Show NEEDLES SMELTER T TO IN SOON Tecopa Lead Mines Will Wi Pro Provide PoI Provide vide Large Tonnage for Enlarged Plant The rebuilt and enlarged smelter of ot the Needles Mining Smelting com corn company company pany which is now a United States Smelting subsidiary concern will wil be blown In within a few days d ys according to announcement of ot Manager L 1 1 D The equipment includes a concentrator and a furnace ca capacity capacity Capacity of tons dally daily The roasting capacity has been increased and a zinc concentrating plant plant like Ike that which has ha proven successful at the United States Midway smelter has been Installed The new smelter Is depending upon the Tecopa Consolidated Mining com corn company pany pay for a large tonnage of ot lead ore That company has shipped tons of ot ore to the Needles plant and It Is ex cx expected to maintain a dally daily daly output of ot tons The Tecopa Tecopa mines are said to contain contin sufficient ore to fill flU a long contract on that basis A freight rate of a ton has been secured be between between between tween Tecapa and Needles the ore be being being ing lug loaded at the mines over the Tecopa Tecopa own railroad which connects with wih the Tonopah Tidewater The Tecopa company Is employing a large lart force of miners 26 men having left lel Goldfield last la week In a bunch to ac accept accept accept Jobs at the properties The Th combination of o convenient smelt tug ing facilities and a low freight rate is expected to induce production from froma a number of mines tributary to the Needles Idle smelter which have long been |