Show UTAH SMELTERS AR ARE HUSTLING FOR FORIt ORS ORES It has bas been a number o of years ears sin since c cp f p the smelters melten of ot Utah wore oro so badI badly in known ore OO need neeti of Or ore saul said a n well purchaser this morning dir directly direct ct- ct This of course applies more ly y to the lead furnaces as the Garfield copper plant pant and tho Yampa smelter arc ure ro amply provided with oro ore bearing rock and concentrates Tho The lead furnaces fur fur- naces at both tho United States anti and Murray plants are aro not all running and anti the future futuro looks nono none too bright for lor V these furnaces to bo ho operating at full capacity for the first half of tho ho year carI car cap Even I Ev n though the iho price of silver sliver and andl l lead ad has been much lower than titan usual the big mines of ot Utah can mako make a handsome hand hand- some ome om profit out of tho product rho The smelters aro so 60 anxious ous to get Jet a lar larger er tonnage of this character of ore oro that they aro offering better inducements to lo shippers than at nt an any timo that that I bavo have known in all my years rears of experience Inthe in inthe the field in Utah of or br large e u In In one ono instance I know a a. offered a arc re reduction reduction re- re l producer cr that has been beon of 2 a n ton for tho the treatment of ot its ores and nd I have been told that another bid has been made whereby it will make a difference to tu this minin mining company of from 6 G to 7 a ton on an output of tons of ore orl daily A saving sav 5 Lag ing of to a da day to ono one mine certainly means a n. great t re deal to tho the thoV thomine V mine producers and should bo the means moans of furthering tho interest in in mining min min mm- in ing throughout hout the westI westI west I ell do not think that tho the smelters are taking less profits for tho treatment of ores ues In fact I know that our company has refused reused to compete for contracts on which our metallurgists could eOl not figure fig fig- ure nrc at le least t 1 a ton in profit to the Company Some Somo mine owners I understand understand under under- stand are complaining that the they can cannot cannot not make as ns favorable contracts as they have havo bad had in tho the past but this is duo to tho fact that at least one of the old smelters melters down tho the valley made mado contracts with ore oro producers on which thero there was no lIO money to be made The liThe Bingham Bin ham Consolidated smelter f I r lam am told lost over or a quarter of a 3 million mil mu- lion Iton dollars donars in in the tho last year it was operated This I think was due to thelow the thelow low Jow rates it made mad shippers shippen and not to the management of its plant as ns has haslen len been n reported Mana Manager er Charles was wa a competent smelter man and had a l number number num num- ber of years of experience before com coming in ing to the tho Bingham plant from Butte The tiThe situation has lias resolved itself into a condition where thero there will be some lively hustling hutlin dono done for the tho treatment treat ment of ores through throughout ut tho western mining minin camps More f smelters melters are being be be- e- e I ing built and new companies aro am forming form ing lag to enga engage o in the business This means sharp competition for business with not enough sh shippers in the market markot marketto to o I keep th tho present chain in of furnaces in in j commission ci AM |