Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 14

i i 'k GJ PAGE TWELVE SUNDAY MAV36W Buyers Report Purchasiepf Zinc Concentrates at 6700 Ts A 12 7 SUBSTITUTING BALLOTS OR STRIKE WEAPONS Bike Picket on Job Eb with 73 the ATON Jim Louie Crow Slim 1 Painter 5 to Attention All A of Labor Unions in the Tri State District! Charles a 3 I 1 14892980 lbs value 307340 Next time you see Ray he' will A Ba tires by a Dy was Naylor on slotted to The new derrick and 300 ton hopper which is being built by the Mining company on the Shafer lease a mile northeast of Picher is nearing completion The lease is located a short distance south of the Kansas Oklahoma Stateline The company is reopen ing a shaft which was put down by the Commerce Mining Royal ty company Underground opera tions will begin as soon as the construction of the hopper and derrick is completed Work will be carried on at the 240 foot level Dir: will be milled over the Beck mill of the Eagle Picher Mining Smelting company A field shaft and derrick on the Grace Walker lease was razed and the best of the materials are being used together with new materials in the construction of the new der rick and hopper Henry Geissing is president of the Mining company and Arthur Christianson is secreta ry treasurer The company holds a lease on 37 acres Berlin has a monument honoring horses for the services they render ed to the German army during the World war REPUBLIC STEEL New Labor Troubles Blot Scene That Shows Sta tistical Improvement esuviusT ailingsA re Treated at Coahuila Tar Prices Trading 2 Completed riday 693 Mills on Active List STRIKES EYED IN METALSTRADING Mr and Mrs Page and son of Picher Mr and Mrs A Page and Mrs Roy Long and chil dren motored to the Ballard farm Thursday morning where they were joined by Mr and Mrs Olin Buxton and son and all spent the day fishing A picnic dinner was enjoyed at noon The Baptist Sunday school class of the Baptist church met Thursday at the home of Mrs Mary Gillispie for a social There was a short business meeting after which the evening was spent so ciably Those who were present were: Mrs King Mrs Belle Bilyeu Mrs Mary Mathis Mrs Sam Maples Mrs Williams Mrs red Lewis and the hostess SHADOWS CAST OVERBUSINESS Shallow Lead ound In Tuckahoe ield en in Domestic Consumers Show Renewed Interest in Lead Market ive Shipments Made rom oley Lease New Pipeline Laid to Bilharz Brewster VI Improvements Nearing Completion creek on the res was a sulphur lead 2207420 lbs value $75650 Total value $382990 Shipments 22 weeks zinc 417 885380 lbs value $8486120 lead 58062230 lbs value $2188 800 Total value $10674920 Charlie Benton of Lakeside con struction foreman for the and Mining company completed the construction of the new derrick and 500 ton hopper on the oley lease north of Picher within two weeks time and they are now in opera tion ive regular shipments of dirt have been made to th Central mill were: Mary Etta Peebles Irene Hqugeland Delores Dawson Madge reda Turner Wilma VanWinkle and the sponsor Mrs Ray the entire afternoon Afterwards ice cream was served to the follow ing: Mary Meador Wanda Hudson Irene Hougeland Wilma Van Winkle Wilma Lee Boultinghouse Phyllis Dunham Ruth Louise Todd Hazel Neal Junior Nally Dunham Houchin Nal ly Ralph Boyd Bobby Meador Gene Houchin Melvin Todd Jack Houchin and Rev Savage' Wr General 1 Mrs A Windham of Miami will be at a general meeting of the circles of Baptist church Tuesday The all day meet ing will begin at 10 Tues day morning Mrs Windham wijl teach the book entitled There will be a covered dish luncheon at noon All members are urged to be present at this meeting Epworth League Mfeets The Epworth League motored to airland Monday night to attend the district Epworth League meet ing Those who participated were: The RevR Smith Mr and Mrs Gene Painter Mr and Mrs A McElroy Mrs Courington Hazel Carman Betty Jo McElroy Velma riar Jean Mitchell Imo gene Carman Modine Barber Dorothy Atchison Pauline Smith Cynthia Morehouse Edward Cour ingtbn Junior Dawson Roy Gil more Jr and Dale and John Ed ward With little change in ore market conditions in the Tri State district the call for concentrates continu ing moderate at unchanged prices trading was completed riday Buyers reported a total purchase of 6700 tons at $45 a ton for coarse and $44 for flotation the turnover being slightly less than in the pre vious week The prices have held steady for the last six weeks Zinc concentrates shipments ag gregated 7446 tons the smallest in the last four months Lead concentrates wefe steady at $69 to $70 for carlots in the open market and $7031 for 80 percent lead sold on a metal contract basis Shipments of lead concentrates were 1104 tons slightly less than in the preceding week Sixty nine mills including 