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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
Mine Pillars to
Yield Much More

Thousands of tons of zinc and lead
ore, vitality needed for increased man.
ufacture of war materials, will be
brought into production with the aid
of sensitive instruments developed by
the Bureau of Mines, DR.. R. r. Sayers
director of the bureau, advised Secre-
tary of the Interior Harold l.. Ickes
These instruments, by simplifying
and recording subaudible noises that
indicate pressure zones in rock and
warn of impending falls of ground in
workings make it possible to recover
with relative safety zinc and lead ore
now tied up in old mine pillars that
have been left standing to support the
roof during earlier mining operations,
DR.. Savers stated.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
RUBBER YIELD UP
TO 100000 TONS
BY END OF YEAR

To expedite the rubber program
construction of all synthetic facilities
are being standardized and plants are
being located with a view to requiring
the least amount of transportation,
Commerce Secretary Jones announced
Jones said private industry is now
producing synthetic rubber at the rate
of $4,000 tons per annum, and two
government plants, having an aggre-
gate production capacity of 10000 tons
annually, are in production.
1t is believed I'VE will have pro-
duction capacity Of approximately
100000 tons by the end Of 1912; 100000
tons by August, 1913; and the entire
100000 tons by the end of 1943," he
said.
Existing rubber, including tires in
use and any new production, must be
conserved, however, he said, ''if we are
to bridge the gap between now and
the time we viii be producing syn
thetic rubber ON large scale. Regard
less of any success that may come
from any Of the plans under way to
make existing tires last as long as
possible through retreads, repairs, ETC.,
no one should use his automobile ex-
cept for absolutely necessary trans
pOrtation."
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
'ICKES PRAISES
OIL INDUSTRIES
RUBBER CAMPAIGN

Praising the oil industry for its sue
cess in the nationwide campaign fol
collection Of reclaimable rubber, Pc
troleum Co-ordinator for War Harold
l. Ickes urged that industry to Co
operate Fundamentally in the War
Production Boards sustained program
for collecting scrap metal and other
urgently needed war materials.
He said:
THE petroleum industry has dem
onstrated repeatedly its ability to mo-
billie its great field forces toward the
accomplishment Of needed and worth
while projects. This the industry has
just done again in the scrap rubber
drive
Recently, the government launched
the national salvage program to re-
cover any remaining scrap rubber and
also to collect. principally, metal scrap
and other vitality necessary war pro-
duction materials.
THE government has requested spe-
officially that the oil companies &C
lively join in support Of this urgently
needed salvage work.
las petroleum co-ordinator for war,
I urge the active interest Of the oil
industry and am confident that the
oil company organizations and dealers
will provide much of the energy and
ability so necessary for the
positive success of the salvage for vic
tory program"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
METALLURGY OF
COPPER Is TEXT
OF new BOOK

BUTTE-Two Montana School Of
Mines alumni are the authors of q
recently issued book which Is the last
word on the extraction of copper from
its ores.
This work, a 5OO-page textbook just
published by John Wiley & Sons Of
New York and entitled "Metallurgy of
Copper" Is written by Dr. Curtis L.
Wilson and Prof. Joseph Newton. DR..
Wilson is well known in Montana
where, for many years, he was dis
tinguished member of the School Of
Mines faculty following his graduation
in 1920
DR.. Wilson left Butte year ago
to become dean of Missouri School Of
Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla.
Professor Newton is a native Of
Butte who was graduated in metal
lurgy from Montana School of Mines
in 1880. and he is now assistant pro-
lessor of metallurgy at the University
of Idaho. The publication, therefore,
represents the joint work Of teacher
and former pupil, both of whom are
the product of Buttes famous techni-
cal college.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
ABANDONMENT
REGULATION
is CRITICISED

