Deseret Evening News | 1900-01-27 | Page 6 | Increased Smelter Charges

S SAr Ar Are Creating Quiton n Ulo CI CIA A gret great many complaints being male made by minIng men Just nw now owing to the Increase a e In tle the smelter charges by the American Smelter Company The has now to pay An increase ot of 2 per por ton while the Grand Central people nr are debating whether whether to pay the demand made upon them amounts to 4 II a ten Jere Jesse Knights orO ores front the r Uncle Sal Situ ho have ben been 1 a further 2 and ami It I Is that the contracts ox likely as present e litre other companies wi will have hac to to toe the mark The increase e II Is considerable hut but a as n a partial offset onet to 10 this Is the tho In CIelle price ot of lead as Iet set by the smelter It I is stated that the tho cause ot of the Increased ed charges Is found In the increased price of fuels and fluxes In usa nt at the smelter I It L i necessary for tor the company to take the amount ot of the ed cost from somewhere A great ot of smelter talk Is being indulged In b by poro some ot of the tho companies I It took a lt lit littie te tie ullIe Unwise to tn tax the lie bIg producers who have wealth enough perhaps to smelters nut But It costs 1 a great deal to build n a smelter and a grat groat deal mort more i to run rita I It successfully The AmerIcan Smelter Company knows this I Ii also that ver very little of the talt talk Indulged 11 I wi wIth result In any attempt to expend the vast um sum to equip and run I a smelter Ind IndI and I it Is therefore that the increased charges charses wi will be paid however