Show t Ickes esi-Orr- Electric Power And Alining Projects Planned Continued From Page OneY Kortes plant could be abaorbed before the Colorado-BiThorapson hydroelectric plants could be ready for operation The normal costs Including transmission linen would be $7045000 the prement coats The normal cost per $R7110000 kilowatt-hou- r would be 31 mills the present cost without deferment 37 mills "Heart mountain Shoshone river Wyoming This is a 10000- hydro-plakilowatt mutiple-purpos- e with a net head of 265 feet linked with a reclamation project The annual under construction energy output would be 71000000 kilowatt-hour- s of which 46500000 kilowatt-hour- s would be firm energy Even before the war gram the power deficiency in five years in the Nebraska area was estimated at between 75000 or 125- 000 kilowatts It is believed that there will be an increase in mining in the state during the emergency and that after the emergency the power would be absorbed in the normal growth of the interconnected systems The normal cost of the project would be $815000 the present cost $1060- 000 The normal cost per kilowatt-hour would be 144 mills the present cost without deferment 166 mills per kilowatt-hou- r Firm energy in this area now has a value of 4 mills and secondary 18 mills Storage Project 'Mystic Truckee storage projest California-Nevad- a This is a mutiple-purpos- e project of 22000 kilowatts capacity and an annual production of 59000000 kilowatt-hour- -s of firm capacity and 33000000 kilowatt-hour- s of secondary Of this 118- - and 34 capacitykilowatt-hours million would have to be used to replace Fa rad energy leaving 4 7200000 k ilovvatthours of firm energy and 29600- 000 kilowatt-hour- s of secondary power a total of 76800000 kilowatt-hours Increase in mining and milling as well as agricultural growth in the area is expected Large blocks of power have been purchased from the Pacific Gas and Electric system the output of which is now heavily in demand for the California area The normal cost of the project would be $4686000: the present cost would be $6650000 The normal cost per kilowatt-hou- r would be 35 mills the present cost without deferment 46 mills" Another project listed by the secretary and approved by him is Bridge canyon on the Colorado river in Arizona a projected plant of 600000 kilowatt capacity located above Lake Mead "It cduld produce the largest single block of low cost power in that area" says the secretary Power from this plant would be interconnected with Boulder D'avis and Parker power plants for use in Arizona Nevada and southern California Drilling of this dam site is a long way from finished and it would take at least four years to construct it The secretary says: "The present spower market including the needs of Basic Magnesium at Las Vegas will absorb all the availabli power capacity of Boulder and Parker darns and new loads will have to be supplied by Davis which will not be available until 1945 and from Bridge canyon" The fact that the war department and the army general staff have pronounced against further big developments of defense plants on the Pacific coast however is likely to diminish the demand for early building of the Bridge Canyon pig-iro- n ' would be 23 mills atountain Home Project "Scriver creek Mountain Home Idaho This is a 120000-kilowamultiple-purpos- e installation The upper plant would have a net head of 390 feet and an installed capacity of 30000 kilowatts producing a firm output of 214000000 kilowatt-hour- s annually The lower plantwould have a net head of 70 feet an installed capacity of 90000 kilowatts and an annual firm output of 414000000 kilowatt-hours The combined firm output would be 628000000 kilowattiours: the secondary output would be about 20000000 kilowadett-hours Expected mineral aluminum reducvelopments and tion indicate a power shortage in The the area in several years normal cOst of this project would be S15858000 the present cost S21000000 including transmission lines connecting with Black canyon and Anderson Ranch poWer plants of the bureau of reclamation And the Idaho Power company at Mountain Home and a line to Stibrite to supply power for tungaten and a line to Challis for tungsten The project would provide means to assist in the ultimate development of the 400000 acres of Irrigable land in the Mountain Home area The normal cost per kilciavatt-hou- r would be 163: the present cost without deferment 196 mills Wyoming Project "Kortes Kendrick project Wyoming This is a multiple-purpOs- e tt of capacity plant on the North Platte river It would produce 101000000 kilowatt-hour- s 61- of firm energy annually and tt 30000-kilowa- of second000000 kilowatt-hour- s be in marketed would which ary the area served by the government's interconnected power system which has been utilizing its present capacities to their fullest extent It is believed that the 'war needs of the area will utilize all power available since normal growth indicates that a peak capacity of at least 45000 additional kilowatts could be absorbed in the area in 1944 The capacity of the mettt Py0gTL 0' Devl i electrothermic The magnesium is removed from the lead by electrolysis "which is simpler and cheaper thanthe distillation process employed in either the oil condensation process or the process at Permanente" He adds: "Still a third method of producing magnesium