28 tailing plants were on the active list as contrasted previous week Those idle were Discard di ai II Council Will Hear Kansas Inspector Junior A The Junior A of the Baptist church met at the church Thursday evening A splendid program was rendered The meeting was dis missed by repeating the tl Ci li 4 Silver Tea The Daughters of Ruth class of the Methodist church entertained with a sjlver tea at the home of Mrs Jack Painter Wednesday af ternoon from 2:00 to 5:30 It was very much enpoyed by every one A large crowd attended Ray Huffman see much of the wrestling match Thursday at the picnic He said there were a few boys in front who were just a mite taller than he was 1 During Canada exported pulpwool worth $6943000 The tailings from the old Vesu vius mill near Carthage are being retreated over the Coahuila mill which is operated by Den ney An eight inch Pomona pump has been installed in a field shaft on the Blue Bell lease southeast of Wentworth and when the shaft is dewatered the dirt will be trucked to the Coahuila mill Min ing will be carried on at the 88 foot leveL The pump is powered by a 125 horsepower six cylinder Holt gasoline engine of the Eagle Picher Mining and Smelting company although the hopper has been in use for less than two weeks While sinking a shaft on the Tayolr Snapp land in the old Tuck ahow mining camp three miles north of Joplin Whited and assoicates struck a run of lead ore at a depth of 18 feet and another at a depth of 25 feet Although the mining is shallow the ore is said to be of a good grade Several turn ins have been made The dirt is run over the Lone Elm Steve leming and associates are sinking a shaft a short distance east of the Whited shaft probably be asking you to guess his height You see Ray thinks he is a foot taller having stretched so much in an attempt to see what was going on in front A Louie ox has taken his family and gone to California for a three vacation There will be plenty of questions to ask Louie when he gets back West of ervation there spring which was east of the pres ent site of North Miami and about a quarter of a mile from Highway 66 The land surround ing the spring became the head right of the mother of Cardin of Baxter Springs The sulphur from this spring could be smelled for a half mile across the prairie In the days be fore the development of the miner al mine there were numerous springs along Tar creek One of the springs was called Tar spring and was located on the Douthat land fpHE big picnic is nows a thing of the past in one sense of the vofd only The memory of the day will linger long in the minds of the Tri State miner and his fam ily Everyone was happy Everyone had a good time Events moved off in a peaceful orderly manner There was entertainment for each one attending to enjoy The Tri State miner should have been a very happy man that day He polished up the puddle jumper et rly in the morning or did it the night before His wife was ready and so were the children all look ing fine Yes the wife deserves a lot of praise right here The clothes were all ironed to perfec ts the missing buttons put back in place little hairribbon was tied just right and so was tie And many a wife had ah' polished the shoes just so he might sleep a little later Chad does not intend as idl raving but just mentioning a few of the things which' made Thursday a big day Now listen Pete and Jim and John Did you tell the little wife how nice she looked as you started for that pic nic? If not do it now! Did you tell her she is a wonderful little mother for your children? If not do it now or after all life is short and memory sweet Better by far to laugh and pick flowers together than to lay blossoms of regret upon a casket When (Uncle Dy) Chubb came to Baxter Springs in 1869 there was only one house on the Quapaw reservation between Tar creek and Spring river This was the Quapaw mission near Lincoln ville Party There has been a contest run ning "between the Junior and In termediate departments of the YP of the Baptist church The juniors won and the Intermediates gave the winners a party at the church riday afternoon at 2:30 They played games and enjoyed By THOMAS LANAGAN (A inancial Writer Strikes in independent steel com panies and threats of strikes in other sectors of industry last week cast a shadow across a business acene which produced statistical im provement Steel operations rebounded Pro duction of electric power and mo tors increased Carloadings expand ed And retail sales continued ro bust in most sections What effect strikes of some 70 000 steel workers will have on trade and industry in weeks ahead re mains to be seen Until disputes between employers and workers are settled however confidence is ex pected to remain impaired and busi ness in