Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 6 | The Big Merger of Lead Interests

THE BIG MERGER GF LEAD INTERESTS The amalgamation of the National and United Lead companies, of which advices were ifrought by wire Monday night, is nothing less than a culmination culmina-tion of a deal that has been Jn progress for some time and which places the lead market, perhaps, in better control con-trol than at any period in many years. Tho United company, of which Barton Sewell, vice-president of tho American Smelting & Refining companj-. Is vice-president, vice-president, lias long been recognized as one of the American's allied concerns and in the merger it is not unlikely that the Smelting & Refining company has acquired an important interest. It is said that in the consolidation the lead producer may rely on a uniform If not a better price for his output, as it places the lead market practically under one master.