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Show December 19, 1952 The Western Mineral Surrey, Salt Lake City, Utah Its a Lark to Park, This Federal Influence Continued from Page 1 pressure of prices and government controls. At the Friday luncheon meeting sponsored by the NWA and the mining bureau of the Spokane Chamber of Commence, Felix E. Wormser, vice president of St. Joseph Lead Company, described in some detail' the dismal failure of government efforts during the past 20 years to stabilize the mining industry through international commodity agreements and asked for a return to the tariff system which, he said, was far ahead of every other government device for maintaining orderly mining operations. He suggested a fluctuating tax on lead and zinc imports which would inchase as metal prices decline and decrease as prices advance, being eliminated completely above a certain level. tariff would be The sliding-scalsuperimposed upon the present negligible levies, starting at cent a pound when the price of lead or zinc dropped below 16 cents a pound and increasing gradually as prices declined, further to a maximum of 5 cents a pound when the market price was below 10 cents a pound. On lead ores and concentrates the rate would be 70 per cent of the metal rate and on zinc ores and concentrates, per cent of the metal rate. Such an automatic and tax, he said, should be acceptable to consumers, since it assures them ample imports untaxed over a reasonable base, and neighboring mining countries could rightly have no objection, as, if the market were in excess of the minimum needed to maintain the , American mining industry, they rould pay no levy. But the overriding consideration, he said, is that a basis such as outlined would have the important advantage, of reducing wide fluctuations in metal prices, a most desirable objective for producer and consum; e , - 60-7- 0 ry . . er. V Attempts to stabilize the metal markets through international controls have proved costly and ineffective, he said, and the governments experience with price controls and artificial stimulation of production indicate, clearly that the mining would have been better off without them. , Wornjser alluded to the drastic decline in lead prices initiated by. the action of the British government liquidating at distress prices metal it had accumulated at much higher prices, pointing out that it had already resulted in the closure of several western le&d mines and contending that the industry must have protection against these occurrences of. foreign intervention, in government metal markets. The question is, he said: Do we, or dont we, want a healthy, vigorous and prosperous metal mining industry in. the .United States, and, with the answer obviously yes, a protective tax device such as he suggested was very much in order. . Russel B.. Caples, manager of Anaoondas Great. Falls, Mont., reduction . department, in his k discussion on the. Current for Zinc Mining, also referred to the extreme importance of the attitude of government toward the. development of our domestic resources of critical materials. . - in-dust- ry -r- ecent Out-lod- Since 1939, he pointed out, government actions with respect to zinc have been motivated by a have-no- t theory which holds that our zinc ore resources have been so far depleted as to be New Method Of Recovering TV Since many motorists find parking Is their biggest driving diffldfilt?? the Orange Disc, Gulf Oil house magazine, recently conducted street tests to find the me t practical methods As a result, the editors recommend the steps below, claiming they will put even new drivers safely in to the curb in one pass. Minerals Appears Possible Separating minerals after making them radioactive appears to be pracsical within limits,- Engineering and Mining Journal, McGraw-Hi- ll publication, re- UP SLOWLY, turning steer-big wheel as far right as possible. This swings car into parking space at about a 45" angle. When front seat is even with the other car's rear bumper ahead, of the parking apace, preferably one foot and NOT MORE THAN TWO FEET away from it (check distance through your right door window). Stop when rear bumpers of two cars are about even. Male mire road is clear to rear. as your; right front-- WHEEL comes, opposite the other car's rear wheels, start tuning steering wheel to left. When dear of other ca?s rear bumper, quickly complete turn of steering wheel to left is far as it will go. Back slowly as far as neces--- : sary to put your car in without hitting car to rear. (position wheels, . above), J . still backing slowly. THIS SHOULD ALIGN YOU with curb in parking position. If not, straighten wheels ana pull forward until aligned. Stop in center of apace. ' Any difficulty with the method can usually be cleared up by a few min- utes trial on a quiet street where the motorist can dismount and check his position against these diagrams. profit-sharin- . front straighten Production