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Show S. L. Mines Station Increase Asked WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 WPt-An Increase from $75,570 to $106,670 In the appropriation for the Salt Lake City bureau of mines experiment experi-ment station for the 1941 fiscal year was recommended to congress Thursday by President Roosevelt In his budget. The Salt Lake increase was the principal change in appropriations recommended by the president for mine experimental stations. The total recommended appropriation appro-priation for this purpose was $552,-000, $552,-000, up $10,000 from last year. Total appropriations recommended recommend-ed for the following amounts: Pullman, Wash., magnesium, $20,-000, $20,-000, decrease $6100; Tucson. Ariz.., southwest ores, $14,160, unchanged; un-changed; Reno, rare and precious minerals, $23,200, unchanged; Seattle, coal and ores of northwest and Alaska, $20,150, unchanged; Boulder City, electrometallurgy, $68,460, unchanged. Dr. R. F. Dean, chief engineer of the metallurgical division for the bureau of mines in Salt Lake City, said he had not been informed in-formed as to what items the president's presi-dent's recommendation includes for the Salt Lake City station. |