Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-28 | Page 26 | Chile Smelting Spurs Activity

'CHILE Sf.IELTIIIG SPURSACTIVITY ' MIDVALE The United States Smelting Refining and Mining company's com-pany's contract to refine 1800 tons of Chilean lead ore and concentrates concen-trates sent as an Initial shipment, and 500 tons a month thereafter, will Insure steady operation of the company's Midvale smelter for at least a year, officials reported .Thursday. . After six carloads of the or were assayed and weighed at the Utah Ore Sampling company plant In Murray the cars were removed to the U. S. S. R. M. smelter here, while another 10 carloads were expected ex-pected to arrive from Los Angeles late In the afternoon via Union Pacific. The ore is transported by burros from mines In the Chilean Andes mountains to Antofagasta, Chile, then by boat to Los Angeles harbor. Ordinarily the ore from Chile mines Is smelted in Germany, but the European war brought fears that British or French warships might halt and confiscate the shipments ship-ments on the high seas. M. Wallace Woolley of Salt Lake City, U. S. S. R. A M. ore purchasing manager, said his company obtained the contract con-tract to refine the ore after spirited bidding with other domestic smelting smelt-ing and refining plants. ,