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Show I The IL S. Company to Build Refineries Several Million Dollars to Be Expended Ex-pended by tho Company on Additional Addi-tional Equipment. To ton other equipments that have boon provided by the United States Mlnlnir and Smeltln company for ths reduction of ItB own and other ores, there haa been projoctcxi two refineries, one. adapted to tho requirements of Its lead ba.ls, tho other to th refinement of Us copper j;rid and nllvr-r-boarlns bullion. This 13 th Information In-formation with which Oeorgo K. Fischer returned from tho East yesterday. Mid whtlo tho gentleman, who has lonu been itt tho head of tho tnlted Btates's construction con-struction forces, declines to say at what localities of tho proposed plants will bo erected. It Is tho Impression that ono will ho In New York, tho other In Missouri The met of tho two plants In Question will Incur an outlay amounting to no lefl thnn 1,000.000. Prom this equipment it Is quite manifest that tho United Btiiles Mine ami Smelting company has entered the field to compote with tho American Bmeltlns nt.d Refining company for Whatever What-ever profits there will be along frener.al smeltlnar lines. It hae bc--n said that the Intention of tho American Ir. to absorb the plant of tho United Staffs, but this is not believed, sit least hy Presto, nt Evans of the latter company, who was recently In this city. n tho contrary, Mr. Evans Is of the conviction that n competitive plant will find plenty of patronage and that alone custom lines It will be nblo to add to the . arnlngs assured by the company's com-pany's reatfuroei at Blncham and at Tln-tlc. Tln-tlc. Mr. Fischer returns fnm tho East after his conference, with tho official of th United 8tates company much Improved Im-proved In health, and. with his staff, will hepln at once the promulgation of plans for the proposed refineries. |