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Show REDUCING OKES. Our l'ast Canon correspondent sets forth very tersely tho ruinous policy of depending continually upon the ship nient of ores, instead of reducing them near th-.1 place where they are initiol When tho Messrs. Weodhu'd liro's erected their surcltiu. works, some s:x miles south of the .city, many loekeJ upon tho esivrmient as a t'.sky one. although e uisidetali'.e oie was then boii'S shipped whh pro'.'r to tl.c on-uers. on-uers. And when the Ub'.UAt.n advocated advo-cated tho erection tft only of smelting works, but of M'paritinjt and rcuniu works, argtuuents were broucht against the position ta'xcti by u, wilh a:i et-fort et-fort to show that i: would be more a.l vantageous to ship t lie crude bullion and the ore itself rather than attempt its separation hero. Now smc'iting works are springing up all over the country; piles of bullion are of no rare ocourrctice, and bulliou shipuieuts are aiuony our regular wcok'y returns. Our position on the vi:uo:u of re-duoing re-duoing and separating the ores here is unchanged, and if we mistake not a very few weeks will famish practv.il evidence of its soundness. rMnoe the first article appeared in the lh:'.!ALi" advocating it, Omaha and Ob'.cago have Kith had separating and ntia.rg works erx-cted, and ore anl bul.ieti leave this city rvgu'arly for ti-vc.i. 1 ha: is: Freight is paid en from fif'y to seventy sev-enty per cent, of rock that the L;";y or thirty per cent, of metal a-xvur.-any-.r!.: it may be carried frw.u a theusar.d to fifteen hundred miles ia the same ecu-dition ecu-dition as when taken from the mine More smelting works will be erected, mills will also soon be put in otvrati r, and we believe rcSutng and separating work? of largo eapaei y are as sure to follow as that new mines will to uis-coverod uis-coverod aud ilcveloped. |