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Show PASSING OF SMELTER NEAR CITY OF MURRAY Murray. Nov. 1 n obi railroad track oyer which In vears tone by hundred of cars of rich .r were haul.-d dnilv- by spluttevlnc switch m Fnes on the Denver t Rio Grande. 1 bcr. torn up here, for the day has arrived when nr'lvlty In that direction ba- been :-tr.pp. d ind the dilapidated 5nuir.-p nt the end of the line are .n client a the crave TTi Rio Orande In davs of ore did all the pwltchlnR 8 ' the IPchland IVy pm(ltr in the vlcinl'y of Murray, and which was perhaps one of the largest corPT r-r.nito; r-r.nito; plints In this valley. At leait two engines were cnRaRed In the work of placln k cars of ..re. I The Murray station at that time v ns the real iperca for entorprlslnj; operator and noni. who found It expedient ex-pedient to frrasp the more technical points of the pame, where the action wn-i wft r.rd steady. Uy tho closing of the plant some time aco the rnll-roud rnll-roud has been thrown out of considerable consider-able ewltchliip;. and a little hamlet which also sprung up about inn smelter smel-ter plant has rIho paused avvav. Practically nothing remains where n flourlnhln? pmelter once ground out Its dally output of coppr ore. Th htiFe smokestack, Irom which paired I dense Kruoko. Hn(j bich vvas the bon? of contention of the farmers hereabouts, here-abouts, hai been razed by workmen. , who have been onpneed In wrecking I the old structure for ?ome months, .lust now there I nothing to be geen 'but a bare landscape, which Is covered cov-ered hf re and there with huge piles of slni; and. cast-off machinery. Shortly Short-ly there will bo but a remembrance of wherr the Highland Poy smelter once , Pt I. |