afflicted areas may slow down The Associated Press index of in dustrial activity rose to 1083 from 1082 the week previous and 890 in the like week last year In its weekly report on 37 cities the Department of Commerce said trade figures for the most part showed only slight gains in dollar values over last year The steel industry accelerated op erations to 91 percent of capacity from 90 the preceding week and 679 in the like week last year the American Iron Steel institute reported reight carloadings increased slightly more than seasonally gain ing 07 percent over the preceding week Automobile production rose to 134940 units this week from 131 306 the week previous and 109281 in the same week a year ago reported The motor indus try will slacken gradually from this point with the approach of summer trade observers noted the Denny Hays Manning Spurgeon and Youngman All ex cept six small properties closed Thursday for the annual Blue Card union picnic The new Com merce Beaver tailing plant was operated intermittently The zinc concentrate production last week was estimated at 8550 wet tons and about 7900 dry Individual shipments during the PICHER May Dan nell state mine inspector of Kan sas will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Tri State Mine Safety council next Wednes day afternoon in the office of the Tri State Zinc and Lead Ore Pro ducers association it was announced Saturday by Netzeband chairman Mr will be accompanied by several assistants and plans will be discussed for the establishment of a first aid train ing class in the Tri State district The usual discussion of recent accidents will be held were purchased recently by Provine from the ederal Mining and Smelting As a veteran driller in this field he has five em ployes who have been with him between fifteen and twenty years They are Morton Harry Black Mark ehrenbach Bob Smith and loyd Doty adn for hov dus the eco me the SO! mo im pic CO! we th( ret po: ho th tri fet 40 MIAMI NEWS RECORD MIAMI OKLAHOMA Back in 1873 Uncle herding cattle for land which was later Cardin He was living in a little shanty on Lytle creek One night he was awakened when his hand dropped off the bunk into water which was standing two feet deep in the shanty He rushed out side and was forced to wade water waist deep to reach his horse It was so dark he dared not start back to the Naylor farm Carefully he made his' way through the dark ness to higher land where the cat tle were sleeping and there await ed day break During the picnic Thursday two women who evidently belong to the 15 yard bathing suit age went over to the pool to see the new type suits and to discuss their propemess They were most em phatic in their denouncement of the modern girl and boy and their dress both on the street and at the pool At last a man sitting nearby asked one of the women if she did not consider it a bit of a sin to sit there and watch people whom she believed to be sinning so unforgiv irgly Substituting ballots for strike strife a line of workers at the Alquippa Pa steel plant of the Jones 8r Laughlin company is shown lined up as they were checked off to receive ballots for voting in a government supervised collective bargaining election Approximately 27000 workers will be I affected by the results of the balloting The Quapaw reservation extend ed west from the Missouri line for 16 miles and was six and a quarter miles wide north and south Where Cardin is now located lived the following Indian families: Buf falo Calf ar Lige NEW YORK May! The labor situation in steel occupied the attention of the metals trade this week i I The strike caused some Uncer tainty but until the 'Shutdown had occurred ingot output remained around 91 percent of capacity Cur rent orders were reported about 75 percent of shipments Third quar ter pig iron prices were expected to continue unchanged and scrap prices were steadier Domestic copper held unchanged at 14 cents a pound delivered val ley Tin reacted after early firmness ending with a decline of 5 8 cents a pound Lead was unchanged The easier ruling of London was ignored Do mestic consumers showed renewed interest and purchases for the week were the largest since May 5 when sales amounted to 7800 tons Zinc proved a quiet and routine affair Consumers are still well covered ahead The Zinc Situation In the zinc trade inactive condi tions persist with the smelters re porting the recent usual number of orders and releases on con tract all chiefly for prompt deliv ery Although strikes and threatened labor difficulties in the steel indus try have not as yet past any shadow on important galvanizing opera tions the uncertainty of the whole situation is undoubtedly having a certain amount of effect in retard ing buying interest in zinc What with