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Show TUNGSTEN SHIPPED BY EXPRESS. Wednesday evening a carload of tungsten concontrates, shipped by express, ex-press, passed through Ogden fromEly, Nov. The value of the shipment was $180,000. This is a new industry for Nevada, which has been stimulated by the war. During the past six months the United States has produced $10,000,000 of the mineral, and Nevada has yielded $2,000,000 of that amount. Tungsten is being employed to temper high speed tools, used in tho manufacture of war steel. New mills for the obtaining of tungsten from scheelite, Wolframite and Fcrberite, the ores of tungsten, are being erected throughout tho country, but so far Utah has made no progress in that direction. How the industry is growing grow-ing can bo judged from a list of some of tho new plants. In Arizona four mills were erected at Dragoon, three at Arivaca, and one at Yucca. In California two mills were reported under un-der construction near Goffs and one near Nipton. At Atolia tho mill of tho Atolia Mining company was burned, but was rebuilt and enlarged. A smaller mill was operated at Johannesburg, Johan-nesburg, and many kinds of machines were used to extract scheelite from the desert debris between Randsburg and Atolia. In Nevada a mill was constructed and operated near Toy, Humboldt county, and four or more mills were constructed in ho Snake range, in which tungsten deposits were found through a length of 50 or more miles. The United Tungsten corporation operated the mill built a number of years ago by former owners of the property at Tungsten, 12 miles south of Osceola, and a small mill was operated on tho east side of the range. Most of the deposits of tho Snake range are said to bo of low grade. A mill was also operated at Round Mountain. Tungsten ores are now commanding $93 a unit, or double the price a yoar ago. Utah prospectors should make themselves them-selves familiar with the different forms of the ore and, in their travels, search for deposits of the mineral. |