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Show TUNGSTEN IN NEVADA, Tho production of tungsten on a commercial scale promises to add one more profitable Industry to tho resources re-sources of this state. For something over a year an effort has beon made in White Pino county to produce this metal, but, owing to financial complications, compli-cations, the promotion foil Into litigation lit-igation at the threshold of production, produc-tion, and there it remains. However, there is a fine mill, and the mine was placed in shape for outputting ore at an expenditure of something like $100,000. One car of concentrates was shipped that carried 44 per cent tungstic acid and which yielded $450 a ton, or In the neighborhood of $7.50 a unit. This was tho beginning and end of the operations of the United States Tungsten Corporation in Nevada. Nev-ada. Until the cloud of lawsuits Is I dissolved the property Is likely to re-( re-( main idle, but there Is snld to be a good chauco of the creditors coming to an understanding that will enable the company to proceed. Tho only othor attempt to produce tungsten in Nevada was at Ropnd mountain, whore a good plant is rapidly approaching ap-proaching completion, with every probability of blowing In about the first of the year Colorado Is the greatest producer of tungsten, the valuo of the output for 1910 reaching the grand total of 5012,000. The metal if found onlv 1n Boulder county, whore a mill "has been established for both company and custom Ireatment. California comes next with $190,500 in 1009, San Bernardino county ranking at the head, of h'pilist. Nevada should' exceed ex-ceed these" figures wih two mills run-, ning arid a)i abundance of- ore In, sight; so It is not , "improbable that the output of this state ior 1912 will not falLshort of $1,000,000. The Atolia j Mining company owns the principal ' and during the past year the management man-agement Increased their holdings by buying additional claims During 1910 the Industry enjoyed Its most pros perous existence, owing to the high tfy. price which the mineral commanded. ; M Subsequently the (flotation relaxed alii to $7 25, and even $7 a unit was paid, J until tho small holders got together J2 and entered into an agreement lo ; flR withhold their oreB from the market. IS An average price of $7,275 was main- IB talned during 1910 for scheollte oros ' K carrying 60 per cent or over, I tt The mineral tungsten (the name tsf meaning heavy stone) has been B known for many years, but only com- H paratively recently has it become of flH economic importance. The moBt im- HB portant use, according to Frank I. ; Bfl Hess of the United States Geological H Survey, and the one which makes HI tungsten mining on an extensive scale ,- vw- possible, is as an alloy for tool steel, i kg Lathes using tools made from tung- Wk j sten steel may bo speeded wp until j E the chips leaving tho too are so hot mm that they turn blue, an operation 'IB I which would ruin the temper of high- ," fl I carbon steel, ll is stated that about H I five times as much can he done with K lathes built for such speed and work Tw I as can be dono bf the same lnthes 1( with carbon-steel tools. From 1G lo gv 20 per cent of tungsten is ordinarily & used in the lathe tools. The melting ggi point of tungsten Is exceedingly high gg; n,n7G degrees Fahrenheit 5th Tungsten also has an important uso Stb In making incandescent electric lamps ' Sjf cruclblos for electric furnaces and va- 5t, rious other articles. Goldfield Trlb- gjf 11 ne. p |