Show MINES AND MINING EDITED BY F. F W. W SPRAGUE POOR PROSPECT FOR UTAH CON SMELTER Directors Authorize Ten Years Years' Contract Is Word From East r HOPE FOR CLARK PLANT lf Jr Little Doubt That Salt Lake Route I Interests Will Build r t A Boston News bureau dispatch voA vo- vo t A calved yesterday esterday over tho the private wire or of James A A. A Pollock Co said t V it Directors of ot the Utah Consolidated Mining company at a meeting held hold Wednesday authorized tho tito maI making lnE o of for tor treatment a ten years years' contract of at Its Us By Dy the terms of or this now contract tip tho company will save savo of or treat a year over the expenses meet ment under tho the existing contract contract- Tho local offices of the company had received no advices ad of ot the authorizing of at an any contract While hilo the dispatch does not say a with whom the new contract contract con con- tract Is to be mado it Is presumed to tobe tobo tobo bo be with tho the American Smelting Refining Re Ho- fining company compan for tor that Is tho anI only company that would T be at all likely I Ito Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- ConI I to bo ho able to handle tho the Utah h company's ores In the event e that tho the contract Is made mado It of ot courso course means tho the abandonment of ot tho Utah Consolidated company's own on smelter project which will bo be a t matter of re regret 10 gret for several Utah interests Clark Smelter Assured The loss to tho the mining Industry will willS not flOt be bo great however for the reason S that another Independent smelter I is 15 pretty well assured There Thero is hardly that tho K a doubt Insiders rs say y Kearns Keith crowd will build a to ter The Tho project IH Iii rendered the moro more feasible flom reIn the fact th that t both Clark and Kearns aro are heavily lly Interested Inthe Inthe In Inthe the Salt Lake route as well itS nS In big blE Tho The Salt Lake route needs theore the tho would certainly ore hauling traffic and it give Ivo tho tim independent concern an even break with tho trust The Tho smelter will wilt probably bly be built nt at t some Intermediate point like Milford Mil Mil- ford as between Park Parl City and and other othor Nevada camps This Tills would give e the S Salt lt Lake route tho the haul from rom both directions and would rould tend tl to equalize the freight rates for tho mines of ot the different sections from which 4 the now new smelter would draw dr ores It would also bo be convenient con to the coal fields That It Jt would prove an nn Important Important tant tatt business builder for tor the tho Clark road there is Js no question J |