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7.1'.':- inerted control of the vr'.ilte load used. ir. their paints, cz- ir. 172' they bought t'-.r itston Lend Cerpory at Scranton, pa, fusion Lead is unique in that it is tit only ii;Ito lead ::.-.de hy a contlnuoNO prccaca. This process if exclusively the lliddan cacpany1# llwrtcc lead 5c so each finer, oo nuch wliiter and covarw so nuch batter, tirrt it is outstandingly inferior to oUvir white laado nod t>y other roocases* To nupply nad load, tiv; Kotals Refining Caerpany at Haixmd, Ini. was a* quirad in 1929* Thin put the coopany further into the aherd,cal tvoinoss with the nanufactin'# of lithanyo, t/hish io used in the rubber :nd euuoiib induotry. Lithorgw is nlsso ucod in unking varoiah. Tho Mrntals llafininj Division of tho canpany also cic'ces ti'po cxtal Tar t:x> : Tinting industry r-d battc y plato twtol for tho battery and auto industries* It naa at tho Uotslc hofining Catrmny that Hidden discovered the prooows for tvllnc powdorod rwttCLs# Inatved of easting r.rd nachining soars, cHlans bav inja, etc., tlmy arc noliled with pawdurod acts!a r.ow* Hidden is one of only throe producers of this notarial in Aaurical 'iliddon ie also the only coqpBry rslth cr.oi^l-. earnedty to supply the copper ocd.do for pointing V.:<- chips of the P* C. TTevy. To get control of the sine used in their n-nufocturod prodtueto, tho cacapany bought line nine* in California. It imr lnn mcocscry tc buy The Sacroiwnto Valley and hastom railway to traiisporl the cine from the nines tc a rain lino rail rood* It in ir.Vrostir.g to note that ir. crldltJ on to tine tl ninoe also produced ooco gold ana eiivar which the; coKpany recovered In the erraoltin.l process of the sine oro. Lithopaoeo used in paint mktnp require bariun so the coc^winy perehinod one of tin largest barite deposits in Korth A* '.rlca and set t o work dning It* ?hc;-c is a rad newsworthy story cornectod with the coopsny' c entry into tho turpentine bun5nose. Turpentine and rcoino vort refined frcc the guts in snail inefficient otills usually operated hy families living bad ir. the pine wood. Often the resulting product* wore dirty end irpurc. But the capiary developed and pw c l n3?r-u