Show AI A I SURVEY IS COMPLETED OF COlORADO SMElTERS DENVER DENVEn Colo Cob Dec 24 Tile The The committee com corn named by the Colorado legislature last winter headed by Senator Fincher I of Breckenridge to make a ft n complete complete com corn and exhaustive survey of the smelting smelting smelt smelt- ing industry of the surey state in order to give the ore producers information and ana data upon which they could figure with wih accuracy and which would enable them in the future to deal intelligently in makIng making malting mak malt ing contracts with wih the smelters has completed completed completed com com- Us Its Is work worl The InvestIgationS investigation the first of the kind ever undertaken b by any state or b by the federal government has 1158 been complete and thorough O. O R. R Whitaker one of j I the best known metallurgists R in the rest West a trustee of the Colorado School of Mines was secured to lo handle the technical technical tech tech- work worl Armed with wih the full ful authority authority author author- I ity of the state he lie spent months in the plants of the smelters investigating methods methods methods meth meth- and delved Into the books of the smelter companies for figures showing metal losses actual cost of handling the various ores ors etc Ills Uis report which Is replete with many charts and tables is pronounced by mining and smelting men alike alke who have seen advanced proofs roofs to tobe tobe tobe be the moist mout complete and thorough h work of the kind ever published The minIng mining mi ml- ning fling men of Colorado believe beleve as a result of of mineral this h er investigation will ig I h be 0 an the f increased future se output u and J I j tle the industry everywhere ver wl materially ter l beri bencI benc- benc I I filed fled That the tIle Information contained in this S report may be given general circulation S the Colorado Metal Mining association will wi print the Whitaker report and the I conclusions of the committee in the annual report rEport to be made to the convention conven conven- I tion ton In January I |