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Show The Westen Mineral Page 2 Editorial Sumy. Mag Salt Lake City, Utah Awareness Insurance SURVEY Nature Mining Obstacle -- 3 MOAB, Utah, May Physical obstacles that must be overcome Every mining boon in history has faced the same problems in mining development left a in passing from a boom stage to a sound business venture phase. deep impression on two visitors a New York Times writer, has from the midwest who inspected Uranium, as recently noted 1956 WESTERN MINERAL Visitors Impressed . I PRIM LORRAINI rugged uranium area. Larkin and Spalding praised hews - cnuroumox the uranium public relations job Phone EX that has been done in the mid- Ml Church Street ADVEHTISING west by D. E. Kivett, president of BU Missouri, BOX 2608 of Utaco and a native the to Utah Like Salt City, as a contribution helpful entire industry. aecond daae matter at Salt aa Entered From Moab Larkin and Spald- t.v city, Utah,- under Act of Hatch 3, Ouray, 1870. ing went to Telluride andlead-zinSubscription rates: $5:00 for two jean; Colo., to inspect Utacos 13.00 for one year. mine and mill. by southeastern Utah uranium operapassed the "flamboyant penny stock boom stage where reputable tions this week. investment houses kept hands off. Big, conservative firms are The visitors were Lew Larkin in a big way, in the mining industry's of Jefferson City, Mo., corresponnow getting interested dent there for the Kansas City infant. Star, and John L. Spalding of St. But there are still a few of the ready cash, quick-nickLouis, who has mining and oil Please mention Western Xlneral Surinterests. who are trying to squeeze the last bit of juice from the rey when writtny to advertisers. AdvertLarkin and Spalding went by Comparing Prices ising1 rates cm application. boom era. 2 in mine to the Allen ,No. Lake plane Robert W. Bemick, Salt S' Even today there are companys pushing their soft stocks up Red Canyo, on which Utaco Ura- Tribune financial page editor this HAKHY B. wtt.t.ww. Publisher holds the Utah operating week pointed out that the scale a few cents by selling short, selling escrowed stock nium, Inc., Editor lease, and were driven back to miners make more than skilled GAIL TELITCB. and false publicizing. r secretary-treasuresouth-wesBill Africa. t Moab by Hines, artisans in In Salt Lake City these tactics were used during the boom of Utaco. Notes Bemick: The producer of Ail news appearinr In the Western and copper in South-We- Xineral season; stockholders and potential buyers became leery, even of MFew people in the midwest lead-zin- c Surrey Is obtained from sources Africa is being paid month- believed to be reliable tmt no responalbll-it- y reputable companies. As a result many exteremely good stocks realize how difficult, expensive la assumed for accuracy of statements. ly around $30 in money. The Utah Reproduction of any material from this are remaining low on the market. Companies are keeping names and time consuming a mining becan be, Spalding said miner is making anywhere publication must have written permission out of the news, unless they are absolutely sure their news will venture from the publisher. month. a to tween $440 over $400 the after flying and driving be handled conservatively and honestly. It's the thorns in the side who still feel they can make a fast To Prince buck before the business really becomes legitimate that hold back the entire industry. The only way they can be stopped is by alert stockbuyers who refused to be hoaxed. The only way die legitimate companies can expand and hold firm is through stockbuyers who have Editors Note: The increasing importance of tungsten is stirring knowledge and faith. apinterest throughout the mining world. The following article imU. and peared in the Christain Science Monitor, giving history portant research developments concerning the metal which have In brought it into the public and mining eye. By PHIL ELDERKIN Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor Arnold Wilkin, Clintonville, The Window Rock and Markey (Continued from Page 1) called tungs-ste- n d metal A onetime died last week while workWis., stock for one of 20th Century. Mines in Utah; the Andy Gump and centers industrial in the Badger Uranium Co. role in vital ing a is today playing Twentieth Century is listed on claims in Arizona, unexplored key mine the White Canyon Disin the San Francisco Mining Ex- claims in Utah and Colorado and armament headquarters throughout the world. Juan Utah. San trict, change. The company lists assets an Indian leases acreage in the Considered a nuisance by British mining interests in 1913 He died of acounty, skull. fractured of $400,000 in cash or cash re- Ambrosia Lake region, New Mexextraction difficult; Britain was extremely His body was taken to Cortez, tin made it because ceivables and many mining and ico. Under the new organization happy when German industrialists began offering 8 to 10 shillings Colo. oil interests in the Intermountain and the west. setup officers and directors will a unit for tungsten Germans always came back for K. W. Scheele. When Robert the Bulge. In fact, United States Under terms of reorganization include: took out a British patent in military requirements for tungs20th Century will be the survivEdward H. Eaklund, Jr. vice more. ing firm with officers of both president and director. He is a Thirty years later it was to 1847 for a process of making ten during the peak munitions companies acting as directors of graduate of Stanford University prove invaluable in war, import- sodium tungstate and tungstic production year of World War n the firm. in mining geology and was asso- ant in peace, and extremely dif- acid, the metallurgy of tungsten were approximately 30 million If the merger is completed the ciated with Anaconda Copper Co. ficult to wrest from nature. It began. pounds of tungsten metal, more man than twice again the production Vice president and director Sid is a metal unlike anything total assets of the new firm will Its first application of this country alone. be, in addition to the $400,000, Rogell