Show U L 01 SO LVE SMELTING 62 2 ELTING THUS x department CF OF JUSTICE PRE PARING PAPERS FOR ACTION AGAINST ALLEGED COMBINE action Is Ile by official officials as ol 01 great Import importance alice ranking next to standard oil and steel truit trust ciele t washington after months of 0 investigation the department of justice ians ins concluded that it ft has lynt tent grounds for suit to dissolve under the sherman anti trust act the american smelting and refining company corn the so called nolting smelting Bi trust it Is not probable that suit m III bo be nied filed immediately but it Is understood that the preparations have hao gone so far that a bill in equity la Is being drawn by department at attorneys tornes against the smelting trust trusts ie Is regarded hero here as of great importance ranked only by the dOll and iho the steel corporation suits this view detains not only because the american smelting and kenning henning and thi american smelters securities company which it c have combined authorized capital of nearly but because of tue varied activities of the two concerns the parent company has a perpetual charter under the laws of now jersey and deals in bar gold and sif alf vor ver pig load lead copper and blue vitriol it owns about twelve smelters and in the corpora corporation klon manual for 1913 its bolting molting mol ting capa capacity elty Is given glen at tons per annum and its refining capacity ut at tons through the securities company ats ta smelt ng capacity la in increased by tons and its refining capacity by tons it directly operates many mines in mexico owns the capital stock of 0 tho the united states zinc company at pueblo colo the carbon coal and coke company of colorado the stock of the american smelters steamship mabli company which operates steamers ste amere between tween american and mexican porte ports and Is interested in other activities the officers of the re refining reft ining ning company include daniel gugenheim Gug president barton sewell vice president edward brush vice president NV EL morriss Merr lBS secretary and isaac duggen helm treasurer |