The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-11
Zinc andIts Many Uses--Best and Cheap
est for Roofing Metal Needs
Wider Publicity

&C. f. Verne in American Zinc LeaC
and Copper Journal. Joplin, MOI
With the passing of time as the
world grows wiser and makes new
discoveries it finds new uses for zinc
one of the most useful of all metals
and one of the most neglected and I'M
appreciated. 1t has so many import
ant uses that even the miners who
produce it and the smelters who refine
it do not fully realize its great value
to mankind. 1t plays a prominent part
in building, in art, in science and in
medicine. In electricity it plays a
unique pa = being the only negative
metal
The United States produces more
zinc than any other country, but of
all the progressive countries of the
world it is the least appreciative OF
the superior qualities of zinc for roof
ing and other purposes well known
and much valued in Europe.
Zinc roofing in Europe where it has
been so long known, has stood the
tests of time and weather for more
than a century without paint or re-
pair. Zinc roofs that were put on in
1913 are still in good condition and
promise to last another century. over
there, where it has been tried and
tested, zinc roofing finds favor 1t is
preferred to all other roofing material
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all. In this age of expensive labor
zinc roofing is especially to be con-
sidered. 1t needs neither changing
nor repairing, while the years of time
run into centuries.
Zinc roofing protects the tops of our
side and outside walls and ceilings
and zinc guttering. rust-proof and rot
proof, will carry off the water, keep
ing it fresh and wholesome. Zinc
serves many purposes and new uses
Tor zinc are being found as the months |
'oll by.
Lasting Qualities.
Important among the uses which |
nay be considered new in America is
inc burial cases. 1t has been proven
hat zinc when not in contact with
my other metal, will withstand the
icids of the soil for many years, pos
IDLY centuries. because zinc has been
,nown to remain in a state of perfect L
in the ground for more (
han half a century and there is no
cling how much longer it would have d
ontinued in a well preserved condi-
ion. unchanged by the soils action or
" the passing years.
AS a new substance for monograph
Uses zinc finds another use. 1t fur
fishes an unbreakable disc and one /;
hat may be used several times be- {
ause it can be worked over, and then
'hen its usefulness as discs have end
d the zinc may be used for other pur- 1
oses.
Zinc has proven itself the best ma ;
erial for many articles of use in the j
ONE, farm, office and shop and in the (
recess of time its uses will naturally ]
lcrease but it behooves the zinc min
lg, smelling and manufacturing in I
ustries to work together for the bet D
erment of this long neglected metal, G
} carefully study it's values and ad- /
and advertise them to the y
-orld. I
Researcsh Possibilities.
1t is difficult to state positively that
nc can be made into products which
i'll widen it's scope of possibilities
nd usage and yet in this connection C
e can not help but recall the pro- f
ram of the iron and steel industry. i,
ould you imagine an automobile f,
trying to make car
1t of common iron? No. it could not ii
: done any more than a crank shaft h
,uld be made out of zinc. Il
Research and metallurgical brains fl
I'VE developed steel from iron and Il
Logged steel with chromium, vanadi-
n, tungsten or manganese to pro- b.
ice a steel for nearly any purpose CT
nd now we have a copper steel, tn
hich is non-rusting, for exterior use, re
ing especially adapted for building lin
coration, spouts, cutters and other I'll
terror work
When the time comes that zinc is ra
ade into only a fraction of as many W
etal products as iron it will sell it iii
II and increase tine demand SO that ii
pply will have to hustle to keep up. di
rely there is enough metallurgical
telligence in the zinc industry to
ing this about. eC
Sheet Zinc. OF
The possibilities of increasing the er
es of zinc are large. particularly in us
e case of rolled sheets; in this m
untry the rolled zinc produced has la
yer been more than 10 per cent of
e production of spelter while on the be
ntinent of Europe many of the larg- ci
producers roll so per cent to 100 W
r cent of their output. al
The largest tonnage uses Of sheet ily
lc in Europe are for roofing, corni- Ibl
5, architectural ornaments cutters, Sc
al of xuniol, GRO n