There is no change in the prospects
for national gasoline rationing but
there was a hopeful air at the recent
conference Of State Regulatory bodies
with the OPC at washington, report
Austin Middleton Of the Montana
Railway commission and R. P. Jack
son of the Oil Conservation Board,
who represented Montana.
One OF the acts Of the organization
was to ask the OPC to rescind its
order restricting the abandonment Of
small oil and gas wells Wells making
less than one barrel per day can be
abandoned without applying to the
OPC, If the abandonment is approved
and certified by proper state officials.
Wells making one barrel per day or
more cannot be abandoned without
special permission. OF 800 such petit
tions thus far only IL have been
turned down, it was announced. How
ever, the conference voted that the
industry knows best how to get maxi
mum recovery Of oil and to best uti-
lie steel.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
Congressman Get
Tired Before Mine
Hearings Ended

DENVER-By the time the western
mine hearings reached Denver, Mr..
Pat McCarren of Nevada was the only
member of the congressional subcom-
mittee present, although DR.. Wilbur
Nelson, director of mine priorities,
with FIN Campbell and L. p An
dresen of the treasury department
stayed on.
Julian D. Conover, secretary Of the
American Mining Congress, and Rob-
ert S. Palmer, secretary Of the Colo
RADIO Mining association, continued
their plea that overburdens on taxa
ton makes impossible the continuance
of mine development, especially in the
face of lack of manpower The man
who is receiving a fixed price for his
metals is unable to compete in the
labor market with the cost-plus con-
tractors, witnesses declared.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
Says 100000 Tons
Of Rubber Is
Plant Capacity

Rubber Co-ordinator Arthur B.
Newhall has sent out the following
letter on the synthetic rubber situa-
ton in response to many inquiries
about the present status of the pro-
gram:
1.-THE government Is building plants
based on a program for the produc-
ton Of synthetic rubber as follows:
100000 tons per year of Buna S, 10000
tons per year Of butyl and 10000 tons
per year of neoprene.
1.-THE present program has been
fixed at this amount, not because we
are still searching for methods or
processes but because the amount Of
raw material required TO build plants
TO use any Of the processes is limited
and the amount allotted is all that
can be spared at this time to be taken
away from other critical needs in the
war program. Confusion arising from
the public statements of different pro-
ponents of different processes has not
in the least detracted from the gen.
eral policy Of going forward with this
program to completion at the earliest
possible moment
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
Oil Industry Is
Greatest Producer

Nearly 100000 persons worked in Pc
troleum and natural gas production
activities In 1899, the bureau Of census
has just reported. Its report, the first
comprehensive census survey of the
industry since 1919, reveals that 1882
companies were engaged in the pro-
duction of oil and gas, and that at
the end of 1899 they operated 30O,179
oil and gas wells, and 47,466 gas wells.
Total value of products of the in
dustry, 81 Az, POI $3.50, exceeded that of
any other mineral industry, and ac-
counted for As percent of the total for
all mineral industries.
The complete census report gives a
breakdown of all principal facts Of
drilling and operating oil and gas
wells, including all figures for the
principal producing states. Included
is data on footage drilled, costs, man
hours of labor, contracted drilling,
well servicing and maintaining, etc.
Copies Of the report, Mineral Indus
tries, 1889: Crude Petroleum and Nat
ural Cas-" may be obtained from the
bureau Of the census.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01

