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Show 159 , the largest single amount shipped 60 per cent of this amount privately owned States, 16.8 possible per cent of such to ascertain have upon the vehicle Mining and to a mines operating, but by to this situation. position in the However, For share of the 74The Table manufacture in the in industry 1950. this total in 1950 may Industrie s. 75 - - The metal example, operating mining 1935 there in in this were region 10,933 76 Z, 308. A had declined further to Z, 175. 77 prices, and other factors, contributed the West has continued to maintain its relative In 1950, the Western States accounted 95. 3 per cent of the copper, 70. 9 per cent The Western States also accounted for molybdenum, 73See a produced major manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten B, Appendix. Stanford Research Institute, Western Resources Handbook, cit., Section VI-B. 75 ' Supra" pp.1Zl-1Z4. 76"Mining p. conumed It is not 60 per cent of the lead, and 58.8 per cent of the zinc gold, 500 8,164, role in the economy of the eleven figure of metals. mining N ear 1 y Z, 000, 000 net tons. lower metals in the United States. 78 OPe was registration figure major for 18.8 per cent of the silver, of the nation.74 in the 1949 this number had declined to reeent count showed that this Sharply rising costs, total of 73 in the eleven Western registered The total number of such mines has declined in recent years. a the Western automobile umbering industry bas always played Western States. by in that year. In 1950 how much steel exactly approximated 1,500,000 The were registrations of automobile and truck parts However, 'based industry sheet steel. was and trucks cars to any 63. Impetus, " Western Industry, Vol. 16, No.1 . 77 Salt Lake Deseret News and 78U. S. Bureau of "Gold and Silver in 1950, II No. 2007; "Zinc in 1950," Telegram, November 1, (January, 1951), 195Z. Mines, "Copper in 1950," M. M. S. No. Z093; M. M. S. No. Z03l; "Lead t n 1950," M. M. S. M.ld. S. No. 2096. |
