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Show j United Slates New Lead Smefter M Furnaces Blown in Sunday Is Com- I f 1 , petitiyo With American Snielt- gj inc; Predicts Relief. j s . I ' Manager Fitch of the United States I ' Mining: company wan yesterday down tlio 3 ' valley Inquiring Into the operations of the I . now lead smelter of I1I3 company which I ' , was blown In on last Sunday. The new B , smelter has throo furnaces for lead ore, Wf I and while situated In close proximity to II ' 1 ,' tho Great coppor reducing plant of the I t i same concern. Is an cntlroly separate and I ' Independent plant, belnp designed to run Bj j)t exclusively on lead ores, and witty the ill I purpose o nft'ordlnpr an additional market I1 Tho officials of the United States are ,' reticent as to tho figure they propose to j cut locally with their new lead smelter. I moro than to admit that they arc out for i t - custom ores In addition to tho silver-lead j i product of their own mines. Outsiders ' iro moro ready to speak, however, and 1 1 one prominent mining man ycsicraay ;, stated that he had on more than one oc- I t caslon found himself at the mercy of the (I Combination that has controlled tho ore ij' ,j Klnrkot hero and that ho regarded the ;! (Mvent of tho United States In the Held as ! tt strictly competitive measure and ono that would result. In advantage to tho whole mining fraternity of tho State. How far tho now concern would go or to what ' extent they would-throw clown tho gaunt- '; let, he was not prepared to Btatc-but that I i t the United States would go Into the mar- j j ket to buy. ores, competitively, and that ni . they would get tho ores from tho combl- r nation, ho felt assured J i As to the probable success or failure of j ' the now venture, being In competition i ! with ono of tho big concerns of the coun- I ! ' try, the same gentleman pronounced fall- 1 tire as an Impossibility, f "Tho United States company." said ho, "has a modern smelting plant, while those of Its rival are obsolete. In nddl- tlon thero Is "water" In tho old concern and none In tho younger, and where you don't have to pay dividends on "water" I 1 you can always operato cheaper." i Whether the Utopian view of this pro- i ducer as to the advantage to tho compet- I 1 Ing concern Is realized or not the fact )l seems to be before tho oro producers that thero are now at least two local B markets for their ores, where heretofore II there has been but one. |