Show SUGGESTS SUGGEST GREATER Mill EFFICIENCY TA When hen asked as to the best method to secure tho the vital facts relative to specified sped sped- fied fled complaints of or the ore producers producer a against the smelters Robert II H II Saro of or C Central City replied to the Colorado state in investigating committee Tho The situation Is this Your committee commit commit- tee could put pat themselves In the place placa of a n company compan which wanted to corn come corneI Into inlo Colorado and start a a. smelter It I I Is quite possible to get experts who could tell you OU all about tho the smelting business Now suppose you ou gentlemen gentleman Came In here and wanted to start a a. smelting business In the tho first It meant a n big Investment tn of ot capital BO so naturally you OU would call upon experts exports ex ex- ports perta to make a a. tep report ort for tor you OU as to how much ore there Is 1 of or what kind ItI Itis it itIs I Is how much you OU would have to pay for forIt forIt forIt It hoW hov much you ou would lose loso In smelting smelt smelt- ing In operations how ho much your our smelting smelting smelt melt ing operations would cost you and how much the refining would cost back east cast That Is the position in my rny opinion opinion ion that this committee should take that they tho- ar are aro investigating In through tho the aid alII of people who know the tho situation these technical expert mon men in the lice smelting smelting- business to find out all those thoe points which are brought ht up hl here ilore le Now It is going to bo be c hard for fot Instance to find out what It actually costs for tor re refining refining re- re fining In Omaha or back at Perth Perth-Am- ho boy N N. N 1 7 1 but nevertheless there are are technical experts who have havo had enough training and experience In that work to tell about how much the they think Itou it ou ought ht to cost When hen the smelting s company compan company com com- pan pany comes combs to me or I 1 go to it rather rathor rath rath- er or and say sar that I lie have e so 80 much rrth-I rrth copper coppel copper cop cop- per pel In m my ore and the smelting company corn corn- pan pany says to mo me that copper Is a byproduct byproduct by by- product that the they do not Hot want it In ha In theIr furnaces down hero here In Denver and they the cannot pay PO you ou for fOl It H. Gon- Gon Gen Gon- If Ie it Is so o what the smelting company compan tells us 18 about all of these byproducts byproducts by by- products that 11 they 1 are losing and connot connot connot con- con not pa pay the miner for then I am nm sure that of all the big manufacturing concerns concerns concerns con con- cerns in the tho United States the smelting smelting smelt smelt- In ing company compan Is the tho least efficient of them all Nowadays s 's ev every n other uther business busl- busl ness in tho world is using Its byproducts byproducts by by- I products and using them thom to ti u you fare well and yet et the smelting smelting- company compan tries to tell us Ul that th these M b products by-products are of or no use to them that they thay cannot cannot can can- not pay for them Gentlemen it can cannot cannot can can- annot an- an not be so 10 o that the they lose all these by hy- products You take the case of at lead and copper copper copper cop cop- per and zinc and all lJ those things It ItIs itis Is lR quite pO possible that they have havo not arrived arrived ar al ar- ar rived at the point where the they can c-an savo save all the these e things In one furnace fut but It ItI would seem hardly possible to me mc that I the they would lose lORe half halt tho the lead and three- three I quarters of or the zinc that zinc that the they arc are lost los los- lIng ing t ever every month millions and millions of dollars In n these metals metals' which tho they I eta sa say they are arc doing It is iss In m my opinIon opinion I ion n like thin submarine menace menace that w we WC a are all up against i When the world worM as a whole Is up against those submarines and they realize that their life lite is dependent upon shutting 0 off those submarines then the time comes when hen ever every man is trying to think of some way that may conquer conquer con con- quer the submarine Necessity Is the mother of invention and it is tho the case with the smelting company In m my opinIon opinion ion that the they ther have never r had hall to save savo those things and therefore they h have e enot not done It H You take the history of ot the public utility corporations all over over this countr country country coun coun- try tr that amounted to anything anti and al almost almost almost al- al most invariably upon Investigation Itha It has ha- come out that they havo o been ef efficient of- of A big hiI railway company compan or a a. abig abig I big hi tramway company has not been efficient efficient ef ef- in its operations and the more publicity you OU get a about out that and th the themore themore more you OU talk about It and the more moro In Investigation In- In you ou have thin the more efficient those thoRe railway companies or tramway companies K get Ket t And I think it is Just about time that the tho smelting companies I had lead somebody behind them kicking them all the tho time Ume to to keep them up to date te Wo We know kno smelting has hns gone up in price not down and smelting to an eln a average o observer like myself apparently antly IR is the tho most backward of all the tho businesses In the United States tates To be he continued |