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Show New Smelter for San Juan, Rico News. The project now being agitated for the erection of a smelter on the line of the Bio Grando Southern meets with general approval by mine owners in this section. It is a subject that is deserving de-serving of more than passing notice, and one in which all should feel an interest, in-terest, aud more especially since the recent combine of eastern smelters. Bico's low-grade ores will lind a suitable suit-able market if a smelter is erected on the line of the new railroad. There are many mines in this district whose ores will not bear the excessive freight rates to Denver aud i'ueblo smelters and pay a profit to the owners. Cheaper transportation and shorter haul is necessary nec-essary to make these mines valuable and protitable. |