Show AT BRUNO 1 american ame rican S R company will handle I 1 sh schwab w ab ores san francisco dispatch the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining co has begun work on a new plant at point san bruno the enterprise is one of the big biggest est ever undertaken here the plant is to cost more than and will employ 2000 men A pier a mile long will be run into the bay below the site of the new plant this will enable deep sea ships to unload their cargoes in san mateo county the new plant will be the most complete and modern arrangement of its kind in the world arthur walker who is superintending super intending the construction of the fhe plant declares that modern contrivances to avoid the smoke nuisance that is given out by some smelting smelling sm elting plants will be used the new plant will will handle ores from alaska nevada montana mexico and in fact from all over the pacific coast this will give an additional impetus to raining mining in the west as ores that cannot be made to pay at present because of the distance from a smelter will be made worth while when the smelter is completed daniel guggenheim president of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining co his brother sol guggenheim chief member of the executive committee john hays hammond president of the guggenheim exploration co and S W eccles in charge of the traffic features of the company were herp here for several days last week we have decided to put a big plant at san bruno said daniel guggenheim before leaving it will cost about and will employ 2000 men it will handle mostly copper ores while the selby works will treat lead ores we have already works in iii tacoma and everett but the new plant will be the most important on the coast the plans are all ready and work began today under the supervision of engineer walker will handle nevada ores 1 I it t is our intention to make this one of the greatest smelting smelling sm elting centers in the world many low grade ores which formerly could not be worked can be handled by modern methods copper will be the base but we shall bring in from nevada 0 rep ores for reduction this will be a regular commission smelter we have entered into a 25 year contract with charles M schwab to smelt all his ores and all he may have reference being made to a report that schwab threatened to fight the combination mr guggenheim explained that peace reigned and that thai there would be no war schwab had made an attempt to build a smelter and a railroad too his purchase of the mont gomery shoshone and shoshone polaris mines at bullfrog found him without means of getting his ores worked the ores are medium grade but of great extent and low rates for freight and smelting smelling sm elting were absolutely necessary to the owners not only of this groa group but to many other owners in southern nevada not only did schwab make rates favorable to himself and others with the smelter people but he made similar rates with the railroad on the threat that he would build a railroad of his own unless he got rates satisfactory to him it is said that under the new management ores running as low as 20 a ton can be shipped explains schwab episode this arrangement is reported to affect not only bullfrog but also manhattan goldfield and tonopah To it will result in more rapid development of the nevada mines mr guggenheim spoke of th the e schwab episode he gave a plausible explanation of the reported difficulty with the steel magnate he said mr schwab and I 1 are pers personal onal friends and we have never had any difference whatever it is a fact though that there was a slight misunderstanding on his part because his agents reported to him that we were not taking his ores as fast as he offered them the ones grew faster than the fluxes he complained to me about it and I 1 said that we did not have the capacity and would not have for several months mr schwab then said he would build a smelter and he came here for that purpose but he found he could not get the fluxes so we contracted trae ted to smelt his ores for him this means a very large operation we are now making important changes in the selby smelting smelling sm elting plant enlarging it and putting in bag houses and long flue chambers which will prevent the smoke from going out of the top of the stack similar arrangements range ments will be made at the new smelter so that there will be no smoke or fumes by this process we shall save sulphuric acid and phosphates the latter will be sold for fertilizers and what ca cannot annot be disposed of here we shall ship in our own line of steamers to china bringing back ores and mattes f |