Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-31

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upon which we have received our esti
mates. Both the things have
mentioned secured, nothing remains but
to put the machinery up and get ready
for business, meantime rustling up al
available ores for smelter, for mar
can't live on wind"
Where will you look for ores ?'
I Wherever obtainable and wherever
available for our purposes. We shal
look to New Mexico, sonora, Lower Cal
ifornia, Arizona, this state, South Amer
lea, and everywhere ores are to be had
and transportation rates admit OF theil
being handled at profit.
The bugaboo-Wherea are you going
to get ore for smelter here won't
pass. There are thousands and thou
sands of tons of low, medium and high
grade ores in Arizona and California
alone, only awaiting transportation to
smelter or the erection of one where
they may at reasonable cost, with a
margin OF profit resultant, be treated.
In thirty days in the territory alone
can buy or share ores sufficient to
run singlestack smelter for six
months. In New Mexico and Sonora
similar conditions are found existent.
Why, there is copper ore on the dump
OF the San Pedro mine in New Mexico
sufficient to keep emelter of the Matto
process going three years.
"Of course our start will not be made
on the scale of the Omaha-Grant, BIZ
metallic or Boston-Montana plants. We
propose at fret to erect q single-stack
plant, capable OF treating from $50 to
200 tons of ore per diem, so arranged
that it's capacity may be increased or
decreased, as occasion may require.
This plant will be the most modern in
existence, and the several tried and
successful new methods for treating re-
bellious or refractory ores will be used.
We shall buy our ores outright or
take them on shares. We shall be in
position to handle all varieties Of ores.
Distance from the plant will not cut
nearly the figure some people imagine.
Look at the smelter at Tacoma on Puget
Sound. There is an investment repre-
senting over a quarter of million in
money, and there is not prospect or a
mine within 500 miles of it capable of
making an output of ten tons of ore per
diem. Where do they get their ores
From as far south as Peru, and north as far
Alaska, from Montana, Idaho and East
ern Washington. Mind you, their home
ores must come over but one line of
road, for there is but the Northern Pa
cifc to haul them, and yet both sm elter
and mine owners have profited since
that smelter started, now nearly four
years ago.
"We have far better prospects right
here than the great Omaha Denver
smelter had when it started up. All we
want is the development of the mineral
resou rces of the country the confidence
OF the miners, and we will attend to the
rest. We expect to treat daily from our
own properties fifty tons of ore after
January 1st, and have assurances from
Harqua-Hala, Needles, and even King
man and Yuma districts of enough ores
to warrant the plant being put up.
Then right here in this section are lots
of ores. From in and about Acton the
monthly product 1 understand will ap-
proximate sixty tons, in prospect work
alone. | look for no trouble in securing
ore enough to keep the plant busy.
"We shall compete for part OF the
northern product also. The requisite
fuels and fuxes are here as we'll as in
the northwest. We have good and
CQ6dp COhlh, ploHty VI lluiO oho Y duoiioy
of iron ore, brown hematite, in Arizona
that cannot be excelled as smelling
fux. We can get ores from Alaska here
by sea as cheap as the Selby works can
get them. We can handle the Mexican
trade much cheaper than they can pos
sibly handle it; and while at the COM
mencement our works may not be COM
parable with theirs as regards size, they
will be as we'll equipped as any in the
country, of like proportion.
''In running order the plant should
give employment to about As men,
whose wages would run from $25 to
aour plans, as accepted, call for
single stack smelling plant complete,
estimated to cost $4,000. I expect to
wire that have secured the site like
best by Monday at latest. have no
reason to doubt building operation will
be ordered at the earliest practicable
period thereafter"