California Mining Journal (PH 16-15)(August 1942) (36 pages)

THE ee isl . @ We object to some folk’s meaning of the word, “liberal.” Editor Lilley of the Sacramento Union in discussing Gov. Olson's support remarks that “it comes from the most lib. {A eral sources.” Radical laborites, governmental spenders and wasters, reds, pinks and those who continue to ! give allegiance to foreigngovernments and alien ~~ enemies should not be elevated by being designated “liberal.” : The word has a far better meaning. @ The ODT order that trucks must have backhauls equal to 75% of their out-going load, while good business for the hauler in most cases is a workable impossibility. Maybe the gasoline tank wagons could return with mineral water and those up-inthe-air automobile transportation skeletons perhaps could come back with a load of hay. @ The sudden switch of the major rubber companies designated, “an economic octopus which has a stranglehold on the American people’s rubber needs” to drastic tire rationing is to be looked upon with suspicion. Conditions have not changed since last winter when the head of the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co. said: “Give me 8,000 tons of new rubber and all the scrap I need and I will put a set of tires on every car in the U.S. A. (This means 130 million tires). It looks like the Norwalk man has been talked down. No one objects to rationing when it’s necessary. @ In discussing the Burns, Oregon, tin deposit with a San Francisco Call-Bulletin reporter a government man said, “That area up there is famous for frauds.” If such a statement were aimed at an individual it would be libelous, yet a government man collecting his salary from the hard pressed tax payer can get by with libelling a whole state. When the whole situation simmers down to the fact that the government man is incompetent to pass on the situation such a statement is hard to take. Outside of that he is sabotaging an American industry and giving aid to the enemy. He should be forthwith FIRED! @ On the same day and at the same hour DeWitt Spark and Lowell L. Sparks, Placer County candidates for district attorney, were electioneering in Auburn. Too many “sparks” evidently for just at that time the Auburn fire department was called out. @ The boys who use the sharp pencils in Morgenthau’s department had a slip-up on setting the new income tax schedule; at least as far as California is concerned. If you net five million dollars you pay Uncle Sam 86.6% of it and Gov. Olson 15%. Where the unfortunate is going to get the extra 1.6% hasn’t been answered. Unless we vote out the state levy in the general election. What, No concentrate? for new liners! Got to get priority ——_ —— 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. Hatz, Editor and Owner PHONE 200 PHONE 200 The Tin Controversy At last the tin controversy which has been carried on for the past two and a half years by a number of developers has heen given official recognition. The battle to date has been more than one-sided. California Mining Journal is the only mining publication in the world that has given the developers the encouragement they should have; all other like publications siding with officialdom in its effort to “kill” the possibility of the development of American tin. And with the exception of one government engineer, A. C. Kinsley of San Francisco, all others, both state and national, have not only refused to give the developers a helping hand but have openly fought their efforts without a proper investigation. The Journal has only one thought in mind in reference to its attitude. It believes that all prospectors should be encouraged in the matter of their discoveries in time of peace and that in times of war the government should go to extremes in aiding them in the discovery and development of the greatly needed strategic minerals. To date, with the exception of the one engineer cited, all state and national government engineers and metallurgists have taken a stand against the tin prospectors. They not only have refused to aid but have spent over $25,000 of the tax payers’ money to prove the discoverers wrong. They have proceeded on the assumption that being on salary they could take their leisure in the matter while discoverers, whose only hope is to produce tin for their government, would eventually have to give up. Such an attitude at this time is nothing more than “giving aid to the enemy.” At the San Francisco hearing enough evidence of there being commercial tin in the West was dug up to interest Congress in at least issuing an order for a complete and thorough investigation. We await the outcome. SERPENTINE POSSIBILITIES For the past year the possibility of serpentine as a source of magnesium metal has been putting up a struggle for a hearing. The proposition has outstanding advantages; there’s enough serpentine in California to supply the world with magnesium metal for the next hundred centuries; it has been thoroughly tested and found to contain an abundance of magnesium oxide; the cost of the metal would be about half of that obtained by other methods; the mining of serpentine would produce by products such as chromite, platinum and nickel. In other words the metal world has much to gain and nothing to lose by giving serpentine a real test. No one doubts the absolute necessity for a speed-up in the production of magnesium metal, If we are to win the war in the air, and everything points to that conclusion, we must have plenty of this metal, lighter and tougher than aluminum. Germany got the jump on us by monopolizing the production and sale of magnesium and now it’s up to us to break that monopoly by proper encouragement to our own possibilities. To date state and federal mineral officials, engineers and metallurgists have turned their backs. Something must be done to effect a right-about-face. GOVERNMENT AIDS KNOCK OUT The “all-out” aid some of our business interests, abetted by the government itself, is giving to the war program has but one object—the attaining of a monopoly. We were startled to read how a growing and greatly beneficial industry at Sulphur, Nevada, was given a knock-out blow by the AAA in favor of the sulphur trust. That part of Nevada produces a sulphur which contains gypsum and a trace of mercury which for a number of years has been used by the potato growers of the Klamath area to rid the soil of alkali and their potatoes of insects and fungus, thereby producing a fine seed potato. The business was going fast when the sulphur trust prevailed upon the AAA to withdraw aid from the growers who would not use their 99.5% sulphur. However, the growers were loyal to the miner who had perfected their potato growing. They sacrificed $53.27 per ton allowed by the AAA for using the government-blessed sulphur and stuck to the product that made their high grade crop. When the AAA will be a partner to such a deal it’s time that it be abolished. Any way it’s only another New Deal way of spending the tax payers’ hardearned money.

