Show RAILROADS MAY YET YETI I fiOL EN Efi 6 I Make No Effort to Offset Movement Movement Move Move- ment for Mills in Nevada FORCED TO TREAT OWN OR ORE Even Mines Producing lOi Rock Hesitate to Give up 50 Per Cent In Iii tho the face tace of oC rapid rad strides toward towar honi home treatment the time Nevada r railways railway arc are making no Ill special efforts to offset offer the movement by lJ- giving lower freight rates rate to smelting points says sas the Herald So tar far as the smelters ar are concern concerned ell they have hav plenty lent of ore from fromi oth other r sources but tho time Nevada eva railroads railroad s must dej end upon Nevada a tonnage to for Cor business Operators all over the state having ha free Cree milling ores are I mills mihi ju Just t as ts fast as 39 possible but o of course coun c there are many properties which for one reason or 01 another will not b be I I given gl time the bene benefit lit of or home treatment for some time to come Ot Other ler properties producing a 3 strictly smelting product nil depend upon the smelters for treatment Time tree U-cu milling propositions will will be bt solved even eventually b by the erection ot of ho- ho c cal cai 1 plants by reason of at which the tho railroads railroads rail rail- roads will lose an enormous tonnage The rho smelting propositions moro cs es I r the me medium lum grade e will wili remain nt It the time mercy of outside Ju smelters until such much time as Nevada builds Its own plants Until such time there must be IC some encouragement given 1 or man many of or the me grade rade properties will rc rc- rin practically l Idle Jle t hlll il 0 Ore Ure An Illustration Is given In the Gold Top lip property at nt Lee lAe which property can an produce ore In quantities sufficient suf suC- to make It a paying proposition but mut by ren reason on of having to pay out 00 GO GOper 0 per or cent of or the assay value for or milling freight an and smelter charges the time owners own own- ers rs of or the property prefer to wait walt until untila a 1 more moe ut vor ble time line t to marI market et their t ores res Il In the mean meantime time the railroad which this would necessarily over ver ore be C shipped sadly Is-sadly in need of or business and J the nearest smelter Is not refusing tonnage at this time Properties that are arc re situated directly on a u. line of ot raila railway rail rall- w way a In any of or tile the camps along the Ne Xe- c. c California vada-California border may mine and ship mip medium grado grade ores orca at nl a profit but properties situated at a 0 distance Iron from the me railroad where operating expenses antI and mci ov overland freight charges are arc high are urt e placed at ot a great ireat disadvantage It seems that In view of or ti tho rapidity with ith which operators are arc turninG to homo treatment und null the thc fact that jno- jno m up tl smelting f nr 5 l lt tt to pl cB ID oJO ent n t the tha railroads oa s would hold hohl holdout holdt out t every possible Inducement The rho melting charges are arc also too high elthor thor ut at Salt Lake Lalee or at Needles The rime slogan to treat Nevada ores in N ln oada o. o is gaining g ground e eer cry day N Nevada evada t needs a a. large In Independent smelter and Nevada v a camps need large mills tile for tor the tho free milling n-milling ores |