The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-04-18
BILLION TONS
OF iron IN UTAH
JOSEPH sELLWooD SAYS RE.
SOURCES OF FAR WEST MAY
BE NECESSARY IN FUTURE.
GENERAL SUPPLY rs LOW.
Thinks Time Will Come When Steel
Plants VIII Be Built on Pacific
Coast-Army Appropriations
Passed.

Washington, ID. C. - An estimate
that the ores held by the United
States Steel corporation would be ex-
hausted within 25 or 30 years and that
the natural ourc of the Far West
would be raised, was made before the
house steel trust investigation COM
mittee by Joseph Sellwood, an ore ex-
pert, who says he has secured the
North American continent in search
of merchantable ore.
Mr.. Sellwood told the committee
that in Utah there We're known to be
1000, 600, 900 tons OF me%rchantable ore.
This ore can be used to make steel
just as well as any other ore, but it
is not nea coke or coal or luxing ma
terial, he said.
Several years ago Mr.. Sellwood ex-
plored the Utah ores for James ].
Hill the late John w. Gates and the
late f, II. Hartman.
Mr.. Sellwood thought the time
would come when 1t would be practi-
cal to build steel plants on the Pacific
coast and told of when Gates and
others had considered erecting a steel
plant at Los Angeles. With the COM
pletion of the Panama canal the avail
ability of the Western ore it was said
would increase. '.,.
Mr.. Sellwood said there were de-
posits of 55 per cent metallic iron ore
at Moose mountain, Ontario, aggre.
eating 100000, 900 tons and at Antiko-
can, Ontario, 10, 100000 tons. In New
foundland and Nova Scotia, he said,
there were similar deposits with
which he was not familiar. Ore de-
posits in Alaska, he said, should be
discounted.
From ~hearsay, he declared, he
would estimate the merchantable ores
in Alabama at 1000, 200, 900 tons.
Senator Bailey III.
Senator Bailey is i'll and threatened
with walking typhoid fever. He sent
word to his colleagues that his condi.
tion was SO much worse as to prevent
his participation in the senate's con-
sideration of tariff measures and ask.
ed that they proceed without him.
The Democratic minority, in courtesy
to Mr.. Bailey, the ranking Democrat
on the finance committee, has been
delaying its action.
Army Appropriation Bill Passed.
The senate passed the army appro.
priation bill carrying $95,314,710 or
$1,537,45 more than when it passed
the house and 81, 726, 925 more than
last years bill. Senator Warren said
the increase had been made necessary
by the economy "a which swept
over congress last year and caused
unwarranted reductions.
Washington, d. C. - Frank C.
Lowery, of the Federal Sugar Rein
ing company of New York, ~testifying
before the senate finance committee
on the house free sugar bill, admitted
that the company he represented was
paying for the free sugar propaganda
and was a leading advocate of the
measure. He agreed with Republican
members, who assert hat enactment
of the bill would wipe out the entire
domestic production of sugar
w. II. Baird of Detroit and w. K.
Winterhalter Of San Francisco, for
the beet sugar industry, opposed the
bill.
Senator Smoot of the senate finance
committee is preparing a substitute
for the house bill which probably
among other provisions will abolish
the Dutch standard. 1t is understood
generally that Senator Smoot is re-
sporting to a request from the sugar
men, for a reduction, fixing a rate
which may not soon be disturbed.
In an amendment proposed TO the
river and harbor bill pending before
the senate commerce committee Sen
ator McCumber of North Dakota asks
SIS, 900 for the Missouri river from
Kansas City to Lebeau. S. d.. and
$3.50, 900 for spagging and bank i'm
provement from Lebeau, S. d., to Fort
Benton. Mont.
Protest STEVENSON Bill.
Washington.-Asst. Atty. Gen. Knae-
bel and Assistant Secretary of the In
terror Thompson have forwarded com
~munications to the house Indian com.
mittee protesting against the passage
of the STEVENSON bill, which directs
the secretary OF. the interior to issue
patents in fee to allottments in the
White Earth reservation that have
been contested by the government.
The Stevenson bill was introduced
In the interests of persons who pur.
chased land from Indians. purchases
that have not been questioned, and
against which no charge of fraud has