| The name lightning arrester" sug-
gests that it Is a device which arrests
or stops lightning. Such is not the
case, as this mighty force of nature
on rampage cannot be stopped by as
small a device as the commercial
lightning arrester. A lightning arrest
er is merely a device for by-passing
the lightning discharge to earth where
this tremendous force can be spent
harmIessly.
A river might be used as a simple
illustration Of how a lightning arrester
operates. Suppose we take a river
channel with a large horseshoe bend
in it. The banks Of the river at the
horseshoe are fairly flat, but suffi-
GENTLY high to carry twice as much
water as the normal flow. If spring
flood with four times as much water
comes down the river, it will break
over the banks at the horseshoe,
flooding and damaging the adjoining
land.
Now suppose we dig q wide channel
across the open end of the horseshoe,
making the bottom of it lower than
the river banks at the horseshoe. If
this same spring flood came down the
river, the excess water would follow
the new channel and go down the
river and prevent flooding and dam
aging the land around the horseshoe.
In this illustration, the horseshoe
bend might represent an electric mo-
tor with the normal current flowing
through it. If a lightning stroke. as
represented by the flood water, hits
the line, the high voltage Of the light
ming breaks through the insulation Of
the motor windings and the current
overflows and damages the motor
just as the water breaks over
the banks of the river channel.
Now, suppose we connect a light |
ming arrester between the line feed
ing the motor and the ground, max
ing the breakdown voltage of the ar
roster lower than the breakdown vol
sage of the motor winding insulation !
just as we made new channel across
The horseshoe bend in the river chan
mel. If the same lightning stroke hits
he line, the excess lightning current
would flow through the lightning ar
ester and prevent damage to the mo-
or, as the excess water flowed through
he new channel
Fundamentally, lightning protection
s as simple as this simple river
analogy.
A farmer with land that is liable to
,e damaged by flash floods overflow
ng the banks of a river, wisely builds
hannels to allow the flood water to
I'm off harmlessly. So does the wise
Electrician make provision for his mo-
or to be protected in case of light
ling stroke.
Applications of lightning arresters
viii be covered in future issues Of
he Montana Kilowatt.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
Blast Furnace
Is Being Built
Near Portland

While little Is heard about It, There
is another iron smelter, other than
the two in Utah, developing in the
west, south of Portland. A deposit Of
some 100000 tons of iron ore has
been developed in the Cascade noun
tains. near the Mckenzie pass.
It win be mined by steam shovel and
transported to the smelter by truck.
An electric furnace viii produce
Swedish steel, In addition to a blast
furnace. The property is being de-
veloped by private capital and IS ex-
pected to be factor in the Pacific
coast shipbuilding program.
Power win be obtained from Bonne-
vile dam, starting with $4,000 kilo-
watts, which load will be increased to
95!OOO kilowatts within a year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
RFC MINE LOANS
HAVEN'T REACHED
MONTANA MINERS

Fifty mining men OF western MOI
tana met at the monthly session OF
the Western Montana Mine Owners
e. Operators association at Missoula,
presided over by Vice President Sid
ney Ward. in the absence of President
Packer. Following is an account Of the
meeting by A. ]. Nosby, secretary.
The report of the miners meeting
at Blackfoot, Idaho, which was at
tended by John Hopkins and A. J..
Mosby was made. At the Blackfoot
meeting the dilatory tactics Of the
RFC were cussed and discussed. Not
a single mine operator at the meeting
had procured an RFC loan, although
many had applied 1t was cited that
although this war was a war of metals
and that the Bureau of Mines was
cooperating 100 percent, the RFC was
so strict In its requirements that 1T
was evident that the only operators
that could secure loan we're those so
financially situated that they did not
need one. 1t was brought out that If
the government wants to win the war,
they've got to take a chance with the
mine owners, because the laws are
such that private capital is not inter-
ested In mining ventures; and, If the
strategic metals are to be found and
taken out of the ground, money must
be provided by the government Tor
exploratory work.
E. w. Newman, newly appointed
state director for the Bureau OF Mines,
then spoke at length and told OF the
cooperation of his department with
the mine owner who had property
that was worthy of investigation. The /
location of a Bureau of Mines office |
in the state was heralded as big |
step forward in getting action in the |
development of the mines in our area.
Mr.. Theme of the forest service I
then told us of the situation as to
access roads. Roads to mines in forest
areas are to be taken up with the
forestry department, If on Indian land,
with the nearest Indian department
and on prairie land, with the depart
ment of grazing at Helena.
Mr.. Berg, Northern Pacific geologist,
then spoke Of his Investigations and
stated that what we needed In our
area was a flock Of $1,000 loans to de-
velop our prospect holes into proven
mining properties.
The value of custom mill at Mis-
soula that would pay on all ore values
was discussed and agreed upon as be-
ing the answer to many of the prob
lens of the mine owners in our area.
The meeting adjourned at $3.50 p. m,
after which the usual bull session
was held and many then went to the
Palace hotel to look at the minerals
on display in our showcase In the
lobby.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01

