| Show I U. U S. S Seeking Rare Metals in the West Project Financed to Make al e I Nation Self Sell TUCSON ARIZ The federal government alarmed at the lack of domestic supplies of certain metals deemed necessary in wartime is conducting a campaign to to find new deposits of the metals in inthe inthe inthe the West The search scheduled to run over overa a period of more than four years will be directed in part from the theU U U. S. S bureau of mines office in Tuc Tuc- son Such metals as tm tt n chrome antimony tin manganese and oth oth- others others ers which this nation ordinarily is forced to import will be sought in inthe inthe inthe the western United States by engineers engi engi- engineers engineers of the bureau The survey will be financed by funds from a grant made by the last congress to make the United States more sufficient self-sufficient in mining of the metals which become vitally important in wartime indus indus- try The survey thus far has designated ed eight projects in the West which will be worked by miners and the minerals sold to the government Arizona as yet has not been ac ac- accorded accorded accorded corded one of these projects but engineers of the mine bureau are studying for deposit locations inthe in inthe inthe I the desert and mountains and the state will get its share of work if the project is continued according to E. E D. D Gardner supervising en en- I Reports te orts of the governments government's nJ ap ap- p-l p U nn n already aheady 1 eady have b Ve led to td t con considerable coo coo- considerable activity among Arizona miners A tungsten claim is being developed and several claims have been filed around the Globe Miami i districts where tests show possible presence of rare metals v l vOther lOther Other miners are finding it profit profit- profitable profitable profitable able to work the deserted gold and an d silver mines in fn search for metals hi m which the government has shown sho interest Early miners were inter inter- interested interested interested ested solely in gold or silver de de- deposits deposits deposits posits and may have overlooked bodies of important minerals |
