Show THE SMELTER SMOKE FAKERS press bingham utah the farmers of salt lake valley now seem as anxious to have the smelters shelters sm elters remain as they were a little while ago to give the 23 sign just so soon as they found their bluff was taken in earnest there was much hurrying to and fro across the valley and the prospects of seeing the easy money they had been getting from the smelters shelters sm elters fade away did not appeal to the gentleman with the bunch of whiskers on his chin for the last four years the smelters shelters sm elters of the valley have paid in damage suits in and out of court a half a million dollars annually and this has served to buy maria a piano and johnny rube a piano box buggy and keep a great many of them in luxury without the necessity of hard work these farmers remind us of the old negro preacher who to show his good faith prayed the lord to come down and take him up into heaven at once but when mose who was asleep in the garret rolled over and came down through the plaster the old preacher took it all back and said oh lord I 1 was just a fooling and so these farmers are evidently just fooling at a meeting held at murray some days since it was decided that the complainants in the case against the smelters shelters sm elters would ask the supreme court to mitigate their verdict as a to having the smelters shelters sm elters close up at an early date so that it is evident that these farmers believe they can live in the valley much better with the smelter smoke and the smelters shelters sm elters than they otherwise could if the smelters shelters sm elters were to move to some other point it has been the policy of the farmers in salt lalie lake valley since the smelters shelters sm elters were located there to harrass and annoy them in every conceivable way they have also brought a number of suits against the mines and mills of bingham canyon on account of befouling the waters of bingham creek although as a matter of fact the water never reached the valley until the bed of the creek was by the slimes from the mills that a truce will be patched up between the farmers and the smelters shelters sm elters there is no doubt and the smelters shelters sm elters will continue to do business at the same old stand and the gentle hayseed will co continue to draw his little graft |