SWIFT & Co., UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, Chicago, June 26, 1941 DEAR SIRS: We should very much appreciate having our name put on the mailing list for releases of your 1939 Census of Minerals Industries. This material is for use in our reference library. Yours truly, KATHRYN Ross MCDANIEL, Librarian. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL, AND SMELTER WORKERS, BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. GENTLEMEN: Would you please send me copies of your publication entitled "Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940-Minerals Industries, 1939Bauxite." Thanking you, I am, BEN RISKIN, Research Director. FEDERAL CARTRIDGE CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF CENSUS, Washington, D. C. GENTLEMEN: I have a copy of your release of July 1 covering Minerals Industries Reports-Tentative List-Brief Advance Reports. Will you kindly send to me a copy of the multilithed report covering sulfur. I am very anxious to have this. Yours very truly, UNITED STATES BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, FEDERAL CARTRIDGE CORPORATION, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Washington, D. C. GENTLEMEN: I shall appreciate it if you will send me the following publications. Please put us on your mailing list to receive future issues of them as issued. Financial Statistics of States: 1939 (by Individual States and the United States). Financial Statistics of Cities, 1938, volume 2 (and other volumes that have been published since 1938). Mineral Industry: 1939. Data on mines, wage earners, wages, production, etc. Send adv. to date and list for future. Very truly yours, D. L. EGLY, Librarian, Business Administration Library. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, Washington, D. C. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., GENTLEMEN: Please send to the undersigned the following lists mentioned in Domestic Commerce, June 5 issue: Mineral Industries, 1939; Financial Statistics of Cities, 1939; Financial Statistics of States, 1939. Many thanks. Yours very truly, (Miss) JANE S. KING, Secretary to Mr. C. W. Jacob, Assistant to the President. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO., BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. GENTLEMEN: Would you be good enough to put my name on your mailing list for all free reports on Mineral Industries, 1939, from the Sixteenth Census of the United States? May I also secure copies of reports issued prior to this date on Mineral Industries, 1939? GENTLEMEN: Would it be possible for my name to be put on your list of people to receive material on the Census of Mineral Industries for 1939 as it is published? We already receive the material on population, agriculture, and manufactures, which we find invaluable in our work. If there is any charge for the mineral industries material, please let me know, and we will remit at once. Very truly yours, L. FRANCES MCKEEN, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, THE STATISTICIAN FOR THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: In connection with its work on the 1929 and 1939 Mineral Industries Censuses, this bureau is anxious to obtain a comparability table of the different classifications of contractors used in these two censuses. We would like to be able to obtain such a table so that we can work on each of the 1939 State returns as they come out and so we can get the 1929 material in shape, in order that our calculations and results may appear as soon after the completion of 1939 censuses as possible. You could help us in starting us off, so far as the Mineral Industries Census is concerned, by providing us with a table of comparability. Sincerely yours, M. C. DALY. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE Co., Mr. O. E. KIESSLING, Chief Economist, Mineral Production and Economics Division, United States Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. KIESSLING: I wish to thank you and Mr. Yaworski for the discussion we had last week in Washington with regard to the distribution of iron and steel products in the United States and possible sources of this information. While I have not yet had time to fully study the volume you gave me on iron mining, I am sure that this report contains information which will be very helpful. With kindest regards, I am Yours very truly, A. H. WEIL, Engineer, Industrial Development Department. HOOD RUBBER CO., INC., Watertown, Mass., February 25, 1941. Mr. O. E. KIESSLING, Chief, Mineral Industries, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. KIESSLING: I would like very much to have you place me on your mailing list to receive preliminary releases in regard to the other minerals, which you suggested in your letter of February 20. We aim to supply a protective and safety footwear to miners and are interested in all the mineral statistics available. Sincerely yours, D. C. WHITTINGHILL, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING Dr. O. G. KIESSLING, BUREAU OF MINES, Washington, D. C., February 5, 1941, Chief Statistician, Mines and Quarries, Washington, D. C. DEAR OSCAR: Your preliminary releases on asbestos, potash, and sulfur reached my desk this morning. Merely to say that they are the best examples of what I think a Government statistical release should be is an understatement. I like the mechanical format and appearance, the flow of the standardized topical outline, and the development of individual topics-particularly the rare discretion shown by including just enough general information to make the text clear and interesting to the general reader. I congratulate you! PAUL M. TYLER. