The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-29
ANTHONY MARKET
AFFECTED BY WAR

Anthony is ordinarily one of the
cheaper metals, selling at n and a
half times to twice the price of zinc,
but since the outbreak of the Euro
pean wal it has reached more than
20 cents a pound, a price higher than
that of aluminium. During the six
years from 1908 to 1913, inclusive,
the price of Cookson's anthony
ranged from 7.45 to 1921 cents a
pounds, and the yearly averages
ranged from S.24 to S.5S cents a
pound. Much of the time during the
present year the price has been still
lower, and toward the end of July
it was quoted at z to 40 cents.
Other branches have ranged from
OBS to 1.25 cents lower. AS has
been pointed out in the United tates
geological surveys reports, at these
prices anthony ores can not be
worked prof1tably under the high Ia
Dor costs prevailing in the mining
the deposits are very large and ad-
vantageously situated. No deposits
of anthony ores have ever been
found in the United States which en-
tirely fulfill these conditions, and as
a result practically ali the anthony
metal used here is imported from
European smelters, mostly from
England. The ores for these smelt-
ers come largely from China, Next
co, France and Austria. So long as
the war exists, and especially as sea
traffic is disturbed, the production
will be curtailed and prices raised,
for the use of anthony in type met
ais and especially in bearing metals
is fixed and will continue. Other
uses, such as the making of coffin
trimmings, which consume a sur
p~risingly large quantity of anthony
and from which there is no second
airy recovery. might conceivably turn
to aluminium or other metals as sub
stitutes.
For several years the production
of anthony in the United States
from domestic ores has been confin-
ed to that contained in antimonial
lead and small quantities recovered
in the electrolytic refining of copper
and lead. A production of anti
mony from foreign ores, which can
only be estimated, is also made.
The antimonial lead is mostly a by
product in the smelling of the pre-
cious metals, and efforts are made to
save all possible, SO that this produc-
ton can not be largely increased.
The quantity saved in electrolytic
copper refining "a probably be in
creased. though not enough to make
it a serious factor in the market.
ENGLISH PEOPLE BEGIN
TO DRAW "COLOR" LINE
LONDON, Aug. 20. = The grow
ing prejudice in England against
color has been a subject of news
paper comment of late in the Lon
don press. A typical letter of the
kind comes from a writer, who says:
among the men who poured into
the smoking room of a city restaur-
ant was a faultlessly dressed negro
of distinguished appearance. He
took a seat at a vacant table, which
would accommodate four persons.
All the other tables in the room were
quickly filled and there was not an
inch of space to spare-except at the
negro's table. Rather than sit in his
company, patrons went out again.
Even the mattresses ignored the
ldusky one. 1t was fully twenty min
utes before he was served, and then
only in response to almost pathetic
appeals.
"Can it be-" asks the writer, "that
the American color prejudice is
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