The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-07
NEARLY HALF RAISED
SUBSCRIPTION To THE SHELTER
STOCK COMING IN.
The Total Reaehe. 81, oto--JudEe
Bond Df-pe,~ the Nightmare
Abont Fumes With some Telling
Fact. From His Experience at
ycnEer-te~s OF the Mines.

The 500 u stock IA the smelling and
refining company which ~ t. De- placed
n seattia Is already amos half sub
scFlDed. the total subscriptions up 10 last
evening being 81 90. The work ~ cap
vzsa.as. which Is now earned ~ Dy X
X Forrest and DaVla Kellogg together.
and oy 7. b Corey and judge r r. BAL
AaEer together. vas suspended during the
Fourth Of July celebration and Was rot
taken up again vigorously until yester-
DAY. The last amount published as being
subscribed VAS 81 as. 80 1hat the r.
Spectacle addition OF s,.eao has been made
70 The total
Most of tAis additional amount has
come IN small subscriptions for those
who are expected to take large blocks ~
STOCK aaFe not set been approached Tire
largest single subscriptions. outside those
OF tie material men. came from Hamm
s Sc1ultz al the Butler hotel VINO pat
their names DOWN for Sl.We and FROM 5.
Sel!g. the clotnieE. who took - et9 worm,
saying ne wanted 4 for a. investment
4 most eEectual answer 10 tAe false
alarm about t@e Injurious effect Of the
smoke and fumes from tie smelter was
gwen d Post-tALeliigC GceF representative
last evening by Hon. 4. x. Bond, VINO
said "a an interview
The apprehension about smoke from
snelters IS absurd. Tor 10 fumes from
sInelters are injurious 70 ar. body ana tho
stacks are 50 tail taas the smoke passes
off without co;llUs in contact win any
thing / have mad practieal experience
IA this matter. because II lss5 parties came
from Chicago 10 Denver and but the
FIRST smelling works ma / donated che
grouno on which 81 was built In the el-
iori 20 secure a. location. they called 4
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
anc the people who rendered them sites
" b. led Fsr rsrf~
had mad various offers ] asked them how
much ground they wanted When they
'Q!0 ma, offered them all they needed at
lie point OF junction OF all the railroads
where they came into the city. They ac-
ceIted my offer and Immediately began
building their works there. As The result
% that location, the balance OF nay prop
erty in that locality appreciated about
60 per cent. and ! sold il al mat rate al
most as fast as / could make out tire
deeds.
After the works were completed and in
operation. the panic Of 1873 occurred and
the company was not provided with sutii-
clent capital 10 continue operations 50
that. rather than have them smut down
took the works myself and operated them
for some time. There Vas a large settle
ment Immediately around the works hut
! never heard any complaint from any
body on account Of smoke. nor OH any
other account that related 10 their opera
tlcn. good many men were employed
and those who had families always Sc
cured residences "a near the works as they
could There are now three large smelt-
Ing works In Denver two large works in
Pueblo three in I-eadviile and works also
In Kansas CITY and Omaha So far from
belug an objection to the people living in
their vicinity, | think they would make
the strongest protest OF anybody against
f1t4fF al ..lsTv FT-.-
should he built here. / do not think they
would BE found objectionable by any one
and I think the most desirable location
for them. so far as the city is concerned
would be somewhere in Smiths cove.
There is no industry that Seattle has
That Is, or could he more beneficial 10 the
city than the establishment of shelter
J know OF no location IN this Northwest
country that - more desirable than this
one. J. has better facilities extending over
"a greater radius of mineral district 10
draw from than ans point know Of. and
Sc seems 20 me that Il Is a logical place for
a smelling center for this whole North
west region"