large unfilled orders in reserve and import cost down again to about domestic parity at the sea board prolongation of the prevail ing quiet spell would not be sur prising About two thirds of last sales were for May June and the remainder for subsequent delivery Unfilled orders at the end of the week of 73083 tons showed a de crease of about 2200 tons while shipments amounted to 5418 tons which latter compare with 6651 tons during the preceding week Galvanized sheet production last week is estimated at 76 nercent of rated capacity or at a decline of one point from the week before Last rate however is well above the average for the year and 1 percent above the high point in 1936 Lead statistics for April con tinue to reflect the maladjustment between production and consump tion which in the last nine months has been responsible for a total re duction in refined stocks of over 100000 tons The decrease in April was 8700 tons as a result of an out put of 46500 tons and shipments of 55200 tons' Output was increased a little last month but did not exceed the recent previous high in December and while were down about 8200 tons they were the second largest this year and the' third largest since 1935 The total for the first four months of 1937 of 214 700 tons shoves a slight increase over that of 212200 tons for the last four months of 1936 which lat ter figure although covering one third of the year was equivalent to two thirds of the tonnage delivered during the year Outstanding in the classified de liveries for April is the 9000 tons taken by the cable trade A month earlier this line was credited with 7200 tons and three months earlier with 6100 tons About a year ago the deliveries averaged about 2500 tons monthly At the April 1937 rate cable requirements have about recovered to the volume of 1931 in which year this line was the sec ond largest individual consumer having just fallen from its pre eminent position in the two preced ing years of largest consumer Producers continue to report a good demand which includes more inquiry for July The buying of earlier deliveries however is so satisfactory as compared with in take that business in the latter month holds no immediate attrac tion to sellers who have started waiting lists in that position pend ing the opening of order books for July The cable and battery trades are the principal buyers with the paint and pigment lines not far be hind in the matter of tonnages in quired for missed by repeating the is prayer Those who were present ffl i li Walking appeal to this picketing striker at the Republic Steel mam plant in South Chicago so he decked himself out with a sign and pedaled his sentiments NEW EQUIPMENT AT New equipment which was re cently added to the and tailing mill in the Waco field has been placed in operation The new equipment includes an 18 inch con veyor drag a new sand elevator and a set of 24 inch sand rolls A new dummy elevator was built recently at the plant 5: OLD MISSION BEING WORKED A group of miners composed of Kinder George Whitaker and Loiters are doing some' under ground development work at the 90 foot level in the old Mission mill shaft at Lincolnville A hand jig has been set up in the ground and several tons of zinc ore have al ready been cleaned Club Meets The Oseuma Home Demonstra tion club met Monday for an after noon social meeting at the home of Mrs Ray Nidiffer Owing to the busy season and some illness not many were in atendance At a late hour refreshments were served to one geust Mrs rank Cheek and members: Mrs A Jenkins Mrs Willin mQuandt Mrs Quandt Mrs A Spinks and the hostess Mr? Ray Nidiffer and family Pumn Installed On och Property After repairing a small sinking derrick the Tongaha Mining com pany has been installing a four inch Gardner pump in the west field shaft of the old och property west of Picher A 40 horsepower electric motor will furnish power for the operation of the pump Mining activity is being carried on on this property at the 240 foot level Dirt is handled over the Cen tral mill of the Eagle Picher Mining and Smelting company Meeting Today I In Miami Shaft Sunk Near Ritchey for Lead rank Lemons and associates who hold a lease on 40 acres ofthe Douthit land are sinking a shaft four miles northeast of Ritchey Mo A hand windlass is being used for pulling dirt from the shaft Drill records are reported to show a run of lead ore at the 60 foot leveL Partners of rank Lemons are John and Clyde Lemons Leslie Bel Clyde Means Sam Goade and itzgerald Is Not Sponsored or Approved by the American ederation of Labor! Water for the operation of the Bilharz Brewster mill of the Bil harz Mining company northwest of Baxter Springs is now being pumped from the lower mill pond The upper pond which is located nearer the