Show WILL REBUILD NEEDLES SMELTER los angeles herald that the needles smelter has been purchased by the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining company who will rebuild the plant and make a bid for custom ores of california arizona and southern nevada seems to be an assured fact the story has been printed as a rumor by several mining papers but some doubt was entertained as to the reliability of the information A J trumbo general manager of the new bonnie clare mining company in nevada says that he is reliably relia oly informed of the sale and that the tonopah and tidewater and santa fe roads have put in a minimum rate of 3 per ton on carloads from bonnie clare station which is 2 per ton less than the dark clark roads rate to the salt lake amel 0 the united states is one of the most powerful othe A S R conducting mammoth plants at salt lake and in mexico and owning t in the name of the united states mining company large and well developed mines in utah and nevada its entry into this field is of great importance to mining men the location of the needles plant is admirable and its operation on a large scale means a market tor the ores of california and arizona which will be a strong competitor of the smelting smelling sm elting plants in the copper belt and at el paso pas for mines close by the rate will doubtless be so low as to permit marketing ores of a grade which have hitherto been unprofitable supplying mining companies with a revenue with which to prosecute development work particularly will anis be the case with the prospects and partially developed mines along both sides of the colorado river |