Items of Interest June 3, 1916 Issue

Items of Interest

It is reported that tungsten ore, the most sought–for mineral in America, has been discovered in the Quitman Mountains of western Texas. Samples have been assayed and are said to run high in this ore. The prospectors claim that the specimens are to be found in many places in the Quitman Mountains. Recently there was made from Tueson, Ariz., a shipment of tungsten ore which was valued at $6180. This mineral has been discovered in the Tule Creek district of Arizona, near Prescott, and there is much activity in that district at present. A reduction plant has been established in the Bradshaw Mountains, near Prescott, and the tailings of the old Tiger mine there, which was abandoned a number of years ago, are to be worked for this ore, which was dumped out when the mine was being worked for rarer metals. This practice is being followed in a number of mines of Arizona and New Mexico, and many mining men are making a good stake by leasing the dumps and tailing piles of the old mines and working them for tungsten. There are said to be millions of dollars in tailings of tungsten on the dumps of the Southwest, waiting to be taken out.

A decision just handed down by the full bench of the Massachusetts supreme judicial court declared unconstitutional a legislative enactment which forbade the courts to issue injunctions in labor disputes unless it appeared that "irreparable damage" was about to be done. The decision says in part: "No discussion is required to show that it is beyond the power of the legislature to declare that without any process at law a well–recognized kind of property shall no longer be property. Lawful property cannot be confiscated under the guise of a statute. A further effect of the present statute is to deprive the plaintiffs of the usual protection of the laws. The statute provides in substance that the property rights of labor of any individual or number of individuals associated together shall be recognized in equity as property when assailed by a labor combination, unless irreparable damage is about to be committed, and that no relief by injunction shall be granted save in like case for which there is no relief in law."

It is estimated that as the result of reductions in tariffs charged by the Central Railroad of Peru there will this year be a total production of wheat in mountain sections which are contributory to this road's territory about three times as great as in 1914, when the freight rates on this road were considered practically prohibitive for the transporting of grain from the mountains to the coast sections. Most of the wheat now used by the milling industry, which is located in coast cities, is imported from Australia and California. The prompt response in increased acreage of wheat, which followed the introduction of cheaper rates of transportation, has called attention to other sections where there is much land available for wheat raising and which would undoubtedly similarly respond to cheap and easy transportation facilities.

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