by Sunshine Mining Company last month, including output from adjoining properties which the firm is develg agreeoping under ments, totaled 17,417 tons, as worked out However, it ap- compared with , 19,032 tons in pears that it may be possible to the previous month and a develop a new way to recover monthly average, of about 16,900 minerals from their ores, ac- tons during the third quarter. The labor supply rat the big cording to the magazine. mine is reported to be silver Artificial radioactivity of the minerals is caused by bombard- satisfactory at the present time, recent power cut is haming them with neutrons, usually but the normal full operations. by placing them in a nuclear re- pering new 3,700-foo-t level exThe actor. Beta and gamma rays to open the re given off as a result the rate ploration crosscut fault-vein in . Silver Syndicate vrying with the mineral. The zone the between an unexplored technique of separation would East and West Rambo producbe based on this variation. For example, beryl may be tion areas is how within about was separated from other minerals, 450 feet of its objective, it after being irradiated with learned. gammas or by using a r mechnism that selects particles COPPER SULFATE according to the radiation they Production of copper sulfate give off. turned upward for the first time While there is considerable In 1952, rising 6 per cent over overlapping in the degree of lowest levels of the year that various minerals the in August and Septemreached show, combinations of them to the Bureau of show activities that vary more. ber, according States DepartUnited For instance, feldspar can be MDines, ment of the Interior. Shipments distinguished from most iron to September, inclusive. Stocks minerals and copper from decreased 1 per cent but were sufficient for little more than Experiments on the method a months requirements at the were conducted by Richards October rate of shipments. Mineral Engineeriny Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at the Brodkhaven' National Labora- Bircli Creek Ore Milled Austin, Nev. The first 108 tory. The wdork was supported by the Atomic Energy commis- tons of ore from the Crouch and McGinness property, known as sion. Birch Creek Tungsten, has been milled by the Sunnyside Milling Company. The company is now; stripping an area of about 150 by 400 feet and putting in. three benches for open-pi- t mining. F. D. Shuck, Sunnyside manager, said this week operations . on the lease will, be continued as long as paying ore is . obSecond largest mineral exploration loan approved to date by tained. It is expectedasthat work will be continued long as the defense minerals exploration weather permits. administration in the Pacific Northwest was granted this week to Sidney Mining company WESTERN MINERAL for a lead-zin- c project on its SURYEY big property In the Pine Greek 4 area. East 1st South or Telephone: Contract for the project was Entered as second class mat tar at Salt officials last Lake City. Utah, under Act at March I, signed by company Monday, according to W. T. Si- 1879. S4.00 for. two Subscription Ratos: mons, Sidney president. .It calls nan, $2.50 ' for one roar and 81.&0 for six months. for expenditure of $200,290 on Pisan mention Western Mineral Survey to advertirors. Advertising exploration work on tjhe Sidney when on application. rate writing property, he said. Federal funds L. M. HILL. Business Manager will be furnihed by the I5MEA to cover half of this amount. All the news of the development of the The Section, They are repayable only out of Intermountain Western Mineral Survey.published by All news appearing In the Western royalties on ore discovered. survey la obtained from aonrcea The only larger project pre- Mineral believed to . ha reliable, but no responrt-tv .Is for accuracy of statemviously appro vedis the $228,000 ents.-1 .assumed 'C'1' 'TT Day Mines exploration at its National Copper property northeast of Mullan. lt was approved i. Lj ports. At the moment the technique is closer to pure than applied research; many of the practical engineering details remain to be BACK TULL UP PARALLEL to the car Sunshine Mining Continues Large Ore Production ' X-ra- y, Inadequate. $r our national needs, making it necessary for us to encourage importation of zinc. The import duty on zinc urns successively lowered from an average of about 30 per cent of the market price, as it had WALLACE IDAHO Direclong been, to about 5 per cent of the price, and the result Is tors of Hecla Mining company, that present duties offer little meeting here last Friday, der dividend protection against the higher clared a grade of ore, and lower produc- 5of 20 cents a share, reducing by cents the rate which had been tion costs involved in production for more ,:than 10 of zinc in some other countries. paid steadily, years. If we are to have .no greater The cut was a move to conprotection against competition serve cash in the face of recent from