Show WARM TIME FOR SMELTER MEN Legislative Committee Probes Quotations Used in Set Settling Settling Settling for Ore C W WHITLEY QUESTIONED SAYS HE USES UNSIGNED TELE TELEGRAMS TELEGRAMS GRAMS AS BASIS Utah legislators are promising trouble for tor the big smelter Interests of the state on account of the manner in which the latter are selecting quotations on lead copper and silver ore shipments as a basis for ton settlement with the producers of ot the Intermountain country The committee appointed by the house to Investigate the authenticity and source of the quotations upon which the smelter men base their settlements with the pro met last night at the Wilson ho tel and grilled half halt a dozen local smelter managers and producers for several hours The committee Is composed of Ru dolph Kuchler chairman J J A Eldredge and Harry J 7 Robinson C Ct W V Whitney general American manager of or the Smelting Refining company compan told the committee last night that he ho set tied with ore producers on lead copper and silver quotations given weekly in the Engineering Mining Journal of ot New York and upon quotations contained in dail dally daily telegraphic reports furnished him by the Western estern Union Telegraph com corn nany pany pan Mr Whitley declared that he know where these telegrams came from I or 01 who signed them We e just buy the report from the Western estern Union he said Quotations Tally Manager Whitley said that he had not compared the quotations on ore as given ghen In iii the Associated Press dispatches of the local newspapers for two years ears past but that prior to that time the Associated As Press quotations were higher than the quotations contained in the ther th weekly issue of ot the Engineering Mining Journal Speaker Harry Joseph conducted the In qUIO Ul on behalf of or the committee Mr Eldredge ww wis unable to be present Speaker Joseph claims claim the Engineering En and Mining Journal from which nearly all smelter people take their quotations on ore as a basis for the settlement of ot o f the purchase pur hase thereof Is owned by the I smelter trust as It Is called In his questions last li it night the he speaker speake r intimated that he Intends to show how that tha rt t the ore producers are disposing g of ot their r property pro pert In nine cases out of ot ten for less les s than Its market value owing to the ma of Quotations taken from the Engineering and arid Mining Journal of tr f New York After Mr has repeatedly de dared he know who signed the th e quotation reports given ghen him dally daily by b the th e Western estern Union Speaker Joseph secured a promise from the witness to bring one on e of the telegrams to a meeting of the th e ee committee next Friday night Harry HalT S Knight ore ol purchaser for fo r the Ohio and Colorado Smelting Re fining company said he took his silver silve r settlement quotations from the dally dail y newspapers his lead settlement quota from dally daily telegraphic reports fur by b the Pennsylvania Smelting g company com pan and his cd per settlement quo from the Engineering tend and Mining Minin g Journal Speaker Joseph says the ter trust owns this Journal and that it i t is giving false Calse reports on lead silver and an d copper ore Will Meet Friday The meeting of the committee to be held hel d Friday FrIda promises to disclose some pome Inter esting eating facts in the quotation matter H A Prosser head of ot the ore purchasing g department of ot the United States Smelt Ing Refining company com pan Is to be subpoenaed subpoenaed subpoenaed to tell the committee why wh he In Instructs his subordinates s to 10 settle with pro for ore purchased from them at a t quotations contained in the issue of the th e Engineering and Mining Journal of ot New Ne w ew ee York received the week previous to the th e receipt of the ore Oscar one of the ore pur pun purchasers chasers for the United States company said last night that such are his from his chief on lead copper and an d silver ore purchases A subpoena Is to t o be Issued for tor A H May Mav manager of the Western Union In Salt Lake and a d he hc will be asked to name the source of or the tele telegrams telegrams grams received here daily dally by toy different smelting Interests These are the tele telegrams telegrams grams rams Mr lIr Whitley said last night he ho know kno who signed George Rider of oC the Eureka Hill Bill Min Mm ing company Is also to be subpoenaed for Friday night and It Is expected he be will have hare some som tart things to say sa regarding the accuracy of the quotations used by the smelter interests in settling for ore purchased by b them It was freely Creely admitted by all witnesses ses examined d last night that whenever they had had occasion to compare the on lead copper and silver in the Associated Press dispatches of the dally daily papers to the quotations in the Engineer ing and Mining Journal they found the quotations in the former considerably higher The matter could not be explained satisfactorily last night and J J H Risque of the Utah Consolidated d Mining com corn company company pany is Js to be subpoenaed to tell what he knows of the inaccurate quotations used by b the smelters J E Darmer manager of ot the May lay Day Mining company was heard on the th ques question question question tion Samuel McIntyre told of ot several instances where he had trouble with the nelter Interests over oer shipments of ot ore they wished to o settle for at a price less than the quotations given in the daily daib papers The committee had bad requested John Dern Sidney Bamberger and Dun Duncan Duncan Dunan can c an to meet with them this evening e They were not present The house Is Is determined that th some sort sorto of o f legislation shall be enacted to fix a standard s upon which smelter men and ore producers p can baso base their settlements said aid s Mr Joseph Jo eph after the meeting last night ight n |