| Show SMELTERS MAY W ABANDON MURRA Y Utah Consolidated to Decide Upon Another Lo Location Location Location cation I RESULT TROUBLE MOVE RECENTLY DECIDED ON ONBY ONBY ONBY BY DIRECTORS IN BOSTON According to the terms of a private dis dispatch dispatch patch from Boston received in Salt Lake bake ake last evening the Utah Consolidated Mitt Min Mining ln ing g company has ha decIded to abandon the town toi of Murray as a n smelter site The Tho smelter commonly known as the Highland Boy BY went into commission at Murray lUt in the early carbo and was S the first plant of the kind in inthe inthe inthe the Salt Sal Lake Laka valley for the exclusive excusive treatment of ot copper ores Two Tso hundred tons a day was the Initial capacity but from time to time additions and altera alterations aler alterations tom were made until at this time from front SOO to 1000 10 tons of or ore a day da are hand band handled handled led Manager Channing of the company com pan re returned re returned turned to the city from Boston a few days ago but when seen een last night de do declined dined to commit himself as to the tho pre pro precise precise cise else plans of the company com pan The infer Inter inference inference ence enco to be drawn from his remarks remark how however ho however ever eel was w as suph su h as to leave no room for doubt as to the authenticity of of the dis dispatch dispatch patch P referred to From all al that can cn be learned Manager Channing left leCt Boston with full ful authority to act ct in the matter of an entirely new site for the future smelting operations of the t o company compan and antI it is in said that no 10 less le than four ben loca locations loc tons pre are re now under consideration Caused by Litigation The removal of the plant front from the Salt Lake valley comes as a direct result of the recent litigation over the tho matter of ot the tho smelter smoke In which all al the smelt smelters ers era CI of ot the valley vaney arc art Involved The re Ie recent recent cent injunction imposed by b Judge Mar Mr Marshall Mrshall Irshal shall of the federal court is of a which if it allowed d to become effective will compel comp the removal or shutting down en cn entirely n tirel of every over smelting plant in tc tlc val valley v I Icy ley Ie The most lIkely course of action acton will willbe wi willbe be the removal of all an the plants to other location in which thich event the effect on general generl business conditions at Mum lunY y yand and other towns tOWS similarly situated will willbe wi willbe be serious in the tb extreme The Thc Utah Consolidated Mining company Is one of the tho foremost mining corpora corporations corporatIons corporations of the tho It I has distributed d a greater geater amount in hi dividends this thia th year ar than any an other othor company operating In Utah and it holds the record n cord for the tile pro production production ducton of copper at a cheaper cheap r price than any an other company in it lr the Mr Channing the resent manager mana pr has bias served the company com pan in that capacity since the commencement of its it smelting opera operations oper tons |
