Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-01-31 | Page 5 | Mexican Smelters Operating with Small Tonnage

TEns OPERATING WITH I SMAlL TONNAGE th the United States and the Amen Amerl- Smelting ng and rid Ren Refining companies had an u unprofitable experience with plants In Jn Mexico Meic since Inee the tho over over- T. T of the Diaz DIa government it li lit Is js t t to t pet get gt t th ores ore to tho the plants an railroads have been torn tor up In tn places plas f m men n are reI unwilling to risk rk their lives livesT T at the te plants lant or in the mine 7 i me ie ee operations ha have hab b been en well wen un un- way wy when a new revolution would out oat and ad then oper operations tons bad to be beit it entirely suspended vate advices from Mexico Melco indicate Ind cle e ire are are goon good gO pr prospects for tor resumption operations on on can early carly date by rI an Smelting a. a and id Refining comy cornI corn com cm- cm y I V at ltd Its I. I Chihuahua and ting Plants In Mexico Since i trouble In I the northern part o of the bite bUe became acute only the A Aguas- Aguas ua- ua smelter In ln n nc c central MAxi Mexico eo has haa haan n operating at a normal nonal rate nate The Tle nanye four other smelter have haYo b been ed d down 0 With WIh three o smelters 1 runT run run- r. r T e the tho company would be operating at atut Kraut bout ut 65 per e cent of ot Its Is Mexican Melan capacity The situation at Monterey and Mate Mate- vela i I I It is unchanged with lh no immediate aspect 0 of improvement emont but if I B e can cn bring its Kg It Mexican op operations up upi i Ia a 65 86 per er cent cout basis it will wU be able to tow pw w good profits on its Us Mexican invest invest- t. t lt although oUgh of ot course cour nothing like ilko Iko pt t could be he shown if Ir all al the tho Mexican Inee el i and a smelters were running at their ed capacities lowing its It fixed te p policy lcy the tho Anted Amen yi Smelting and Refining company has anc published business relations with the in control of or at the northern prove e being careful at th the same came time timeto t. t to to how bow favor to either lher political ty In Sonora the state government Jo full ful revenues and the mining pre th there re p pay y their taxes in the I pie ite te and al also aIo In n the City of oC Mexico ls I 1 is double payment but is the line of st It resistance and one calculated to eue use no OPo opposition Uon from trem an any source Interruption pf Pt ft railroad traffic has his pre pre- fre ted shipments of oC mat materials and sup sup- Hes Cu into the mines and smelters and shipments of ot bullion bulion The con eon are busy husy repairing the railed rail rail- ad ed id lines north norh of Torreon and unless finer disturbances occur smelters eUld 1 be o able ablo to start star Its Is furnaces at lY and Ch Chihuahua huah a within thirty