Show Hunt Greatest Treasure News as glittering as Golconda came out of the department I described what It lap of the interior last week The department treasure hunt the world has ever evert called the greatest I wItnessed The hunters are U S geologists They have bagged mil nul millions lions hons of tons of war critIcal ores V K has Just scratched aluminum I num and zinc off the lIst of U S shortages Copper may soon follow SUIt The government now knows of big U S deposIts of manganese vanadium tantalum and not one of which was produced on In quantIty m an the U S before the war Already the nation can produce most of ItS chromate and tantalum cru crucially Important m in a secret war Job The hunters have ha also dos covered 3 tons of high grade bau bauxite for aluminum new sources of tungsten magnesIUm nickel mckel mercury many another metal Not all these ores are of high enough quality to tobe tobe be commercially practIcal m in peace tIme but they are good goodenough goodenough enough to assure the U S of an ample war supply The hunt has been one of the qUietest and best organized m in history Its headquarters IS as a big bag office m in the geologIcal real Ical survey m Washington Since 1938 the survey has sent forth hundreds of prospecting parties to promising fields from Alaska to Latin America The have hunted for copper m in Vermont BauxIte In Alabama ZInC m an WashIngton oil m an Alaska In the past year alone the geologists have made mOle than field Though theIr full story can not be told untIl after the The treasure unearthed war var the geological survey was prodigIOus Time |