The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-27
SITE FOR A SHELTER.
THE OFFER MAY INSURE LOCATION
or LARGE PLANT.
Prospect of s~eurfax Large smeifer
and Refinery by FurnishteE .
suttshl~ site On Rail and Wafer
Many Advantages Which s~assie
Caa Dner-s~Ison Refinery IN Ore
raffoa-Mininx Claim An Spokane
City.

The one thing needed 30 fix the destiny
OF Seattle ~ a mining center IS tne efsc-
sson OF srnelssF. refinery and saEnpiafs
works The fsrss TWO 81 these she s0~ n@S
ire opportunity OF securing by ao&siag odt
= heipsn, hand 70 q strong syndicate OK
snserprising men from Asiw ausse and tsAtt
Lake. who have prepared plans And spec
tacssgoHss for a plant OF so tons aaiis ca
racify. ard n0w have oaly 70 select the
site. The plant thsy have in conteEn5i@-
tson would have n capital stock Of sl.osl.-
90 aud would employ about 90 men.
The subject was brought up by the ar
riyal Ia TIE city ~ william Sei0yer. Of
Portland tie representative Of the zyilcI-
cate In a1eSsiofs, VINO haz beeu for 1~o
days a gfsess ~ "a. Bufier. lie was cn
as way 70 Vancouver. Il. g. 70 discuss a
proposition made 10 han some time aF9 ny
ihe people ~ that city. bat was Induced
los r.. " Fn4ug0aA 70 stop over mere ana
look over the ground. Mr. 5eioEef t1-
poets to be- Joined IN two or three days ny
Mr. Remington Of Salt Lake. and others
uf his prtfseIfa IT, Tnfn they arrive ne -
rot prepared 70 10 anything except study
ire situation here and gather information
10 tn. most available sites. HE aces
NOT care TO f1EsHbt NlHbssH 10 jHs WIN
lon So to the conditions on wt3cE the plant
cray be- located here. nor ~ 10 the de-
STABILITY OF seattle Il site. In coT.ipdf-
con with other points.
Mr. Seioyer's business hero no sooner
became known among mining men than
they began calling on him or TUESDAY
afternoon. The negotiations with him
were finally lefr ~ committee composed
of Mayor Wool. Maurice McMicken and
&. l.. Webb. They assured hifa that the
citizens would give MS Syndicais a site OF
a. least twenty acres admirably adapted
for it's purposes he took this offer under
consideration. 10 be submitted 10 MS piin-
eipals on their arrival. Yesterday ne look
ed at some land on the West Seattle water
front. which has been suggested. but ex-
pressed no opinion as To It's fitness for the
purpose,
The most serious alternative proposition
which has been made 10 his syndicate came
from Vancouver. II. c.. some months ago.
That city offered a site and a cash bonus
OF $50 0D. but so far the bonus Is not forth
coming.
Advantage Seattle Can O0er.
The advantages Seattle can offer for the
location OF smelter are 20 many and so
great that her failure to cail attention to
them long ago Is only explicable on the
ground of hes citizens absorption I'm
other enterprises. and that only within the
last year have the people fully realized
the extent Of the mineral wealth al their
doors The plant. OF which Mr.. Selover
has the plans with hun. Will be equipped
to Ike either lead or copper as a fux. and
can therefore Use the great variety OF
ores To be found in The Cascade noun
tatns. In the Gold range and In the Sell
Kirk mountains. To assemble these ores
at one point. II H. essential that that point
should he tho terminus OF several lines
nj int
trie; and afrording competing rates and
facilities. Such a requisite Seattle can of
Ter, FOR site anywhere along the water
front Is reached by the Northern Pacific
Great Northern. Canadian Pacific and Sc
attic International railroads. These
roads VIII bring In the ores of all sections
pf Washington and or the kootenay dis
trict of British Columbia. Steamer lines
VIII bring In the copper-g gold ores OF the
Coast district OF British Columbia: the
central American steamers will bring in
the silver-ieaa ores OF Mexico. which are
particularly desirable for fiuses. and the
Alaska steamers will bring the gold ores
OF the great Northern territory The ,ugu-
her vesses can bring cargoes OF ore I'm
ballast from South America and Aus
traiia. as they have already done with
Australian ore for the Everett smelter
Ores Within n Close Radius.
III may not tie necessary however to go
30 Tar aheld for the necessary fuxinr
ores. for there Is tn he found within a
radius Of $50 miles northeast southeas g,
and east OF Seattle a variety Of ORES am
Ncsent 20 meet every nee.l Of tho srnes,er
While the prevailing ores II the Cascades
are copper. gold. there - hardly n dist rtct
which has not its silver lead lodges The
Cascade, stchekin and Thunder creek dis.
tricts are distinctly silyer-lcad and gas.na
has been found I'm almost every district
constituting The principal value in the
Forty-five At Sllvertan the Tvauhoe on
Palmer mountain and other leading prop-
critics. Should these not suffice. there are
silver lead mines tn the Slecan district
the owners of which heing Seattle men
woild readily ship their entire product 10
sneiter I'm their own city,
Other Important requisites are coke and
limestone, The former can he obtained
either At the Fairhaven mine on the
Skaet river. whore new coke ovens are
being continually added or at Wlikpxop
fn Pierce countN while new deposits ~
ccking coal are available FOR deveiourncnt
IS soon as the demand brings thr,n into
he market az limestone. az everybody
knows. there IS abundance. MANY - the
hedges containing msueralired lime he
tween the walls This orc would earn n
c~emia'n on account OF l,s dcslrablty for
smelling.
90 Tide Water
The location - q smelter on .ise water
eHors GREAT advantages not only IL, the,
way = assembling ores and materials hit
- other rcapcvts Srnelters are bV vrers~-
once located on q hillside iu order that
material may Be- transferred nv gravity
frofa one department - another In tho
course az treatment. The hN3rs along a.,
Seattle water fYo0t are therefore 44,f.n,
e. their purposes Shelters also rr,t,,-s
ample space 80 dump the Stag and thls
would p" aenrtied ev tho tiHc HstS n.,,!t-
tne on These hiuu@ in fil}tar ~ shese
tide fats. the smelling company .-1ri,i
overcome the oniv objection that ~ourA
possibly BE urged against such location,
that the whsrvcs wou}5 },., UNDERMINE.
ny tise feTrAn. The company cculH use rne
siag as fU in "a solid foundation FOR th,ss
wharVcs. ana also tn hui3d up land fer ev.
tenSgans ~ SIS plant as occasion REQUIRED
cheap water aud Power
The 'sapsnfinE easily construction - tie
Cedar river water system Will also sh,e
ttis city to CTrY a vah3shI couveu{er,-s
60 the ssnclter- abundance % @hcsn ,satcr
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