Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-12-16
FAIRLY LAUNCHED.
The Smelling Committee Settles
Down to Business.
Enthusiastic Meeting Last Night at
MOOre-s Theatre Nearly 5000 shares
Taken Oh the Spot-The City
to be Canvassed To-day.

The meeting last night of the citizens IN
| terested in the erection of smelling works wal
quite a large one. Gen. Edwards was called
to the chair as President and w. II. Corbett
Secretary. The General briefly outlined the
purposes of the pro ect and showed how re-
duction works were in full blast all about us,
| while Nevada, having the greatest amount OF
| rebellious ore of any State in the Union was
neglectins the matter. The reduction of re:
bellious ore was not an experiment but a
settled fact and in localities where it had
been put in use it was the commercial life of
those localities.
G. W. BRYANT.
then took the floor and returned thanks to
the press for its ssistance to the project. He
stated that the committee had worked ardu-
ously on the matter and d sub committee had
visited Virginia City. They had come in con-
tact with numerous mine owners whe were
anxious to see thu scheme in practical opera
ton. There was no longer any doubt about
the ore. There was enough ore now ready to
keep five smelling furnaces in full blast If
they could be made successful in portions of
Utah and California where wood was SO a
cord and charcoal 50 cents a bushel, it ought
coal Is and 20 cents. The speaker believed
that the people of Carson should take hold of
the project and control the stock. He had
already put his name down on the books for
l 600 shares. The works would directly and
indirectly give employment to one thousand
men and circulate $50, 900 month in the city.
Every business man he had seen agreed to take
stock and the V. Il T. r. r. had agreed to
give special rates for the shipment Of ores.
The speaker then outlined the processes by |!
which the ore could be worked and furnished |
some facts regarding the cost. He also out |
lined the plan on which the works were to be |
managed. The stockholders would elect their |
own officers and trustees. Thirty thousand |
dollars would insure the building of the |
works. He was willing to give half his in
.erests in the city to see the works grow up. |
He had boys growing up and he wanted to
give the growing generation chance in the
oattle OF life, as he had when he was a boy.
The speakers remarks wore received with
cheers.
W. H. COREETT
lext took the floor, and told how the ques-
ion began to be agitated three years ago
among few, and but for certain events the
works would have already been an established
act He had talked good deal with Jones,
he metalurgist, who had had long experience
n the business, and Mr. Jones held that there
vas no such thing as rebellioHs ore; under the
proper treatment all ore could be worked and
he speaker believed that fortunes were
numbering all about the State in the hills
nd thousands of lodges were owned by poor
men, The industry began in tab with a
apacity Of five tons per day and now
as advanced to FIVE hundred tons per day
t was high time that Nevada ceased
D lean upon the Comstock. Things
'ere looking dark and it behooved the people
0 seek light in other quarters, BY concen-
ration the seven dollar rock On the Comstock
ow lying on the waste dumps could be made
pay largely The speaker sho%ed bar of
ullion worth s. so taken from twenty-five
sunds of ere from the mountains behind
arson, and there was a ten-foot ledge where ,
le ore was taken from. The speaker would
Ike stock in the enterprise if he had to
ortgage half he had and if the works were
Of put up the future of Carson would not be :
orth cent
STOCK COMPANY.
Mr. Bryant then outlined the plan of r
orming the Company. The idea was to have i
committee canvass the town and get SUBJ '
ribers to the stock. The subscribers would
e required to pay but 20 per cent, and
ould net be asked to pay for the next
renty per cent. installment in less than
xty days
Messrs Olcovich and Harris, of the origi-
Il committee, reported that they had met .
it'll great encouragement, and that on al! +
des there was disposition to stand in.
Jacob Trobriner subscribed on the spot,
I'd Messrs. Harris and Olcovich pledged the
Getting that their firms would take stock ;,
hen the time came. Mr.. Bryant said that s
ub Parker had pledged himself to take
600 shares of the stock.
1t was finally decided that the committee
ould canvass the town to-day, and get as O
any subscribers in Carson as possible be- .
re going elsewhere, and endeavor to raise .,
a ranuircd amount in Ormsbv county, -