Show Y I TIE FREIGHT ON UTAH SALT High Kates Causing a Kick From the IZuttc milling Men I is sincerely tobe hoped says the I I Butte InterMountain that the Union I I Bute II IcJ1Jowl tal Pacific management will take into careful I consideration the facts and figures which I have been presented to them by the mill men of this district touching the present rate on salt That the rate of 20 per ton from Ogden is too high there can be no question Silver mining in Butte today is not what i was three or four years ago The mines are much deeper the volume of water has increased the ore has grown I base and in short the cost of extraction I and reduction has been very largely increased in-creased It is true there is an abundance of silver ore in the camp but it is mainly of a very low grade The choicest free milling bodies have all been worked out I as far as discovered The silver ore being mined here today will not average more I than thirtyfive ounces to the ton I it falls much below this it cannot be profitably profit-ably reduced When the ore is base it I requires from 12 to 15 per cent of salt to I treat it successfully The amount of salt consumed in the treatment of silver ores I is about thirty tons per day There are at present three or four mills I lying idle in this camp not from any lack of ore but because their ore supply I is of too low a grade to be profitably worked with the present rate on salt This tariff on salt has grown to be the II leading question with our silver menThe men-The appeal for relief is born of the neces sities of the case and the alternative becomes be-comes every day more apparent that a cheaper rate must be had or the music of the silver mill stamps will cease to be heard The Union Pacific management have heretofore paid careful heed to the concessions con-cessions asked by the copper producers of this district Their action in reducing the rate on copper matte and ores was a much needed measure and entitles them to the thanks of this community Now we ask them to look closely into the statements state-ments which have been and will hereafter here-after be made to them respecting this salt question believing that they will find therein ample argument for an immediate im-mediate and material reduction of the rate on salt |