Show new ore fields alaska this year will produce between 50 end and 60 tons of tin and government geologists are ro reported ported to have found new fields of the ore in arctic alaska jack underwood manager of the washington D C bureau boliau of the seattle Chaffi chamber berol of colam commerce erce announced recently the known fields are being suri sur thoroughly andia the deposits pro are extensive enough a tin smelter plant may be erected in inthe intha the puget sound country miners have known of the existence of tin in Alaska for years year but since they were looking for gold old they bother with jt practically biily all of alanskas tin ore is boang produced at tin city in the cape prince of wales area underwood reports thit that a big force of government geologists is making a cem complete survey of alas kas strategic mineral resources with the hope hape of also finding chrome which now nov comes from west africa and manganese imported largely from russia and bra zil he declared that some chr chrome orrie Is being mined in the cooks cook t s inlet dis tract and that quicksilver hwa hay bion been discovered in the Y river |