Show j testing strategic ores at salt lake city station bureau oi of mines establishment ot of tho the bureau ot of billies station adjacent to the uni varsity of utah bampus in 1910 la Is shoving proving to bo be of outstanding benefit to the war isar effort a and nd to the state situated in tile the heart of vestern mining this plant is operating day slid and night to 0 o meet the many main drob lern lelm thit that have al ahlsen out olit of tile war wai ope r atlon of the pl plant ant lial hae c not been confined to inside laboratory work voik but bill to held examinations all and moru inore recently to actual development of strategic and critical minerals when a large percentage ot of tile the united states imports of she sh elite wa was cut or off by the closing of the burma cload in china the bureau immediately set about to in augment the rapidly diminishing stocks of the much needed metal showings at the cupric mine in the milford section ot of deaver beaver count county were drilled and recently an actual development program was launched lauc ched A tunnel has been driven a distance dla tanco of too feet at tile the and several hundred feet more moie work will be ba done in lit an effort to determine tile the she elite te production possibilities of the jirda liea in tile ho same region the bureau has started work to re reclaim clatin the old tasso shaft of the wan wah wall mining company diamond drilling Is also being conducted at iron mountain near cedar city at Mary avalo utah an extensive program Is being conducted on sampling and investigation work has been completed at alta utah and a number of pi elects alio have been undertaken throughout wyo |