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Show tfJml X V. S. il -- BUREAU OF MINSS 14K. HflAB . OF 11. CITY ' NS it $. m ALT LAKE VALLEX SMELTER KICKS LEAD, per COFFEE IJSNt pouai. 11.175 S5.M GOLD IINC nrr miacl). n. pot) SILVER (pern. SILVER (per VOL. ' 13l ItJMc S7Jt5e 14. NO 20 P Wests Potash, The information contained in this sheet is derived from sources regarded as reliable, not guaranteed, but believed to be correct. Sales .Listed Stocks High. Low. 11000 .01 .01 Alta Tun. beehive coke ovens at . at Ironton, capable of turning but Am, Met. M. Co Bingham Metals Black Metals Bristol Silver Bullion Cardiff .05 .02 .08 .024 . a major contribution to the. war effort in' much-neede- d steel, were still cold last night as company officials awaited a "go ahead signal from the steel division of the Colorado Con. War Production Board in Washington to start operations. . Comet Coaln. Work of installation was finished in April, and the furnace and pveng have stood idle ever since, and will doubtless continue to do so until the WPB gives the E. word to begin operations for which the installation work was done. The following official state- ment on the situation was issued by E. M. Barber, vice president of the defense plant division of Eureka Columbia Steel: "Early in 1942, ; in anticipation of a Shortage of scrap, iron Kennebec in the Pacific coast area, the Kentucky-Utagovernment requested the Colum-- 1 Leonora bia Steel Company . to dismantle . .' an idle blast furnace at Joliet, Little May Magnolia Lead 111., and rebuild a beehive, coke oven plant at Columbia for the Mammoth .....; Miller Hill. necessary coke supply. Moscow "The required. construction Mt. City Copper .. Cowork has been completed by View Mountain the is lumbia and' being Naiidriver plant held in readiness for operation; New Park pending advice from the government that the requirements of pig New Premier iron for the war emergency in New Quincy ....... ...... ......I,. North Lily the Pacific coast area necessitates No. Standard of facilities." the operation vWork was begun on the blast f Ohio. Copper , . .. , ., ,. ..r furnace., on- -. June v5, 1942, ,at)sl ParkBingliara,-77777777 ' work on the coke ovens, started LJBat3;Cltyi Park 'Nelson just 15 days later.7.... Final cleanup, work and paint-- ' Park Premier Utah Park installation finished the on ing Plumbic Mines project are being done, while1 Flutus word to start regulation opera-Prince Con. tions is awaited. Rico Argentine ....' ; .01 Stocks in pro Domestic consumption appears to have been American potash producers are :. ..00 - .00 .02 .3G .01 .01 . 250 .07 13 .73 ' .... . ..00 .01 AS'. .01 ..07 220 .01 .01 2.50 .02 .13 .41 .00 .00 JH2 00' 04 - - East Standard 4 J Silver King West 01 .01 .02 2.25 .02 1.50 .0G JOG 7 J5 2 .Cl .. Nev. The ore was mined from a surface cut, where a vein has been exposed and company officials report that samples taken from the cut have assayed up to 25 per cent zinc. The company is also developing an apparent low grade ore body in another section of the' property and made a test shipment from this area to U. S. Smelting and Refining in Salt Lake late last month; Company officials report the ore assayed 16 ounces of. sliver .to the ton) and 8.0G per cent lead. A contract was recently awarded by East Standard for the driv-- j tunnel for pur-ing of a 500-foof exploring mineral possl-- j Eose .in the section of the property from - which the test shipment was made. Objective of the tunnel is the opening up of an ore horizon, indicated in an 17G foot shaft. The new tunnel will develop production pos-- j sibilities of lower extensions of the ore cut In the shaft. C. D. Terwilliger, veteran' Nevada mining operator, in company with his engineer, O. Chan-- 1ey, recently "inspected the Freiberg properties and is now flo-j moving a 150 ton tation plant from Silver City onto the Freiberg property for the purpose of milling possible ore tonnages now in the process ol development. East. Standard officials said. Silver Shield Mining and Mill-- 1 ing Company Is also contemplaton ing a development program was the Freiberg property, it announced in Salt Lake today. . . -- ot con-templati- Late in 1942, journals, who had not their require-2GOO- ments in the preceding spring, to 4000 obtain additional supplies created 44000 a tight market, which was allevi-25- 0 ated irregularly by imports of 37500 muriate of potash from the USSR 1200 on assignment to the 0 95952 Defense Supplies Corporation, tributed to fertilizer interests. G8700I To assure equitable distribution 11800 of available domestic potash from 2000 producers and distributors to 113025 their. Immediate customers, large-80- 0 I lv the r. fertilizer . companies,. . the :Feb. IBTOOff f Vrar'"ProductlonrD6ard; 1000127, 1943, placed the distribution 7000 of domestic potash salts (muriate 0 417 of potash, sulfate of potash, rim-10- 0 and of fate potash) under allocation G500 control (General Preference This order was based der 6373 on the claim that the requlre-855- 0 ments for the. defense of the 4000 United States had created a shortage in the supply of potash for defense, for private account, and for export. The order,, effective April 1, 1943. covers 3 allocation periods: (1) April and May dis-G00- 1 . 1 ;n sul-150- potash-magnesi- a, of-mi- . .16 .40 a Makes Shipment East Standard Mining Company recently shipped its second car-- 1 load of ore from the Freiberg property in Nevada which . the company recently took over, according to company officials in Salt Lake. The Nevada property 15 miles south of Sharp, Is about ' to March 1943. 