The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-29

sides several by-products. With Huch .
plant the silver lead ores OF the SLOGAN
country could be imported and smelted
ia bond and the lead shipped to China on
rhe trarsPacific steamers. This would
avoid the payment OF duty on lead ores
and the lead would find ready market
across the Pacific. where II Is used iii lin
ing tea boxes. The production OF re-
fined bullion here would also aid material
~ in causing the establishment OF gov
ernment assay office AMI samplirg works.
Thus Seattle rght easily develop into
not only mining center. but smelling
and refining center, and consequently a
metal market
That the smelling center of this rart OF
the Tnicn is destined to be on tide water
Is evident from a study of the situation.
Al present the principal supply of ere for
the Everett ard Tacoma smelters comes
from the suIphide ore mines Of Trail creek,
the siiver-icad mines of SLOGAN ard the
Occur a Affne, and the suiphide ores OF
Monte Cristo. The other regularly produc-
ing mines of Washington are the Triune.
on Palmer mountain. the Culver. on the
Peshastin. the Red Shirt. on the Methow.
which ship concentrates. and the Deer
Trail. in Cedar canyon. which ships silver
lead ores. Occasional shipments from
other mines made quite a large aggregate
last year. and this year may bring into ex-
is.ence quite a number Of regular shippers,
Even now the capacity OF the smeitsrs at
Everett. Tacoma. Trail Nelson and Pilot
Bay Is inadequate for the supply OF ore
from this section, and the proposed new
smelters of the lie Roi and Center Star
mines at Rossiand will net absorb much
as the probable increased production Of the
year The surplus goes To the smelters az
Denver Omaha and Pueblo. TO which
points IL pays rate OF s1fso a ton on a
haul of 40 to 1.S1 miles. The distance
TO the Sound from the most remote of the
districts west Of tbs Rocky mountains Is
not over sd0 miles. and thus the short haul
would naturally bring their ore 10 the
Sound The people OF RossIand are count
Ing on the construction of the Crows Nest
Pass railroad and the development OF the
coal fields near the pass TO furnish cheap
fuel for shelters in the Kootensf country.
but meanwhile those Rmeiters ara h;lndi-
capped by the heavy freight charges on
fuel from the Coast.
Seattle has the fuel and fuxes within
IA, miles and Is fast developing mines in
the same radius. Experience has shown
that the ore goes TO the fuel centers more
often than the fuel goes to the mines 70
smeit the ore on the ground Western
Pennsylvania has the coking coal and the
limestone. and the iron ore goes all the
way from the head Of Lake Superior. 10
the blast furnaces In and around Pitts
burg 70 be smalted by them. Seattle is
like Pittshnrg in having the fuel ana
nuges al her doors. and therein has the
advantage over Omaha. Denver and Su-
ehio sith the added advantage az
shorter haul on the ores Of the faciar
Northwest. The further advantage OF De-
ire ahi4 n, assemble ores from more Ills
tart countries such Alaska. Mexico
and Australia ny cheap water tFansrSr-
tat8on mas already received attention.
". II Remington. ~ salt Lake. a mem
bsr az Mr. SeIover*s syndicate. Is expected
here this evening and VIII be followed
within few days by his associates. Mr..
yscrntr rtor, Is an old mining man. and vas
ore of TIE builders 81 the Eureka sneiier
at Salt Lake.