Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-17 | Page 12 | Enormous Tonnages for the American

ENORMOUS TONNAGES FOR THE AMERICAN A Thousand Carloads of Oro Moving Daily to tho Furnaces in Its System. With approximately a thousand carloads car-loads of ore moving dally through channels under his supervision to the furnaces of the American Smelting- and Refining company, Silas W. Eccles, Its experienced traffic manager, came In from the East yesterday morning to consult the needs of this division. Since his departure several months ago the company, said Mr. Eccles, has added fourteen vessels to the licet operated by It In tho transportation of, ores and bullion from Mexico, Chill arid other sources, while at no period have the diggings under his observation, or to which his functions extend, been as productive pro-ductive as at present. To meet the requirements re-quirements of the vast, tonnage the company is now operating many of its plants at their maximum, with none in the ontlre system, he added, giving better bet-ter account of itself than Is the plant at Murray, which is to be provided with two additional furnaces. With the condition of the metal market mar-ket the producers at home and abroad appear to be pretty well satisfied, believing be-lieving that the market for silver will ultimately right itself, said the visitor, while certainly no State Is In apparently more prosperous condition than is Utah, with Its splendid variety. of ores and unrivaled fluxes. Mr. Eccles will remain re-main in Zion several days, after which he will go north to inquire into the needs of other divisions.