Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-20
The SMELLING WORKS.

The council mas done rlgnt IN passing
over the mayors veto the ordinance by
which the smelling works are permitted
to use water from the river. We are
constantly clamoring for the establish
ment in this city of manufactures.
EVERYBODY admits that Los Angeles is
badly handicapped in her race for su-
premacy unless che draws to herself
wide line of factories that will give re-
muneratiye employment to large bodies
of men. 1t is not denied that we labor
under certain kinds of disadvantages ia
establishing factories. We lack cheap
fuel that would enable us to compete
with eastern manufactures in the great
majority of industries that would
leave us independent of those manutac-
tories. But there are some industries
we can encourage in which we have ad-
vantages that would more than make up
for the difference in the cost OF fuel.
One of these is the reduction of orea.
The mines are within easy reach OF us,
and the difference in the cost of haul
age would more than make up for the
advantage in the cost of fuel enjoyed
by our tar.away competitors. 1t be-
comes, therefore, not merely policy OF
the present to encourage all sorts
of metallurgical works to estab.
lish themselves within easy dis
tance of the territory which fur
nishes the "raw' material, but
it has more far-reaching effect. 1t
builds up in the locality natural to
their products industries that must in
time become of the first Importance to
the development of the vast and varied
mineral resources with which our eec-
ton OF the union is blessed, and it en-
ables Our genius of invention to expand
so as to produce the best results from
the advantages we possess within our
selves.
We all remember that score of years
ago our carefully culled ores were
shipped to Swansea and Friburg for
treatment. Only the best ores would
bear transportation to those places.
We now very rarely hear that any ores
are sent out of the country for treat
ment. American enterprise and intel
ligence have proved equal to the situa-
tion, and we have now reduction, sep
arating and smelling works that have
left Swansea and Friburg in the back
ground. That very valuable and salts
factory works have been established In
Newark, New Jersey, is the best proof
we could have that American genius
is equal to sill the calls that may be
made upon it.
We now come down to the fact that
ii American genius east of the Rocky
mountains ia capable of making busi-
nees successful and profitable that is
three thousand miles away from the
material it operates upon, American
genius ION the spot" is also equal to
making the reduction of ores grand
success in every respect. With the ores
at oui very door, we should not only be
able to overcome the disadvantage OF
dear fuel, but we ought, with the ad-
vantage of three thousand miles of lees
carriage of the raw ores, to so far improve
upon the methods and processes now in
use as in q few years to be
able to handle and reduce the re-
bellious ores that have not, 30
far, been successfully treated. even at
the most famous works. OF these ores
we have an exhaustless supply to draw
upon, whilst OF the ores that yield to the
treatment we are now familiar with, we
are at the dumping point of numberless
millions of tons.
Our people should remember that sci
ence has not been idle in the treatment
of ores in the last twenty years. Under
the improved processes it is not neces-
sary that a smelling establishment
should send out of it's chimneys fumes
that kill vegetation and carry noxious
vapors that poison the people. These
fumes and vapors are condensed, and the
vicinities of amelting establishments are
made ss wholesome for residence as
those OF other manufactures.
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