Show THE international SMELTING CO herald el paso texas it is reported in certain circles that the international smelting smelling Sm elting refining company will probably purchase a site for a great smelting smelling sm elting plant northwest of the city and east of the river the result of the negotiations tiati ons may become public in the next few weeks the decision was reached to erect a large plant at el paso at a recent meeting in ill boston it is said the international smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has already acquired three smelt ing 1119 plants in the united states and one in mexico and it ts Is reported that in addition to the el paso plant another smelter will be erected at gonichi Tonic To nichi hl sonora mexico at a point on the yaqui river in the heart of the sonora coal fields and that the mexican southern pacific railroad one of the harriman roads now building up the yaqui river will be completed to gonichi by april 1 1910 it is also understood that the mexico northwestern railroad company the recent purchaser of the rio grande sierra madre pacific railway contemplates building the railroad to gonichi Tonic To nichi hl and already has surveying corps in the field malting making a survey to that point dr pearson recently stated in an interview that the mexico northwestern would probably connect with the southern pacific system at gonichi if an agreement could be made with the latter company covering an agreeable traffic arrangement otherwise the mexico northwestern would build an independent line through from broin the present terminus to the pacific coast it is believed by mining men that the new smelting smelling sm elting plant to be erected at this city will be operated mostly on a copper base it is also rumored that the smelting smelling sm elting plant of the american smelting smelling refining company now operating on the north side of the city will be largely changed from a lead to a copper base and that additional roasting and calci ning ovens will be erected on the east side of the tracks of the southern pacific and southwestern railways opposite the present smelting smelling sm elting works A converter plant will also be erected at the same place this change is said to be due to the fact that the visible supplies of lead ores are decreasing rather than increasing in the territory tributary to et el paso while the phenomenal increase of low grade copper porphyries ries and gigantic concentrating cent rating plants to bring the copper sulphide ores to a shipping basis in the different copper camps in the southwest will in the near future enormously increase the tonnage to be treated at the el paso amel |