Show SOME REAL competition if it is true that competition is the life of trade then the mining industry of this section should sooil soon flourish as never before with rival smelting smelling sm elting companies actually bidding against each other for the producers ore a marked difference would be noticeable in the present situation according to the best advises this condition is soon to be a reality in utah for it is said that a strong combination of the leading financiers in the country are to erect a large smelting smelling sm elting tooele thoele county utah the men inen who are given credit with being at the head of this enterprise are john D ryan and thomas F cole two of the biggest lights in the financial and mining world with such backing there is bound to be real competition and utah and the intermountain west welcome the project with open arms the boston news bureau which usually gets its information from reliable sources source s lias has the following to say regarding the new sni smelter elter while no official statement has been made as to the parties interested in the new smelter to be built for the purpose of handling the ores of the utah consolidated mining jining company and other companies compani es for that matter the understanding is that the money will wilf be raised by prominent new york and butte capitalists it is said that john D ryan thomas F p cole together with other interests prominently identified with butte copper properties are behind the project and have taken ov over er the land options now held by utah consolidated interests the new smelter will cost several million dollars and will be one of the largest and best equipped in the west it will handle not only the ores of the utah consolidated soli dated mining Z company but other companies as well and will be a strong competitor of the guggenheims 0 |