Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-23

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non TONS IN the foreign production OF
zinc or nearly half the worlds output.
with beneficial effect upon the recent
Recommendation in the United States,
asneciallv as affordine the opportunity
nroducts 10 South American countries,
which market has hitherto been only
in mart utilized bv our exporters.
Fuel oil has large use in naval
warfare Of TODAY. vet the tying up OF
the big tank steamers on both the At
lantic and Pacific seaports is already
embarrassing the old producers or TINS
country who depend so largely upon
the export trade in all the forms OF
petroleum, crude and refined. on the
other hand, Russia, our strongest RI
val in oil production, must sufier more
complete and longer continued inter
ruption of exports, when shouiu tehu
to enlarge the market Tor our OIL
THE supply or cheap loreleh parytes
has prevented the ueNelopihenI %
many good deposits OF tnat a.
but with the consumers on the A'i'n'i'
seaboard already looking lor uoines'iO
supplies, some OF the southern mines
should be reopened TO suppienien' 'ne
outputs of those already III opeta'ioii'
"The closure of the European market
leaves but one puyer lor tiie iauiu,"
| ores of Colorado ana utah' Which -
decidedly TO the dlsadVahIase Vi 'i'e
| miner. Had the legislation iiitiouuesu
| in Congress been promptly en"eteu ~
United states government Nouiu pio
ably have been buying these ores @'
this time.
The DEMAND Tor Sos''
"yhile the United States leads IN
! coal mines" continued the secretary,
"the siv European nations now at war
happen to- be the six next largest coal
mining countries, producing together
ovor half the worlds coal Interefer-
ence with both the mining and the COM
merce of these nations must necessar-
lily increase the demand for our coal
at least in the neutral countries of the
world And coal is our one resource
about which there need be no present
Ianxiety The United states is now pro-
ducing 40 per cent of the worlds sup
nlv of coal. and the reserves yet to be
drawn upon exceed, so tar as KNOWN
those of all the rest of the world COM
bined. 1t is not generally known, now
ever. to what an extent we have been
depending upon Europe, principally
Germany. for many of the chemical
products derivable from coal and
which we have been permitting to go
10 waste. in the most reckless man
nor Coal tar obtained in the manu-
facture of coal gas, and of coke lin re-
tort ovens) is capable of PRODUCING
hundreds Of chemical products, nu'
the chemical Industries dependent up
on coal tar as a raw material have
had little development In the Onlteo
States. Our imports of coal tar pro
ducts in 1918 were valued at $1,000
moo at initiating points and when they
reachsd the ultimate consumer PROB
ablv cost double that amount. If the
present war continues any length OF
timo tho American consumer will have
4o do without aniline colors and dyes
certain drugs and numerous othei
coal tar products or the American
manufacturers will undertake to sup
plv these essential commodities WIhc'
have hitherto carried the label Made
in Germany
"The Panama canal is opened u
49,. - Lal,, ne in many ways. BO
-. -. ;,s+a,ce is one of the great
r rod,,cing countries in thu
est la ..,.,-.o +io,,,
world, but lts "etlNie9' - 80,
have been 10 EuroPe, "n.l ~ =
states mas peen sel'iiie - -,
Mate and tin alloys from London AM
Liverpool. With the suspension o
Fnropean industry and the opening o
, the canal there is no good reason VIII.
we should not now step in. bring 30
luvia's fin ore to this country and man
ufac+nre IT."
"1Krould this change of supply meal
,s.,oas i, +bie countrv?"