The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-10-24

pigment.
The trains are operated and guided
| BY zinc and lead. as the telephone.
! telegraph and signal towers are made
possible and practical by the use of
zinc and lead substances in the bat
teries to develop the necessary cur
rent for the transmission of messages
and signals
The operation of the submarine Is
made possible by the lead stor-
age batteries, as without the
batteries of this type the operation
OF submarine submerged, and of
course it would not be submarine If
lit could not submerge, and would
consequently lose its value as a fight
! ing craft. Similar use Of storage bat
teres is essential to the success of
/ the starter of the modern automobile.
Lead Is a source of supply for lead
ABIDE This material Is used in the
manufacture of decorators. A COM
mon use of lead has been as core
in the bullets In rifle ammunition.
The lead gives weight to the bullet,
and permits accurate craftsmanship.
Lead bullets are also used in the
shrapnel shells. The brass shrapnel
shell is made of zinc and copper.
For buildings the architects design
the structure, and the zinc and lead
producer fills large share OF the re-
quirements-the galvanized sheeting
for the roof, galvanized cornice and
other exterior and interior decora-
tons, and lead for plumbing.
In the operating room in the hos
pitfalls, as we'll as throughout the in
stitution, large quantities Of zinc in
various forms are consumed for dis
caustic. The soldier in the trenches
is gassed and wounded by zinc and
lead products, and is treated in the
hospital with zinc in other forms.
The farmer uses the galvanized iron
wire to inclose his land to prevent
less by straying of hogs and other
live stock Galvanized barbed wire is
also used extensively by troops of the
allied nations as entanglements be-
tween the trenches in mo Mans
Land" as an obstruction to prevent
active operations and raids by enemy
troops Galvanized wire will with
stand effectively the action of the
weather and will not rust or corrode
for long period,
Zinc is used extensively by manu-
facturers of printing type for news
papers and other publications.
The oxide of zinc, which Is a ma
terial used in the rubber industry, Is
the result of roasting and other treat
ment of the crude ore. 1t is also used
extensively in the manufacture of
paints and forms one of the essen
tial materials for the manufacture of
inside paints.
Lead also plays an important part
in the paint industry, and is the basis
for the manufacture of several i'm
portant paint materials and for other
important pigments.
Zinc is perhaps one of the most i'm
portant and versatile ores produced
II plays it's part in the treatment of
gold land its products also find their
way in large quantities into the tex
tile and many other industries,
A cycle in this industry exists which
embodies the fact that explosives are
necessary to produce zinc and lead
products, and these elements in turn
in various forms are necessary and
essential in the production of high
explosives
Taken all in all, the life history Of
lead and zinc in their course from the
mine to the final uses is quite an in
teresting story. and the part they play
in the activities Of the world is equal
ly IN on,a tp1nnrtopt