Show SUPPLY SU PlY OF OFIS CYANIDE IS THREATENED BY BYAR WAR Owing to the war ar In Europe and Jid ae the subsequent of ot output the United Unie States Smelting Rc Refining and Mining com company I cannot be depended depend d upon to furnish an any common stock dividends according to the Boston Dolon News Bureau Burau The Bureau says ea's The Th war In Europe ha has haa not only made nece necessary ar a curtailment of ot output by y tho the United t 2 S.-n S. hi tr and Mining company but strangely elY enough It threatens the comp company's ns supply of ot cyanide without which Its It big ble silver stiver siver mining min mm- log big operations In Mexico ar are ara seriously I affected ar With Its Hf sliver silver mines cose closed down don or at best worked on partial time this Important important Im Im- im- im department of ot the company's company's revenue revenue and and provides 47 per por cent of ot the total mineral values value values cannot cannot be depended upon to furnish any common stock dividends dl The Tho company's cyanide calce supply we understand corner comes from Geran Germany and is I I indispensable In tho the recovery recover of ot silver siver from rom tho the Mexican ores Here Is what the Engineering and I Mining Journal says about the cyanide situation There Thero seems teems to be a good deal del of ot I uncertainty about abut the manufacture goo of ot cyanide but there Is no uncertainty uncertainly about the supposition that if I we do not ge get it It I. I I a large number numb r of ot men inca will wi bo be thrown out of ot employment and the supply of ot precious metals will be be materially re re re- As to why it I Is not more moro largely manufactured In the United States th there ro is I a difference of opinion Independent I chemists maintain that It can cn be bo manufactured manufactured manu manu- cheaply almost anywhere but that the present output output is in the hands of or a German monopoly which has effectually effect effect- erect I throttled nil attempted competition I The producers deny this and state that the they are are producing It J as cheaply as possible pos poe I sible ibie anti and nd that the lack of ot competition Is purely purel through economic reasons reasons Be De that ns as It ma may the fact r remains that the most of ot the c cyanide used in precious I metal er recovery Is made In Germany German and the tho supply in this country Is decidedly I short Aside from tram the German cyanide factories fac lac tories there then Is a good production In Il Eng land but that will wi be of little use In America Ameria since it Is likely to be claimed for South African use The Rand prop prop- eries are of great value to Gre Greit t Britain in the present circumstances and it is likely that tha t every ery effort efort will wI pe be made to keep them at work With Wih the cyanide situation to contend with wih It would seem unwise t to think of or paying a common dividend at this time and it Is a good guess that for the first nt tood ues t tha for time since the organization of ot the com corn pany tho tim directors must bow to causes quite hC beyond Old their control and omit the junior l dl dividend end |