Show BUT GRAND COUNTY'S FABULOUSLY RICH I MAGNESIUM M U BEDS ARE E S STILL Ll BOTTLED UPI The rhe Bo Boss n. n The rhe Bo Boss th sg writing In the Salt Lake take Tribune j jed common comment comment- I ed cd this week on the vast demand for tor magnesium which has caused caused caus caus- aused ed production to soar in ln the he past 10 years Although the Crescent field in Grand county contains the largest known deC deposit deposit de- de C posit ot of fabulously rich magnesium magne magne- Mum b all devel development is at a standstill In fact as soon as the existence of the deposits was known the lid Hd was clamped on onland and further exploration or development de do- was stopped by governmental gov goy goy- I order The Shift Boss oss comments as follows T To Ti i meet persons who witnessed wit wit- the World War II expansion slon sion of magnesium production to 87 times Its 1939 figure It was natural to predict a posts postwar postwar post- post war s slump and much over over cap ap- ap To be specific the 1939 1039 output t of magnesium metal to totaled totaled to- to lbs Ibs On Thursday o of thIs week E. E S. S president of n. n I the Magnesium Co of ot America presented some interesting surprising figures In an before the Magnesium AUnAs AUn As a of the efforts o oi oj thousands thousand of ot engineers designers design design- ers era and workers in magnesium during a a short period of slump following World War II 11 hundreds hundreds hun hun- of designs of ot magnesium products were created for civilIan civilIan civil civil- ian use This and an aggressive sales campaign changed the pic plc- ture Strictly commercial c use of magnesium products totaled 29 Ibs lbs In 1946 1046 In 1947 this to In 1948 to in 1949 to and In 1950 to an estimated Ibs lbs I Estimates for commercial consumption for 1951 and 1952 are and Lbs Ibs respectively I visualizes a future peacetime consumption of Ibs lbs a year But the mysteriously bottled- bottled up magnesium of Utah's Crescent area remains untouched |