Show DUTY IS URGED ON Former Forer Resident of Utah Declares res This State Should Be Interested Now ow York Tork City Aug AU 3 3 1921 11 To To- 0 the Mining Editor Salt Lake Tele 11 gram gram gram-aty My Iy Dear Dur Ir An As Af one of the old time residents of f Utah and being all al my life In n the mining business I 1 very naturally wish vIii to see ace 80 my old horne home state tate realize everything possible from hr wonderful mineral min mm- eral re resources 0 and this period of ot readjustment readjust readjust- mont ment Is calling for tor tho the but best efforts from he the best belt brains of every evey state In this country coun coun- try tn ry to protect and ond advance the tho common interests of their respective citizens citizen I am sin very vor keen to have ha Utah l do O h her r utmost to assist and and back baek up our ever willing and anI Intelligent representatives at Rt Washington In lit their heir efforts efort to prot protect ct Utah's Utah most prom- prom sins Industry mining and especially the vanadium ore ores orel In this conn connection I have hae ben been brought broucht Into nto cios cloo touch with the tha importance of ot our protecting the rf adlum adlum Industry of ot our country and as Utah ranks second In Production Importance I am om wondering If I our OUI mining men inca are sufficiently sufficient sufficient- nth nt- nt ly h y alive Alvo to tho the neu necessity of Immediate and tron strong prot protests ts being sent to our enta tl lives thes a a against the free admission of ot tho tIme va vanadium va- va a nadium or ores It I to ro happens hAppen that I 1 have hao access to the tho most reliable data on tho time vanadium situation sit sit- and I 1 am om submitting some somo very ery Important Important Im Un- Inside 1 that should bo be Interesting Inter Inter- esting to every ery and mining man manIn manIn manIn In Utah and cause caus him to In some somo sma way AY assist as al' slat the tha protest that Is II no now noe being put forth for I firmly believe that the vanadium products product of or Utah soon will prove proe to be at wi least leant ono one of her very ver beet bett bet asset Most rost sincerely OEO GEO T T. STENHOUSE VANADIUM STATISTICS I. G I Tho The Inside facts bets re referred to b by Mr r. r Stenhouse Stenhouse Sten- Sten hou house e are contained in Iii the he following Vanadium which as u a a ste steel l alloy played such an Important part in the World war I In Is II supplied principally from Peru anti and and Ih the the- United Stat States 8 A J tabulation from the re report report rOM re- port of ot f tho tito United States geological sur sur- ye 1 cy published June une 9 1920 I Is as IS follows follows- A to worlds world's production of ot vans vana 1918 1912 1 1 11 pj g O g gl a g c an g 4 O l aa i C S E e 09 J r i p 0 l a ac J Jo c. J. J n c C i p 1912 1013 2 1914 1014 4 I 1915 HI 1916 1917 21 1918 1224 76 Totals The average yearly earl production from th sources was pounds pound of oC vanadium l pounds of ot which camo came from Crom this tha cou countr country a try Th Tho United States ores ore from which this production has haa been recover recovered d aro are i and van lul le which are found Inthe in inthe inthe the four tour states of ot Colorado Colorado Utah Arizona and Ind New Mexico More alore than 80 SO per por POI cent of this United State production camo came from tho the field of ot Colorado operated b by the Prima Primo Chemical company which company Was wan wal purchased In January 1920 b by tho the Vanadium Corporation of ot America operators operator of ot the Peruvian deposits Various expert estimates Indicate that there thero Is available In this country sufficient bodies of commercial vanadium ores to supply tho the wants of the world for Cor several leveral generations generation to come Conducting its business In tn tho the usual and prevailing fashion the Vanadium Corporation ot of America has hu purchased pur pur- chased chood Its la only successful competitor tho the Primes Prime Chemical company and after a decent decent doCent de do- cent hesitancy has hal closed cosed It down dawn Indefinitely reporting to Its 18 stockholders that it 11 holds holda these thee bodeis in reserve and passing the tha word to those tholo anticipating a similar investment in- in vestment estment that It It Iliad had been badly badly stung ITS TS USE DESCRIBED Vanadium is II an nn es essential component of rlou metals metal used In Sn airplanes warships ordnance arm armament ment tanks automobiles etc elc and in high speed steel Is b Isn ba isa a n necessity whether used with tungsten or molybdenum Vanadium In JI various forms forma Is I u used d aa no a mordent In dyeing as al a Q catalyst for tanning etc etc and and i It 1 seems altogether probable that Ihu properly fostered this Industry industry Indus indus- tr try can bo be built buit up UI to gr great at proportions As Asa a 0 prime factor in the doing doln of this It I I. I essential that foreign ores should pa pay a 8 duty sufficiently heavy to allow the United States State ores ore to compete This principle is 1 II ful fully ed In building up tiles ulel and anI In this Instance should bo be 26 per percent percent percent cent ad The he benefits to be derived from this tariff are arc l first The First Tho operation of ot the companies handling ores ore tho the larer opera operal operation tion ton of ot tho the properties whose whole principal principal prin prin- cipal byproduct la is vanadium oxide and anI an opportunity for the properties to nake mako a profit These hese various various' ore bodies arc are scattered over tho states of Colorado Colordo Utah Arizona Arbona and New Ne Mexico and anI their operation would give added employment to thou thousands nd of now Idle eV en e and bring In much new nev capital Second Second Second-In In time of war there thera theo is la an Immediate Im lix- mediate necessity forr for large larso quantities of oC this valuable nIo alloy and and our national safety would bo be much be Imperiled two dependent depend depend- ent on ore shipments from abroad Third A Third A revenue of upwards upward of 1000 would bo be annually obtained Under nor nor- norI I mal mat conditions condition around three million pounds pound of vanadium are ar handled by tho the American Anion Ameri II can companies I Fourth Fourth Fourth-A A fair tall opportunity for tor an important im Ira Am American n industry to succeed and not b bit bo compelled to compete with cheap foreign labor I |