INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 84, H.R. 163, H.R. 2505, H.R. 2874, H.R. 4003, H.R. 4448,
H.R. 5271, and H.R. 7534

BILLS TO STABILIZE THE MINING OF LEAD AND ZINC
BY SMALL DOMESTIC PRODUCERS ON PUBLIC, INDIAN,
AND OTHER LANDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

MARCH 9 AND 10, JUNE 16, AND JULY 25, 1961

Serial No. 8

Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1961

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

Statement of—

Hon. Walter S. Baring, a Representative in Congress from the State Page
of Nevada..

Alexander K. Christie, legislative representative, United Steel Workers
of America........

Max N. Edwards, Assistant to the Secretary and Legislative Counsel,
Department of the Interior, accompanied by John F. O'Leary, staff
assistant to Assistant Secretary for Mineral Resources, Department
of the Interior..

Tom Kiser, president, Tri-State Zinc & Lead Ore Producers Asso-
ciation..

Hon. Walter L. McVey, a Representative in Congress from the State
of Kansas..

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Hon. Joseph M. Montoya, a Representative in Congress from the
State of New Mexico, accompanied by Hon. Thomas G. Morris, a
Representative in Congress from the State of New Mexico...
Hon. Gracie Pfost, a Representative in Congress from the State of
Idaho..

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Hon. Vernon W. Thomson, a Representative in Congress from the
State of Wisconsin..

18

William G. Waldeck, Montrose, Colo., representing individual mining
companies and operators, including Standard Metals Corp., Moab,
Utah.

77

Horace White, International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers,
Denver, Colo..

91

Clark, Wilson, Chairman, Emergency Lead-Zinc Committee, Wash-
ington, D.C...

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Material submitted for the record:

Amalgamated Bayard District Union Local 890, Bayard, N. Mex., tele-
gram from Juan Chacon, president...

70

American Zinc Lead & Smelting Co., St. Louis, Mo., letter from
Howard I. Young, president-

25

Athletic Mining & Smelting Co., telegram from Raymond F. Orr,
president

48

James A. Brownlow, president, metal trades department, AFL-CIO,
statement of

141

John Clark, president, International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter
Workers, Denver, Colo., statement of..

92

Cobalt Mine Mill Workers Local 809, Fredericktown, Mo., telegram
from Clarence E. Kemp, president..

Henry L. Day, president, Day Mines, Inc., Wallace, Idaho, state-
ment of

S. K. Droubay, vice president and general manager, United Park
City Mines Co., Heber, Utah, statement of..

Eagle-Picher Co., Miami, Okla., letter from C. O. Dale, vice president
El Paso Smelter Workers Local 509, telegram from Alfredo F. Ayala,
president...

Keystone Mining Co., telegram from Clarence Bamberger, president. -
Metaline Mine & Mill Workers Local 515, telegram from H. B.
Irwin, president__

National Zinc Co., Inc., telegram from F. R. Jeffrey, president..

Umont Mining Co., Challis, Idaho, letter from Dooley P. Wheeler, Jr.. 49

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