Show STACKS BEEN RED CED I Will Be But Thee Operating at I the Smelters ORE RECEIPTS STILL SLIM I4as BE AX INCREASE OR 4 GEX ER CLOSE DOWN Drift In the Tunnel on the Gold Hill bearing the Main Ore Body Interest Inter-est In the New Gold District Continues Con-tinues Good Offer For n Block or New State StocU Copper Plant Case Will Be Called But May Bti Continued Aerain Mereur People Pleased With the A CTF DIH1 General Gen-eral Jlinin News With he close of the week another of the stacks at the Germania will below be-low out if the present arrangement is carried out and inasmuch a the Hanauer ha cut its present working capacity down to one stack there will be but three aglow at the smelters in < Lie valley one at each of the plant Je some time past the Germanla has been operating two stacks but the decrease de-crease in the receipts of ores necessitated necessi-tated a still further reduction and the management announced several days ago that the life would pass out of one of the furnaces on Saturday Mr Jones stated yesterday atternoan that the reduction wculd be made and that the Germanla was ready to cease operation op-eration entirely if the producers are tired of the shipment of ores The cam sentiments were expressed by the lather smelting men and it is highly probable that the end of the month will witness a very general close down unless there is a pretty healthy increase in-crease in the receipts of ores at the plants But few of the properties are marketing any of their products and ithiose few are not making their usual consignments The surpuses at all of the smelters have been very materially reduced since the first of the year and now cut tout a comparatively slight figure There must be a change for the bet or one will most certainly come for the worse It is now a question ot which can best afford to close down and drop all operations the smelters or jUie mines That is a question which Mas not yet been decided but whose Solution is a matter for the very near uture f Regarding the much talked of advances ad-vances which are ta be made in the working charges of certain ores one of the smelting people yesterday said that as 3 matter of fact advances had nver been considered except in connection with the Anchor and BullionBeck ores and the Horn Siver concentrates Thera nay be some other changes but they will not be of vital importance At jneseni Horn Silver concentrates ar J being treated for 547 said the gentleman gentle-man and this amount incudes the 4 waste through the action of the blast The concentrates are as fine as flour and considerable of them is blown off through the stack under the blast from The blower The advance would make xne Treatment marge some 53 higher tnd even with this the claim of the smelting people is that they cannot reduce the mill production and make monDy at the business They figure the J ss from draught at not less than 51 per ton I Nothing further has been heard Of the proposition to establish an independent inde-pendent smelter here in the interest of the ore producers and it is very evident evi-dent that the project has been abandoned aban-doned for the present at let Man ger Beck of the BullionBeck states lat his company wdil Yet seriously insider th matter and more than kely decide to put in the plant itself |