j TIIK UTAH ORE?. ! Tho extent of ba-o buiiir-n ore that . lias been developed in Nevada and i Utah iiidiirales tli;tt the business of ! smelting and rvilueiiii: t host; ores, at no distant day, will become an immense , one. Already the production of those I metals underpoes restraint lor want of i ihe proper facilities. The main difficulties diffi-culties are (he iu.sutlicieney of fuel for local smelt iihr, and ihe co.-t of trans-IKtrtation trans-IKtrtation oi the ores and bullion fnr snjelting and reduclion elsewhere. In Nevada tbo Eureka consolidated mine has created a demand for fuel which has exhausted the supply within an : area often miles, and the muhipliea-! muhipliea-! tion of mines is retarded untila supply of coke can be had, or that, perhaps, the Hocky mountain coal may be found serviceable, as it is. This will no doubt be effected in a short time, when the quanlilv of base bulliou sent down for reduction will largely increase. The chief, if not the only smelting and reducing re-ducing works here, are the magnilicent ones of T. H. 8elby &, Co. which, we i are assured, have a capacity for smclt-iDg smclt-iDg 1 ,000 tons of ore and reducing , '200 tons of lead bullion per month. The operations of that company supply sup-ply all the lead used in this market, and afford from jOO to 1,000 tons of pig lead per mouth for export by steamer and by sail to iew York, where tho price is six cents per pound. Th ib is ao instanoe of where trade has been reversed by local enterprise, San Francisco becoming an exporter of lead instead of importing it. Nevertheless the production of the metal is very large; as we have said, the Eureka Consolidated mine, of Nevada, alone, smelts 2,000 tons or ore per month with Ave furnaces. The product, 4U0 tons base bullUm, worth $400 per ton, is sent by wagons 150 miles to the Central railroad at Palisades, and is by the railroad brought to this city, where it is shipped by the Pacific Mail Steamship Steam-ship Company's steamship to Newark, New Jersey, to be reduced, and the proceeds of precious metals and of the lead sold in the market deposited in Wall street. The Pacific Mail Steamship Steam-ship Company's steamers refuse to take more than 400 tons per month, or 200 tons by each steamer, because more dead weight than that is not desirable. de-sirable. The base metal of the Meadow Mea-dow Vallev and other mines also goes to New York for reduction. Ii' the railroad from Palisades to the Eureka Eu-reka district is constructed, tho transportation of ore and bullion will be greatly facilitated. Now the terms on which the Centra Railroad takes the freight aid in bringing the bullion to this city on its w.iy East, instead of going as tho Washoe metals do, directly by rail to New York. The freight arrangements of the Central road facilitate the operation. oper-ation. The reason why the bullion which comes hero is sent to New York lor reduction wc need not now enter upon, but they are very sufficient. The i mines of Utah are very prolific of base I ore; they are 300 miles further East i than the Nevada mines by rail, and j their ore naturally goes East directly ! rather than to come 1,000 miles to San ' Eranoisco to be shipped thence lo New j Y'ork. They accordingly send it that : way. This simple fact was made the i basis of a malicious attack upon the Central Kailroad for not bringing the ores here. Tho culminator stated; "Eight hundred car-loads of rich ores from mines in Utah were recently conlractcd for to he shipped east over tho Union Pacific railroad, because tho Central l'auliu cumpany failed to get their transportation to this city. Tbe loss of this 8,000 tons of ore to the crushers and smellers on this coast i is a serious one, and the blame thereof is placed to the debit of the Central Pacific management. VV'e fear there is too little eflbrt made by this company to favor Pacific coast enterprises The loss of this ore is only one of many slips whereby business has been diverted divert-ed from the Pacific to tho Atlantic, greatly Lo the detriment of our pecuniary pecuni-ary interests. A very small ireight concession on the part of the Central XJacific would have secured this ore to us." Having made these buid and baseless base-less assertions, he immediately after, in the same article states ; "Tho iact is that the majority of Utah mining companies do not caro to send their ores to this market, because they arc desirous of selling tho mines to English capitalists, and (he ores aro either forwarded dirtetly to England, or suffered to remain heaped up on the dumps, in order to make a show." Tho first assertion is that the ore did not come here because pf the faults of the Central Railroad company. It is then admitted that it due not come because it is nob the interest of the mines to Bend it here. A more flagrant case of ignorance and malico against the railroad could hardly occur in the same article. The Central railroad I brings the Nevada ore 550 miles to this city. If sent east it would go only 300 miles on the Central road, and the facilities fa-cilities giireu by the road induce sending send-ing by it this extra 250 miles, and the Utah ore would come the whole lJ00 miles if, as ascertained by tho agents of tho Selby works, it was tho interest ol' the mines to scud it here. One of these circumstances pure malice fabri-oates fabri-oates reiterated attacks against the Central railroad, and so recklessly that the falsehoods aro stultified within twenty lines. is'nn Jfrancisco Aha.