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Mr. O. E. KIESSLING, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. KIESSLING: We have an inquiry from a correspondent in England who says that he understands that the Bureau of the Census is now releasing figures on various types of prime movers. What he is seeking is "the total of steam engines, steam turbines, Diesel engines, petrol (gasoline) engines, and oil engines, not only in the United States but if possible throughout the world." This is somewhat broader than the probable scope of anything that has been prepared. We have spare copies of three releases dated May 5, May 10, and June 15, 1941, on consumption of fuel in manufacturing establishments and consumption of fuel and purchased electric energy, which we can send him. If anything additional has been issued, I should be glad to have two copies, one for our correspondent and one for my own files. Cordially yours, CENSUS OF MANUFACTURES, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. GENTLEMEN: I am endeavoring to compile total capacity of water wheels in the United States for the years 1902, 1907, and 1912. So far, I have been unable to locate records by States of the capacity of water wheels in mines and quarries. Please give me references to the census publications which contain the information of the capacity of water wheels by States in mines and quarries for the nearest year previous to 1902 and for any other years after 1902 and later than 1912. The records are probably not available for the above years and I intend to obtain the records for these 3 years by interpolation based on records available for other years. Please refer this letter to someone who is familiar with the census of mines and quarries. A prompt reply will be appreciated. Mr. O. E. KIESSLING, A. A. HORTON, Chief, Division of Power Resources. MORRIS SQUARE DEAL JEWELRY STORES, Chief, Mineral Industries, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. KIESSLING: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of August 27, containing statistics on the anthracite industry in Luzerne County. I sincerely appreciate your efforts in getting these figures for us to be used at the hearing before the Federal Communications Commission in support of our application for a new station. Very truly yours, HENRY B. MCNAUGHTON, General Manager, Central Broadcasting Co. BANKERS TRUST Co., DEAR SIR: Thank you very much tor sending to the library census reports on iron ore, manganese ore, potash, sulfur, lignite, and asbestos. We are interested in receiving preliminary releases on other minerals as they are issued as a part of the Census of Mineral Industries for 1939. Very truly yours, HAROLD C. STRAIT, Analysis Department. Mr. O. E. KIESSLING, JOHNS-MANVILLE, Manville, N. J., April 18, 1941. Chief, Mineral Industries, Department of Commerce, DEAR SIR: In reply to your letter of April 17 please be advised that we would be glad to receive releases on other minerals to be issued as part of the Census of Mineral Industries. DEAR MR. KIESSLING: Thank you for your letter of April 18. I think the figures you have given me-ratio of wages to value of products-are quite as 'significant and probably more exact than others I could get. I talked with Mr. Innes about them on his return from Washington, and he tells me that he can make good use of them in his plans for an issue of Electrical World. Referring to your statement that the 1935 mining census was not very well publicized, I want to express the hope that 1940 census will receive adequate attention. I hope to follow it as fast as releases are made, but will appreciate any suggestions you care to make about points that merit emphasis. With kind personal regards, I am, Very truly yours, Dr. O. E. KIESSLING, H. C. PARMELEE, Editor. ENGINEERING AND MINING Journal, Chief, Mineral Industries, Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. DEAR OSCAR: Thanks for your wire and supporting letter of December 31. Naturally, we do want the census material for general publication when a summary can be compiled and I would like to have you earmark such an article for us. Our Seventy-fifth Anniversary Number of Engineering and Mining Journal will be published in August of this year and if you could rout out enough facts and figures to give us some information on mechanical loading to date and its future trends, that issue would be a beautiful place to put it. In the meantime, even though you do not have supporting data, a running article on mechanical loading in the metal and nonmetallic mines, written as your own opinion of progress to date and possible future trends would be entirely in order for our February issue and I would like to again present the idea of your giving us a few columns on the subject. Will you revolve this for a day or two and let me know the first of next week how you think such a generalization might be prepared and how soon we can have it. With kindest personal regards, I am WALTER M. DAKE, Managing Editor. THE PETROLEUM ENGINEER, Chief, Mines and Quarries, Mr. O. E. KIESSLING, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. KIESSLING: As suggested in your letter of November 28, we shall be glad to announce in the December issue of the Petroleum Engineer the survey being made that will appear as the 1940 Census of Mines and Quarries. |