Show Sunday Morping- Tbc Red Metal Industry as Wliolc Approves Move In View of Small Stocks U S a ?s Dec 21 (AP) — The United States government-steppeinto the copper market this week to avert a threatened with an order for 100000 tons of South American metal jhortage ' industry on the whole rhf NEW YORK the move with approval vlbl stocks of copper have hrunk to around two months’ sup-ldrpite a rise in November to the highest level m ed Saturday "hampionj or a heavy )r whoever t ruler production years of the South Accumulation observers decopper American the time befor eliminated clared to nS on Jan ‘gh A eight the possibility the government ta ould be forced to install a system of priorities because of heavy demands of the national defense armament program and British ongwinnef and Conn dcs that if "nf the n June ht return title with each °f the net £ i innl — marketplace meanwhile trading accent shifted to Russia Japan Braoutlets il nl and9 Spain dealers reported the for-Peig- rt 'Uch a nar that a Conn t of the net has agreed bout if he not present But Conn nt and he ctory over would th his ck him jab left out ive up the e until he e bout will scaleahan iwl He is have anj hen Billy h Saturday id Jenkins s of about lay night’s Irew 16949 lJecemLpr 22 New Emerald Isle Plant To Open Soon The 300-to- leaching plant of the Emerald Isle Copper company should be ready to go into operation at the company's open pit copper properties near Chloride Am soon after the first of the year stockholders have been advised by Ogden C Chase of Ias Vegas Nev president and general manager The company is backed Targely "By" Sail" Xake" amT' Uta h men From testa already conducted the company expects to produce about 12000 pounds of copper daily at a maximum total cost of about 6 6 cents per pound it us stated by officials of the company Thp leaching process to be used will employ a weak solution of sulphuric acid in a process worked out and proved by the U S bureau of mines The company controls approximately 20Q acres of ground on whicjp libs a stratum of conglomerate carrying copper values said to average about 2 38 per cent This n Western Alloys SliipS'First Manganese Ore Stocks Continue to Lag g and that ng into the Moreover by a head enkins said Zivic over nth Ztvici b' The first carload of manganese concentrates were shipped last week from the Western Alloys Inc operations’ south of Valmy Nev to the Ogden arsenal J Fk Featherstone vice president and general manager of the Salt Lake company Felt building said” Sat- -' urday Western Alloys holds a contract with the procurement division of the U S treasury to deliver 2500 tons of ore of not less than 48 per cent manganese content to the Ogden Arsenal where the government Is creating a stock pile of the strategic mineral The first carload which con tamed about 50 tons of coheen-With thi federal reserve board trates averaged 49 4 per cent 18 in Novemmanganese from daily samples at index reaching the crushing plant and 49 3 per ber a new all-tihigh esticent managese when the loaded mates of Industrial production for the month car was pipe sampled Feather higher than for October The movement of stone said stock prices during November Because the Wpstern Allovs £t!rctfrizedmby aJbrieJL ElaoUstheonly manga lg!cavl"-flurry of buying apparently tty concentration plant of its kind in the west considerable based on inflationary fears experimenting and adjusting wprp done before the new plant reached operating efficiency Ten Tdm an Hour we The $45000 crushing plant lomiles south of Valmy began regular operations on December 9 Because the crew rIso was inexperienced in working this kind of a mill the plant was not on a regular schedule all of the time to December 16 when the firs carload was shipped The jig is now handling about 10 tons of ore an hour and is bp- ing run eight hours a day Feath- erstone said Cold weather has cated 124 Variations in Development of Domestic Mines Balk ’ Deposits' of ‘War Blanket Rules Minerals’ Moves Forward ' Editor's note: This Is No By the Shift Bos r Lake administration hearing requested Thp recerjt Sajt by the wage-hou- 0 for the admitted ring a blanket eight-ho- C I of spoil ur or shift on all the underground mines in the United States “eollar-to-collar- ” “portal-to-porlal- ’’ demonstrated the conditions and make such a which carried prices to a new high for the upward move from June lows Shortly after the peak was reached prices turned downward losing practically all of the progress made since August Prmripal deterrent to ris- j nt