Show commercial club boosting for tintic gintic will furnish a site for the proposed independent smelter should mine aline owners decide to erect plant here resolution adopted at meeting last evening tl e tintic ammere a al club is 13 it al ak ing an effort lo 10 I 1 rii rh g the proposed prop obed in dc I 1 aud i t smelts to the I 1 lintai antic valley an I 1 on rueday rue dav night id lei I 1 james P driff 11 called a pa g of ill hf and n en of the rr in ili ing frig e for the 1 irl oe of dh dis illi the it alter after those wt who lo 10 attan ka 1 11 e it eating met later and drew up a resolution vi bah will be sei set t to the ut it mine aline owners asso lation and abl ft hi h b is published below tins this reso lull full n boue vv vvhs by the ile new plant sh sit uld be erected at this tills point and the keckter leli tel evea leves that if a new inde indel eident 1 la fait it 14 erected lie the thai chat ces of it being brought to section are very favorable fa arable ahe I 1 he resolution ia is ched in full below eureka juab county utah february 14 1908 to the utah mine owners association salt lake city utah GENTLEMEN in the selection of a site for an in dependent smelter the tintic gintic corn mercial club desires to call your at to the feasibility and many advantages of the tintic gintic valley for the location ot of such reduction foremost is the fact f let that there is no vegetation or farms in this valley to ruin or devastate with smelter fumes therefore no litigation to follow with its harassing results and probable final close down and second the tintic gintic district within ita its own limits produces sufficient ores corn bining all the necessary fluxing quail ties to run a smelter of 1500 tons daily capacity and whenever the low grade ores of the district can be handled at a profit to the producer it may safely be estimated that two or three thousand tons will be the average daily product fon on of tre tin tic mining district not only is an independent smelter warranted in vicinity by the heavy out put of local ores that could always be depended upon but when the fact that immediate railroad transportation ivr two railroads would be afforded to these r reduction works for the ores of nevada and southern utah together with ida ng ham parl city and other camps it is easily seen that the output named may be run up to tons per day it will also ano furnish the outlet for all the ores of the greal great deep creek region and that district it must be remembered is capable of a wonder ful production as soon as the trana por tation facilities shall be furnished it speaking of fluxes where in utah or elsewhere for that matter matter is there another district like tintic gintic all varieties of ores are here lime stone the iron oxides iron sulphides sulp hides lead sulphides sulp hides and the highly ih cious ores each variety vanet ill tit enormous quan titles to make the complete sm iter lter charge regardless of importations from other mining camps we have no hesitation in stating that in this respect tintic gintic surpasses any other t mining district in the state and the pecuniary advantage of this feature to the smelter industry cannot be overlooked the expense of trans por tation of coal and coke would be much more than offset by bv the special advantages of this favorable combi nation of fluxing ores besides th there ere is no doubt that would soon be a common point in all freight matters were the valley here to be dotted with smelters and made what nature evidently intended it to be the great est natural smelting site in the state of utah a fit companion y corthe to the greatest mining camp in utah in this connection we call attention to and command the foresight and good business judgement jud gement of uncle j jesse knight one of the foremost mining operators of the state who 14 now building an up to date smelter in iral the tintic gintic valley for the reduction ot oi ores from his own oven names mines in this dis brict and uch other custom oies otes as its capacity may accommodate bu but I 1 we are firmly of the opinion that one smelter will play only a small part in the reduction of the vast volumes of ores which may readily and cheaply be transported to the tintic gintic valley we therefore pi pl dge the tintic gintic commercial club to secure a suitable site in tintic gintic valley tor for the location of an aa independent smelter and will present the same to your association should you see fit to investigate the merits of this proposition and bring your smelter where it will be to the economic advantage of all concerned JAS JASP P driseoll 11 II F GEAR L 0 DOTY EDW PIKE F P E HIGSON D D HANKS C 0 GRIGGS C E huish SAMUEL MCINTYRE JE JR COMMITTEE |