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MTTDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORECrOTC, FRIDAY. 'AUGUST 29. 194T PAGE THKEJS r Kelly's Comment From Washington Alunite Deposit On Land Nearly Sold ; Enough To Last A 'Alum Plant 50 Yr. Located Near Kelso, Eay Haul Br Joha W. Killr (Note: During the absence of Mr. Kelly on vacation bis daily column will be written by Mr Paul Dunham, member of our Washington, D. C, staff). ' By Paul Dunham HILLMAN L U E D DEMAN, Portland, representing Pope & Talbott, has a shiver when he thinks of what might have been had his efforts to sell a quan tity of waste land to a farmer for $5 an acre been successful. This "waste" land is the great est alunite deposit in the state of Washington and is sufficient to keep an aluminum plant in operation for possibly half a century. When and where this deposit will be opened and transformed into aluminum is undecided, but it can sustain a plant independent of the govern ment and private operations for years, and the plant could be located with equal ease either In Washington or Oregon; on a railroad and highway or on Puget sound or the Columbia river. This deposit, no great distance from Kelso, is four miles in length, one and one-half miles wide and is 60 feet deep. It Is -estimated that there are 250 000,000 tons In the deposit. 1 he other day a chemical analy sis was obtained and the clay showed 52.6 percent aluminum. The lay of the land is such that It can be mined with a steam shovel; no tunnels, no drifts, no shoring nothing required but a stout shovel and a few men. Ii would be like digging an excavation. The material can be handled for 23 cents a ton. the deposit is calculated to be worth $250,000,000 a quarter of a billion dollars ready to be carted away. And only a short time ago any farmer could have bought It for a payment of $6,000. Pope & Talbott, on whose property (already logged off) the deposit has been found, are per haps the owners of more im portant holdings in Washington, e Oregon and California than any other concern. They are reput edly owners of 1,000 lot in Seattle, corner lots with many of the city's principal buildings. They are now owners of the McCormack steamship line and own the McCormack sawmill and most of the city of St. Helens, on the Columbia river, Oregon. They practically own Port Gamble, on Puget sound. Their holdings consist princi pally of steamships, lumber mills, real estate and Improved property and now comes the alunite deposit greater than all the rest, if the estimates are correct. FROM Machias, Maine, the progenators of the firm came to the Pacific northwest around the Horn during the gold rush to California. Accumulating gold dust, they settled down at Port Gamble, began carving a settle ment out of the forest, loaded a ship with lumber and sent it trading for any commodity showing a profit. A. B. Ham mond, famed lumberman, later with operations at Astoria and at Garibaldi. Ore., learned the lumber trade from the outfit at Port Gamble. So. shrewd 1 were the trades of Pope &l Talbott that they, accumulated I immense wealth and diversified their Interests. In course of time they bought and logged "the area where the alunite is. The bare land was unproductive and the company sought repeatedly to dispose of it to anyone who would take it with a small down payment. Once in a while a company which was making tiles would purchase a truckload of the soil and use it as a finish, but that outfit was small and discon tinued its buying. .1 THE alunite Is so situated that the clay can be placed on barges and taken down the Cowlitz river to the Columbia and across to the Oregon side at St. Helens Columbia City or Rainier. It can readily be transported up the Columbia to Vancouver, to Troutdale or Cascade Locks. The material can be taken to Centralia by truck if a produc tion plant should be located there, or to Tacoma or Seattle, where Pope & Talbott control so much real estate. While this is, so far as known, the greatest deposit of alunite clay in the Pacific northwest, there are other sources of this raw material for aluminum. In addition to this clay in Cowlitz county, there are deposits in Whatcom, King, Chelan, Spo kane and Whitman counties Washington. In Oregon, thus far, no Important deposit has been discovered, although clay with a low content of aluminum has been found in scattered sections. Process for recapturing alumi num from alunite is different from the process of extracting aluminum from bauxite, but the method is comparatively well known and is now being used by the Japanese, and experi ments have successfully been conducted' by the laboratory at Pullman, Wash. Principal in gredient is an abundance of cheap power, and that Is avail able from the government hydro developments at Grand Coulee and Bonneville. IT may interest housewives of Oregon and Washington who recently parted with their alum inum pots and pans for the national defense program to learn that navy department asked for priorities on alumi num to make several thousand straight back and adjustible back chairs. The request was turned down flat by OPM SENATE PROBERS SEEK DATA UPON which will meet with corre-! sponding, British and Russian sroiiDS. may be appointed with-1 in a few days, the president told a press conference, and may have a half dozen members. U. S. Industry Suffers By Diversions To British Coast Shortage Seen. Washington, Aug. 29 OF) Senator Maloney (D-Conn) said today that numerous vital de fense industries along the east ern seaboard "are terrified be cause they have only four or five days supply of bunker oil." The chairman of the special senate committee Investigating shortages of gasoline and petro leum products offered this com ment as he questioned the wis dom of diverting so many Amer ican tankers to other than nor mal transportation of petroleum products to the