Show NEW TIN SMELTER construction of the first tin smelting smelling sm elting and refining plant in the united states is practically completed it is being built at perth amboy N J by the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company and when finished will represent an outlay of about this is another new branch for the company which is already smelting smelling sm elting and selling more than a dozen different metals new ones are added from time to time it is reported that just recently the corporation entered into the manufacture of an all entirely new metal not well known to date in this country the consumption at present is small but is expected to grow as the product becomes better known the tin ores for the mew smelting smelling sm elting plant will come from boliva and will be shipped by way of the panama canal it is said that a considerable tonnage is now awaiting passage which would have been delivered before this time had it not been for the closing of the canal the earnings of american smelting smelling Sm elting are large and will show a considerable advance during the current six months over the corresponding period of last year this is despite the situation in mexico from which source the companas comp anys receipts are practically nothing the advance in earnings is a reflection of the present great activity in mining coupled of course with the european demand for metals it is expected that the new plant in new jersey will add materially teri ally to the companas comp anys receipts in the future |