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Show Salt Lake World's Center Of Smelting and Mining ONE HAS but to study the daily papers to reach a full realization realiza-tion of the importance of Salt Lako as a market for ores, this city being known as the center of tho world's smelting and mining industry on account of the number and variety of smelting plants surrounding tho city and the fact that. "Salt Iakc is the hub of the mining industry of the country. To Salt Lako City comes ore from a dozen different mining camps of Utah, while cumps of Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon. California, nnd oven Arizona forward shipments to this city for sampling and smelting, the system of sampling ores in uso near the eity assuring a careful and independent determination of the value- of all consignments, while the sampling eoinpnnv servus as the selling agunt if desired for all shippers ship-pers of or'o whether under smelter contract con-tract or not. There aro two copper smelters near Salt Lake, where enormous tonnngos of ore in the crude form and in tho form of concentrates ib smelted and refined, the larger being at Garfield and owned by the Uarfield Smelting company, the other at Toole, owued by the International Interna-tional Smelting and Kef i nine company. Of lead smelters there aro thr.ee. At Tooele the International company has two blast furnaces now in operation on lead ores, a third and fourth furuacc soon uill be ready" for work, whilo additional furnaces aro to be provided without delay, quickly has this company increased its "custom lead smelting business. Originalh-, the" International In-ternational company, which is an enter-price enter-price backed by the Amalgamated Copper Cop-per interests, was planned for a copper smelter exclusively, but the management, manage-ment, at tho time believed that business could be secured for all kinds of ore. TIu'h fact has been clearly demonstrated during tho past 3ear, aud this company now cn.joys a very extensive custom lead smelting as well as coppor smolt-ing smolt-ing business. Tho American Smelting and "Refining company at Alurray has operated its lead plant, throughout tho year at close to maximum capacity, whilo at Midvale Jnncfion nearby- the lead smelter of tho United Stales Smelting. Refining aud Mining company has kept its smelter in continual operation, Ideal Competition. The western load oro producer has never had such extensive smelting competition com-petition at disposal as he now enjoys in Salt Lake, the International, American Ameri-can and United Stntes companies all being actively in tho market for such product. Such" ideal smelting facilities do not exist auywhore else in the world, (Continued on Following Page.) SALT LAKE WORLD'S CENTER OF lELTHl (Contitmod from Preceding Page.) and, in addition, several indopendent railroad lines entering Salt Lake o01 the mining camps of the country offer perfect transportation facilities. The Utah Ore Sampling company has mills at Murray, Sandy. Park City and Silver City, all n Utah, whero the shipper can consign his ore, have tho samp sampled and tho value determined to the fraction of a cent, affording independent in-dependent handling of such shipments and iu a manner tborouglilj' satisfactory to the shipper and smelter. T.n other sections of tho wcet tho agricultural and smelting ipterosts do not get along loeother very well, and frequent legal clashes are experienced which are a great detriment to tho. oro producer. Utah, fortunately, has passed through this stormv period, with the result that the Bmelters have instajlcd improvements by which all tba injurious rnatcrialsarodimited, arc permitted to endangering the . "rr; "anostry Tho Utah 8u,f 'is e established, tho V3- eM everv particular . tbej gjJM to thousands of men a (mj millions of dollars annuauy nnd slate. |