Show hi AH ORES MAKE tINE T GANNON of Eastern S. S j Here to toi i Obtain Materials resenting manufacturers of high high- guns s F. F W. W Horton Is at the Hotel on ts his Is way to investigate Utah de- de mineral used in Lui lof molybdenum a of modern weapons lorton has been for twenty years I with the federal bureau of Quantities of molybdenum are I 1 0 exist In Little Cottonwood I n rag Traces of the metal were found district some time ago by David Davidr r Jbf of Salt Lake Small quantities also been found in parts of Colo- Colo and Arizona has recently attained ex- ex eluse e in the manufacture of armor- armor I lg It is an Hn excellent tute for tungsten Until the out- out war Americas America's supply of the reame from Australia but since denum has been practically the United States as no ef- ef aseen made to develop the coun- coun deposits overy of the use of the metal as an tant factor in the manufacture of I weapons must be credited to the ms Years before the European I ii ke e out German engineers found I i etO tto to which molybdenum could be bed d cornered the entire supply from This put the Germans in almost the worlds world's entire sup- sup only a short time ago that orld was waa Informed of the use to I the metal was put when the allies alUes ed several guns on the western m He i is s also representing the i ment in the countrywide search II posits of the metal While he is umber of private corporations he hat before leaving Washington he with the heads of the department and that it is desired h he naval guns throughout the en- en merican fleet be equipped with this o Armed with such metal he says 0 ted States would be enabled to toIling advances in the Invention Inventions s Horton will be at the Hotel Utah veral weeks investigating the def de- de of f the metal in Little Cottonwood A Should the deposits be as great claims he says immediate steps aken to produce It By mining he claims the state of would give to the government one greatest assets of wartimes BT |