Ickes, regional offices of the bureau
have been created at Salt Lake City
Rollo, Mo, and College Park, Nd, SO
that the full strength of the technical
and practical experience of bureau
engineers and scientists will be con-
centrated on immediate development
of mineral resources for the produc-
ton Of more tanks, planes, guns and
other equipment essential to victory
Drawing from his years of work in
the field and in the laboratory, Zim-
merly is to direct the exploration Of
mineral deposits, advise mining men
of new processes developed by the bu-
reau, supervise laboratories and pilot
mill operations and speed the move
ment of new metallurgical processes
from the experimental stage to COM
mercial production.
The western region will include the
mineral-rich states of Washington,
Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada,
Arizona, Utah, Montana, Wyoming
and Colorado. These states hold key
positions in the nations mineral pro-
duction program.
vast areas of low-grade ores still
remain Imworked," said DR.. r. r.
Sayers, director of the Bureau of
Mines. "Our job is to provide Stats
tical data, to perfect processes and to
make surveys so every workable min
eral deposit will be worked"
Mr. zimmerlys thorough lnowl-
edge of the minerals and mineral re-
sources Of western states has been
gained both in the laboratory and in
practical metallurgy. All of his years
with the bureau have been spent in
the west He joined the Bureau Of
Mines in 1925 as a Junior metallurgist
at the Salt Lake City station of the
division. During the next
four years he studied crushing and
grinding methods involved in the
treatment of low grade ores obtained
in Utah and other states in the west
ern region"
In 1929, Zimmerly left the bureau |
to take charge of the research lab
oratories and to become plant metal |
lurgist for the Sullivan Mining Co. |
at Kellogg, Idaho producer Of high
grade electrolytic zinc. In the COM |
pany of other metallurgists he de-
veloped improved processes for treat |
ing zinc-bearing ores and perfected |
new methods of control and of i'm
proving the grade of the product
From 1885 when he returned to the
bureau, until receiving his present
zimmerly's work has in
yolved ore-dressing research for west
srn minerals and technical direction
If pilot-mills-plants constructed by
he bureau to determine the most sat
method of recovering metals
rom ores. At the time of his appoint
nent, Zimmerly supervised all lab
,ratory progressing work on strategic
at the Salt Lake City sta
ion, principally manganese, chrom-
UNI, tungsten, iron, copper, mercury
md nickel.
Manganese, an essential ingredient
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
Mike Evans and Ray
Gill Are Visitors

Mike Evans, technical representa-
tive for Illinois Powder Manufacturing
Co., was a visitor in Great Falls in
company with Ray B. Gill Of the Butte
Machinery Co., this week. Evans has
taken over the territory Of Allen Big
Ter who has gone into defense work
at Seattle. Evans has established a
master magazine at Butte as Butte
Machinery Co. has become Montana
distributor for Gold Medal explosives.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
ZIMMERLY NAMED
REGIONAL HEAD OF
BUREAU OF MINES

Stuart r. Zimmerly, expert in ore
dressing methods for minerals, has
been appointed regional engineer OF
the newly created regional office Of
the Bureau of Mines at Salt Lake
City, from which he will direct the
expanded wartime program of the
bureau for that area to provide great
er output of strategic and critical min
erals from 10 western states.
Under a reorganization order issued
by Secretary of the Interior Harold l.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
U.S.B.M. Joins
In Search for NeLO
Strategic Minerals

Production of essential war mate
rails In Montana viii hereafter be un-
der the direction of q US.BM office
at Helena with Earshel w. Newman
and staff Of 10 engineers in charge.
This office viii examine mining
properties with an eye to new reserves
and win try to solve problems Of COM
pick ores. Roads TO remote areas may
be obtained through this office, also.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
TlUO West Steel Mills

WASHINGTON-A report submitted
to the war production board by w. A.
Hauck, chief of the steel planning
unit, has recommended the completion
Of two Columbia Steel Co. mills at
Geneva, Utah. The two mills, one for
structural steel products and the other
for plate production, are scheduled for
completion next June and March, re-
spectively.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
To Import Miners

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Gov. Arthur B.
Langlie states skilled miners from the
east and middlewest may be imported
to Washington to relieve threatened
coal shortage he estimated would ex-
coed 100000 tons before winter.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
Find Tungsten Ore
BOdg Near Nixon