is executive manager of had come to visualize as metal. came in thepractical form of steel rails itproducing oil leases in Oklahoma; Twentieth Century Fox Film It never occurs in nature by in 1868. A genin made France, Large Deposits in China with undrilled oil and gas acreages in Corp. & former vice president in self, but is always tied in in eration 1900, tungsten later, laborWyoming, Utah and California; a charge of RKO Radio Pictures oxygen. Even when it is steel was first brought The largest known deposits of interest in an affiliated Corp. iously concentrated by complicat- to the attention of the general tungsten ore are located in ComOther directors include: Robert ed processes from reluctant ores, corporation (Cherry Creek MinThat also was at the Paris munist China. However, there is W. Hurley, lawyer and insurance this trioxide must be further re- public. also a large deposit in South ing and Milling Co.). Other properties include 4,200 director; F. A. Mathie, agency fined for commercialese in al- Exposition. Korea, just a few miles south of acres of lands containing coal supervisor, Occidental Life Insur- loys or as pure metal. An exhibitor, the Bethlehem the 38th parallel. Called Hardest Metal Steel Company, stirred considerdeposits and four patented gold ance Co. and president of Spanish Prior to what some natural The name tungsten 'is derived able interest and silver lode mining claims in Trail; Ray L. Taylor, mining and demonstrating by scientists call the electronics Nevada. construction businessman. Perry from two Swedish words meaning tungsten steel alloy as a tool steel. era, the chief use of tungsten heavy stone. It is all of that and, The general adoption of this pro- was as a constituent of tool steels, Uranium properties of the new W. , Holden, secrefary-treasureas a carbide, also very hard. In duct eventually led to the redefirm will include: corporate executive. steels. One fact, in hardness it is second only signing of machine tools and to especially man a with highlathe operating to the diamond. Spoken of in in production costs. speed tungsten-stee- l great savings can do tools units instead of pounds, it has a of five the work five with men, Today virtually all types of density 2 times that of iron and carbon-steetools. hour! l tools are made of steel lathes, using equal to that of gold. The run into the savings probably carbide containing tungsten. The basic millions. Experts call tungsten , the hardest metallic substance yet type contains 18 per cent tungs-en4 per cent chromium, 1 per made use of by man with quality Tungsten was discovered in in 1904. It was found California characteristics unequalled by cent vanadium, and from .50 to next in Colorado. .80 per cent carbon. those or any other metal. Then, in '1917, discovered were deposits major Possessing the highest melting Tungsten-stee- l tools near Mill Nev. Until 14 known of metal City, (6,152 any meant have point savings of billions of degrees Fahrenheit), tungsten is dollars to industry and lower con- years ago practically all domestic tungsten mining was confined to just beginning to come into its sumer prices. western state. the lessons it the Who many own, despite . . . Already established as a stratwo Allies the taught during However, in 1942, tungsten was tegic military item in the muniwars. world found MINERAL SURVEY in Vance County, North tions race of World War I, the Bight now the circulation oi the WESTERN is For it many on the home site of Jefexample, asfinding for demand became Carolina, the uranium with tungsten in is keeping pace industry general booming! new jobs to accomplish in the tronomical during World War n ferson Davis' grandfather. It Keep posted on latest news and quotations by reading the field of electronics. The vacuum when Germany suddenly intro- turned out to be one of the richWESTERN MINERAL SURVEY regularly . . . every week. tube, experts 'say, is the heart of duced a tungsten carbide armor- est mineral strikes in the history of the state and one of the rare virtually all electrical devices. piercing shell. The filaments in these tubes must finds east of the Rockies. was It use of Germanys SUBSCRIBE NOW! be able to resist extreme heat in projecMost Mines in West order to be effective. Tungsten tiles with the tungsten carbide I 2 $3.00 $5.00 year years 'the in pure metal form does the core, military experts say, which Currently, tungsten mines are job as no other substance yet almost made the North African operating in North Carolina, Calitried and at phenominally low campaign a success. British tanks fornia, Nevada, Circulation Departments Idaho, Utah, Colocosts. Without such efficient fila- were knocked out by the hunrado, 421 Church St. P.0. Bos 2608 Wyoming, Monments, there would .be no modern dreds. The Germans had equip- tana, Washington, and Arizona. Salt Lake City, Utah electric lamps, no electric tubes, ped their Panther and Tiger Unfortunately the amount of and few of the electronic wonders tank divisions with a projectile, tungsten ore in the so common place today. the tungsten carbide core of United States produced is NAME barely enough Frist Named Wolferam which would pierce the walk of a to meet present industrial conTungsten, as a mineral, was heavily armored tank. ADDRESS sumption. first mentioned in scientific literIt was two years before the The nation with a huge tungature in 1574 but by the name United States perfected similar sten CITY STATE stockpile, experts say, not wolferam. However, it was not projectiles and produced them in will possess military only until 1771 that tungsten was sufficient quantity to give the Remittance BUI me later strength but also great political isolated as a new element by Allies victory in the Battle of power. - c er fly-by-nig- hts . st Pauper Tungsten Role Increases In Importance Miner Badger Dies Spanish Trail Seeks Okeh On Merger seldom-explore- d, Accident often-ignore- Ox-lan- d . high-spee- d one-thir- d r, high-spee- d ufacri(te high-spee- d interested In Uranium Activities ? high-spee- d t? high-velocit- armor-piercin- g . - y |
