| Show 1 AMERICAN SMELTING i TREATMENT OF PRODUCERS In his interview the thie other day Daniel Guggenheim stated that the Garfield smelter was wac ready to take any an amount of oC ore offered and at prices that would I be satisfactory to the producer Nothing was said about what was being done or 1 what be done with the producers I of ot such ores as are treated in the com coIn i Murray smelter a plant that is i unable to get ore ora enough to keep It run running running ning at more than about 60 W per cent of ot I Its capacity The American company finds Itself in ina Ina Ina a rather peculiar position today said a aman aman I Iman man who is well versed in the mining i and smelting business of this region yes yesterday yesterday I would not say that the com corn company compan pany pan Is la now charging exorbitant rates for tor the tile treatment of oC all nil ores that go to it but if It it now finds that producers are unwilling to do business with it that they the theare are building smelters of oC their own and sending their ores long distances away awa fo the company has itself to blame When the Bingham Consolidated company com pan decided to accept custom ores for treatment in Its smelter and later when the United States company followed toll owed suit the American company began to cut prices and kept It up until it had practically practically wrecked the Bingham company and would have done the same thing thins to the United States company com pan only for the fact tact that the latter was too strong stron for fol it Last year rear the tho American chickens began coming home to Part fart of ot the American compe competition titi n had been destroyed and the United States Stat 5 company compan was temporarily put out of oC business through h the and fume tume decisions In the federal federa court Then rhen the American company began notifying its patrons that ores would not be received at old prices It considered that the field had been practically cleared of o compe competition competition competition and decided that the producer should be made to pay the fiddler The producer kicked d He had been shown that ore for which 9 a ton treatment charge Is now made could be handled at ata ata ata a profit at JC G j and with fewer penalties attached at that and the miner refused naturally enough to stand for It What Wat has been the result of the Amer American AmerIcan American ican policy It Is found In Inthe Inthe inthe the construction c of ot the Knight smelter smeller at Tintic which will soon be handling a greater tonnage of oC ore than the Ameri Amen American American can Murray Murra plant can smelt It finds answer In the opening up of oC the smelter at Ogden It Is found In the fact that tho United States company compan though it Is still holding up prices is getting much of the business that would naturally have gone to the American company It is found also that plans are maturing for the construction other smelters to handle ores that the owners declare shall never go to the American company That Is the way wa It Is la working out in Utah I IThe The compan s arrogant attitude has resulted In the building of o new n ne smelters In California for tor the treatment of oC Ne Nevada Nevada Nevada vada ores and it has forced the big pro producers producers producers of oC s ores ones In Nevada to con contract contract contract tract with the And other oth r com corn companies panic and It has made an enemy of oC nearly every operator In the tile western states The American company compan Is not through losing hosing patronage yet and Mr Ir Guggenheim will find it out by and by |