which is under I pilot plant test in the bureau's laboratories at Boulder City involves the use of an electrolytic cell to which magnesium oxide may be added directly in the same way that aluminum oxide is added to the electrolytic cell for the production of aluminum This process would avoid the necessity for the chemical regeneration of the electrolyte which is necessary to either the British electron process ot n - il 7: 1 1 :? AinbelabillidifablailitAAA& V ti'" 4 it''' which is to be used by Basic Magnesium Inc at Las Vegas Nev or to the Dow process which is most widely used in this country "The bureau's further investigation of these processes is actively under way They will permit the production of: magnesium by processes not privately controlled and will Insure the continuation of the magnesium industry after the war period on a nonmonopolistic basis Process Developed "The raw material for most magnesium processes so far considered has eome from sea water or from relatively scarce deposits of magnesite which is pure magnesium carbonate The bureau in its pilot plant at Boulder City has developed processes for the utilization of widely occurring rock formations containing magnesium These impure magnesium minerals are subjected to a chemical process which produces magnesium oxide in' a form highly suitable for the manufacture of magnesium metal by any of the processes which have been proposed At the present time pilot plant tests are being rushed to completion on the basis of a method for producing magnesium from the plentiful dolomite deposits near Sloan Nev These deposits are only 20 mtles from the Basic Magnesium company's plant near Las Vegas Nev and if the process can be successfully demonstrated this company will be saved the necessity of bringing magnesite from a deposit more than 300 miles distant by a truck road or more than 1000 miles distant by railroad The saving! of this amount of transportation and rubber tires if it be done by truck is of the utmost importance at thrs time Similar developments as to raw materials for magnesium in 4 4kIkaA t 14 Looks Into west Secretary of Interior Ickes who has ' mapped gigantic plan for development of western resources Five big Utah projects are included in plans' adapted to isolated areas where more likely to desire the continued the deposits do not justify installa- operation of a giVen development tion of full sized pig iron plants in the postwar years than nonresihe advocates more pilot plants to dents or than those financially tied work on economical processes of to the fortunes of plants located extracting copper lead and zinc elsewhere in the nation Since the from low grade ores west has been handicapped in the Already his department is ex- development of its combined minamining alien patents and proc- eral and industrial life in so many esses with a view to using them ways and has no desire to repeat for the war effort where they are the boom and ghost-towcycle of found to be superior to American the last war I see no objection processes He thinks the interior to some such preference to local department should have unques- residents and to small companies tioned legal authority to use these possibly In the form of a certifid or controlled patents cation of a company or individual and processes Furthermore he or group of resident individuals asks that the bureau of mines be acting cooperatively provided that authorized to examine all American- they have obtained a given per-owned patents and processes centage of the sum necesary for for minerals needed for winning construction and operation It is the war" with a view to determin- Important to hope an arrangement ing the most efficient and the which is administratively workmost economical processes and able" then encourage the use of those patents and processes by other Mining Laws than their owners in the interest Incorporated in the secretary's of bettering defense production program is his old recommendation for amendment of the mining Bureau of Mines Funds laws to bring future development In this same connection he asks under the leasing system ns refor a trebling of the funds for gards all minerals He would both the bureau of mines and the the mining laws as they exist U S geological survey in order today On this point the secretary that they may vastly expand their will encounter considerable oppoand experimental sition particularly from western exploratory work with strategic and other senators and congressmen vital metals and minerals The report of the secretary "Another major bottleneck (in shows that his Manganese prothe production of war metals) has gram announced k week ago conbeen that of securing capital for templates the mining of 740000 or low tons of ore in the Delta region development of short-liveore bodies and or of Utah from which it is estimatfor mills grade smelters to develop such low grade ed that 18200 tons of manganese the secretary "To may be extracted and that 100- materials"says 000 tons of ore in the Tintic disbreak this bottleneck I suggest: "After the president has found trict would produCe 20000 tons the greater production of anymin- of manganese The Nevada develeral to be essential and after the opments are expected to produce war production board has request- the following: Tons ed the department of the interior Tons ore manganese