Show hElS hEl'S COLORADO ORES M fUR MURRAY PUNT PLANT Smelter Trusts Trust's High Rates V Force It to Extreme I- I Measure I- I 1 The Am American Smelting and Refining V V company this newspaper r is credibly In Informed inV In in- V formed formell has bas been forced to resort to V i shipping silver lead lead r-lead ores from Colorado to l keep Its Murray plant running This Is due Juu to the closing down of so many r Utah Idaho and Nevada e mines partly on fl account of the low prices of ot metals and partly on account of ot the Impossible V terms which tho the smelting trust has hns attempted at at- V tempted to exact from producers where V now new contracts were required In other words WONS the smelter trust by reason of or Its own prompted greed acts r la is against a very hard proposition in tho the V matter of getting ores And it is a mattor mat- mat mattor v tor tel for fOl congratulation that It Is being forced down from Its high horse It is 1 soliciting business upon less ruinous terms than it demanded a month or two V ago ayo In some cases where it then dc- dc doV der mantled nothing less than a years five r V I. I V contract with treatment charges of 17 V. V and 18 a n. ton It is now eliminating the time feature altogether and cutting tho time charges to 8 S 8 and 9 9 a 0 ton Even en these V V rates are aro hI higher her than those formerly in vogue but It ft is an Indication that the V smelters need ores and ond that tho the pro producer uc- uc er ors have ha u a show of getting a m measure asuro of Ju justice if I the they only will stand to to- to gether |