stock p rlces appear To b fear of an upward revision In' tax schedules Crown Consolidated Ships From Idaho Operations Crown Consolidated Mines Inc made a test shipment early in December befoie winter weather halted milling operations which ran $12729 per ton net Ben C Rich piesident of the Salt Lake company said Saturday — These concentrates milled from dump ore assayed 407 ounces gold and 168 85 ounces silver per ton land 20 3 per cent antimony he -- Bristol Silver Ore Improves many varving factors winch would blanket v i is from 60 to over 100 spme--bulIa- id 50-t- ruling diffiwhich would cult to impose and work an extreme hardship upon many mines In outlining the desire of the miners' union a high official of the desire to expressed "levet off" working time to the end that mm mg— companies would be on an equal “competitive’’ I n view of the facts obr hasis tamed at thp h paring' such a blanket ruling would have just the opposite effect"r upon the operating companies Concepts of Shift Before consideration of the Important factors contained in the evidence presented at the hearing it is of interest to refer to the conceptions of the miners shift as outlined to the hearing bv the wage-hou- r adminixt i ation as follows: 1 “The fust conceplinrludes the period between the time the workpr checks in and begins changing his clothes in preparation for work and the lime he redressed and checks out for — -t-he— dft-2 “The second concept includes the period between the time the worker enters the rage for descent or enters the portal of the mine and the time when he reaches the surface again after the ascent or after reaching the exit of the mine This CIO k' ’portal-to-por-ta- t A WASHINGTON Dec 21 — Samuel H Dolbear mining engineer of New Yoik City wilting in the current issue of Mining Congress Journal declares there is a conflicting school of thought on the desirability of a' prewar production from domestic de“war minerals’’ posits of the One gtnup he says contends that stockpiled of foreign dre Ss should be accumulated leaving domestic ores in the ground until while a second group needed points out that domestic deposits are not to be regarded u readily since much available reserves time and preparation “is necessary to bring them into production the— latter point Emphasizing Dolbear calls attention to the fact that domestic operation also brings Into plav the search for and discovery of new deposits Of this fact he states: — "Recognizing This the national defense commission may be said of eh— — tebecomnnl couraging the development of and production from domestic sources t thin- time0 Th principle haa also been recognized by congress m ifs acts appropriating funds for the bureau of mines and geological survey to enable them not only to study regions m which deposits are known to exist but to actu1-allSamuel H Dolhear Mining pxplore promising occurrences engineer reports on progress and to conduct research work on the benefit ifttion or other utilizain strategic minerals tion of and ' t 1 Hi u i ' ‘ k - L ‘ r t '! r i -I ' — f- ! ! i - y low-gra- 4t e ores - Hercules Plans Ip hi character Company Work entirely bureaus Bureaus as to the location and extent of this work in the hands of these and this work Is "Discretion is iwo with-aU-th- i l’ -- ot 10-c- ar high-grad- wilLba-shippeddi- lhe-smm- thc-prop- stated-that-op— rct ur "rollar-to-colla- r" "' et 1000-fo- j Great Buffalo Halts Work Crew at Valeo Hits Fissure high-grad- ot de ut drag-line-ty- ot -- oTk-ing- 180-fo- wage-hou- - 100-fo- off-gra- eight-hou- one-ha- (Sil(smns will be good to— Caterpillar” owners QiEQCtaa Nevn-havo-b- nnd-pyri- ur "eollar-to-collar- I ly pfteday TRACTOR - and na t i two-shi- ft 1- - ——— Vj- - City r t ( 1 s le 300-fo- 1 f d 44-mi- ! -- — — The Hercules Mwtft prosecuted hampered operations and men permitted by TUt'iy a it is planned to run through the equipment deto a The company’s mine and mill laundi program of plans large vein carrying ore that show's winter current available appropriations are located north nf Sun Valiev values of about 11 per cent copvelopment and mining operations The geological survey conducts Five men are working in the in the Sawtooth district at its Mining Stockton The lies bedding per mill seven at the mine and four canjnn properties geological studies aided In some after Ihe first of the vear Although compa'nv operations under a light overburden which the are driving the trucks which haul of Blaine county Idaho cases by geophysical surveys An tonsremain-m3000 g estimated The property