Show Tintic T Smelter Hopeless failure According to numerous eastern eastorn pa papers papers pers llers tho Knight smelter at Silver City Oit has been tho subject recently of one or more expert examinations by 11 prominent mining ind aud smelting swelling Inter Interests interests interests ests of the cast casl Just who these in interests Interests were is not stated but the cast almost names thorn thom or might as ts well have havo done so It Is hardly hard 1 likely that tho the Knight interests will seek seok to re resume resume resume sume smelting operations so about the only hope left of oC Tintic getting gelling an active smelter smeller again Is for sonic some smelting Interests to pick JIlek up the I plant I The New York Mining MIlling Ago quotes I an eastern engineer who says that owing to the control over the tho railroads held by the thc smelting trust trustS the Tintic plant Is hopeless for tor railroad roll road rates at present are arc ruinous He lie says sas the tho plant apparently is a good one on well and can give ghe good service but until conditions change chanso there th re Is little hope of or a resumption of ot opera operations operations or on that large outside interests will purchase the tho plant So far there I has boon buen little need for the tho smelting companies already well established In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Utah Held to purchase the Tintic plant One often hears though not as fre as In the past that the local mining field Hold requires greater compel competitive tive the smelting facilities and that large arJe private capital could find flail no better bellel application than by installing a plant whore no favors are aro asked or given The complaint Is made that majority of the smelters own their own mines caring little nowadays whether the iho I small producer I mines his ore or not Tho Knights hla certainly began their the l plant under Ideal auspices and nearly every one was certain ertain cert n that the day da of or the thc small producer hail arrived but hut If the tile east cast Is correct the tIme ouo one small Roam Item of rates rateR silenced time the enter enterprise prise A person lamenting Tie tun scarcity of smelters take a n walk through tho the smelter smeller graveyard and road the thc sad epitaphs on the gravestones A writer in time tile Metallurgical Engineer has luas strolled through this doleful acre inspecting plants down and ant down and aUlI out omit Twenty per cent or 01 eleven smelters failed because they were wore defectively constructed or Im lam Improperly properly designed d Six wore com corn completed to find that there thero was wan no ore oro oreto oroto oreto to smelt Two failed because the ores omes were unsuited to the plants live Five were outgrown were dismantled Diminished prices of the tho metals re reo retired retired tired Ur d seven to oblivion Prohibitory railroad rates rat s cut the throats of three and three were driven out of existence because of or fume troubles Four died of f a complication of or diseases such us the tho lack of money or 01 the tho superabundance dance of competition comp tillon This thing tIming of or building smelters in indiscriminately 13 19 certainly a no very err poor pOOl joke |