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Show ST. PAUL PLANI AND ' SMELTERS Salt 1'ikr-, Sept. 10. Utah smelting circles were Ory much interested in the following plank adopted on Thursday at St. Paul by the conservation conserva-tion congress: "We urge Immediate investigation by the federal government of the damage done by smelting of copper ores and the feasibility of so Improving Improv-ing methods so as to utilize the injurious injuri-ous by-products In connection with phosphatic fertilizers." Several prominent smelting engineers engi-neers of Salt Lake have rather pronounced pro-nounced ideas In regard to this phase of the Industry, and S"me emphasized anew that it is to a large extent the environment of a smelting plant that determines the utility or usefulness of the by-products of the works. One engineer said yesterday: 'The conditions In this part of the country now are such as to render the utilization of copper smelting fumes as recommended in the paragraph para-graph adopted at St. Paul commercially commer-cially Impracticable, nor Is there any other knwn method of procedure at this time Tho government can aid ery materially in bringing about a solution of the problem by rendering pane assistance. "The withdrawal from entry of the great phosphate lands of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming are not conducive to the completion of any commercial scheme of making phosphatic fertilizers. fer-tilizers. The market for these fertilizers fer-tilizers Is largely in the eastern part of this country and In foreign countries, coun-tries, whre larce tonnages are niaiin-fact'ired, niaiin-fact'ired, with which the Intcrniouu-tnln Intcrniouu-tnln country cannot compete As a rule n lnterm-un!aln farmer real.z.' s the necessity of this material, for the western demand Is in significant. "I believe that mre consistent efforts ef-forts on the part of the government to help the agriculturist to a better knowledge of plant life and plant dM-east-g would do as much, if not more, than any equal effort to control the semlter gases. By public agitation the farmer has been led to believe that all bis troubles are due t copper cop-per smelting, which. In manv cases, continue to exist nfter the removal from the community JJ f the noxious gases," y |