acquired from the while the work of the bureau of ‘recently have been hampered bv company is stripping by means of the concentrates tn Valmy for the be will in milled D F estate dump Walker has been op- mines conducts actual exploratractor operations while the leach- shipment D ' B Palton is suof flu among the the in the erated recently bv leasers plant as soon as crew prevalence The tion of the deposits by diamond ing plant is being completed perintendent production from the Bristol weather are conditions favorable latter recenjlv opened a vein of drilling nr other Office buildings bunkhouse and The manganese deposits being Sliver mine continues tQ show is thp exploratory work ‘collar-ln-collar- ’ the in ore on the necessary to determine the probmess hall for workers buildings mined is located about five miles spring high grade silver-lea- d reto improvements according or 250 level and have been making able character aneL extent of these Complete supplies have been ports at for machinery a well and storage south of the crushing plant A company offices Felt method of count mg working trucked m to a crew of seven small selected shipments from it occurrences At Sait Lake City tank for domestic water have been half-yarpower shovel has been men working keep building time in ' the mine throughthat gave smelter returns of Utah Boulder City Nev and at completed A pipe line moved in to replace a bulldozer The company Is mining from 3 "The last concept includes around $72a ton The ore occurs Rolla Mo the bureau has stations has been constructeyy from the Mining operations for some time out the winter Rich said SomeHu J700 level both east west and of the men will mine ore on the only the period of time which in a narrow- - Vein which appears engaged in the study of beneficia-tio- n Tennessee mine to tydng water for will be at the surface the of shaft thp worker actually spends at to be widening with level and the others will The deeper the shovel goes into depth and metallurgical treatment and leaching purposes And a 319000-gallo- n Leasers are between working is flanked by lower grade ore utilization of ores Research is steel storag tank for this the deposit the richer the ore is drive the tunnel east on the 600-fo- the 900 and 1100 levels The last the working face’’ level to intercept and deIt can be said without contra- giving assay values of $30 to $40 conducted on ores o'f such types water suppijft: rjpw being com becoming according to Feather-ston- e lot this section from as are known to exist In suffiThe crude ore mined to velop rich ore bodies which were Rhowed improved values This is diction that the first concept has a ton it is reported pleted Chase sa in the upper level An engineer for the company cient quantities to play an ImporMining crushing? and delivery of date has averaged about 28 per encountered as the Domencl lease never existed in the history of minknown ore These bodies the I'nited States produced ape recently completed a survey of tant part In the defense plans the ore onto the leaching floor cent maryganese Some January 1 when the lease ing ind $700 000 in ore be-—- After i Iproximately Obvo y He concept —illegally- ox pirex— the— company— plans— to wULbedoneuddejra contra ctal- - crude or tk 4ili'erymadebeforepnority-actween 1885 and T896 when The take over true in stales like Arizona and orations could be started at thiee tempt such work on the ores of ' turn became more without beng concentrated at ready let this place operations rigorous mine then known as the Idaho The leaching base or floor cov- Find points in the mine on ore showing small individual mines the numOre from the mine has its prin- I lah wheip eight-hoSilver King was one of the leadTungsten laws have been enacted piomise of important develop- ber of which is legion Where dein with lead values silver ering two acres of ground has cipal hut even in those stales practice ments A npw development at the mine ing producers in southern Idaho posits are privately held the work Grav Rock Finds Ore been laid with an acid-proand that in copper gold following About one out of every five tons The company It is announced is done under contract with ownThe mine is located in has hern anrl is different through covering with drainage was the diseoverv of lungsten in order Thp terms give the governthe ore Featherstone repotted An On Thousand Level "V"1''’ ducts to carry the copper-pregna"I"" Rabbit district mutual agreement in many in- expects to spend about $20 000 ers the Bnstol-Tac- k stances rav lamp used putting