California Mining Journal (PH 16-13)(March 1943) (36 pages)

VO V VV VF TV FFF TTF IF TF OFT TF V VV IVT iHE (XX) Aad ae je @ Congressman Cox of Georgia told a House committee that there are too many governmental departments that don’t exercise good common sense, . which is not news. Said he, “I saw a letter from one of the administration fellows which advised that in order to help with : . the conservation effort i: the farmer should take i the shoes off his horse before he puts him in the * < } barn at night.” ‘ Why not equip the horseshoes with zippers, so they can be zipped off and on, and save time, too? Here’s another: WPB official receiving a letter from a sheep raiser badly in need of canvas for temporary lambing pens, wrote: “Why not put off the lambing to a more propitious time?” Which reminds us of a member of a “thrifty” race, advising his son on how to get ahead, who said, “And, Ikey, when youre not looking at anything—take off your glasses!” @ Death and taxes are still the only two certainties. But we don’t have to die every year. , @ Belgian Congo mining firms are compelled by legislative decree, under pain of penal servitude and fines, to carry out production programs approved by the war mining production director. It’s only in these enlightened United States that production is forbidden under pain of the same penalties, @ The Wallace way of trying to smooth the troubles of Europe and at the same time to feed them canned democracy will never work. The only way to cure a bully is to lick ‘im and keep him licked as long as you can. @ The fact that FDR chose Lincoln’s and Washington's birthdays to get on the air was no excuse for many of the comparisons made by many air commentators. The war of today shows that since Washington’s, Lincoln’s or Wilson’s time we haven't learned how to get along without war—an outstanding governmental failure. @® Miners are not the only ones who get the “run-around” in Washington. The farmers complain bitterly, too. Well, the only hope is that the complainers will be able to roll up about 30 million votes in 1944, @ Our Harry Englebright has come too with the bright idea that there’s something wrong with the strategic mineral situation. Perhaps his access road money didn’t lead in the right direction. He wants a commission appointed to investigate. This is entirely unnecessary. Everybody knows what's the matter but Harry. The Big Shots that Harry won't oppose in Washington, will not let our billions of dollars worth of Western Minerals be developed —and Harry’s supply of intestinal fortitude has dried up. CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL Published Monthly at Auburn, California Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Auburn, California Under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 The Only California Mining Publication of “General Circulation” as Prescribed by Postal Regulations J. P. Haru, Editor and Owner PHONE 200 . PHONE 200 “A Shocking Picture of Bureaucratic BuckPassing, Incompetent and Listless Administration and Almost Traitorous Activities” paers the way Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, and head of the Committee on Small Business, put it to the House when making a report on the lack of results on the production front and the threatened extinction of small business because of the lack of sympathetic consideration. When Donald Nelson, head of the WPB selected, or else had forced on him, as members of his advisory committee, corporation heads from the U. S. and Bethlehem Steel, Aluminum Corp. of America, General Electric, Union Carbide, and others, the stranglehold of industry in America was just being transferred —transferred from a number of German firms to their American connections whose Americanism is measured in dollars. If we are to make a war effort it must result in additional revenue to their coffers. These men are on Nelson’s Board for no other reason than te cripple our efforts to produce domestic minerals. Everybody wants to know why the production of Western chrome is going along so slowly. When the war broke, Union Carbide (U. S. Vanadium in the West) said: “Give us ships and convoys and we'll furnish you all the chrome you need from our South African mine. ” Washington had to make some show at encouraging domestic production but Nelson’s boys have been “throwing cold water” ever since, refusing to allow changes in Washington that would encourage production and knocking properties right and left to all who might take a chance at mining strategics. Right now you can’t get priorities on a chrome concentration plant unless you can guarantee a very high grade concentrate. (The Rustless Mining Co. concentrated 8% chrome in El Dorado County, shipped it all the way back to Baltimore and used it in their own stainless steel plant, yet the Government has to have a very high grade material). Have you ever figured out what the Union Carbide’s chrome, mined in Africa and brought to Baltimore with the aid of expensive convoys, cost? If the domestic operator could get half of that sum he would be happy. But the boys in Washington to whom we have entrusted winning this war, just can’t be bothered. On Jan. 13 Secretary Ickes made a report to the Senate Small Business Committee. He said his Bureau of Mines had examined 1,600 ore deposits involving 31 different minerals in 25 estates, locating millions of tons of commercial ore, but that the effort to get production simply “petered out” in the War Production Board and the RFC. They were snagged, he said, on long waits for loans, Priorities and a host of government restrictions over which his department has no jurisdiction. Now—are we as Americans who want to end this war as soon as possible going to stand for a dirty deal like this? Are we justified in asking that Nelson fire those big shot corporation heads who are sabotaging Western Minerals? The dams are guaranteed by the federal government to keep debris from injuring property owners in the valley A POOR DEFENSE Attorneys for the mining companies enjoined from operation in a_ suit brought by irrigation districts in Sacramento County are surely shy of decent defense, their only one being that the suits were not authorized by the directors of said districts. The federal government sponsored and is charged with the legal resumption of hydraulic mining with the passage of the Englebright bill by which debris dams were financed and constructed by the U. S, War Department, and when the valley farmers shut down the mines they are flying in the face of the U. S. War Department. It looks as if the mining companies need a new set of attorneys. The publisher of The Journal acknowledges the receipt of an honorary membership in the Klamath River Mines Association, having headquarters at Happy Camp, where Steve S. Green is president,.

