The searchlight., 1912-04-19
BILLION TONS
OF IRON IN UTAH
JOSEPH sELlW0oD SAYS RE-
SOURCES or FAR WEST MAY
BE NECESSARY IN FUTURE.
GENERAL SUPPLY IS LOW.
Thinks Time viii Come When Steel
Plants Will 30 Built on Pacific
Coast-Army Appropriations
Passed.

Washington. ID. c. An estimate
mat the ores held by the United
States Steel corporation would be ex.
hausted within 25 or 80 years and that
the natural resources 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 were known to be
1.0O0.0O0,000 tons of merchantable ore.
This ore can be used to make steel
just as well as any other ore. but il
Is not near coke or coal or fluxing ma
terial, he said.
Several years ago Mr.. Sellwood ex-
plored the Utah ores for James j.
Hill the late John w. Gates and the
late e. H. Hartman.
Mr.. Sellwood thought the time
would come when it 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 100.000.00O tons and at Antiko-
can, Ontario. 10000, 900 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 1,0O0,O00,0O0 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
$l.S37.453 more than when it passed
the house and s2.726,925 more than
1a
the increase had been made necessary
by the economy wave which swept
over congress last year and caused
unwGrranted reductions.
Washington, ID. 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 that enactment
Of the bill would wipe out the entire
domestic production of sugar.
w. H. Baird of Detroit and w. X.
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. II Is understood
Ooporollv that Canator C,,oo, a.. ro
spending 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
$4,000 for the Missouri river from
Kansas City to Lebeau. 8. d., and
$4,000 for snagging and bank i'm
provement from Lsbeau. S. D., to Fort
Benton, Mont.
Protest Steenerson Bill.
Washington.-Asst. Atty. Gen. Knae-
bel and Assistant Secretary of the In
terror Thompson have forwarded COM
to the house Indian CON-
mittes protesting against the passage
Of the Steenerson 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 Steenerson 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