Show IDAHO COPPER SMELTER Plant Projected for the Reduction of Ores at Montpelier AttorneyGencralelcct J J Bngley of Montpcllcr Ida was In the city yesterday yes-terday consulting with Salt Lake and Ogden capitalists who ore largely Interested In-terested In four very promising copper plo dlrR located within seven miles of q Ion t peler The most Important development In our part of the State is the move to establish es-tablish a smelter at Montpcllor Mr Bacley Hald Tho smelter Is to be built and conducted by the Claire Copper Cop-per company and the ores from the Copper King the Duke and the Elk will be smelted by It also The work of nn Ii nUn 11 hn started at once and ln It 1 Is the present intention In-tention of those Interested to push tho enterprise with all possible speed There has been I change in the management man-agement at the Claire and this mcann that work Is to be pushed with more vigor In the future Fred G Rose goes out and ivlll be the manager of the Duke Charles Huff takes his place as manager of the Claire A carload of Claire ore was shipped down to Salt Lake lost week but I have not heard the result The shaft at the Duke Is down 200 feet and drifting drift-Ing Is being prosecuted on that level In ore that Is l running 5225 to the ton In copper The ore In the Claire equals that In the Duke where the tunnel Is being pushed on the oln The Copper King Is getting out nice ore and Die Elk promises to b < as good as either of the other The outlook was never so good there has not been an unfavorable unfavora-ble report on either of these four properties prop-erties from miner or expert Vc are bound to have a great mining camp at iiontpcllcr I Speaking of the State at large Mr Baglcy said The outlook for Idaho Is very bright We have had n Populist Popu-list Legislature for the rmst six years and capitalists from the outside ere afraid to Invest In the Stale No the State Is solidly Republican with the promise of remaining so for many years the Leclslalurc and the court are In safe handu and there Is a conll deuce expressed on all sides lhat has been sadly lacking In the recent oust I look for great development In Idaho In the next few yearn |