the mine into production ment access to the property and solutions to storage tanks from ultra-viol25 miles north of Pioche about The third eoneept holds true In on company account ihoupri thp prpspner of Dicltcr without milling Rich JAHBRIDGE Nev (2P — Nuwhere they will be pumped into night George the right to do such work as it The milling ore will be Lincoln countv Nev The owner is P°rcd hiluminnus Ihe of oaI Grav where No assavs mines Salt Lake of deems advisable is have been merous stringers of three-ounc- e the tanks copwhere So president were manv down preripilalor miners to the rewith a map showing the seven are stockpiled hours provided made miners preparatory the for which paid has offices cold have been on company iron is on scrap an the the flu that with precipitated per cpntacted work done and results obtained Western Allovs hacked largely suming of milling operations in hospital was made last improvised level of the Gray Rock to he later dried pressed into week The at the working plnre as provided at 514 West Third South street and the and the shipping ode Incurs no financial liability bv between for the contract newspring the Lake is mine shaft here company tbi by to the sent Ralj people smelter and opera-- ! btltks will be sacked to be shipped peak nf the small epidemic is operators and the United Mine fob expenditures made est domestic Strategic tors of the mine stated this week its manganese The company is installing operation about minerals are giverr precedence April when the roads be- reported past Workers of America The Gray Rock company is a own sulphuric acid plant Chase re- and is being watched with conover those in the critical list A brief tnspertion of maximum of the Newmont Inc ported and will rnake acid by a siderable interest in mining circles come passable subsidiary The ""strategic” mateand minimum distances to working Arrangements have been comone of the manganese delargest mlrflhg firms in bureau of mines' process from There are other rials includj nine minerals which the w ost places and the time consumed in obtained from mines and posits in the west being worked pleted to equip the property with pyrites are- - essential To national defense DieseL power in the spring for reachmgras presented atthe hcrr-in- g Following -- up indications of ore mills at httle cost for crude ore but this is the but for the supply of which demore efficient operation and to will indicalo taken front test out how impossible plant turning shaft the drilling e reduce milling cost per The materially Most to "level off’ competicom- pendence must be placed mainly be has been sunk Great would of Buffalo it the manganese Mining two the during past ton of ore Rich stated U S present supply of mangahailed development on sources outside the United tion between mining companies as pany has 'cars in the face of numerous Big Dayton Dredge nese used in making nearly all They include antimony of for above difficulties the season at its States these outlined figSome operations three-foA mineral fissure chromium manganese of ferro-grakinds of steel is as the follows: ures in Park are minproperty imported Valey To Start Work running east and west has been Total distance mica nickel mercury In an effort to make this coun- Tonopah-Wester- n Max Mm ing district Box Elder county on encountered in a cross-cthat and tungsten tin crystals quartz 5987 in this the south minetal of the be250 Raft feet independent traveled try is feet river Nev slope DtAYTON (JP)— What Strategic Minerals is being extended north from the points out that the governthe government is stockpihngTarge Plans to Quit Total time to range Charles E Street of 1408 Dolbear 600-folieved to be one of the largest on Valeo the old workings and is encouraging de50 min South Ninth East street secretary-- ment has adopted various measPlans New Work 5 min working place TONOPAH Nev (JP)— Equipment level to the Valeo fissure placer recovery plants in purchases of domestic some and gen°ral man- ures to encourage the production conditions prevail- treasurer Under deposits the country is nearly ready to go velopment of the Tonouah-Wester- n which produced gold copper and Consoliof these minerals from domestic TONE Nev (fP) — said Saturday lfito active production on placer dated Mining company which has silver ore in the unner levels of ing in the copper country of Michi- ager Preparations deposits and that supplies are be ffr active production work At the Three to the" milesbf distance mine Traveled andahalf the old townsite on gan the located