Show MAGNITUDE OF SMELTING INDUSTRY it is worth while to keep telling the world that salt lake valley is the greatest ore smelting smelling sm elting center in the world it not only helps to emphasize the vast importance of the western metal mining industry as such but it makes an appealing argument to lay before the mining b investor present and prospective that the business of metal mining when conducted along lefiti legitimate za mate lines is clean and highly remunerative A few days hgo ago at a luncheon of the lions club B N rickard of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company spoke on the importance and magnitude of the smelling smelting sm elting business in utah and some of the points scoresby redby him are worth remembering he showed for instance that our surrounding mines mills and smelters shelters sm elters furnished employment to men without counting those who are employed in the transportation transport at lon of ores and smelting smelling sm elting products and he emphasized what the transportation por tation feature of the business meant when lie he stated that the metal mining industry of the state furnished eighty b five per cent of the original railroad freight and that our metal mines to date have yielded over or practically treble the present assessed value of all property in the state these are figures to conjure with they show that the metal mining industry of utah stands preeminent pre eminent in the ranks of the states resources practically all of the silver lead gold and zinc ores produced in utah are smelted smelter and reduced to bullion ip in utah smelters shelters sm elters and the plants in which the bullion is made are now running at an annual capacity of tons and new mills are being built a and nd smelter improve improvement menti are being made all the time at the same time the mines of surrounding states as a result of better fright freight rates are increasing their crude ore and mill p ra d shipments to utah reduction works utah has thus become the greatest grea test metal mining and metal smelting smelling sm elting center in the world and it will not be long until it is one of the biggest iron mining and smelting smelling sm elting centers in the country because of its central position as a distributing center for this entire intermountain region the region which is is capable of maintaining a huge population and providing it with the best water the purest air the finest land and best homemaking home iome ma making ing requirements in the country |