| Show SMOKE P I C LI fO R tH The Government Takes T a Hand land to Prevent Destruction of The Thu F I AROUND KESWICK SHASTA CO Injunction Against Mountain Copper Company Complaint Hide About Fumes from froni fron Selby Sel bJ Plant Plant The Tho smelter smeller smoke problem Is enus log trouble In California and 01 It would woul seem that the tho Utah smelting compan companies lee ies arc not tho the only ones that will wl bo ho obliged to out some remedy whereby tho the safety of ot vegetable and ami animal life may bo be preserved I According to tho Mining und and Ind Helen Scientific title tto Press Iress the United States Circuit court has Issued d an Injunction restrain restraining title ing In tIme the Mountain Copper tram train further damaging time the forests In Inthe Inthe inthe the vicinity of ot l Shasta ShAsta county Cal This Thili 1111 suit Kays cays tho the publication has boon dragging dragging along for tor several yearn crl with wih the time result that the govern gover I I ment has ha finally anally secured a C victory but It 1 Is la a ii I victory of oC questionable value rite rho ho forest about consists chiefly of or nut Iliac pi no brush und and undA A IL 1 few Cow oaks aka That tho the smelter fumes have imato Injured this title and stunted growth of ot trees tren there Is no iio doubt and nl o the contention of ot the Mountain Copper company that tho the damage was waa relatively oUght alight Is without doubt true but evidently a I principle must be up upheld held and us n it result resul the th town of or Kes KeswIck es wick with wih nil all I of or Its Is prosperity and di dl diversity of ot commercial Interests Is la doomed Tim The Mountain Copper com corn company pany mn has given employment to moro more titan than 1000 men inca nt at Up its I smelters and a I single monthly wage patti paid to these men would pay for tor nil all ni the tho timber situated within the one ono In ip any manner affected by the smelter fumes Tho Time plant at nt IH imi a n largo one on und and contains a i complete and ot extensive equipment are live IV furnaces haying having n a I combined dally daly capacity of nearly taly 2000 tons tOiS There Thero arc nie 11 1 calcin log ing hl furnaces three converters converter and a 1 large amount of ot other machinery Thousands of ot tonn tonK of at ore are have havo been In the past palt nod the time fumes from tram these the o heaps beaus as no s well wel as its S from tho tue stacks s linn has afforded numerous opportunities for tor complaint on the part of ot small lal formers who will wil now find that they lowe have lost the tho only market for tor their pro po which they have hae hail had hilI for tor years The fie works have alto afforded a n for tor the tIme siliceous ores oien at of tho timo district but with tho the closing down of ot the tie works which will wl probably fol tol follow tollow follow low tIlts this recent cour decision Shasta county count will I have lost n a I most Import Important ant alit factor In Its iA commercial life le Within n a I few tow days it has been heen re ic reported reported ported that money has bias 11 been subscribed with wih which to lo carry carn on o litigation against the Helby Lead Lall Smelting Co whose whoso works are Ire nt hit Vallejo Valejo Junction In Contra Contra Costa COlIn county Cal The rime prin principal cipal complainants ore ate said to be time the residents of or tho the vicinity of at Beaten In Solano county on the opposite side elite of at the Straits ot of amid nix nl miles mies distant In an nfl ni easterly direction Tho The ThoI Selby Belby works have been In operation o I there thero for tor many yearn and It I would seem that thai the discovery has bias juat junt been made that the tho fumes rUmes times from the tho stacks are nr Injurious Time The only method as S 5 yet yot pointed 1 out by hy which the tho various smelting companies of ot the time west may mayi i hope to continuo continue business Is la that they thoy may engage in the making of lt sulphuric i acid ns as n a n of or their thel smelting operations This Thin Is entirely practicable ble bie hut but It I Involves InvolveR a n large IMle outlay of ot capital for foe plant and Ind considerable ex cx expense I pence pense thereafter In carrying on Oi the add acid ac making But Hut after atter having made 11 do this great grent quantity of ot acid there wilt will wi bo be no 10 market tar tor or It I which can cal be bl b reached by bytho byI tho tIme manufacturers whore where the tho product t I would bring a n price which would oven pay In for tor tho the cost of ot It I has bait Ken been on suggested that the tho acid could coull bo be employed In h thin tho leaching of ot partial partially ly lIP roasted ore thus tItus saving th the ex etc expense pence pense of at smelting U it I Is la not A n matte for tor one ono with a n knowledge of at chemistry to work stark out scientific pro pm processes processes on paper but the business of ot mining aiming and smelting of ot copper ores ore oel la Is lanot II I not conducted for tom time the purpose of ot dem demonstrating ler scientific lel theories nor nr even oven facts foote but hUI for tor profit nod when no tie nl pro lit Ott results from tram the tho operation the pro proposition proposition proposItion position roller or usually later Inter comes conies to a 1 standstill |
