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Show BUY A SMELTER Ifl ' TREAT THEIR ORES Schwab and McKane Acquire Pacific Coast Plan! at Snisun Bay. According to advices from Tonopah, John Y. McKane, who Was recently In Sail Lake, and Charles M. Schwab, the steel king, have purchased the Pacific Coam smelter at SuiHiin Bay. for tho treatment of the orea from the various Bchwab-McKane properties in the new camps of south- r rl Nevada. Gave Hint of Such a Move. When in Salt u-ike about ten days acn. Mr. McKane hinted that Mr. Schwab and !ilin';clt prop,w,i 1,, make such .' purchase pur-chase and th new of his action is con-Hiyiicnllx con-Hiyiicnllx not a great surprise to mining men of Utah. The Pacific Roast smelter im a comparatively new plant which has been little lived Requites Modifications. It will require slight modifications, it Ih reported, and when these an: completed. ti utpul of ih,. Tonopah Extension mine, as well us other producing properties proper-ties owned by McKane and Schwab, will be shipped there for treatment. Copper ores will be used as n Jinx, and the smellef will he Mown In as BOOtJ us poi -Bible. Its present capacity Is about one hundred and twentv tons a da v. hut It Is likely that it win be largely increased. |