Show I WY MINES tINES I I BUILD SMELTERS I Many Operators Begin toI to I Realize Necessity of Co MANY ADVANTAGES GAINED I Possibility Possibility-of of Deal With Heinze or 01 Utah Con COlli Is Suggested Why by dont time the tIe mining c companies build a a. smelter of their own I This la Is a a- question Unit that has lias buei asked frequently within the last ost fc fv days and as yc yet ct no io convincing con an w l' l lI I has been Ji Time The cloning of or the tho plants of the tho 1 I United States company tn tho Ulah Con Con- on- on hoH company compan and the time Con Consolidated oll company conwan leaves a number num b ber l' l of or largo large producers anti and a n greater greaten number n of or smaller producers in both boll Utah und and Nevada with no place to send bend their ores ore tot for treatment Time The Amer- Amer Scott hun Smelting und anti continues continue its l two operation but ul It confesses Its Inability to han handle le anything like all of oe the ores that arc le offered oven even before the thic actual closing of nl nil all time the other lit plants has hus taken en Aside from this thin operators complain I that hat not only has lias the the- smelting thug lau trust l In iii Inthe Inthe the time past taken too great greut tolls lulls roi 01 or treating treat treat- lug ing ores but It Is la now demanding longtime long hong time contracts with exactions far moro more u than luau before The lie mining as us a rule rulo are aro not nol bankrupt Most Io t o of them have o re reserves reserves re- re serves In their treasuries They must han ha smelting facilities fae to earn any alt thIng tit At nil all In him time the future To what better use could their reserves roser be dej doi de- de e- e j 1 i voted than to provide those facilities i I It would a 0 saving oven even m If It cun condl- condl i- i Uon WI C us as tho they have been under 11 eon conditions It would woul provo prove their j SHe Hc CUll Cit ll 11 Secured j The excuse hint hal no sites niton UTe are left leCt where inhere the time smelting business may bo Lo safely conducted tI wI will not stand Tho TimO Consolidated ute company has so- so a 3 sitO for or its new smelter in Tooele county count where tho the farmers ha have signed t en easements Casements of or exorbitant damages dam damn ages that are aro satisfactory to the tho com com- It might aught t bo bp possible for COl a L syndicate syn syn- of mine amino owners to make a deal with that company b IJ by which It Il would built build a 0 lar larger ol smelter Hor than originally Intended und antI take talco eUl custom tom ores for lot treatment It II ml might ht b be possible to tiC he- euro in the time saint fame neighborhood n. n site for Cor another smelter smeller enlarging the thc urea ca I of or fa farm rm lands over 01 which damages would be bo restricted Or r it might be bo possible to lo make male terms tennis with Heinze's Mine Owners' Owners Smelting comp company ny by imy which lt Its tg proposed smelter for Cur which a site hu has bus already I boon purchased would bo Ill made of ot sufficient capacity to tn treat trent time the ores now seeking contracts It IL IH is also tilsO possible that Ch he mule manic lag Ing of unfit suCh an aim arrangement would hasten haslen Jt Its lla bu building I h d I a g. g Time The country I is too large the time mInIng mining min nun ing lug Industry is s too great for a n to absolutely I con control ti-oh ti time the output of or that Industry Independence i I of a largo large hr body lody of mine operators would be the time best tiling thing fur for UI the industry indus tl try that ever 01 happened With Ith time thc In Independent In- In dependent er len t closed there mus must t toe oe 00 a peri period of If a n few fow months of heartbreaking heart heart- bi caking breaking Inactivity while now smelters smelt el ers ore are hei being 1 built but the thc situation cannot be bc Improved pd by br those who arc left lea out sitting Idly down to bemoan their fate Calc J It t Is la not nol f enough to lu say m that thal tho the railroads railroads rail rall- roads favor the thc trust in lii the matt matter or 1 of rates nitea We c have ha laws in this country prohibiting that veT ver very tiling thing and if 11 the mine owners will HI get together and ami act net they co can enforce the laws Enforced operation co to provide pro their own 01 smelting smelling facilities will ivill also ulso force them to lo n fight h 1 for tor th their el r rl rights h ts in this regard The rule that what Is everybody's IJo ys y's business bustness bust busi ness Is nobody's M business s. s is islo isto isto to lo u u. great extent what has given sl time the smelter trust its power and amid shut out In Independent smelters smeller Nine Mine managers anxious o to make showings a as shippers have ell terms that thc they them them- elf denominated robbery when whon If Ir all allI I I who lio felt imposed upon ha hind had hindI hadi i banded together to tu protect th their lr rights i conditions would woul have be he n different Isn't It time tinie for mine operators to gut get el down to real roal business s on un the smelting smelt smell III ing proposition hard times are arc inevitable in ill iii- iii evitable C for luJ many litany of them for a few months to comp come Wouldn't It bo be wise even to extend the time period of Inactivity a 0 few months longer Junger than mi might ht other ollier- WitH ulso vIs be Le necessary sary In hit order to start is I again aln upon a ba basis 11 Is that would I bring lasting prosperity tho time dull un period is the beet time line to prepare for 01 tim tho that thal must li follow Delivery of or material and ami all other supplies within reasonable m time will now be 10 possible Labor can cami be beze- beze se 10 curo cured Tho Thu IJu building of or a halt half dozen now hess smelters in lit the region ll to Salt Lake alee would woul not nol moro facilities lIef than Luau will be needed than needed than ell than arc aro needed In iii fact fact amid and the starting of or such Kuch activities would lc result In the thc hard 1 times limes being almost unnoticed In Iii tile Iho meantime concessions nH should b IJu be grunted r permitting tho the Utah Consolidated Con Con- J company compon to operate Us its smelt smelt- ur or throughout the winter mouths months an and time the United t Sll States K company to run rumi It Its lead furnaces at least a year ear If IC Jt Jl can make Its Ils charges average l less thin 1 10 per vent cun sulphur sulphur and and time the mining sit sIt sIt- I nation 1 will ill not bo be so o bad ba |