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Show GOOD NEWS FOR ORE PRODUCERS International Company Is In Market for Ores Produced In State. Salt Ixko. Sept 16. Any doubt existing ex-isting In local minds as regards what part the International Smelting & ReQnlng company Is to play In th competitive, nmelting fields In and ad Jncent to the state of Utah is postlve-ly postlve-ly dispelled by the statements made on Thursday by K. P. Mathewson, general gen-eral ;nanager of the company. Mr. Mathewson has been la the city since Monday, leaving yesterday for Butte, having bKn In conference with John D. Ryan, president of the Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed Copper and th International SmeltlDg company in this city. "We are making a thorough Inves-tleatlon Inves-tleatlon of the or situation in this section, and we will fit the-smelter to handle any business that is Justified." Justi-fied." said Mr, Mathewson, when asked ask-ed If there had been any important alterations determined on in the affairs af-fairs of the International during the recent conference. When asked If his statement meant that the company would add lead stacks to the Tooele, plant in case there was a sufficient amount of such business obtainable, he asserted positively that such was exactly the ease. "At the present time there are two ore purchasers bard at work for the International company," continued Mr. Mathewson. "Mr. Whitehill will re-main re-main In the Salt Lake offices, while i Seott Woodward, a well known Salt Iake boy, will have charge of the field Work In the ore purchasing department. de-partment. Mr Woodward is well-known well-known here in Salt Lake, and for tho past seven years he has been holding hold-ing a simiJur position .with us at I Butte. "Everything at the International plant Is running smoothly. It Is ex-j ex-j ceptional. to sav the least, to have a smelter begin Us work and continue with such a minimum of trouble as we have experienced In Tooele." This assurance from Mr. Mathew-son Mathew-son will prove highly gratifying to the Utah producers of ore. Local circles cir-cles have forgotten the same assurances assur-ances given them over a year ago bv Mr. Ryan himself. Hotter smelting competition In Utah Is needed. Should the International company Install a lend reduction works at Tooele tho Park City. Tlntlc, lllngharn. neaver county and many other sections of this state, along with many camps of Idaho. Nevada and western Colorado will hnd a wider market for their ores, and complaints over excessive charges should be reduced to such an extent that Utah will have Its pres-.' pres-.' tlge restored as the createvt corupt-tl-1 live nmeltlng center of the hemls-, hemls-, phere. |