eastern seaboard. Maloney's comment came after Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the maritime com mission, had testified that the shortages were "caused by pseudo-gentleman by the name of Hitler and further caused by the laws of congress. Maloney questioned this, say ing that it had not been the intentio not congress when it approved the lease-lend program and other defense measures to cause any severe hardships on Industry or citizens. "I'm not blaming congress," Land said, adding that congres sional approval of the adminis tration defense program forced certain burdens. The senators also learned that the Pacific coast soon may face the same curtailment of gasoline sales now effective along the eastern seaboard. HOGAN IS FAVORITE IN $5,000 HERSHEY OPEN Hershey, Pa., Aug. 29. iP)- Ben Hogan, an accomplished lellow with golf clubs when prize is at stake, brought his winning ways home today and after a brilliant first-round 69, looked like the man to beat in the 72-hole $5,000 Hershey open championship. Hogan, making his home play ing debut as the Hershey profes sional, equalled the back-nine record of 32 strokes. His 69 tied Clayton Haefner, George Fazio and Harry Nettlebladt at four under par. PLANES LOST IN FRENCH AIR RAID London,. Aug. 29. JP) RAF daylight offensives against the German-held continent cost- the British and Germans 10 planes each todav, an authoritative source reported. (The Germans said the British lost but six planes in forays over the French and Belgian channel coasts this morning; that there were no German losses.) Daylight operations against the French coast were started just after dawn by RAF raiders in a follow-up to night attacks on Duisburg and other targets in western Germany. A small force of British bomb ers dropped explosives on docks at Ostend and at other points in German-occupied territory, the air ministry said, Menus of the Day Meteorological Report Vn tl. ft. WeAIHt'H BI'Ke0 Extended Forecast For Washington, Oregon, Idaho. ; Nevada and northern California tor the period beginning 4:30 p. m. to day to 4:30 p. m. tiepterober 3: mod- erate showers except light showers In central California during the first period with temperaturea below nor- : mal, clearing with rising tempera turea In latter part of period. Forecasts Medford and vicinity: Showers to- night and Saturday; mud temper- ature. j Oregon: Scattered showers tonight, becoming general Saturday: mild temperature; gentle variable winds off the coast. Loral Data Temperature a year ago today : j highest 93. lowest 39. Total monthly precipitation, 30 Inches; deficiency for the month, .01 ; Irenes. . I Total precipitation since Septem-'; ber 1, 1840. 30-80 inches; excess for ' the season, 3-81 Inches. Relative humidity at 4 30 p. m. yesterday 33 percent; 4:30 a. m. to- day 73 percent. Tomorrow: sunrise 3:34 a. m., sun set 3:49 p. m. I Observations Taken at 4:30 a. m. 130 Meridian lime. - Salem, Aug. 29. (JP) Bean and hop growers appealed to Salem businessmen today to encourage their employes to work in the bean and hop. har vest next week-end, while the state employment service de scribed the harvest situation as still "very critical." Washington, Aug. 29. (IP) President Roosevelt disclosed today that he would appoint W. Averell Harriman head of an American delegation which will go to Moscow to consider the problem of aid to Russia Harriman has been In tandem handling lease-lend ODerations. Paris, Texas, Aug. 29. P) and Mr. Roosevelt said John The frontier's cowboy ghosts Biggers, who has been in charge would turn in their graves to of production for the office of see the flock of pretty girls ad- production management, would vertising the North Star rodeo, take over Harriman'i duties in The girls are using pillows In the British capital, their saddles. The delegation to Moscow, By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE Sunday Breakfast Honeydew Browned Canadian Bacon Wafflee Strained Honey Coffee Dinner Chilled Fruit Juice Cocktail Roast Lamb Browned Potatoes Buttered Spinach Rolls Currant Jelly Tomato Aspic Mayonnaise Peach Ice Cream Coffee Supper Sliced Lamb and Pickle Sandwiches Tea Cherry Sauce Chocolate Chip Cookies , Wafflea 3 cupa flour teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons gran, sugar ' 8 eggs, beaten . " . 3 cups milk 13 cup fat. melted Mix Ingredients until smooth. Place In pitcher and pour onto hot waffle Iron. Bake until steam stops coming out the sides (three or four minutes). Serve hot. - . For extra flavor add oup chop ped nuts, raisins, prunes or tigs to the batter before cooking. Tomato Aplo 3 tablespoons granulated gelatin 18 cup cold - water 8 cups tomatoes , 3 bay leaves 4 celery leaves l 3 onion slices j 5 whole cloves 1 1 teaspoon salt ki teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon granulated sugar i 3 parsley sprigs ! H cup boiling water j 1 tablespoon lemon Juice .. Soak the gelatin five minutes in j the cold water, simmer, covered for j 30 minutes, the tomatoes, seasonings, j sugar and boiling water. Strain, re- j heat to boiling and pour over' the gelatin, stir until dissolved, add Juice and pour Into a mold and chill until firm. Vnmold on lettuce and top with dressing. TTTToTTT ss si tec ?? w CO 5 !p sr i Boise 73 34 .00 Cloudy Boston 70 63 .00 P Cloudy Chicago 78 39 .00 P Cloudy Denver 90 61 .00 Cloudy Eureka 33 38 .00 Cloudy , Havre 1 45 .00 P Cloudy ! Los Aneeles... 73 31 .00 Cloudy j Medford 80 83 .00 Cloudy j New York. 78 39 .00 P Cloudy Omaha 84 70 .00 P Cloudy Phoenix ,,, ma 73 .10 Cloudy j Portland 70 84 .00 Cloudy Reno 76 30 T cloudy Roseburg 76 48 .00 Clear Salt Lake 89 60 .00 Clear San Francisco 64 87 .00 Clear Seattle 70 83 .00 Cloudy Spokane 70 47 .00 P Cloudy W sh., D. C 79 88 .00 Cloudy Taklma 73 ' 30 .00 P Cloudy Columbia Mouth Mined Astoria, Ore., Aug. 29. 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