Show UTAH AND MONTANA A conference visitor from anaconda montana favored the NEWS with an interesting chat regarding the general situation in his bis neighborhood some points being imparted that are quite interesting very few people of montana and we suspect that not all of thise within its borders have full comp compre henson ot of the immensity of the copper demelt r at anaconda not lung long ago some 2000 men were employed in and around arjuna the works but the number hate hap through the pressure of circumstances been somewhat curtailed just think of what an army that is to be engaged in one department of an enter enterprise enterprises trains bearing ore irom from the mines arrive every hour of the day and night bight each train consisting of twenty flat to thirty oars cars all loaded to their utmost capacity it is 19 the most colossal institution of the kind 11 in the world and the mines from which it obtains the material to work on are greatly shea abeal I 1 of the calumet and heels ot of michigan in point of pro the amount of coal and wood consumed in smelting smelling sm elting amount in cost every day to a small fortune the ore to is reduced to the condition of matte and then sent to swansea walea wale for refining and segregation there being a varying percentage of gold mud and silver in all of it now when salt lakes lake Is refinery to ig in full blast as we expect it to be before many moons shall wane will we then be able to do all that is now done at swansea and if not why not and if so are we going to corrals corral the b business of the anaconda people these are weighty quest questions ional and we trust the answers to them will be found satisfactory in every respect it is a 8 great thing to have a half million opper copper plant within the corporate limits of this city provided said plant in every detail shall be a thing of utility and profit As a matter of ornament alone the money might better be spent in other ways it if jg is just juat as well to be understanding before the first furnace is fired and the first wheel turned in the works where the material to justify keep i ng the flames crackling and the machinery in motion is to come arora perhaps anaconda cannot handle all the crude ore taken from the mines ij in that vicinity and it if not we ought to get the residue here as well as its copper matte for refining separating and working up but this seems 19 arit ru 1 1 at the best beat like a rather slender reliance a u ce for so huge and capacious an affair as our copper plant promises to be and jr in order to realize to the fullest extent all that it is capable of producing for us a much greater supply of raw material than is at present visible will have to be procured this would seem to be bean an opportunity that utah miners and raining mining men ought to take immediate advantage of if there is enough copper reposing in our hill hills to keep all the works of the kind spoken of in the world in operation for a long time if only it could be extricated from the rigid grasp of mother earth and dragged forth into the light of today there is every reason to believe that the southwestern portion of the territory alone could do IL if there is a district in beaver county embracing several square miles allies in which it would be difficult to burrow anywhere without striking copper ore of more or less value the average Is however low grade and for this reason more than any other it has not been profitable to mine aud and ship it IL but this should be overcome when w we have reduction works right here in our certainly if the ores should average a given percentage in order to justify the exploitation of thern them bows now they ought to yield a profit then at one half of such percentage while the vastness of the deposits and the apparent depths to which they extend thena them practically inexhaustible in addition to this thip the st bt george company which has previously been spoken of in these columns is in possession of ledges whose richness in places is well nigh fabulous the ore running as high in copper as it can and contain as well a goodly margin of the precious metals meta ie all these should now lie he worked to toe utmost extent and the product allowed to accumulate against the day when the ponderous jaws of our ar smelter nelter shall be opened and am the fiery maw of the monster in readiness for its flinty food there la Is no enmity between utah and M utan n r is it likel likely v that moere ever will be there is not even so tar rivalry and need not be even when we begin the work of copper manufacture we may have to draw upon our neighbor for ome otome of the materials needed to keep our home institution in tuil fud operation but with a long lone pull a strong pull and a pull altogether by our mining operators the amount so drawn will be reduced to the minimum if not eventually extinguished altogether |