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Show 3 i I 1 ' During the last aix or seven weeks there have been turned out of the Murray Mur-ray smelter plant of the American Smelting and Beflniujr eompany almost $4,000,000 in gold bullion. 8uch a large record was never made in the past. Most of this gold came from the Nevada mines, and the greater part from the vicinities of Goldflfid ; and Tonopah." It represented several monthsj accumulations of small high-grade high-grade consignments, from these district 4 and also many ' carloads of just ordi-nay ordi-nay (100-a-ton ore that is characteristic characteris-tic of Goldfleld district especially." Nevada has been . sending to Salt Lake more ore during . the last three months than ever before. Until a comparative com-parative recent date, most of the Gold-field Gold-field high grades were forwarded to the Globe plant of the American Smelting and Refining company at Denver. As Goldfield properties have attained at-tained more depth, however, the character char-acter of the ores has been more favorably favor-ably handled in the Murray plant near Salt Lake. . The year has been one of the most successful that the Murray smelter has ever had. Its gross prod net for the last twelve months wilt reach approximately approxi-mately $15,000,000. There will have been paid out for supplies locally purchased pur-chased approximately upward of half a million dollars daring the year, and the wages paid to about 1000 employees will have aggregated about $750,000. |