The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-08-31
Many Carloads of Chat
Shipped to Tulsa for
,Road Building.
PICHER FIELDS ARE ALIVE
Old Mines Are Reopened
and Many New Tests
Are Being Made.

The white peaks that 'ourhtls mp
preaching the Miami mimug ;cld
take TO be foothills OF the Rocky
mountains are no other than ouA'
piles which are now furnishing TdiNa
aud vicinity with ~ many "a % car
loads ~ crushed rock "a day Tor paw
Ing and road building
only recently has oklahoma begun
10 appreciate the value of chat as "A
filler with crushed rock in mixing
concrete. /, Is said Ia Dee "A great
economy A. many nH five rGmpt-
MES Ia Miami mas" 10 "a business {"
load ana ship thls commodity ana
most Of them Aro operating I' tcv
oral mines at once.
In normal hnios about 30 carB. n-e
shipped euch day. stopping pl Ncuri
eta, SapulpH ana practically ali
towns south and southwest of Miami
on the Frisco All railroad, use %
eNtens.vcly for the upkcop ~ their
road beds
Bom dry Hnd wet chat ia shipped
Tho grade n not Affected iu either /
case and there rs no difference In IA" ,
price Of handling OF shipping, al |
though a dry loader is more cEpen- !
sivo 10 build bp chat IL taken I
from the huge piles already formed /.
by he rock that has been taken from /
the mine crushed, separated from .
the ore, and discarded Wet chat H. |
loaded on the car direct from To-" /
mine additional fumes carrying o. /
TO cars on convenient swiirhrH " ls |
pumped in water In which 10 Be-
washed through the MIN Tho water
passes through the car and the chat
Is dry before II reaches iis dcsItna-
tion
Cur Shortage Delays.
Chat shippers arc having their
troubles at present because Of a
shortagc zg1ts cars This is said to be
due 10 n threatened STRIKE w the
Kansas cOal district ana I'll hNalh
BILE ears are rushed there to get out /
ns much winter coal aa possible be- ,
fore the mines nre 2 closed down I
Only cars that unload In the Miami >
field are turned over 70 chat and ore
men for their shipments, but this
shortage Ia not expected TO last bo-
yond the time for the usual heavy ,
shipment Of coal,
At the mining town or Commerce,
In tho heart OF tho Miami zinc ana 4
lead field church II being erected "a
that has "A sign out In front with the n
following inscription: $50 zinc In
so days. This church rs being COW v
cred with zinc shingles Everybody "
boost for zlnc" b
And that's what everybody IN Il
doing. You cant find any glnm
faces in tho whole OF the Miami min p
ing field-an optimistic air per u
meatsA the entire district The pro- =
Hucers are sthndingotoRether and rd4 y
fuse to sell when prices do not iustl- !.
~ a. Some mines are said TO have !,
AS much as quarter OF million /
dollars worth OF ore--holdmg Il to .
get the right price. II brought h
i47e0 last week, II was expected o
to bring $50 yesterday .
Everything n blamed. a
For that has been the trouble for ~
more than a yenr--plenty of ore but -
the price too low 10 make any real
money Everybody In tho field tx ~
plains that the ore buyer seizes every ~
opportunity TO hold prices down y
when the bis drop came something
over a year ago, and zine, or lack,
as Il In Familiarity called, fell tAom
500 n ton 10 S35 buyers blamed II ,
on Americas getting into the war
When the arrnlstlce was signed and
prices did not go up, buyers blamed
Il on the closing OF the war, Since ~
then there has been unsettled con- :,
ditions." the failure OF Tho signing !,
OF peace ihhof hnoINhEts NhTtNttNtu ~
railroad strikes, and tho latest. q {"
scarcity OF cars because OF the ship
ping Of quantities OF coal. n
Hut the producers see the end. ii
Settled times are about here they o
acclaim, and the buyers have run out "
" excuses. The government gave NJ
them one good one recently, how p
ever, when It unlonded all OF its =,
stored zinc on the market at once. u
Just as the one commodity on earth II
that hadn't gone up explained a G.
sorely tried producer who had been
hanging on with somr difficulty, be \
gan TO look like Il might be revived =
10 paying stage" IL dropped"
AZ that time after having made It's
first advance In months.
A man In RaNtcr Springs. Kansas
= reported 10 have invented liquid ~
hat will make 10 possible TO weld si
zinc as iron r. welded Il has been ~
, drawback rpforr that this was i'm ~
possible Zinc shingles 81 another =,
lew purpose the metal is being put -
q, and there are numhcrlcss uses -,
or ~ which are NOT generally known
Is zinc. All galvanized iron cor a,
liee works covered with zine The ,u
with zinc prevents rust n,
And the mining field has passed ~
Ver its hard. crude DAYS Forty To-