Co., which was one of the largest mining companies there until last year, has dismantled its mines nnd actually gono out of business. China Is a Large Producer. "The largest producer outside of the. United States is China. Tungsten ore was found in China in 1917; that is, the first production that amounted to anything. They produced about 1300 tons of ore. In 1P1S they shipped some- |