| Show WILL THE SMELTERS CLOSE the board of county commissioners ot of salt lake county has ordered the valley smelting smelling sm elting plants to abate the smoke and fume coming from their stacks immediately and if the demand de mandis is not complied with the arrest of the managers of these s concerns is threatened in view of the fact that the tae officials ot of the different smelting smelling sm elting plants are doing everything in their power to eliminate the smoke and fumes trouble this action on the part of the county commissioners looks arbiters arbi tery and exceedingly silly as well as unjust A problem of this nature cannot be solved in a day and while the smelting smelling sm elting companies have engaged the services of eminent experts who are seeking to evolve methods for the elimination of the trouble the remedy if already upon could hardly be successfully applied for sometime to come and for the reason that extensive alterations will have to be made in smelter equipment and in smelting smelling sm elting practice tica which will necessitate the installation of new machinery the designing and manufacture of which of necessity will require some me time and yet the demand seems to be to rectify the alleged evil immediately or to close down the plants and the order is as lightly made as if all that was required was the opening of one door and the closing of another and little thought is given of the millions invested in our valley smelters shelters sm elters of the loss that would be entailed by their closing down even for one week nor of the hardships that a close down would bring to hundreds of employees and to th the thousands of men in the hills who gain their living through the mining industry which would be seriously crippled were the smelters shelters sm elters to go out of commission give the smelters shelters sm elters time and the smoke and fumes nuisance will be abated |
