Show LIVE AND LET LIVE I It Is a matter of surprise that owners of productive smelting ore mines with a I steady and reliable outcome of ore do I not more generally build one or more furnaces and smelt their own oro A I good milling ore mine usually has a mill I connected with It With but few ore buyers in a given market the silverlead ore producers aro likely to be at tho mercy of purchasers The great Telegraph Tele-graph and Horn Silver mines it is true expended largo sums in the erection of f smelting furnaces which now that their OM supplies are cut off by tho caving and nonworking of these two groat mines He idle One would suppose sup-pose that u portion of these furnaces could until tho mines of their owners were reopened bo leased to good advantage ad-vantage to one or more of tho smaller producing mines Heretofore with rare exceptions the mass of smaller orepro ducers have Insisted that they have been largely at the mercy of the few buyers Colorado competition for a time it WIIH understood broke tho monopoly in this market An agreed division of terri tory in which competing parties were to have exclusive control it was said soon put a stop to competition Custom mills and smelters If they are content with reasonable profits under good management manage-ment are a convenience and n necessity to tho small and casual producers in a mining community So they dont kill the irooso which las for them golden eggs they and the goose aro mutually helpful and necessary to each other Tho mine owners can bettor afford to pile their oro on tho dumps where It becomes be-comes by exposure easier to handle than time smelter owner can afford to put out his fires and let machinery and appliances appli-ances go to rust and ruin It is reported that a project is on foot in this city by which some of our mine owners will run and stock a smelter on their own account |