| Show FATE OF UTAH ALUNITE TO BE LEARNED SOON Decision by Ickes on Bohn Bonn Proposal Due This Week The fate of or Utah's proposed alunite development han hangs In the balance this week That was the opinion expressed Monda Monday by Gus P. P Backman executive tive live secretary of the chamber of commerce who has just returned I from a week seven stay In Washington Washing Washing- ton D. D C. C where he served as ns legislative legislative legis legis- observer for Salt Lake City Cheap power will be the thc ruling condition on which development of ol the thc Marysvale alunite deposits will stand or fall faIl he said C. C B B. Bohn president of the Bohn Aluminum and Brass company of ot Detroit De Dc- troit which hopes to process Utah alunite Is in W Washington this week conferring with army engineers and officials of the bureau of oC reclamation on the power question Mr Backman said o Power Considered Mr Bohn Boha seeks a quotation on cost of power to be bc generated from the Bonneville dam darn In Oregon it was explained He hopes for a quotation quotation quo quo- tation of ot less than a mill per hour Bonneville Is the only feasible source and unless power can be obtained ob ob- ob tamed at a price In that scale development development devel devel- of the Marysvale alunite would be impossible in competition with the aluminum trust the Detroit executive believes according to Mr Ba Backman n. n Secretary of the Interior Ick Icks s recently recently re re- re- re forbade quotation o of power prices until the Bonneville dam is complete it was said Three weeks ago however a complete analysis of alunite processing plans were vcra laid before the the- government by the die Bohn company and ind Mr Bohn hopes for lor fora lora a decision this week Utah Plant Planned Should development plans work workout workout workout out as is hoped a plant to reduce alunite to aluminum oxide will be located in Utah it has been decided Such a plant would use 25 per cent of all power generated at the Bonneville Bonneville Bonne Bonne- ville dam which it is expected will turn up kUlo an Mr Backman ck Jan predicted early fa fa- fa action by congress on the bureau burea of mines bill Should the measure measure p pass ss an additional appropriation appropriation of would be available avail able for the enlarging and improvement improvement improve improve- ment of the thc U. U S. S bureau of mines station at the University of Utah Potash Loans Unlikely Con Congressmen r probably will no not p pass s a bill to allow making of R F C loans for lor the development development- o of Utah potash deposits It was reported Strong Strom opposition has formed to an amendment by oil interests to apply ap ply the bill to petroleum development develop ment as well vell A bill to permit the federal gov sov to purchase private property proper proper- ty in the Uintah and Wasatch national nation national al forests has passed the senate and andIs Is now before the house Mr Backman Backman Back Back- man said This act would clear the way for tor buying of land above the Davis county flood area and would be of great benefit In developing winter winter win win- ter sports and other recreational ac activities ac- ac Would Boost Airmail Payments Both senate and house members are arc sympathetic to efforts cHarts to increase payments to airmail companies Mr Backman reported At present companies com corn panics operating out of Salt Lake City do so o a at a loss he said The U. U S. S reclamation bureau has hase hasset hasset set e aside with which to start the Great Grent Salt Lake project but work cannot begin until complete plans are drafted it was re re- ported Preliminary su surveys estimate estimate esti esti- mate total cost at Mr Backman urged that work on the Deer Creek project be started with all possible speed It should be well vell under way by June 1936 he said After that d date te funds will have to be obtained through direct congressional appropriation and un tin- less lw a good show of progress can can be made it may prove difficult I Fort Seeks More tore Money toney I An additional ion of is sought by the army for lor construction work at Fort Douglas With the increase of the army to men about additional soldiers will be stationed at Fort Douglas and it is possible that the thc fort tort may become become be be- come a brigade headquarters Mr MT Backman said This possibility depends lar largely ely on the fate tate of ora a bill proposing to commission corn com mission more moi-e officers Efforts to secure an army air base In Utah continue although the movement movement move move- ment appears to have lost Jost force Mr Backman reported The main maln conc concern rn now he said Is is to win passage of a bill bIU setting up up a base in the thc Rock Rocky Mountain region re re- gion Thereafter there will be time enough to seek a Utah site |
