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Show BILL 10 HAKE U. S. INDEPENDENT Would Encourage Production of Necessary Ores to Avoid , Importations in War Time. WASHINGTON. April 15 To make the United States independent of tho world during war time by encouraging the production of necessary ores, met als and minerals, largely imported in the past, is the purpose of a bill favorably fav-orably reported todav to th house The measure is intended also to enable en-able the government to conserve the supply, control and distribution and. if necessary, to fix the price of those materials. Approved, b the secretaries of war, navy and th interior, the bill was introduced in-troduced by Representative Foster of Illinois and was reported by the house mines' commiltH. which has conducted conduct-ed hearings on the subject. Mr. Fos ter is chairman of that committee. "Practically every man who appeared ap-peared before the committer endorsed the bill." ihe report said, "and your committep believes that If proper encouragement en-couragement Is given the producers of these products, most of them can be developed In our own country for our own needs for the army and navy and for necessities in civil life Short on Pyrites "We know that our country is now short on pyrites which Is so necessary for making sulphuric' acid. Pyrites have been imported from Spain and, ships have been necessary to carry this Important ore. They must now be relieved. We should and can develop de-velop our own supply of pyrites. It will require about nine million tons of sulphuric acid annually to meet our needs in the raunuiacture of munitions." muni-tions." The report also dealt with manganese, mangan-ese, now imported from nrazil, chromium chrom-ium and sulphur 11 .idded "Tungsten is necessary in making j iiarumeu sieci anu at is believed that I sufficient quantitv can be secured in I this country. Colorado has a considerable consid-erable quantity and its full develop-ment develop-ment should be encouraged Texa and Louisiana have large amounts of sul-t sul-t phur and probably the purest in the v. orld Minerals Necessary In War. "All these minerals are necessary ! In war and the government ought to have the right to control them If it is Jder-med br-st for the prosecution of the war and our industries at home This bill provide that the government may guarantee a fixed price for two years so that the operator and producer may be assured of a reasonable protit lor a fixed time It is -believed that we cannot get a full production of some of these minerals and metals without this guarantee " Consumers Trying to Gain Control. Pope Yateman of the war Indus -tries board says consumers are al-j al-j ready trying to control and to gel hold of all importations This should not i be permitted and the government should see that an equitable distribution distri-bution is made " Food Administrator Hoover Strongly endorses this bill |