Show fiRES IN 6ERMANIA Old Smelter Plant Prepared for Emergencies CAN START AT SIGNAL Local Effect of Denver Smelter Strike Herculean Effort to Make Murray Furnaces Respond to Increased Levy Upon Them While the battery of blasts at the Americans Murray smelter are responding re-sponding to the increased levy which the strike at the Denver plants has imposed im-posed upon them a slow fire has been kindled In the furnaces of the Ger mania and should It I come that hostilities hos-tilities In the neighboring State are to be prolonged and that a settlement of the Issue between the strikers and the management hopelessly Indefinite an order to put the blasts oC the local plant Into active commission will follow The Germanla whose fires were drawn when the new 1000000 plant was blown In has a battery of five furnaces capable ca-pable of reducing about 150 tons pf ore dally Al present Manager Whllley Is confronted with the necessity for malting malt-ing room at tho Murray plant for an additional C200 tons of ore that has been going monthly to the Denver plants for reduction To accommodate this he with Superintendent Rhodes has been gradually Increasing the charge at the Murray smelter until anew a-new example of what an uptodate furnace can be made to do In a pinch Is turned out almost daily Of course there Is a maximum beyond which discretion dis-cretion will not undertake to go and attaining It there will be no recourse but that extended by the Germanla OC course the management In an emergency might Jlnd relief by turnIng turn-Ing over ores of a certain variety to neighboring plants but the emergency would have to he a distressing one On the other hand the local producer has shown a little uneasiness at least one of the stalwarts pleading that it was Indiscreet to increase Jts dividend at a time when the trouble at Denver might Incur an order for it to curtail tho output There is no need of such apprehensions said Manager Whitley for the American Is heie to meet the requirements 01 the producer and if present equipment is I Inadequate additional i addi-tional furnaces will be provided At all events no one has been Injured to date and the output at present exceeds all previous records |