RENO-A high-grade tungsten ore
body six feet wide was uncovered at
the M. G. L. tungsten mine near
Nixon, Roy Hardy, operating engineer,
disclosed here. The company plans to
start its 125-ton reduction plant early
next month.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01
Copper Firm Buys

YERINGTON, Nev.-County OFF,
cials confirmed here that Information
al Smelling 81 Refining Co. purchased
800 acres adjacent to Yerington cop
per property it has been prospecting
and drilling for some time.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01

Buying war bonds is about as much
OF a sacrifice as putting money in
the bank. Money that you can take
out after victory-or before, if an
emergency should arise. 1t is money
set aside to buy all the things :. we
must all do without today in order to
help win the war."-Jonn T. Madden,
chairman of the Greater New York
war bond pledge campaign.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01

Out Of a little more than $4,000
buses in the u. S., $500 are school
buses, $500 carry passengers within
cities, 1900 carry passengers between
cities, $500 carry excursionists.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01

MINE TINTBERS ARE LOGS
Unpeeled logs for mine tinbers are
considered logs within the terms OF
the general maximum price regula-
ton and are exempted from its pro-
visions by the OPA.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-01

The modern automobile incorporate:
more than 1900 patented inventions.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-07-03

Luckie. Mrs. Helen Miller and
Miss Barbara Mcclure, unable to
attend, sent gifts.
Out-Of-TOwn Guests: Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Singer and daughters,
Rebecca and Roberta of Niles,
Mich, Mr.. and Mrs. Benny Pierre,
Chicago, attended the Miller-Pierre
wedding held last Saturday. Mrs.
Singer and Mr.. Pierre are sister
and brother of the groom. Rebecca,
his niece, was christened at st.
Thomas Episcopal church last Sun
day morning. This family group
had their first reunion for Is years.
Others who came to the city for
this wedding were Mr.. and Mrs.
]. W. Gaskin and two daughters,
Arlene and Alice of Gheen, Mimi,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Walker and
Mrs. Marie Miller of Quincy, H.,
Mr.. Everett Newcombe, Des
Moines, Ia, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Crow
der, Sioux Falls, s. D., Mr.. Robert
Crump, Sioux City, La. Mrs. Marie
Miller is the brides grandmother.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-07-03
Ruth Miller
WEEDS Robert
Langan Pierre

Three hundred friends and rela-
tiVes attended the wedding of Miss
Ruth Claudinn Miller and Mr.. Rob
ert Langan Pierre Saturday, June
81, in the garden of the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
Miller, 3733 Fifth Ave. So, Min
neapolis. The groom is the son of
Mrs. Fannie Pierre Lewis, promi-
nent Minneapolis church figure
and pioneer, 1924 Fourth Ave. So.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. B. N. Moore, pastor of st.
James A. M. E. church, st. Paul.
Mrs. Bert Davidson in pale blue
chiffon attended the bride who wore
petal pink net and lace and carried
roses, sweet peas and baby breath.
Mr.. Ozelle Davidson was best man.
Miss jeanette Dorsey played the
wedding march.
Mr.. Andrew J. Johnson, 1882
Clinton, became i'll while at work
and was taken to Collins Chapel
Hospital at Memphis, Tennessee.
He was able to be released from
the hospital in a few days and re-
turn home.
Mrs. Robert Crump of Sioux
City, Iowa, a guest in the Twin
Cities for the Miller-Pierre nup-
tials, was the house guest Of Rev.
and Mrs. B. N. Moore.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Martin of
21O7 Fifth Ave. So, have as their
house guests Frank Stewart, gen.
eral in the Military Order of
Guards U. S. A., Mrs. Stewart, Mrs.
Josephine Orman and Mrs. Leila
Byrd, all of Chicago, who are
spending their vacation here and
enjoying our 10000 lakes.
POSTAL ALLIANCE PICNIC
The North Star Branch of the
Postal Alliance will hold its Annual
Picnic and Outing Sunday, July 26,
] at Kings Valley. Keep Off The
Date.-advt.