The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-04-26
MINERALS AND MINING
ENGINEERS TOR WAR
GOVERNMENT is TAKING CLOSE
ACCOUNT RESOURCES AND
TECHNICAL MEN.
Washington Correspondence Engineer


ing and Mining Journal.
Eacn mineral affected by war con-
ditions is to be the subject Of concise
review by the United States geological
survey. The object Is to show the
present status of mineral production
and of the mineral industries from
the standpoint of the development wit
messed since the outbreak of the war.
s;recial attention is being given TO
conditions and to the demand that
win confront the United States in case
If war.
The work has been assigned to the
regular biologists having charge OF
each of the minerals to be reviewed.
They will show what has been accom-
plished under the extraordinary stl-
mulus of foreign war markets on the
che hand, and of restricted or even
totally INSTRUCTED importations on the
cher An effort will be made to show
the ability and the extent TO which
The mineral industries can meet pos
sible superimposed demands of war.
Limits as to the mineral available for
mining, smelling, coking and refining
will be discussed. The rate of expan-
sion under pressure as estimated on
the basis of what has been achieved
silce September 1914, will be calcu-
lated The adequacy of the mineral
reserves of the country and the pos
sihle development of new reserves OF
importations will be considered.
The result of this work will be pub
lished as "a bulletin which will be the
logical successor of the brief sum-
mary, bulletin 500, published few
weeks after the beginning of the war
That publication outlined what might
be expected of the United States IN
developing Industrial independence
The new bulletin will state what has
been accomplished.
Mining engineers and metallurgists
are being requested by the bureau OF
mines, "as a patriotic duty to MI
ont a card on which some 40 questions
appear European experience, says
letter which will accompany the
questions, has shown that nothing Is
more important in time for war or
national emergency than a knowledge
of the qualifications and experience OF
expert technical men. 1t is therefore
Important especially at present, that
this information be available in the
United States" The information is
being collected by the bureau of mines,
in cooperation with the American in
stitute of mining engineers. The work
OF gathering these data was underta
ken at the request of the council of ma =
tonal defense. Similar information is
being sought from chemists The
American chemical society is coopera
ting with the bureau of mines in the
effort to secure the information from
the chemists of the United States
Among the more significant questions
asked are: I'm case of an emergency
how and where, in your opinion, could
you be of most service to this coun
try?" in what countries have you
had experience and how much"'
What foreign language do you
speak," Are you an American citi-
zen?" where were your parents
born?" "Give character of machine
and repair shop experience" These
questions are in addition to those as
to name, address, age, education, tech
meal society Affiliations, positions held
and published writings. Numerous
subdivisions are made under the
heads of mining" and of "ore reduc-
ton" to establish the exact class OF
mining and metallurgical experience
of each man addressed,