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Show 1 1 Blazing the Way IJl for Copper Plant Jj Representatives of the American l j Smelting and Refining- Company H I i Acquiring Options. K I j While tho management of the American H 1 1 Smelting, and Refining company would H,i urge It as an act of unpardonable Impru- H, J I dence, perliaps, to disclose tho location of I J tho slto upon which it proposes to erect HT I j its long-projected copper plant, thero nro H' I not a few in this city and in tho auburbn H; J j who claim to have fathomed the secret. H jl S and who are so' positive in their convlc- I tion3 that they aro ready to open, upon I I Iho return of Manager Whitley, nogo- 'I tiations for "corner lots." By these it Is iH clnimcd that the company, through lis a I representatives, has already tied up and ifi is continuing to negotlato for options on ;fi S a very largo block of ground, tho policy L B, of tho company to get as far away from PJ! tho honest ploughman ns it is possible to ' I get without taking to the bosom of the S lake and placing its structure on piles s within it. According to tho same authori- i tics, of whom tho woods nro full, tho rcp- 1 resontntlves of the company aro not ! " confining their negotiations to an acreage, I but are extending 'it to square miles, and I 1 when their commission shall have been I executed territory of a value of 5100.000, j or more, will havo been under their con-i con-i 1 trol. It Is claimed by a resident of Slur-I Slur-I i ray, and one who has long been proml-j proml-j iicntly ldentined with the material Intcr- ests of that thrifty suburb, notwlth- a standing tho presence of tho smelter fur-pi fur-pi I nace, that In addition to tho slto for II a copper plant, tho company Is ncqulr- l ing a slto for a town, and that when tho SI latter shall have been created It will be jj 1 one of tho most prosperous in. the valley. j 1 Until tho reports that were on many ill tongues during tho day are verified by tho i i B management and tho slto of tho new j smelter Is officially announced, it would 1 be a betrayal of interests without tho ;1 company, as well as within, pcrhnps, to 8 repeat the gossip, ns there Is at this tlmo I nothing decisive, notwithstanding tho $ knowledge of negotiations that appear to J - point to tho slto upon which tho smelter Hi is to bo actually reared. |