in mine here for a considerable the ground operated early days Dan Tucker Runs Drift ing purchased to be available for Strategic Metals of Nevada lnc of this city A drift now is being run west working place reaches as high' as road riamagpd by September rains emergency requirements time will he disposed of and the s were repaired underground holdings here have been continued FALLON Nev (JP) — The B shaft proceeds will be distributed tn the on the newiv discovered fissure 10000 feet The plant is a Bucyrus Monigan were cleaned out machinery Producers I ninformed during the past several weeks Bert of the Dan Tucker Extension mine stockholders Robert H Gross to ascertain the extent of the xire Custom Considered walkingype and is equipped with Murphy has Teen put inlo shape and deeloprnent boom and a bucket ca- east of here has been sunk 150 president announced last week a said shifts are Two genappointed Government specifications to Morgan era r administra- work done he said This was the Since the manager A drift is being run on the pable of handling 14 cubic yards at feet which minerals must conform unStating that further sinking of working at the property The done work since first the at mine tion stated it has that previously a time property is located in quickran to the east managers of the the shaft would be impractical due der the stockpiling program he ailver would base its rulings pretty much 1938 ground in a good mercury-hearin- g The dredge will operate on 50 company said last week The drift to the large quantities of water and states are somewhat more- rigid is In The 600 ninin tund on init fpet and is zone "custom Work is now being acres It is capable of going to a is being run to getnder the vein the exploration practice” work necessary Ely Mine Starts than those of industry which will earned on in teresting to note that evidence pre- and should be extended 650 feet generally accept of J20 feet Several dwellings which w'as contacted on the Gross said a stockholders’ meeting overhauling the material depth outto hack cut the farther vein on the sented at the Salt Lake hearing level A shipment of 25 4 tons would be held in Butte Mont or! Gold Shipments ground while ex- in the town will be moved to make at a price confirmed the many years’ concep- cropping high up on the hill acpensive development wrk is being room for the operation nf the huge was made recently and averaged December 23 The principal government agenTressed r shift as be- cording to Mr Street who was cies ELY Nav — The Ely Gold and tion of an $7S a ton the managers said plant pai tidpahng in the stockpilBark in City in hours prominent fiom the mining cage eight entering ing Manganese company operating ing program are: days of to the the early at the time of start on the old outskirts Cuba 1 mine Procurement division U S Argentum Mine Dump Ely has begun shipments of gold of entering the cageday from various places in eight and one-ha- lf theSamples treasury which is the sole purtunnel and in drifts showed chaser lf hours later with Leased by Barry ore George Chase superintendent of tungsten mica hour for lunch In a few isolated good values in gold silver lead quartz crymercury in charge of operations reports s tals and chromlirm nf — RENO F red - G — Theore is said terruira n average cases the minergoes down oil Ih e nnd—some copperNov — (2P1 metallurgical grade Some work was done this year1 high ’Grubs manager of the Argentum of $10 a ton in gold and being high- cage on his own lime but out of 2 Reconstruction finance on the northeast drift extending Mining rompanj said here that ly sihcious commands a premium Ihe mine on the cage on company w hich acquires mangaor vein No 1 which is now 179 nese tin tungsten the companv’s mine dumps at at the McGill smelter time (under speciaL OO- — I — id Thesa — feet he lzing— leased-t- — The Candelaria The most importa nt emrmmic started new decompany-ha- s nreumstanres) below - metallurgicaLou Barrv who is irmking a velopment operations in a tunnel testimony offered demonstrated feet passes through four or five l-grade and asbeschromium trial shipment to the smelter at designed to picl up the ore vein nt the great fluctuations in mining shoots nf heavy sulphide lead zinc tos R F Cpurchases are made- te and some gnld he sajrt Ihrough a McGill Nev a distance of 230 depth The tunnel is now in about In the Tavdrahle the Metals subsidiary year" of 19T7 the miles 60 feet and it is estimated that in BuMp properties of the Anaconda Work was also done at a point Reserve company Average