mill has become filled with sludge and slimes Several hundred feet of new pipeline was laid by the com pany in making the change in the water supply A four inch Ameri can centrifugal pump operated by a 20 horsepower electric motor and an eight inch Gould pump op erated by a 40 horsepower motor are used to supply the mill UNAIR TO CIO Provine Tries New Idea in Drill Rig George Provine of Miami who is already operating seven drill rigs in the field three in Kansas and four in Oklahoma has Harry Black of Baxter Springs busy at his warehouse at the Atlas tailing mill on the Provine Neal lease re building a Keystone drill rig which they are mounting on an old army truck Provine who is ever watching for new methods to increase the efficiency of his rigs will place the rig in operation as soon as it is completed The old truck motor will serve a double purpose It Will furnish the power for the operation of the drill rig as well as furnishing the power for transport ing the rig from one location to another By removing both rear axle shafts and inserting one long shaft connecting with both ring gear housings in the differential power will be transmitted from the shaft by belt for drilling opera tions At the same time the rig will remain solin on the ground When ever the rig is to be moved the long shaft will be removed and the axles replaced One pf the advantages of the rig mounted on the truck is the fact that it can travel on paved roads Several months ago Provine equip ped a ng with pneumatic However it must be moved truck with a winch ive Keystone rigs (Continued from Page Seven) Edward Painter Allan Duncan John Westly Barbee Dale Painter Evans Joe Nicholson Edward and Max Courington and the scout master the Rev Savage Signed Blue Card Union Among the fixtures on the old army truck which Harry Black re moved before mounting the drill rig for George Provine were a ro tating spotlight of the prestolite type and two prestolite lamps Now Chad is extremely happy that Harry removed these fixtures However if George Provine should be inquiring as to the whereabouts of one of the lamps tell him that it can be located in of fice in Baxter Springs Of course we want to seem unappreciative but really Harry had removed the burner be fore he gave us the lamp He must think Chad stand' bright lights There is no running board on the truck All passengers must mount by means of a step With dur easy turning ankles guess we had better stick close to the flivver for a Maybe someway thumb a ride on the truck Prospecting Groups Dewater Wells Land i Dick Murray and associates have been busy dewatering the west hol low on the Wells' land northwest of Bell Center They have been using a five inch American cen trifugal pump powered by a gaso line motor Operation of the pump is a mutual undertaking by several groups prospecting on the lease Murray and his group are sink ing a shaft south of the pump shaft Berry and Owens are also sinking a shaft east of the pump shaft They are reported to have struck arun of lead ore at a depth of 25 feet which is said to be cov ered with a thick coating of tar or pitch associates in the proj ect are red Wolfe Herman Dean and James Hollingshead LITTLE CHANGE IN ORE MARKET DURING PERIOD CHAT By Chad mLT oSs ySoX' 1 EW 1 IS PS week (in pounds) were as follows: Oklahoma Zinc Lead Atlas 239850 Black No 1 32800 Cardin No 1 119090 Cardin No 3 480060 Century Zinc Scott 243410 Commerce Beaver 48980 Commerce Bird Dog 1548740 223800 Commerce Elue Goose 480350 121650 Commerce See Sah 242770 Cortez 120950 Lagle Picher Admiralty 122780 Eagle Picher Beck 469810 Eagle Picher Central 715920 7580 Eans Wal lower No 4 104910 Evans Wal lower No 7" 112360 Guaranty 1 116160 Indian 121090 Interstate Woodchuck 242820 Kansas Ex Ritz 111570 Lavrion 241720 89900 Lawyers 364100 31170 Lost Trail 26140 Loyce June 99360 Mission 143400 Rialto 123960 32280 St Louis No 4 235810 Semple A 318170 363750 123090 Tri State Cttawa 361330 Tri State Sooner 335950 Velie Hocker 122480 Mining Co 122110 Total 8059900 1225550 Value $166410 $42070 Kansas American Zinc Robinson 368550 Bailey 122190 Baxter Chat 123050 Btck No 3 21530 Captain 232570 Commerce Webber 120850 Commerce Wilbur 615370 Dines Blue Mound 123810 Eagle Picher Black Eagle 122760 102170 Eagle Picher Central 1517600 275890 Evans Wal lower No 24 217520 ederal Jarrett 243630 ederal Muncie 367860 Interstate Cherokee 122000 Semple Early Bird 121440 St Louis No 8 360660 Vinegar Hill Barr 243570 124460 Unclassified 15220 Total 4804940 757760 Value $98970 $25890 Missouri Eagle Picher Central 1412940 183930 reeman 91820 Hays Manning Missouri Chitwood 119090 Pilant 210000 Waco Scrap Unclassified 25340 40180 Total J2 028 140 224110 Value $41960 $7690 "Shipments for the week zinc 4 Oj O) Ms.