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Newspaper
Wallace Miner
Location
Wallace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
2
The Coeur d Alene district enters the new year with expected growth in mineral output driven by renewed national prosperity. A zinc refinery is planned, boosting zinc ore markets and possibly reviving several inactive mining areas. The Miner offers hopeful New Year greetings and confidence in rapid industrial recovery.
The western public welcomes Senator Harding’s plan to name a western man for secretary of the interior. The western region holds keen interest in the interior department due to public lands and their use. The piece notes the bureau of mines and geology components as part of the department’s scope.
The interior department survey and mining interests in the West push for a secretary in sympathy with mining. The nominee should back the bureau of mines and geological survey, understand miners’ hardships, and support expansion and western development. Ex Senator George Sutherland of Utah is favored by some as a strong western pick.
The piece urges Idaho officials to cut state expenses and retrench. It argues the Republican party must fulfill vows of economy, reduce clerical staff and salaries, oppose new offices, and reject public improvements until tax relief is feasible, warning voters will sanction excess at the next election.
The exchange during a Senate inquiry centers on whether imprisoned advocates of armed revolution should be freed. Gompers asserts emphatically that such prisoners are not friends of the AFL. He suggests the federation should aid authorities in punishing criminals rather than aiding alleged criminals to escape.
Senator Henderson of Nevada introduces a bill to set June 30 as the end of the assessment year for mining claims. He argues it would aid timely work, avoid snowbound delays, and let claim owners complete annual assessments in favorable weather, benefiting western districts immediately if enacted.
The Moscow Star Mirror reports general rejoicing over Senator John F. Nugent's federal trade commission appointment, but readers in northern Idaho express little visible joy. The change is viewed here as eroding Nugent's leadership of Idaho Democrats and reviving Day-era hopes for party prestige.
The New York Tribune argues that intelligent Japanese statesmen accept America’s sovereign right to exclude entrants. It notes ancient practice of exclusion in Japan, including a thousand years of controlled access. It asserts Root-Takahira negotiations did not challenge the exclusion principle though Japan favored selective application.
The conservative, law-respecting element within the American Federation of Labor debates removing Samuel Gompers as its leader and spokesman. Gompers testified before a senate committee urging pardons for political prisoners convicted under the espionage act for obstructing government prosecution.
An Associated Press dispatch from Topeka reports Lucy Gaston Page, head of the International Anti Cigarette league, sent a letter to President-elect Harding accusing him of campaign cigarette photographs. The piece argues Harding’s friendship with “My Lady Nicotine” is well known and unlikely to harm his presidency, noting public endorsement by a 7 million vote margin.
The piece discusses likely tax reform efforts in Congress, aiming at income tax changes and a shift to sales taxes, along with tariff revisions. It notes limited time before March, questions about reducing government expenses, and Senator Smoot's idea to cut about a billion dollars and halve payrolls. It recalls wartime employee growth from 348000 to 771000 and argues a 12 percent staffing increase since then.
Public notice from Frank M. Smith, smelter director, confirming Kellogg to host an electrolytic zinc plant for complex zinc lead ore. Initial 25 ton daily capacity, expandable to 50, with first unit costing about 1 million dollars and operation possible within two years. Company to operate Star mine ores and expand Northwest Lead markets across the Pacific Northwest and California.
The New York state Industrial Commission reports strikes last year totaled 240 disputes, with 344 188 workers directly involved and 16 403 nonparticipants quitting work. Total lost production reached 10 608 488 days, affecting workers, industries, and millions of consumers statewide.
The Kansas City Star notes that price readjustment and profit shifts in the business and industrial world do not justify prolonged gloom. After a stabilizing basis is reached, business should expand and industry quicken. War boom excess profits have vanished, leaving merchants in an uneasy but not dire position as the transition continues.
Mining and Scientific Press argues workers face wage cuts or unemployment while employers face lower profits. The piece notes middlemen and retailers delay price cuts, preventing a logical fall in living costs. It laments the absence of a food administrator to curb profiteering.
The piece outlines a speculative, illicit currency cycle starting with $400, traveling through London Paris Switzerland Italy and back to London. It claims to multiply capital to about $8500 by exploiting exchange rates and currency value differences, noting smuggling as a supposed bonus.
The article defines second-foot as cubic feet per second for stream discharge and explains second-feet per square mile as average runoff per area. It details an acre-foot as the volume to cover one foot depth and notes conversions including 1 second-foot equals 7.48 gallons per second and 40 miner's inches per second-foot conversion.
J M H Eby engineer in charge of Wardner Leasing Company development proposes surface work to determine plans. He suggests sinking test pits along Mile Creek to locate a ledge and finding another ledge behind the Wardner bank. Extend Castle Rock drift north to the fault and drift east to study geologic conditions. No shaft work now, pump kept running to avoid water damage.
The World’s Greatest Lead Silver Mine has produced 5 756 536 tons since 1886 with a gross value of 91 495 484 dollars and will near 97 000 000 dollars in total by year end. Over 34 years profits and wages totaled about 30 627 610 in operating profits and 24 000 000 in dividends. The mine averages 450 000 tons now, with a 1917 peak of 493 030 tons. ore is moved 3 miles underground by electric trains delivering about 2 200 tons daily. A 9 000 0000 smelter and refinery adds 150 tons of pig lead daily and 7 800 ounces of refined silver from two furnaces.
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