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Show AMERICAN SMELTER FOR THE COAST A bulletin from New York says that at the general offices of the American Smelting and Refining company In that city Its engineers are now busily engaged en-gaged upon plans for the construction of a smeller and a refinery on the outskirts out-skirts of San Francisco which shall Incur In-cur an outlay no less than $3,000,000. The plant, nt these figures, must Do more pretentious than any in the company's com-pany's far-reaching system, although It Includes the1 cost of a refinery and ennnot detract materially from the prestige of the imposing smelter that has been reared above Murray In this valley. The volume of ores on the South for which the company has contracted con-tracted and the enormous tonnages at Tonopah have, It Is said, compelled It to reach out for additional equipment, and San Francisco, according to the news from the far East, has cnplured tho prize, the bullion to be forwarded to New York by water. |