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Show FIRM STUDIES USE OF UTAHALUNITE If Utah alunite can be produced on a commercial scale and at a favorable price, the Reynolds Me-tail Me-tail company of Raleigh, N. C, has offered to take the entire output of the plant of Aluminum, Inc., of Marysvale. The Reynolds Metal company, formed to compete with the Aluminum Alum-inum Company of America, last week obtained a loan of more than $15,000,000 with which to establish a plant to produce aluminum alum-inum for army use. When formed, form-ed, the company announced it would make aluminum from bauxite. baux-ite. Representative Abe Murdock, and Tom Monk, president of the Marysvale company, interviewed the Washington attorney and the chief engineer of the Reynolds company, and interested them in alumina, produced at Marysvale, as a substitute for bauxite. Mr. Monks' contention was that aluminum alum-inum made from alumina has greater tensile strength than aluminum made from bauxite, and he further represented that the Marysvale plant, if reasonably expanded, ex-panded, can treat 150 tons of alunite a day, producing 50 tons of alumina. The Reynolds Metal company, which already has its $15,000,-000 $15,000,-000 loan from the RFC, has not decided where its plant will be established. It is being urged to speed up the erection of a plant, because the available supply of aluminum is far short of even present army demands and new sources of supply must be developed devel-oped speedily to insure success of the airplane program. For that reason the mines department has asked Mr. Monks to rush his sam ples,, and to quote them a definite defin-ite price on alumina if capital is furnished to expand his plant to commercial size. |