to procure such minerals in ade' 675000 5 000000 quate quantities the department Pioche 520000 2850000 should be given the power to cer- Las Vegas 5624 38000 tify to the Reconstruction Finance Battle Mtn 6080 38000 to loans for corporation companies Valmy or individuals seeking to develop sec(ilea Bottleneck the aluminum Discussing low ores or to construct In preaenting his power: program mills grade to the refers experimental or smelters for the produc- retary Secretary Ickes calls attention to tion of these essential war miner- plant about to be built at Salt the fact that the principal bottle- als Prior to such certification the Lake City and says that late inneck in the wartime power prowould assure itself of vestigations by the bureau of mines gram is the difficulty in getting department the adequacy of the resources and have developed a 1process which large forgings for such generators of the technical processes to be eliminated expensive machinery as go into Grand Coulee Boulder used It is better used in producing alumina stressequipped to do dam and Bonneville The projects these two ing particularly- adaptability of things than any other this included in the list abovecall for process to the making of alum smaller generators which can be agency produced in certification loans are to limitedwhich could Inbe many localihad much more readily than those be "After quantities of made for the development ties and marketecUat plants that of gigantic and unusual propor- mines and the erection custom of Pilot are turning out alumina tions In formulating his power or smelters new program Mr Ickes laid down cer- plants "If private capital or competent plants for trying out this tain guiding principles among process are suggested management is not interested in them: developments of considerable risk Magnesium Methodt "Only projects essential for the due to the low grade or short life While litah's magnesium possisuccessful and rapid prosecution of the ore or the dubious postwar of the war should be constructed competitive situation of a custom bilities are not discussed save as on the need for the now mill or refinery based on low grade they bear power plant i the secretary Dewey should be constructed "Projects ores I believe that—rather than tells how the bureau of mines in In the order of their time of availasee the war program fail—it would addition to comseveral testingl and their strategic and war be better to allow the governbility ofi methods mercial mag making industry location ment to the mines or cus"No nonvvar features'should be tom millsdevelop or refineries and to be constructed at the present time conthe same Jong-terbut the usefulness of projects for given tracts that are offered to private multiple purposes in the postwar citizens period should be considered an adFavors Private Operation vantage over other projects 7N "Other things being equal the "I do not look on this last propower developments which will posal with enthusiasm My conIC pay for themselves and lead to the ception of the function of govdevelopment of the regions where ernment is to help people over CLEA1111IG they are located are sounder gov- hurdles so that they can do things ernment investments than others for themselves The certification "All the hydroelectric develop- and loan provisions provide a ments here proposed together means to get them over the hurwith the auxiliary steam plants dles as would the processes Cash would contribute to the irrigated worked out by the bureau of mines GAR and of the west which might be made available to agricultural output 79c I Carry necessary to meet war needs for everybody I would be reluctant Price Reg food and fiber and would aid in to see the department undertake custom-smeltemaintaining the stability of the the operation of THREE west in the postwar 'Period Irri- or of mines but I would be far Convenienl Garments gation is the major one of the more reluctant to see any of our 158 I Locations 4 other purposes listed" fighting men killed for lack of the Save 79c extra planes or ships or guns that Emphasizes Steel Output might be produced through the All 679 S 7th E I A week ago Secretary Ickes operation of mines or of smelters 437 E 3rd so Clothes disclosed his program for encour- which private capital does not care 1617 S 9th E 463 ESTem aging development of the man- to risk Fully comof 422 6th Ave "In the certification ganese deposits of Utah and other insured states this program is covered by panies or individuals by the his report to Senator O'Mahoney partment to the 1econstruction I He also emphasizes the desirability Finance corporation you or the of increasing the steel output by committee may wish to include CLEANERS & DYERS the stimulating the production of some special recognition of are ntql local residents a that iron sponge practice especially possibility n alien-owne- Tourist Crop 'Slumps on Month Closing Proposed For Churches Ma1ioney To Introduce Bill This Week reduction furnace nt Colorado-Wyomingwester- Sen nesium has also been testing in a pilot plant a new process in which molten lead is used to condense the magnesium vapor from the Plans Big Utah Projects g e project essential for the development of the Utah area It would be expected to proof duce 812000000 kilowatt-hour- s firm power annually and 145000- 000 kilowatts of secondary a total