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Show IF THE SMELTERS SHOULD CLOSE. H The bullion receipts for which this city is the H clearing house are very great, and aro the present iH hope of Salt Lake City and Utah. If the present jH insistence that the furnaces in the valley shall jH either neutralize the poison in the fumes or close 9fl down is kept up, and no remedy is discovered, the SS result will be liable to be filled with disaster not .fl to the smelters, but to this city and State. For, flH in seeking a new location for the smelters, all the Sfl factors will be considered. They will have to be H erected in some place where there is plenty of fl water and still where the agriculturalists cannot H complain. It will probably be in some country flH where the stacks can connect with dust chambers jH on a hillside, where all the heavy matter in the fl fumes will settle before reaching the ohimney top. H Then the transportation question will be a dl- H rect one. Where can the smelters bo placed to H give the best rates for ores to be brought in, and H base bullion to go out? The solution is liable to H divide the works, giving one set to a mountain H side, somewhere in the desert, the other to some H point not far removed from the seashore. H BR J I li ft! i We looc UDOn tne situation as most critical, Bb -1 I f If it! 1 reasoning merely from the citizen's standpoint. immm ill With the smelters removed to a great distance Sill Ml f north or south, a good many of the mines adjacent Hfti I Iff! I Pi I to tno cty wuld have to close down, and pros- HB ' J l ! J pecting and development of prospects would prob- ! I J iff fH I aljljr cease In tllls vicinity. It is a serious matter, HR I III 1 11 nnd a11 w11 ll0p0 tliat tho Present series of experl- Hi 1 Pit iil ments to neutralize the fumes will be crowned ft) S I frill! with success. I IrIiHM! |