Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-05-14
THE ADMISSION OF MEXICAN LEAD.

Hew the Quesiiss II Considered n Col.
Orado-Free Lead Wosla Destroy
Smeliing h the Ceniessial State.
Mining Industry. Of Denyss.l
Van Wagenen will End It cheaper
to hire hall than to pay @l25 for .
pags in the Sunday Republican. Still
his employers will not kick At the ex-
pense it they Gao get few names of
men, 90 sbort.sighsed and devoid Of
State pride ~ to aign that contempt
bic document asking for free lead
from MEXICO. Esau was hungry when
he sold his birthrighs for one square
meal but no one, except his employ.
ers, thought Van hangry enough to
urge miners TO 60 back on Colorado
to help out Missouri river towns and
enable Mexican poems to buy an extra
breech clout. Mexican lead never
built up the smelling industry Of
Colorado, and there are thousands Of
mining men here who will sec to it
that Mexican lead does not destroy
the smelling industry Of this State.
Van Wsgenen has lived q long time
to learn 80 little about the mines Of
Colorado. Our people are too broad
betwee" the eyes to be caught BY
such chat a. Aug. Meyers, Charley
Limberg and VanWagenen are throw.
ing into the air. They prefer to keep
the market for their ores within the
State Of Colorado instead Of letting
it go to Kansas City and other points
East Talk will not rake resident
of Lake City believe that an influx of
cheap ore from old Mexico will stimu.
late the working OF the vast lead de.
posits Of Hinsdsle county. We once
had market outside the State and
VIC now have several Of them inside
the State aud, in the light Of past ex.
periencc, we do not care to change.
We are vastly more Interested in the
Grant Smelling works and the Globe
Sm citing works than We are in the
Kansas City Smelling works and peon
laborers. Miners all over tho State
know that it would not pay them to
take higher price for their ores from
outside smelters than our home smclt.
ers can afford to pay. They know
that our home smelters have never
combined against them, but they
don't know what the Missouri gang
might do after our home furnaces are
cold, and the railroads cease to haul
bullion from Colorado. Colorado
mines have made some few cities and
great many towns in which are con.
tented and prosperous people who de.
sire to see this State grow to grand
proportions and they are not IN the
humor 10 cake Any backward steps.
They know that . transfer of our
smelling industry to towns outsid.
the State will seriously cripple many
other business enterprises now four
ishing here. Our miners will never
forget that our home smel,ers have r..
duced charges Of their own accord
aud not through the competition OF
outsiders. They will not forget that
our smelters paid cash for lead aud
silver in large aud small quantities
when both metals were down in price
and it looked almost like bankruptcy
Tor tn. snelters t. incrs ase their large
holdings Of these metals. Our mincis
are just little suspicious OF the phi
la"tnrophy Of Myers ct al which At
this late day comes in to show them
that Missouri grapes are 60 much
sweeter than tho Colorado variety.
Myers was out here as . pion-er
smelter ut L-adviile, and it so love.
US. Why did he not stay? We have
missed his red head, but We still rec.
ognize his fine Italian hand and pre-.
fer our own foreigners, the Irish and
Cornish. What will puzzle the miners
Of the Western country most will be
to account for the motive which all Of
a sudden has hoomed Van Wsxenen
into \ mining prophet and smelling