Show I lONE ON OR TWO TO CUSTOM SMELTERS ARE AR I NOW NON ASSURED THE UTAH TAll MINE OWNER Will tho new smelter r to bo ho built in ic t. t Pino no canyon bo he a custom tom plant This k tho ho question that is s n agitating the tho thoI I suds 5 of a num number er of or mining minin men of ot and has been Leon taking their spare moments inco the tho was tas nado do that a plant is to be bo completed oo on tho the county sito ito by a a. syndi- syndi ate cate 3 composed of such men as Ryan Colo CoIo and Thornton ft 1 When tho the question of building fur furS races na for the treatment of Utah Con Con- ores camo came up it was naturally thought that this company would build Its own plant plantS as S it hail had been found I very cry y profitable to operate its plant down j For years Jears 1000 tons nf of f product were brought down from its mines in Din Bingham ham an and commercialized f ery four hours in the company compan y 1 furnaces The farmers finally obtained Ian an tn injunction against further operations opera of tho the furnaces and the tho fires wore were withdrawn ind nd nd tho company suspended from front its mine t i Somo Some opposition was found to the plan l ito to build its plant across tho range in in Pino canyon amon among shareholders ers of the Utah Consol Consolidated dated It has hns since devel devel- that the tho opposition camo came from in interests in in- that w ro closely allied with tho GuggenheimS Gu who were in favor of tho the contract for smelting bein being retained b by bythe the Garfield Gareld plant These interests had bad planned to ma make mae e it so uncomfortable for Brou Broughton crowd that the they would t to a a. renewal of a contract which Would Id a a. great deal of mODe money to ithe American smelting interests but un un- air 7 to tho the shareholders of this ablo mining minin property pro pert Because of the tho opposition to tho tha plan of building a in Pino Pine canyon a a. deal was put through h with Ryan Cole Colo and Thornton for the construction of i plant and tho the oreS ore c fr from m tho Utah mine mino were contracted contract contract- fed ed ed for or at a a. Price which means the saving saying say sav aY- aY ing ing of 1 a share annually ft Many Jany advantages are arc to bo Lo gained I iby y the tho Utah Consolidated It will be I permitted to increase its earning by y reason reAton of ot hain having arranged for a shipment ship ship- ment l of 1200 tons daily as against tons now being f sent ent to the tho Garfield Gareld Gar Gar- field eld furnaces It will save wc a lar large e haulage haul bait j a age e rate by installing a tramway from the ho mine to the tho site of tho the new smelter smeller ria IS as tho the company is now paying payin tho the Rio Grande Grando railroad 40 cents a a. ton for forthe the delivery deli of its ores to the tho smelter which can bo handled for a a. I. I few fow cents a ton thy by y tho the tramway route All An these and many other advantages arc c t to be he gained b by 03 tho Utah Consolidated Consolidated Consoli Consoli- dated but no one has been prepared with frith ith an authoritative statement that the new smelter will bo a custom plant for br or the treatment of fril cr lead an and copper ores This i is what most of the tho iniSe owners wish t to learn about an and 1 point on which oven Q tho lar largest est inter inter- tests are painfully quiet At any rate rato has been a a. movement on foot Utah mining men t to build an independent smelter and despite d the reports to the tho contrary arrangements are boin being mado for the building of such ra ta a. a t plant lant at an carl early date Jl f Su Such h properties as tho the Silver Kin King Coalition Newhouse and Boston have been placed at a disadvantage isad in tho the marketing of their product by ment accor accorded ed by th tho valley smelter General Manager Inna er Kearns of tho the King Kin KinI I had bad this proposition under consideration consid consid- ration cration for several months and he has gathered a considerable amount of data He and his associates have havo gone one over tho tito situation most thoroughly and in duo time will be prepared to announce the site that has been selected for a a. plant Jant which will bo in in the market for 1 custom ores of or every ery character i It has long lont since been known that bi bit big t money is is to bo be made mado in tho smelting I business This has been Leen demonstrated demonstrate I ever since the science of boiling the thc precious pre pro I II I daDs clone metal out of tho the rock was first in in in- I 0 r traduced In a n. great eat many instances it has been proven that the smelter gets gots moro more money moncy for commercializing tho product than the miner miner docs does for discovering die dis is covering erin and minin mining the ores For Por this a and nd numerous other reasons it is IB hi high h ht t time that tho the great ent industry was given givena cn a stimulus by tho the ruining mining men themselves them them- selves taking a hand band in the smelting business and protecting themselves from methods that have been Leen employed d which threatened to ruin ruin the tho industry fi i That m moro more ro cust custom m plants are aro needed the sentiment expressed amon among mino mine Downers owners in In evory section of the thc west one or two companies have tho the monopoly it is an nn easy cas matter to fix rates rate that will place the producers at att t tho mercy morcy of the smelter people If It tho the producers get together and treat their sown own pro product the they will have havo an opportunity to share in the low market prices of metal and at nt tho the samo same time timo get a n Jar o part of the profits that accrue on onan onan oncan an can advance of the tho market of their product fc It It appears that tho the impression has hassone gone sone one out that tho the Ryan Cole and Thorn Thorn- Tb era era- lop ion crowd is to build a custom pIn plant nt but hut it is known that thc these men are arc Closely identified with th tho the interests that control the tho Utah U Cons Consolidated and it t tR is R barel barely po possible ihle that they will simply be oe e used as instruments through which the Broughton people can have havo their smelter in spite of tho the opposition that was kicked up by a few of tho the 1 interests If these the people do deldo deo deon de- de o on en a custom plant it would in no way with tho the pan plans that have havo n be peon peen worked is up ty hy local loc producers for forit forit forit it is is known that minG mine owners owne in in Park City Bin Bingham ham Beaver Beavor count county and Pi Pi- echo ocho have become n affiliated with the tho movement for a n custom tom smelter that wag as inaugurated by hy Senator K Reams urn and ana his Ius associates These men aro are as aR prominent prominent prom- prom in tho the mining indu industry in this section as any to be bo found an ami with tho the addition of Senator Clark and tM Salt Snit Lake Lako route to a assist in building and und maintaining a smelter there thero f seems cems to bo be but little reason to doubt the tho ultimate success of ot such an nn undertaking Two additional smelters to be added to tho two down tho the and tho the Tintic plant would the producer with mth a n market for or his ores in Utah It would in lower treatment charges i which will place tho the smelter smeller on a par pu with the tho minro When Whon metals aro are low lowa a si reduction n in treatment cb charges r es could be bo made mado co so 0 that each would get a share of th the tha profits while whilo an improvement in in metal prices would s permit both mine mino owner and md smelter man attn to participate participate- in inthe the tho benefits to bo Le derived |