Show IXSPECTED TIlE COPPER PLANT Montana Smelting Magnates Intcr f I ef > ted in the Enterprise A The copper plant was inspected yesterday yes-terday by two Montana smelting magnates mag-nates President and Financial Manger Man-ger Palmer of the great Bosrm and Montana Smelting company and < en rral Manager Crouch of the Butte and Montana These gentlemen came down from Butte yesterday morning md spent the afternoon at the plan in I company with Treasurer Schoenberg of the Salt Lake City Copper Manufi turing company They were jrvatly pleased with the works which thfy said compare favorablywith any In the country Both gentlemen left for San Francisco last evening On account of the visit of Messrs Palmer and Crouch and their actions relative to the copper plant t soon became rumored in mining circles that there was a goodsized hen on and that the hatching would be of a great deal of Jmnortnnno to this city Pnftinir two and two together the gossips declared de-clared that the gentlemen were herein here-in the interests of their eastern people who are contemplating putting some money into the plant and that upon jon report considerable would depend TBf course neither of the visitors gave rttie slightest intimation of the real objects of their descent upon Salt Lake unless it was to personal friends who vere as silent as the tomb on the subject When approached upon the subject which was agitating the grey matter of many an interested party Treasurer Shoenberg denied that the visit of the gentlemen to the works had any significance They had been si wn over the plant simply out of courtesy and had expressed their ad Tnlr tion of the works in no unmeac UP U terms They were not on the ground as cxnert5 he said |