completion OF SMELTER free press redding cal cai all northern california is interested in the installation of such a plant as that commenced under the auspices of the balaklava Balak lala consolidated copper company and completed by the first national copper company this plant is locally known as the coram smelter sometimes called the balaklava Balak lala and erroneously associated with the trinity copper companas comp anys affairs As the town is named coram it is better that the smelting smelling sm elting plant be called the coram plant its owners being the first national copper company just previous to the commencement of the heavy weather the third and last furnace was ready for blowing in and did run a few days but on account of the precarious railroad service the management wisely relied only on keeping two furnaces in operation to complete the installation there are converters and furnaces the latter running in conjunction the mcdougall roasters asters ro the converter stands have already been in operation and are today and within three days the ies will be started up a warming up process being now commenced this completes the entire ll 11 installation 1 stal lation of the coram smelter with a e capacity lacity a of 1500 tons a day and under pressure Z and i is s one of the most substantially built red metal producers known to the mining world today ever since the first sod was turned and the temporary preliminary offices were removed from san francisco owing toi to the big fire to the old depot building in redding R T white has personally directed the immense operations at kimberly the mali mail name of the mines from which the coram corain plant receives ceia es its ore much activity is being shown in the practical development or of the vast mountains of copper ore owned by the company and under the of R N bishop tons of ore are shipped daily to the smelter over the aerial tramway which was kept running without the slightest hitch through all the terrific storms of the past two months by an agreement reached in the tast east the ores from the trinity copper companas comp anys mine known as the shasta king were to be rua rui over this tram line and smelted smelter at the coram plant but recently the management in the east instructed mr bishop under whose supervision the shasta king ores were being mined that no more of the trinity product must be smelted smelter at present prices