COAST UME INDUSTRY
THREATENED DY CANADA
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, Representing the
lime industry of the Pacific Coast
states is seriously threatened by Brit
ish Columbia lime mining interests.
Representative Curry, of California,
has been apealed to in, an effort to
have the import duty on lime mater
ially increased so that American pro
ducers may compete with the Canad
ian product. It is believed unlikely,
however, that the party now in power
will permit any tariff increase, es
Im ;all.i (.luring the present session of
Congress.
Chinese and Japenese coolies are
■ m ployed in the British Columbia
| mines at extremey llow wage3. That
fact, added to the advantage of gov
1 i rnnient subsidized bottoms enables
the Canadian concerns to deliver their
! . isince at Puget Sound and Colutn
Imi Iliver ports, and at San Francis
co, San Pedro and San Diego, after
paying the 5 pot- cent duty, at a price
Coast concerns cannot meet and con
tinue in business on a profitable
ba3is, it is declared . High-class labor
only Is employed in the Washington
and California mines.
The Pacific Lime Company, of Van
couver, recently purchased a modem
lime-carryin steamer as a nucheus
of a small fleet with which It pro
poses to supply the entire west coast
of the continent. This steamer Is now
enroute to Vancouver via the Panana
Canal from eastern Canada .
Mines in Contra Costa county have
for many years supplied most of the
lime consumed In California. Lime
mines also exist in Washington and
Oregon, It is stated.
Representative Curry said today he
would make a determined effort to
Interest the tariff commission In the
matter and to get It before the House
In any way that may present Itself.
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OF WESTERN STATES
PAY E 0 E
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON. Five western
states paid more than $100,000,000 in
dividends during the past year, ac
cording to an announcement of the
department of the interior. Arizona
mines yaid $34,000,000 of this total.
Secretary of the interior Lane, in
commenting on this enormous pro
duction, says that never before have
our mineral resources been so heav
ily drawn upon. But, as secretary
says, never before have the metals
been recovered from the ore with so
little waste a3 during the past year.
The European war wils the chief
factor in stimulating the metal pro
duction . The tremendous and insist
ent delnaflM for {metals from this
country increased prices so that an
inducement for rapid and effective
mining was offend. Nearly two bil
lion pounds of copper was produced—
double the production of ten years
itgo. Together with iron, the copper
output ot the country amounts in
value to appioximtaely $1,000,000,000
: is reported
Oil wells have made a new record
record of production. The depart
mi nt of the interior estimates that
the marketed production of crude pe
troleum for 1916 was 292,000,000 bar
rels, an increase of 11,000,000 bar
rels over the 1915 output. In 1916
cement was produced to the extent of
5,000,000 in excess of the output of
the previous year. Shipments of ce
ment for the year 1916 aggregated
94.500,000 barrels.
Every western state shows an in
crease in mining for 1916 according
to reports from western offices of the
United State Geological Survey. Ari
zona leads with a gain of $1,00000,000
in value of producito onver last year.
Utah and Nevada together report
another $100,000,000 gain. Alaska
produced metals to a value of $50,
000000, an increase of fifty per cent
over 1916,
Nineteen sixteen marks a record
year in American mineral production.
Final figures, according to Hecretray
Lane will show an average increase
for the country of twenty five per
cept, which will mean a total pro
duction worth nearly $$,000,000,000.
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NAVY YARD
WAGE RAISE
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON, Machinists em
ployed at the Mare Island navy yard
have been granted an increase of
wages amounting to 16 cents a day,
according to an announcement by the
wage board of the navy department.
The new wage will be $4.40 per diem.
The teamsters employed at the same
plant asked for an increase, but were
refused.
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BIG TIMBER YIELD
OF NATIONAL FORESTS
| Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
I WASHINGTON. The United States
forest service reports that timber cut
from the national forests in 1916 ag
gregated 604,290,000 board feet. Of
this amount 119,483,000 Board feet was
cu* under free use privilege by 42,055
individuals. The government made
10,840 sales of timber of which 97
| per cent were under $100 in valuo
■ indicating the extent to which the
| home steader, rancher, miner, small
I inilltnan and others desiring limited
quantities of timber drew upon the
national reserves.
This indicated that the policy of
the timber conservationists looking
toward tho wide distribution of tim
ber resources by the gvernment,
rattier than the gravitating into pri
vate hands of large supplies, is work
ing out us anticipated. The forest
service points out that the profits from
the sales of timber made to home
steaders anil others which would have
gone to private timber owners would
have been large and might have dis
couraged purchases entirely and
thereby retarded improvements.
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MARE ISLAND CHANNEL
TO HAVE NEW DREDGE
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON, The United States
Bureau of Yards and Docks is taking
steps with a view of securing a new
dredge for maintenance work on
Mare Island Channel. Several months
ago the navy department asked for
bids on a dredge, but failed to secure
any offer within the limit of the ap
propriation. Thu plans of the dredge
arc being modified so that It will be
possible to take advantage of the ap
, proprlation. The dredge when pur
chased or constructed, will replace the
privately-owned one now in use.
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PROBLEMS OF WAR
Pacific New* Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON. Fifteen hundred
of the leading business men of the
United States will gather in Washing
ton to discuss problems growing out
of the European war when the annual
convention of the United States
Chamber of Commerce is held here.
W'hile the war problems and their
retailor to all branches of American
business constitute matters of primary
Interest to be discussed, the Chamber
will also take up the railroad labor
question. During the course of the
convention the result of a referendum
on how labor disputes should be
handled will be announced. This
roferendu mconducted by the Chamber
viill be the lust authentic reflection
of I he true sentiment of th» active
business men of the United States
toward railroad labor. Coming at a
time when the stlrke question will bo
at its height, the vote of the business
men will be of the first lmortance.
The business men attending the con
vention will be the nccrodlted delegate
of the various chambers of commerce
of the country. They will represent
every section of the country and every
line of industry'.
The prospect of peace in Europe will
furnish further meat for the discus
sions of the business men. The big
campaign to make the United States
one of the foremost trade nations In
the world will be in charge of these
business men and they intend to talk
over comprehensive plans for further
ing these ends. The recent develop
ments looking towards waar will give
a new stimulus to these discussions.
During the course of the convention
President Wilson and other high
officials of the United States Govern
ment will address the business men,
giving them advice on how to organize
the industries of the country to pre
pare for the altreed trade conditions
expected to follow the close of the war.
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