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Show i BEAVER COUNTY NEWS 'I This is a paid political advertisement by J-mes D. Wiilbms, Milford, Utah ! i . , . , T . .. ... , , , . , T , THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1958 g operator of the Atlas Lead Silver Mine a-d Wah Wah Lead g $ Zinc Mine, Western Beaver County, Utah. B ( A MlfRlIF1! FTP A.IK" r Do You Know? Do You Know? ' Beaver County roads and schools have always de- iended upon substantial tax revenue from mine tax- Since 1950 two lead smelters (Midvale and Murray); two lead- nL'S 'ZSZ ZL" tatkm -ills (Tooele and Bauer); and the only public sam-I sam-I pier (Utah Ore Sampling Co.) in the State of Utah have been ! Do You Know? iomd to shut down. This resulted in putting approximately ! , i t? c t 1,000 men out of work. Today, we have but one lead smelter Five years ago mine employment in Beaver County I approximated three hundred men roughly one- (Tooele) and one copper smelter (Garfield, which may not accept I quarter of the employment roll of the eountv. TO- . ... T i 1ArA j , .,, I day, less than thirty men are em- custom ore alter Jan. I, 1959), and one custom lead-zinc mill PLOYED IN THE MINES OF BEAVER COUNTY. (MidyaJe) Aperating within our a m tailed basis. There is no present assurance that the lead smel- Do You Know? er an( eanc m w e ae mamtain operations and thus j I provide an outlet for the sale of our ores and concentrates. If Five years ago we had a dozen or more trucking con- . . ... tractors hauling the ore production from our mines. these should be torced to close, every lead-zmc mine in the cJoelou"16 independent ore haulinff state would be out of business. In 1950 Utah had 212 producing metal mines. Today there are but 5 in operation I Why Are These Things 'Happening? I Washington, D. C. ; The present administration in Washington, can further reduce the remaining inadequate proposal. In a roll call vote in the House of Rep- j through the devious channels of its five billion tariffs on lead and zinc almost to the vanishing resentatives, 182 Republicans voted against this j dollar foreign aid policy, has subsidized foreign point Such action hag encouraged foreigners to proposal. Yet, this was supposed to be an ad- 1 rSlfnPZ" mprJ1 T?ntr dumP these metals on our markets and d th Juration - supported measure to provide a I ly $240,000,000 IN DIRECT COMPETITION . , , . x long-range minerals policy and subsidies to en- B WITH OUR DOMESTIC PRODUCERS. pnce down 80 ,ow Amean m ot P" able American mines to operate and employ B eiate. American miners again. Instead, we were given I The reciprocal trade act, which has just been a totally inadequate import quota by Presiden- I renewed for four years, has reduced tariffs on It was the Republicans in the 85th Congress tial proclamation as a political expedient in lead and zinc approximately fifty percent and who actually defeated the Seaton Mine Relief tnis election year. Beaver County j The prosperity of the West, and particularly that of the State little or no opportunity for manufacturing because of distance of Utah and Beaver County, depends upon mining. Jobs with from both markets and raw materials. the railroad and jobs resulting from railroad operations are Therefore, the future of Beaver County depends to a large ! fairly well stabilized and do not promise substantial employment degree upon sound government policies which will insure a stable increases in the future. metal market at prof itable prices. Such sound policies would re- I suit in the adequate development of our substantial resources in Recent adjudication of water use by the Fifth District Court lead, zinc and copper, and necessary venture capital again would clearly points out that farming has reached its limit. There's undoubtedly become available to do this job in our county. Brack Lee Says: V : --k ' ":J A reciprocal trade agreement is not reciprocal by the other j nations with which we do business. These nations do not permit I : T us to ship our materials in without a penalty when it competes f te5v it - J 1 with what they produce. I believe our policy should be the same. f ( ? In giving the President the power they have in the reciprocal trade I agreement, both parties have given away another power of Con- i : - gress as granted by the Constitution. Only our Free Enterprise K System, protected by historic safeguards against foreign dump- 'X I v ing, can build permanently a strong and vigorous lead and zinc I AX ( i ' industry. ., VUV ' .1 j J. Bracken Lee the Only Peopled Candidate for U.S. Senate |