The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-22
Trade is Controlled by Trust.

The entire anthony trade is now con-
trolled by one house, the mother house,
CoOkson & CO., being in England. ana
their house in the United States think,
is Halls Bros. & Co. The United states
factory. where the imported ore is manu-
factured into the metal Is on staten ISL
and. an establishment formerly owned DE
MatEiSOn & Co. who were forced 10 sell
10 the English outfit or be crushed by
them As the matter now stands in the
United States, this one OUTFIT with the
metal protected By q tariff OF tnrse-Quat =
ters OF 2 cent per pound, buys no orc IN
the United States, but imports u from
Asia Mexico and the countries above
mentioned. where the ore Is mlned Win
labor that Is paid not over . Genus Pc
dav The sharpest competition Tor the
American antimouy comes rom japan
and China The importations OF antImoh!
ore is made in the form OF hgnate tlat
is the crude antmony suiphlde IS feuu . gu
to a matte containing about b per cent oi
autimony, the balance sulphur and some
arsenic and iron. Against these half I'M
isbcd concentrates made by ChlneSe OF
Iauanese ar Mexican labor the American
mines are in urgent need OF protecIioh-
Tire fact that we have been wholly at
the mercy of the foreign antmOnZ mar heI
has made the price Of the metal IN TINS
country most crate ranging from ~
cents i'm 1902 10 > cents in 1900 ana 1871.
and about 16 cents in lyUN- Inc ltusSidH-
Iapanese war was the cause Tor the STtdt
rise i'm price during 1861 anumonE be-
Of fixed ammunition. and the Russian
Jap war creating a tremendous Cenahu
FOR the metal during the conthcI
Anthony Is chiefly used in the proauc-
ton of babbit metal, as an alloy Win
lead for the manufacture of certain KINDS
of lead pine for hard lead for fixed am
munition and shrapnei and Ior type htstal
II is also largely used as coloT1ng mat
ter and in the manufacture OF porcelain
THE present tariff schedule operates
most effectively to create an aosoIute
trust in the antimony market IN tLe C nl,5
ed States more perfect scnedule coulu
not have been devised for the purpose OF
,,,t+iue, the whole anthony trade into the
hands Of one outfit than has been done py
the present schedules, putting the outy
on metal and allowing the Tree lHpoElS-
ton of the ore and matte.
Wants Tariff on Ore, Same as Lead.
Can the United States furnish anthony
abundautly and cheaply from ITS own
mines? The Asiatic and Mexican import
ers of anthony ore and the concern con-
trolling the anthony metal in the United
States will possibly say no AS mat
ter of fact, anthony ores are Scatteted
in wide profusion in large deposlts an
over the Rocky mountain states; immense
bodies of anthony ores are found IN
Utah, Nevada, Idaho. Washington, Mon
tana California, oregon, COLORADO, WyO-
ming. Arkansas and Alaska
The United States geological survey re
norts for 1905 and 1891 show in detail the
location of the different deposits of an
tImony through the Rocky mountain coun-
frv. Millions of tons of anthony ore are
In sight ready for extraction ana SNIP
n,ent in a dozen different states, but it Is
Impossible TO successfully mine and ship
This ore to market in competition with
Asiatic and Mexican ore that is mined
with wage scale of p cents per day as
against $50 per day paid in all of the
mining camps of the west.
The same argument that puts lead ore,
zinc ore and iron ore on the protected list
appIies with equal force to anthony ore
TIE present tariff schedules place duty
ON granite, sandstone and limestone Of u
cents per cubic feet; on marble s. cents
per cubic foot; mica cents per pound
iron ore 40 cents per ton; lead ore III cents