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TRYING TO INFLUENCE THE conference A special dispatch to the cleveland 0 Plain dealer recently announced that a pennsylvania inventor has hag discovered a process for the reduction of zinc lead sulphite silver ores which abound io in such volume in colorado and other western silver producing stathel li l I and which have not hitherto b on en re reducible uville and millions of tons of which it is claimed now new lie on the dumps practically valueless the r buted discoverer of the process is ia reported as saying baying that the solution of the pro plem of how BOW to reduce d uce these theme ores will fl i 3 d the market with silver our is of the opinion that the possible mischief of the story atory way may be contained in the last quotation about deluging the land with silver because of tue effect it may have upon the brussels conference through the embarrassment of our delegates there it looks to us very much couch like it was designed for that purpose but if so BO it way may be re regarded garled as us a weak invention of the enemy I 1 there are a gord good many men in the brussels conference who are afflicted with but it Is hardly to be credited that any of them or any number of them are to so destitute of judgment as to be influenced by such wild and palpably unwarrantable stories we agree with the Plain dealer deater that it is not true that there are such vast amounts of zinc lead sulphides sulp hides tildes lying as waste at the silver mines of the west that it is in not true rue they cannot be reduced reduce and that it li is a fact that they have hare been and are being reduced overy every day in this thic part of the world the rho rod reduction is not of ef bourso a as complete and eco nowlean Is ai could be desired deil red and a plan whereby there would bo be a greater saving li is a i consummation devoutly to be wished bisho d but yet the point to made ado that even it if the philadelphia man can do as ai he claims claim and his hi invention were to be successfully applied throughout the sou country it would not jadd add more than live per cent to the product of silver ilver if it would even come anywhere near that iacre increate in utah and its it surroundings weare we are more thoroughly interested in silver then than people elsewhere aressa are a olam class we cannot be made to see aee that thai the tent depreciation of the article i to through overproduction over production but hold it to te be became of the dishonest lori and unjust treatment to which silver ilver has bai been subjected of late years yean it is ia a source of great profit to speculators for gold to constitute the single standard of ef values and silver to be a subsidiary medium these men unfortunately control control the situation at the present time and it may be taken for granted that any kind kiad of misrepresentation rumor or canard that may have a tendency to te keep things as ai they are will be forthcoming till the danger of equalization and justice in passed it was wa in order that such dangers danger might be precipitated and that we of the west looked forward hop hopefully fully to the assembling and working of the brussels conference and we have not abandoned all hope yet |