THE ee isl . @ We object to some folk’s meaning of the word, “liberal.” Editor Lilley of the Sacramento Union in discussing Gov. Olson's support remarks that “it comes from the most lib. {A eral sources.” Radical laborites, governmental spenders and wasters, reds, pinks and those who continue to ! give allegiance to foreigngovernments and alien ~~ enemies should not be elevated by being designated “liberal.” : The word has a far better meaning. @ The ODT order that trucks must have backhauls equal to 75% of their out-going load, while good business for the hauler in most cases is a workable impossibility. Maybe the gasoline tank wagons could return with mineral water and those up-inthe-air automobile transportation skeletons perhaps could come back with a load of hay. @ The sudden switch of the major rubber companies designated, “an economic octopus which has a stranglehold on the American people’s rubber needs” to drastic tire rationing is to be looked upon with suspicion. Conditions have not changed since last winter when the head of the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co. said: “Give me 8,000 tons of new rubber and all the scrap I need and I will put a set of tires on every car in the U.S. A. (This means 130 million tires). It looks like the Norwalk man has been talked down. No one objects to rationing when it’s necessary. @ In discussing the Burns, Oregon, tin deposit with a San Francisco Call-Bulletin reporter a government man said, “That area up there is famous for frauds.” If such a statement were aimed at an individual it would be libelous, yet a government man collecting his salary from the hard pressed tax payer can get by with libelling a whole state. When the whole situation simmers down to the fact that the government man is incompetent to pass on the situation such a statement is hard to take. Outside of that he is sabotaging an American industry and giving aid to the enemy. He should be forthwith FIRED! @ On the same day and at the same hour DeWitt Spark and Lowell L. Sparks, Placer County candidates for district attorney, were electioneering in Auburn. Too many “sparks” evidently for just at that time the Auburn fire department was called out. @ The boys who use the sharp pencils in Morgenthau’s department had a slip-up on setting the new income tax schedule; at least as far as California is concerned. If you net five million dollars you pay Uncle Sam 86.6% of it and Gov. Olson 15%. Where the unfortunate is going to get the extra 1.6% hasn’t been answered. Unless we vote out the state levy in the general election. What, No concentrate? for new liners! Got to get priority ——_ —— 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. Hatz, Editor and Owner PHONE 200 PHONE 200 The Tin Controversy At last the tin controversy which has been carried on for the past two and a half years by a number of developers has heen given official recognition. The battle to date has been more than one-sided. California Mining Journal is the

only mining publication in the world that has given the developers the encouragement they should have; all other like publications siding with officialdom in its effort to “kill” the possibility of the development of American tin. And with the exception of one government engineer, A. C. Kinsley of San Francisco, all others, both state and national, have not only refused to give the developers a helping hand but have openly fought their efforts without a proper investigation. The Journal has only one thought in mind in reference to its attitude. It believes that all prospectors should be encouraged in the matter of their discoveries in time of peace and that in times of war the government should go to extremes in aiding them in the discovery and development of the greatly needed strategic minerals. To date, with the exception of the one engineer cited, all state and national government engineers and metallurgists have taken a stand against the tin prospectors. They not only have refused to aid but have spent over $25,000 of the tax payers’ money to prove the discoverers wrong. They have proceeded on the assumption that being on salary they could take their leisure in the matter while discoverers, whose only hope is to produce tin for their government, would eventually have to give up. Such an attitude at this time is nothing more than “giving aid to the enemy.” At the San Francisco hearing enough evidence of there being commercial tin in the West was dug up to interest Congress in at least issuing an order for a complete and thorough investigation. We await the outcome. SERPENTINE POSSIBILITIES For the past year the possibility of serpentine as a source of magnesium metal has been putting up a struggle for a hearing. The proposition has outstanding advantages; there’s enough serpentine in California to supply the world with magnesium metal for the next hundred centuries; it has been thoroughly tested and found to contain an abundance of magnesium oxide; the cost of the metal would be about half of that obtained by other methods; the mining of serpentine would produce by products such as chromite, platinum and nickel. In other words the metal world has much to gain and nothing to lose by giving serpentine a real test. No one doubts the absolute necessity for a speed-up in the production of magnesium metal, If we are to win the war in the air, and everything points to that conclusion, we must have plenty of this metal, lighter and tougher than aluminum. Germany got the jump on us by monopolizing the production and sale of magnesium and now it’s up to us to break that monopoly by proper encouragement to our own possibilities. To date state and federal mineral officials, engineers and metallurgists have turned their backs. Something must be done to effect a right-about-face. GOVERNMENT AIDS KNOCK OUT The “all-out” aid some of our business interests, abetted by the government itself, is giving to the war program has but one object—the attaining of a monopoly. We were startled to read how a growing and greatly beneficial industry at Sulphur, Nevada, was given a knock-out blow by the AAA in favor of the sulphur trust. That part of Nevada produces a sulphur which contains gypsum and a trace of mercury which for a number of years has been used by the potato growers of the Klamath area to rid the soil of alkali and their potatoes of insects and fungus, thereby producing a fine seed potato. The business was going fast when the sulphur trust prevailed upon the AAA to withdraw aid from the growers who would not use their 99.5% sulphur. However, the growers were loyal to the miner who had perfected their potato growing. They sacrificed $53.27 per ton allowed by the AAA for using the government-blessed sulphur and stuck to the product that made their high grade crop. When the AAA will be a partner to such a deal it’s time that it be abolished. Any way it’s only another New Deal way of spending the tax payers’ hardearned money.