Show SMELTER FUMES I 1 the smelters shelters sm elters of anaconda montana are to bo be closed it if the fumes are not this Is the decision of president roosevelt when a similar protest was made against the smelters shelters sm elters of salt lake valley there were those who charged that the hierarch of utan was responsible tor for an unjustifiable act how the monster the hierarch over escaped to montana there to affect the smelter people with its presence is yet to be explained it all goes ts td prove that the complaints of the people of utah and the things to ro which they object are the complaints complain ty and objections object lo ns of other people similarly situated it if the bumes fumes of the washoe smelters shelters sm elters are destroying the forests of montana at tile the headwaters of the streams which supply the farmers with irrigating water in the summer time then ane owners of the smelters shelters sm elters should be forced to control the fumes by tho the use of gas bag houses or other appliances ances whish which have been successfully employed elsewhere the salt lake smelter men declared tho the order of judge marshall had ruined their business but when the judg remained lema ined firm and the higher courts sustained him the owners of the amel sot set about to find a method whereby to eliminate the obnoxious outpourings of their tall chim chimneys neis the facts are that thai until they were driven to do something to improve conditions the smelters shelters sm elters had made no move in the direction I 1 of controlling the fumes hue but w ii a little research they have discovered I 1 c that by small outlay the destruct destructive lye chemicals in III the smoke from tho the roasting or smelt ing ores can bo be trapped and converted into a profitable byproduct by product no one would other than regret zo witness the closing of the smelt shelters smelters sm elters ers which reduce the ores of the amala amalgamated it I 1 property of butte the distress which would follow and the loss in pro property porty values would bo be unnerving to those involved but there Is no immediate or prospective danger of such a disastrous close down it the owner owneta 11 of the smelters shelters sm elters accept the warning in the spirit in which it is given tha shelters smelters sm sni elters must be improved 8 BO 0 a as s not to bo be a menace to life and destructive of vegetation when the roasting of the heavy ores of butte was tolerated in the neighborhood of that city butto butte remained under tinder a cloud of poison poisonous ou fumes during nine months of the year and thousands of victims were claimed by the poisonous gases tha th dea deaths were charged to Ineil pneumonia but the predisposing pre disposing of tho the victims disorders was traceable to the deadly fumes fumea lives are not figured aa is worthy of consideration by big mining corporations until damage suits are brought and so BO it was vas in butte and so BO it is in anaconda the owners of of tile the smelters shelters sm elters must bo be mads made to ti understand that certain billt les attack to their industry among which are the safeguarding oe thoo tho lives of those living in the neighborhood and the preservation of natural resources such as forests |