The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1883-06-23
SUGGESTIONS TO SHELTERS AND
ORE SELLERS.

the great Flagstaff mine, near Salt
Lake City, and now owner Of some
valuable mines near the same city,
furnished the following facts:
He has sold ore that runs but six
ounces Of silver per ton and 55 per
cent. lead to Scott & Anderson,
Salt Lake City, tor one dollar per
ounce for the silver and 50 cents
per unit for each per cent Of lead
over ~ per cent; that is, 81 less 20,
equals 33 per cent, at 81 cents per
unit is 1850 for the lead; add elk
dollars for the silver and we have
twenty-five dollars and a half for
that quality oforc delivered at the
smelter.
IF the same quality OF ore was
9melted ut Green's smelters at
Kctchum the owner of the ore
could be brought in debt to that es-
tablishment ten dollars per ton.
Difference between the Salt Lake
City market and the home market
1880.
The foregoing is but part OF some
ill-proportioned 'gat' recently con-
tributod by "MiNER" to the HALEY
News. Ii the writer can find any
1attering advantages in Salt
Lake, over everybody else In these
parts, who find suitable market at
Ketchum, IL would certainly be his
privilege to accept them; but as he
doesn't, why in the name OF COM
mon sense does he want to make
such an inconsistent growl at the
Philadelphia Co., who are obliged to
pay freight rs well as he2 The
writer certainly never shipped any
Salt Lake ore to Ketchum, therefore
has no idea whatever, MS to the feas-
ibilty and profit Of workin it at this
point; and vice versa. lie contin-
ues,
Cut Off from this cheap market
rs we are by the refusal Of the y. p.
to make living rates on our ores to
Salt Lake, and swampcd out of y
part OF tho value Of our ores by the
rates thus forced upon us, is it not
higo time tho mine owners of this
/ part OF the country were moving to
got other smelters started, say ut OF
near Bullion or Haley,
ton R effs esfh lis ploasant fgnarriinae
| into cooked hat, and by invcstiga
| ton it will be found to the extent Of
$3.50 Indebtedness on each ton O
ore transported, such as he uses al
example. All this is natural from,
fur transportation, costly labor, ex
penaive living etc, we can cxpee1
nothing less. "a smelter at or near
Haley OF course that's the secret
of tho whole business. But what
would they do with one il they had
| it? Kick worse than ever, until il
was frozen out BY tho Philadelphia
| Co, and then have twin-Faull< smell
tiers. More:
"As things are run now it would
| be blessing to the Wood River
country ifthe railroad was out OF
existence, and the kotchum smell
tiers We're to $50 up; for then we
might hope for speedy building oil
competitive smelters, the revival d
| bull-team transportation to Salt
Lake City, Cheaper than U. T.
rates. and an early completion Of
the Denver 4 Rio tirande Railway
to this point
"Miner' seems ignorant of the
fact that there arc countless bull
teams in tho country that wont scare
at the railroad.
There is nothing to hinder bull
team transportation, nothing te
hinder the building of competitive
smelters, and we are about lead t
| the belief that sMISER is one o.
those cranky individuals who was
born kicking, and has never vet rur
across anything that suits him te
perfection As evidence that The
Philadelphia smeltcrs offer suitabl,