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Show RKOCCTIOM WORKS. buiuu time since when the Hkrald called alteutioti to the importance ol erecting eiuclting and reduction works, wo were met privately with the statement state-ment that reduction works would no' pay. It is conceded that Fmeltinj works will pay; that the money paid for fieight ou the waste rock accompanying accom-panying the metal, now shipped east and west, might he as well kept iu the Territory, and the lahor required to run smelting works he employed here. But if reduction works can be made to pay in Omaha, why not here? The former place is hundreds of miles from a mining region, yet it is having silver refining works erected ; we are situated 1 in the centre of a mining region, where lead, silver and copper are found ; and if it will pay Omaha to have the ore or the bullion shipped to it, to be separated sep-arated there,, it surely would pay here. It would, of couri.c, require a large amount of capital invested, but the result is not by any means mythical. If skilled labor is not sufficient here, bring it ol ; common labor is sufficiently plentiful; and where the minerals are taken from the bowels of the earth is the proper place to have them reduced and separated, that the lead, silver, gold, copper, antimony, and other metals that may exist, may b shipped as 6uch, and thus stop paying freight on useless rock, keep money in the Ter ritory and employ labor. The freight per car on ore, from Ogden to New York, is now $240 ; going west it is lower. Lay it at an average of $200 per car, and take the shipments at twenty car-loads per week, and there is a sum of four thousand thou-sand dollars weekly raid for freight alone. Of the on shipped sixty per cent, is useless rock, or, in other words, over twenty-six hundred dollars is weekly paid out for freight, that should bo kept in the Territory. This reaches over a hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars per year ; but wi;:h increased mining it might reasonably be put at a quarter of a million annually, annu-ally, which would thus be directly taTed to the Territory ; while the labor consequent con-sequent upon crushing, sampling, smsltioR and separating ruight be placed at over ha!f-a-million more ; and this independent of the manufactures manufac-tures which would be sure to grow up as a consequence. Then comes iron mining with the solid and permanent prosperity which ever accompanies it. Will gentlemen of capital, and business men, give the matter serious consideration. consider-ation. There is money in it. |