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Show THREE MACES ME II il Mill United States Company Running Silver-Lead Plant About Half Capacity. Three furnaces of the United States Smelting, Eefining and Mining company's com-pany's plant at Bingham Junction aro now smelting ores, and tho company diligently, is seeking to add to its stores of oxidized ores in order to keep these or more iu continuous operation. It is the intention of the management to blow in a battory of three more furnaces fur-naces in time, the fourth may be placed iu commission within tho very near future. fu-ture. Not until the new roasters have been installed will the company blow iu the entire six furnaces, and until that time there will be no call, perhaps, per-haps, for ores roquiring roasting, but local circles anticipate such a call within with-in thirty days. While the company says nothing, keepintr busy with its new equipment and doing tho best possible under tho circumstances, it is thought that the fihippcrs of ore are not responding as generously as ono might have expected expect-ed from the manner in which they howled months ngo about the lack of adequate smelting facilities. The United States company is satisfied with tho tonnage being received for its furnaces, fur-naces, but there has boon no avalanche of oxidized ores cast into their or any other smelting company's bins during I the past few weeks. There are two good reasons for this. One is that many properties were forced to close on account of conditions, condi-tions, and it takes time to reopen the mines and get out, the tonnage. The other reason is that several shippers arc following the policy of sending in just enough to keep the owuer's head 1 above water in anticipation of better , metal prices soon. A third reason might be mentioned, and that is that , tho market has not yet opened in a broad sense for the sulphide ores. The latter character of ore is said to predominate pre-dominate locally. Bat shippers are resti ing easy in the realization that tho metal situation is adjusting itself slowly slow-ly but surely. |