assaja have shown a another 40 feet it will intersect the Copper Mining company made a 500 feet in the tunnel along the Congressional legislation devalue nf $12 50 a ton Grube said downward extension of the ore profit of $1642000 hut in 1938 west side where 18 feet rrf al- signed to stimulate the production and if thp smelter gives returns nf body lost $1 527000 a profit of hut tered mineralized formation was of strategic mmerals'from domes- Yes Santa Claus wilLbe good to The source of the ore was tic sources includes $12 a ton shipments will be profitIt was passed $114 000 for two" years the "Buy able stated that the Imposition nf C I O s not found hut it is believed fo be American act" under which a Acme Plant Builds owners and more near extensive is work throughout “Caterpillar” higher price may binder jertaiiL VD — The concept of the eight-hoNev LOVELOCK Jaw uporr that company plRnneiTnevt year m an effort to circumstances be paid for the fiO miles Gold Inc Acme Placers the he said ore locate the eoming ) ear— for “Caterpilbody Cord Takes Interest American more than $2000000 a the authorizing north of here fias closed down its would toaddcosts Charles N Fehr is president of of R F Cproduct: loans for development year vv ill and costs In rut Ground Lake Other Salt Washington plant temporarily lar” machinery Tungsten A further hearing is to be held the company equipment and operation of domes-tic- e is constructiong a concentrator people and some Iowa residents' at Birmingham Ala deposits and the exemption — (JP) A mainteNev MINA invented concentrator has The by report are interested in the company hoth from the excess profita tax afoperation and' L E been released-herCord” of Constant Maurice that vice president forded to domestic producers oj prominent Nevada- - mining man the corpqration is ’expected to nance as well as delivering full- certain strategic minerals: Doi- has purchased the property of the handle 60 yards of gravel an hour Tilhgsten Discoveries Ore Shipments bear further advocates a more Nevada Consolidated -Tungsten and save some of he fine gold Are rated horsepower all day long open policy on prices paid by the Investigated Bingham corporation 45 miles south of here that is escaping in the tailings at If it Is To assist effec-tivrgovernment v ° RViftn Vtah £Vvppr The announcement said that the present of pro- throughout 1911 nT theTtg RFTTtfTTTS day MINA Nev Several large Minin Cord interests had acquired the ton fVmbijiert Mfttal In duction fromdevelopment domestic sources been unT unit1 and Mm have National tungsten deposits duction 84 entire district and plan to atart Shaft Got Down and the years to come! BmelUt Ron g and Relmtg covered in this district recently and JOO American an immediate development and Twin engineers are now on the ground LOVELOCK Nev lRl-T- he production program on the tung- Buttes Mining Cyanide Mill Qperales syndicate working 'Strikes have been made m the Tintic sten property on a gold discovery made’ by J Luning and Coaldaie districts Op21 carload Mam TinMc R andard BEATTY Nev UP) — L J Baeoe-ciU 8 moth 19 Phief Confto'ida cd CO C Staggs last April in an isolated erations have been carried on in SmeltMig EQUIPMENT ovvner of a new cyanide mill Rpfm nc and Mining 11 Moun§ct Mercury 4 4 h Vic 50 Lih LiMv ore Simey Nor of bodies of of tain Eureka west miles has here section tungsten east here Oouaolida ed 1 Utah Fire Ciav wheat here announced the plant u now ALT LAKE C f I n shaft--dovWLVNEMUCCA Nev iTi-- The 65 LunThe the and r feet driven 2 Colorado Consolidated 1 Eureka Bulin operation largest strike ia in United States bureau of mines will plan to connect it with a tunnel ing district Charle’s Noble5E has lion 1 Godia 1 75 horsepower Powered by Tractors Hoad Machinery Distributor of “Caterpillar Diesel Entities Trarh-Tp- e the of an start intensive survey Below the property under option alreadv driven 275 feet The FuescT engine Bacoccina said Jhe --m BotUefeelrark£ity the The latter 170 vorttf qutek7twofedeposits plant is scheduled 2 to handle 33 rvhMw — King Creek— district near here it was j second tunnef— is being driven and placed some toup Park Utah OoaeobHaid isfik tons of ore daily oiy A equipment on the Tit I v Ci Park Kew 1278 Consolidated Pariu basis Stated this week is in 348 feet ground at the Coaldala discovery 117Q Park Utah 110 0 bedding - k 18 a series of articles on the mining industry and those who run it In ’bank-to-ban- een weak 10 Government Buys South American Copper to Avert Defense Shortage ns t Salt £akc SVihutu H |