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Show 1EV OBGAHIZATIOH OF SMELTER INTERESTS Formation of Corporation With Twenty-Five Millions Capital ! Is Projected. Special to The Tribune. NEW YORK, Pec. 17. Official announcement an-nouncement was made today that a large smelting and refining company is organizing the object of which is to build smelters in mining, districts in this and other countries. Details of the now organization have beon worked out and tbo couceru will be incorporated about the first of the year. It will be backed by some of the strongest interests in the financial world and among tho directors, it is understood, will be inch high up in the Amalgamated Conpor company and the United States Steel corporation. One of these will bo William Rockefeller. Dr. Jj. D. Ricketts of the Greou Cauanca Copper and Mr. Motcalf of the Anaconda Smelter have boeu in .the city in connection with tho organization organiza-tion of the new company. The new company will cater to tho metal and mining trado of Mexico, Utah, Colorado. Michigan and Montaua, and will build smelters in this territory, terri-tory, and possibly Arizona and Canada. Its capital will be $25,000,000. A large number of mining exports and legal representatives of the Colc-Rj'au properties have been in the city for tho Inst few days perfecting plans of organization. or-ganization. Tho names of tho interests identified with tbe new company will be made public within a short time. |