durof 9S7000000 kilowatt-hour- s ing each of the first 40 years of its life Together with transmission lines to Salt Lake City and substations there and at Provo Utah the normal cost of the project would be $38700000 the present cost $50- 000000 The expansion of the and steel industry now definitely planned and the expected location Of TOft gnemite and slunite deposita wall use tip the available power rapidly end the increased Montana copper production will cut into the present supply of power furnished to this area from Montana Lack of cheap power hag held back the war development of the Utah region: and for this reaapn both the Dewey and the Lake Utah projects are proposed The normal cost of the energy would be 22 mills per kilowatt-hou- r the present cost without deferment 27 mills Lake Utah Plant 'Lake Utah plant Lake Utah This is a steam plant of rtah lr10000 kilowatts capacity which could provide an annual output of at 100 43a000000 kilowatt-hour- s down per cent load factor running on a to 263000000 kilowatt-hour- s Much of 60 per cent load factor the energy consumed in Utah has been imported from Idaho and Montana which are expected to have shortages of their own due to the increase in mining and industrial activities The Utah area Is having very considerable mining and processing demands made upon it by the war program Magnesium developments if located near the rich brine areas of Great Salt lake would use approximately 100000000 kilowatt - hours f o r every 10000000 pounds The cost of electric power is an essential determinant in the location of The normagnesium processing would be mal cost of this plant s52:56000 the present cost $6650- 000 Energy could be produced on a 100 per cent load factor basis at normal costs at 264 mills at present costs without deferment at 31 mills On a 60 per cent load factor basis at normal Costs at 37 4 mills mills at present costs-a'Palisades Snake river Idaho This is a multiple-purpos- e plant of nomoo The kilowatt capacity reservoir would extend across the The state line into 'Wyoming average annual output would be 230000000 kilowatt hours the firm output 131000000 kilowatt-hour- s Increased demands for power for copper are expected to close down on the power from Montana that has been going to Utah aril increased demands in Idaho are exnected to tighten theamount that the Idaho Power COMrany has been able to transfer en-to Utah It is believed that the tire firm output would be absorbed Immediately following construction The project would be ernnroTiirkily feasible only if a coneiderable allocation of construction cost would be found td be chargeable to other purposes such as irrigation and flood control The normal cost after such allocations would be $9300000 the present cost after allocations $11900000 The normal cost per kilowatt-hou- r dam multiple-purpos- 1 Fehrtiary 16 '19 12 trig fialt gatic Zriburte Monday ISIonaing 1TTICA N Proposing Y sill Feb West Coast lrx tiP) churches in Priorities War Hit Trawl To California the United States be closed one month following Easter Rev Carlyle Adams editor of the Presbyterian Tribune liberal monthly of for other parts Of the country fire under way" Further exploration of the carnotite deposits especially of Utah and Colorado are recommended and it iFc also suggested that the deposits of metallic vanadium be explored and methods of vanadium recovery be worked out "When this is done it is recommended that custom mills should be binIt for the treatment of ores from a very considerable number of small deposits" the secretary adds "fcr this program will probably supply most of the war neediC Phosphorus Outlook There is nothing in the program to indicate early development of the vast phosphate beds of southeastern Idaho and northeastern Utah but recently announcemwnt was made by the vvar production board of its purpose to establish two plants in the Grand Coulee area for the production or elemental phosphorus for military pur- the Presbyterian church as- serted Sunday: "Nothing would serve better to advance the cause of religious liberty in a nation which has forgotten all about what religious liberty means" Los ANGELES Feb 15 tin— The southern California tourist crop one of its largest and estim a ted by the club to yield approximately $190000000 a year was off 328 per cent in All-Ye- ar I want to see what can be done by January "Two war factors caused the cooperatingksvvith him A L Weil member of the "The secretary's program is be- drop" club management committee ing submitted to every senator and n On was the Sunday ev(!ry congressman from the west priority orders and the second was will poobtless many suggestions the flood of t Msg rumors about be made naturnity in so Vast a southern California program compromises mist be in the east and middle worked out but W e hope to bring westPeople believed we were actually a of unioh about the underlying blackouts undergiong essentials and hope to have solid and were in imminentevery night danger of western support our were that bombings highways "Secretary Ickea suggests that barricaded' gasohne scarce and when requested by the W P B the travel restricted even to the point department of the interior should women and children being be given the power to recommend of to the R F C the making of loans barred from the state" to companies or individuals