VO V VV VF TV FFF TTF IF TF OFT TF V VV IVT iHE (XX) Aad ae je @ Congressman Cox of Georgia told a House committee that there are too many governmental departments that don’t exercise good common sense, . which is not news. Said he, “I saw a letter from one of the administration fellows which advised that in order to help with : . the conservation effort i: the farmer should take i the shoes off his horse before he puts him in the * < } barn at night.” ‘ Why not equip the horseshoes with zippers, so they can be zipped off and on, and save time, too? Here’s another: WPB official receiving a letter from a sheep raiser badly in need of canvas for temporary lambing pens, wrote: “Why not put off the lambing to a more propitious time?” Which reminds us of a member of a “thrifty” race, advising his son on how to get ahead, who said, “And, Ikey, when youre not looking at anything—take off your glasses!” @ Death and taxes are still the only two certainties. But we don’t have to die every year. , @ Belgian Congo mining firms are compelled by legislative decree, under pain of penal servitude and fines, to carry out production programs approved by the war mining production director. It’s only in these enlightened United States that production is forbidden under pain of the same penalties, @ The Wallace way of trying to smooth the troubles of Europe and at the same time to feed them canned democracy will never work. The only way to cure a bully is to lick ‘im and keep him licked as long as you can. @ The fact that FDR chose Lincoln’s and Washington's birthdays to get on the air was no excuse for many of the comparisons made by many air commentators. The war of today shows that since Washington’s, Lincoln’s or Wilson’s time we haven't learned how to get along without war—an outstanding governmental failure. @® Miners are not the only ones who get the “run-around” in Washington. The farmers complain bitterly, too. Well, the only hope is that the complainers will be able to roll up about 30 million votes in 1944, @ Our Harry Englebright has come too with the bright idea that there’s something wrong with the strategic mineral situation. Perhaps his access road money didn’t lead in the right direction. He wants a commission appointed to investigate. This is entirely unnecessary. Everybody knows what's the matter but Harry. The Big Shots that Harry won't oppose in Washington, will not let our billions of dollars worth of Western Minerals be developed —and Harry’s supply of intestinal fortitude has dried up.

CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL Published Monthly at Auburn, California Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Auburn, California Under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 The Only California Mining Publication of “General Circulation” as Prescribed by Postal Regulations J. P. Haru, Editor and Owner PHONE 200 . PHONE 200 “A Shocking Picture of Bureaucratic BuckPassing, Incompetent and Listless Administration and Almost Traitorous Activities” paers the way Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, and head of the Committee on Small Business, put it to the House when making a report on the lack of results on the production front and the threatened extinction of small business because of the lack of sympathetic consideration. When Donald Nelson, head of the WPB selected, or else had forced on him, as members of his advisory committee, corporation heads from the U. S. and Bethlehem Steel, Aluminum Corp. of America, General Electric, Union Carbide, and others, the stranglehold of industry in America was just being transferred —transferred from a number of German firms to their American connections whose Americanism is measured in dollars. If we are to make a war effort it must result in additional revenue to their coffers. These men are on Nelson’s Board for no other reason than te cripple our efforts to produce domestic minerals. Everybody wants to know why the production of Western chrome is going along so slowly. When the war broke, Union Carbide (U. S. Vanadium in the West) said: “Give us ships and convoys and we'll furnish you all the chrome you need from our South African mine. ” Washington had to make some show at encouraging domestic production but Nelson’s boys have been “throwing cold water” ever since, refusing to allow changes in Washington that would encourage production and knocking properties right and left to all who might take a chance at mining strategics. Right now you can’t get priorities on a chrome concentration plant unless you can guarantee a very high grade concentrate. (The Rustless Mining Co. concentrated 8% chrome in El Dorado County, shipped it all the way back to Baltimore and used it in their own stainless steel plant, yet the Government has to have a very high grade material). Have you ever figured out what the Union Carbide’s chrome, mined in Africa and brought to Baltimore with the aid of expensive convoys, cost? If the domestic operator could get half of that sum he would be happy. But the boys in Washington to whom we have entrusted winning this war, just can’t be bothered. On Jan. 13 Secretary Ickes made a report to the Senate Small Business Committee. He said his Bureau of Mines had examined 1,600 ore deposits involving 31 different minerals in 25 estates, locating millions of tons of commercial ore, but that the effort to get production simply “petered out” in the War Production Board and the RFC. They were snagged, he said, on long waits for loans, Priorities and a host of government restrictions over which his department has no jurisdiction. Now—are we as Americans who want to end this war as soon as possible going to stand for a dirty deal like this? Are we justified in asking that Nelson fire those big shot corporation heads who are sabotaging Western Minerals? The dams are guaranteed by the federal government to keep debris from injuring property owners in the valley A POOR DEFENSE Attorneys for the mining companies enjoined from operation in a_ suit brought by irrigation districts in Sacramento County are surely shy of decent defense, their only one being that the suits were not authorized by the directors of said districts. The federal government sponsored and is charged with the legal resumption of hydraulic mining with the passage of the Englebright bill by which debris dams were financed and constructed by the U. S, War Department, and when the valley farmers shut down the mines they are flying in the face of the U. S. War Department. It looks as if the mining companies need a new set of attorneys. The publisher of The Journal acknowledges the receipt of an honorary membership in the Klamath River Mines Association, having headquarters at Happy Camp, where Steve S. Green is president,.