lower cost, foreign produc- unfavorable developments in the tion than is afforded by our metal markets, President L. J. Randall explained following the present duties, or if import duPrice declines in lead ties are removed entirely, as meeting. and zinc have adversely affectadvocated by some, we will be- ed the earnings of subsidiary come primarily dependent upon firms, "particularly the Sullivan Mining com imports for our zinc supply, relegating domestic production pany. The Sullivan Star mine is prito the role, of supplier of peak zinc demand a complete reversal of marilyofa zinc producer and the has dropped from the concept which has pre- price 19 cents to 12 cents a pound served and maintained our do- he pointed out. In addition, the mestic production in the past, Sullivan electrolytic zinc plant he said. has been forced to curtail its The recent drop in the price operations by about 25 per 'cent cents because of the power shortage to 12 of zinc from 19 ' a pound, caused by the need in this area. for competing with cheap forA,t the meeting directors eign imports, has forced clos? named Carrall Sear Is of .New ing down of some zinc mining York, secretary of Newmont operations and the curtailment Mining corporation, to succeed of production from others. Our his brother Fred jarls, Jr., on production of zinc trom our the board. Fred Searls resigned mines was climbing steadily because of ill health but will through May of this year and continue in ' his position as presiseemed headed for a new high dent of Newmont. in 1952 for the past 10 years, The reduced dividend paybut by September domestic pro: 11 be wi $200,000, ment, totaling duction had been curtailed by 15 to on stockmade December or 10,000 tons of recoverable ziric, tie said.' If the holders of record November 26. It will be the first dividend of present price continues there less than 25 cents a share since will undoubtedly be further cur1941. With' this disburseMarch, tailment of production, and the dividend total will Heda's ment, longer it continues, the longer ' boosted to be $35,855,000. it will, take to regain r the' production rate attained in the Heclas earnings for the third first half of thisf year. quarter of this year, after allowCaples said that the policy of ances for taxes and operating is estimated at ; $244,-97alternate - forced - expansion of expenses, ' ' as compared' with $239,519 production and . complete lack of protection is bound eventual- in the preceding quarter. Gross $310,-14ly to find us totally unable to income for the quarterinwas secthe. against $313,928 meet some future emergency. ond and in the $309,009 quarter He expressed confidence, howof same quarter. 1951, ever, that a new policy will be near the in future developed Directors of Polaris Mining which will enable us to rely on company, Hecla subsidiary, also our domestic production of zinc met last Friday and declared a as our basic - source of supply regular quarterly dividend of 10 and always be in position to pro- cents a share, payable December duce zinc to meet our emergency 24 to stockholders of record Deneeds. cember 3. Lowered Ilncome By Hecla Mining fourth-quarte- ! ; - - . one-sixt- h, -- . 4' 9, ao-tvi- ty py-rit- e. i . Large Loan Granted in Northwest . 22-2- 45 65 - d 111 -- - , lastfalL : - NOTICE OF APPLICATION" FQR The' work program outlined in DISSOLUTION IN THE DISTRICT COURT OP THJ the ..Sidney contract' is divided Third Judicial District of the State a in and for the County of Sal into three' separate stages,1' Si- .Utah,. Laka-- Jn the Matter of - the Applies VALLK7 COAL mons 'stated. COM will b? confined ' tlon a Utah Corporation, to the northwest area of the PANT,-lutlon. NOTICE ZB HEREBY GIVEN: The property, north of the Sidney SANPETE VALLEY COAL COMPANY, and existing 'unde vein now being mined from the corporation the laws of organised the State of Utah, has file Reid Cloud tunnel; with the Clerk of the Court an Application praying for dleeolu . The Sidney project is the third Uon of the and that Thurs tha 8thcorporation, day of January, 1983, a large project in the district to day, the hour of 10 oclocx a.m., or as aooi be approved by the DMEA with- thereafter aa counsel can be heard, ha been fixed aa tha time, and tha court in the past week.' The other two room of the Court, Clt and County Building. Balt Lake Cltj are the Spokane-Idaho'Douglas Utah, aa tha place at which said Ap will be heard. exploration, . third largest to plication IN. WITNESS WHEREOF. Z have here East the and date, Hypotheek unto set my hand and affixed tha sei the District court, aforesaid, thla 31s project.' Details of these explor- of day of November. 1952. ALVIN KXDDZNGTON, ' In ations are covered' separate (SEAL) .. -- j .;. Clerk.' stories . on this page. Wallace By JACOB WK1LHR. Deuutv. ft- CAN CHENEY, WILKINS 'MARR, Miner. NON, Attorneys for Applicant ;i ' -- . Ji for-Dlsa- o - . I above-entlt- la -- - above-entitl- ed s - - . . : - -- |