seekconstantly that all such ing to develop low grade ores To urged be located in advantageous this it seems to me should be plants added a recommendation to the positions rather than in disadvantageofrom the point ways and means committee of the us-locations house and the finance committee of view of the over-aldevelopof the senate such modification of ment of the west the desirability the tax laws as would tend to of keeping operation a going in the stimulate the investment of pri- postwar period and the possibty vate capital in independentmining that smaller units could be purenterprises Any group of citizens chesed and operated by local capwilling to invest their own funds ital and citizens "Unless adequate consideration In the development of natural re- sources to produce the materials is given to thehe matters the re- now sorely needed by the whole na- suit will be that at the end of th tion should it seems to me have war the people of the west will the encouragement that would be quite as much at the mercy of recome from legril assurance-thathe decisions of the larger compapressive tax policies would be re- nies of the country as to what moved in such cases" plants they will close down as in Secretary Ickes made this broad the past they have been dependent statement of policy:' upon the decisions of these compa"For the wider development of nies not to engage in refining or the west there should be more fabricating In the west "The measures I have suggestfabrication of raw materials into finished products and more diver- ed above: under the heads of minsification of industries Before eral development and power for and since that time I have been the west would (lo something to and smaller comurging upon the war agencies that put individuals n for the war and panies they give consideration to locating and other power con- for a few years afterward While suming loads such as zinc and not that would be something definite simply aluminum reduction on the toward winning the war it would public projects in the west and not be any great underpinning for that they plan the aluminum fab- the postwar situation in the west ricating plant program so that the I believe that the decisions and plants will be useful at the end of actions now being taken will inthe war instead of tieing them up crease the spread of large industo the closing-dowpolicies of try control of the resources of Alcoa and other companies with the west and of the nation rather I have also than the contrary" eastern interests ex-p- I poses On receipt of Secretary Ickes report Senator 0Mahoney Said: "I will call my western resources committee to meet Tuesday to con- sider the letter or the secretary and we will immediately formulate a bill for carrying this program or much of it into effect Our committee can make no appropriations but our bill will be one that will authorize appropriations The full committee will then consider this legislation We hope to bring the entire subject before the full committee in a very short time Development of the west has been held back too long by big enterprises which were unwilling to go ahead unless they could see a' profit for themselves and by the concentration of too much authority in NVashington" the senator added "I want to see the capital and labor of the west turned loose on these resources: I Want the west to have full opportunity to contribute its share to national deWe must provide an infense centive to private capitalto go into the development of our western raw materials: Praises IckeS "Secretary Ickes in taking hold of this matter and outlining a del mite program has performed one of the most important and constructive acts of the whole war effort He is Interested in stimulating development of the west and l: t into-actio- n - '‘ re-pe- al r A177 : d 1r 47' rh-o- z 40" Ar" 1191 an English publication: WAYS TO PROTECT PRECIOUS EYESIGHT and get the most efficiency from the Electricity you use "Good artificial light is as important in the home as it is in the industrial or engineering workshop since the successful prosecution of the war and in ma do I Shade every light to eliminate glare 2 Use indirect reflector lamps wherever possible Avoid sharp contrasts 3 between brightly lighted surfaces and dark backgrounds 4 Guard against light reflected into the eyes from shiny surfaces fact the life of the nation de pend so largely on maintaining the the health and well-being- ( of people" N6ti Keep fixtures and pecially globes clean 5 Most certainly thle same conditions apply here! I 4onarch's es- do For close not work in your own shadow 7 Use the right size globe 6 8 eye-wor- When k redecOrating use light colors on walls and ceiling Rest your eyes by dos9 ing them occasionally 10 If your eyes feel strained or unduly tired see a competent eye specialist BIG ) DamE vve4 vol B Pi191 UNiTED STATES S wos t I tlb I rs tt 6) t 'I I 17 !w! t-7- - Vq y(?) II I c (1 H I 01 1 t 1 c - :r p A" NG ri tw os Power—the world'sfinesl electric service—produced for you of the tuition by American business men—is the kind of power' that serves 9O Reddy Kilow41tt SPL!ACIAL : I - In Great Britain good lighting in the home as well as industry is being stressed as an important element in that nations war effort In fact the importance of lighting is summarized in this quotation from - m $astus i- -' S twos ia |