Show the smelter may continue operations urcle jesse knight visits tintic gintic and gives out statement regarding the tintic gintic smelter mining men think the plant will run according to published statements the tintie smelter at silver city is to be closed indefinitely jesse jese kr ight the owner of the big plant and anaw W lester langum the manager are credited with having confirmed these reports mr knight Knigh tsa sas sabat that the clintic smelter could be 01 0 aerated successfully fully if enough of the right kind of ore could be secured the n ines which have been shipping to the tintic gintic plant within the past few weeks are the iron blossom colorado beck tunnel dragon and ajax of this district and the horr silver of frisco with occasional shipments from the ibex day of pioche and a number of smaller mines both in and out of the state these mines could no doubt have supplied the necessary tonnage for the smelter but out in the successful operation of a smelter a i arieta of ore Is necessary local mining men are of the opinion that the tintic gintic smelter will not be allowed to remain idle for any great length of time as the plant represents the expenditure of an immense sum of I 1 money one of the big smelting companies could no doubt operate it at a profit handling the ore from some of the tintic gintic mines and dai ert ing enough of the nevada and bing I 1 ham bam ores in this direction to give the ne cesary variety while at ln the other day I 1 mr knight made several statements I 1 regarding the gintic smelter which put a somewhat hat diff different erent light upon the proposed shut down he said that while it ft vi as generally understood tl at the big plant is to close this matter has not been entsiel settled and that there was a possibility of the smelter continuing operations he hoped that things would be so ad adjusted that the smelter would con tin dinue to run as he r that the closing of the plant NN would be a hard blow for tintic gintic and especially the silver cit end of the district those w who ho talked with mr air knight regard ing the matter felt greatly encourage ed and are of the opinion that the tintic gintic smelter will continue opera eions mr air knight s conversation while here would seem to indicate that there Is some kind of a deal on for the sale of the plant and a num ber her of local mining men are of the opinion that this is the theory the closing of the tintic gintic smelter even if it should be necessary to close the plant will not effect the knight mines ag as the oi oie e from these mines will be shipped to the valley smelters the knight railroad and tl e tayl r lor brunton sampler would also continue operations even though the smelter closed down |