2G9000 according to trade forts of consumers,' 1000 adequately covered 1 .00 .00 .02 . il The upward trend of production and sales of domestic assium sales, mineral industry of the West, continues. A .00 .................... I Prepared by Bertrand L. Johnson and K. G. Warner, Non- metal Economics Division, Oliver Bowles, Chief; Economics and Statistics Service. . 15190 41500 5012 -- .02V Alunite Are Active 13500 77145 .00 .04 .02 .04 00 .01 ' h . $2.00 Year, $1 .00, 6 Mos. S. L. Stock Summary Columbia Steels blast furnace . te Salt Lake City, Utah, May 14, 1943 Is Still Idle 500 ieveted te the Mining m ell ladaeirlee mt Utah ani the WeaL A reeume ef the Mtataaiing velepmeata fa earrled each week. b Features Mining, Oil, Financial Furnace At Ironton and WESTERN UINEBAL SUBVEX Tintic Central Or-149- M-29- Tintic Mr. Royle Smelter Aid Bs Sought Utahs Industrial Commission The distribution of potash and mixed fertilizers to farmers today had moved to meetin the the' comes under the supervision of critical manpower shortage vital smelting industry, following a special meeting called for tonight in Tooele at which extra er No. 5 time help for International part and ing fertilizer and Refining Com Smelting use. was to be recruited. plant panys Since 1934 an increase in the commission slated a meet The 4G2 j domestic Utah Id. Sug. Pfd 10.50 10.25 production of market- ing in the Tooele City Hall, with able Unlisted Storks potassium salts has been 0 the backing of Mayor Sol Selvin each year, recent annual and the city council, in an effort corded 7.50 7.50 Pfd. Amalg. Sug. increments Nat. Tun. & Mines 4300 2.75 2.25 being much larger to get men working in the citvs .' . 673 than in the earlier years. An in mercantile establishments to sign 4.15 3.75 & Mach.' shifts crease of 50 per cent was shown up for 6 : Utah Fire Clay . . . the work hi and smelters, 28 Sunday one of 1941 1940 over and in 34 51.00 42.50 Utah P. & L. $6 Pfd.......... where trie regular crews are 50.25 40.50 Utah P. & L. $7 Pfd 45g per cent in 1942 over 1941. The working to the absolute limit of 47 average K20 content In 1942 their strength. 54.00 49.00 Z. C. M. I. was 53.59 cent, com per "Most of the men in a mining 53.21 the with per cent pared IC20 reported for 1941. ProducSee MANPOWER on Page 4 tion of equivalent potash (K20) in 1942 exceeded the 1941 productons, while tion by 154,331 short sales were 149,485 ' tons greater than in 1941 (a 28 per cent inwar crease as in production). Sales their for the second production anniversary part Marking in 1942. and of the passage of the Federal SHOSHONI, Wyo. At the Ro can I report definitely that exceeded production. were drawn mur location near the head of stocks Coal Mine Inspection Act, Secre- 1,211 coalmines of the United I producers tary of the Interior Harold. L. States have made many safety I upon to meet the demand. Pro- Hoodoo Creek, John M. Roberson Ickes announced that federal coal improvements because of the fed-- ducers stocks continued a decline has a crew of several men driv mine inspectors of the Bureau of eral inspection work, Secretary I begun in 1939 and were only ing two tunnels and building a tram down the hill to a loading of 1,211 coal 158 tons Mines have visited at the end 1942, short I can asserted. report, too, mines in 24 states during the that wpile industry as a whole I about half the stocks remaining rack and is shipping, ore. This period in the as- experienced a heavy increase in I on Dec. 31, 1941. The average Roberson work is under direction past txVo-yeof signment promoting health andg accident rates during 1942, the I value per ton of sales increased of the Bureau of Mines. A mill of its ore recently safety In the industry and accident rates in our coal mines in 1942 to $33.73 from $32.09 In run sample 1941. The production for the 50 assayed 2.5 per cent tungstic manpower and equipment remained virtually unchanged essential in the production of sol- and production continued to per cent muriate was but little oxide. The Roberson group has been id fuels for war. climb. In .the past it has been larger than in 1941, but there was I in 45 cent increase almost very wliow busy during these past few accident per that the strongly Ickes, assumption Secretary I months and In spite of consider of sulfate of the Mine Coal potash Inspec- rates must soar when production quantity supported the able stormy weather has contin Indus-- and the sulfate of - potash-mag-tr- y g tion Act which became law May increases. The ued to, get In its mining equip the men who work under-- nesia produced, 7, 1941, complimented mine workment, build ore bunkers, sorting Western state have and Industry mine the and Predominantly ers, operators, operators ground, of the house, etc., and now Is shipping coThe potash coal mine inspectors for their industry proved that accidents can be held a GO ton car of scheelite ore which Is Mines States of United Bureau the in overwhelmingly down." operation thinks will average Roberson 99 program to make the nations The Coal mines already In-- a western one, more than. 3 about cent W03, to the mill per men for coal mines "safer places See POTASH on Page Z at Salt Lake. See. COAL on rage. 2 to earn their living, and to do.' f - govern-distributio- n . , re-20- I 1 Con.-Wag- p.m.-to-midnig- ht - .- 1 Coal Mines Made Safer For Men, Says Ickes Wyoming Mine Ships Tungsten - 1 14.-Icke- s 1 ar con-servin- coal-minin- 1 1 . 1 |
