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Show DEATH OF GUGGENHEIM. From Southampton. Fnpl.ud. com' 0 word that Isaac Guggenheim, one or the principal stockholders of the American Smelting & Refining Co., is ; dead. The Ooggenhelms were textile Importers Im-porters until 18S1 when they engaged iu emelting in Colorado. Later they obtained faluable mining min-ing properties In forty years they have become the most powerful operators oper-ators In the mining industry' of The-west. The-west. They early learned to oxact a heavy tribute from the miner and, prior to the time when rtbahn? was prohibited, they enjoyed privileges in transportation not possessed by any other company in the west. An Ogdenite, who was In the smelting smelt-ing business thirty years ago, tells oi having been granted special rates. In i he form of rebates, which reduced -he published tariff from an ;.v r.-.v of $12 to $10. and he was congratulating congratu-lating himself until he discovered the Ciuggenheims who wero his competitors, competi-tors, had a rate of ?6 a ton. In the old days many a concern wus built up on railroad rebatoe I !' X no |