The herald., 1897-04-25
NEW SHELTER
A Necessity for Greater
Los Angeles
UNC0INED GOLD AND SILVER
CALIFORNIA DECIDEDLY BE-
HIND COLORADO
UNC0INED GOLD AND SILvEI
Los Angeles Should Control the Trade
of Southern California and
Arizona

The state of California has but on,
smelter. and that one is located at Sar
Francisco.
The state of Colorado has ten smefter'
and they are located as follows:
The Globe Smeher works. at Denver
has a capacity of about so 0tons of ore
per day.
The Omaha and Grand Company, al
Denver, has capacity of about 700 tons
OF ore per day.
The Boston and Colorado Smeltins
company is located at Denver, and has
a capacity OF about 200 tons of ore per
day.
The Pueblo Smelling ard Refining
company is located at Pueblo. and has
a capacity of about 500 tons of ore per
day.
| The Billings & Eiler Smelling works
| are located at Pueblo, and have ca
pacity of about 500 tons of ore per day.
The Philadelphia smelter is located at
Pueblo, having a capacity of about 700
tons of ore per day.
There is also a smelter at Durango and
two or three smelters at Leadville.
Here we find ten or more smelters in
the state of Colorado having capacity
to use about 1000 tons of ore per day.
This showing is not creditable to the
business sagacity of the people of the
state of California, who are compelled
to send their refractory ores either to
Swanson, Wales. or TO Denver, Colorado,
to have them treated and their bullion
to be refined.
1t takes no mathematician to ascertain,
the fact that under the present unbusi-
nesslike program the miners of the Pa
cific coast are paying too much freight
morey for the transportation of their
ores over long haul, and, that they can
only afford TO ship their higher priced
ores, as the low grade ores will not stand
the tax thus forced upon them. The
mining business OF Southern California
is therefore unnecessarily handicapped.
The opinion of very competent min
ing expert who has served for several
years as the superintendent of one of the
above mentioned smeltersis freely given
to the effect that nowhere else in the
United States is there a better location
for first-class smelter and refinery
one that can successfully treat all kinds
of refractory gresham right here in the
city of Los Angeles. Such smelter need
not be a large oNe. Works that could
Great one hundred ton9 of ore per day
would do TO start with, but 1t should be
constructed on moderr lines, should be
up-to- date i'm every respect, and capable
of being enlarged from time to time
without unnecessary expense. Such a
smelter should be capable of treating
any ores that could be treated anywhere
else in the world.
Los Angeles is today decidedly a rail-
road center, and it is growing more so
every year.
1t is necessary to have a smelter and
refinery located at a railroad center.
The loca ton of a gOoG smelter and re-
| finery at a place tends to center business
] of all kinds at such places.
| 1t requires capital, good busines man.
| agement and skill to run smelling and
refining works successfully Such
works capable of treating one hundred
| tons of ore per day and refining the bull
| lion-works that would treat any ore
. that can be treated at any smelter in the
world-wiu cost not to exceed S125, ,0O0
| Such works would give steady employ
| ment to about 200 men.
| Such works would make Los Angeles
| city the headquarters for all the mining
! interests of Southern California, Ari-
| zona and New Mexico. 1t would bring to
| this city ten carloads of ore per day
| worth am aggregate of say $4,000 day
or more for more valuable ores; and this
| amount would be increased from time
| to time as the busines would warrant
| the enlargement of the plant.
| In the course of a. few years such a
| plant would grow until it would become
! as large as any in the country, and II
| would be backed by immense capital
| The Boston and Colorado company OF
! Denver, with capacity of only 200 tons
per day, has a capital of $4,000, 900.
| Where the mines send their ore and
| bullion they are liable-almost certain
| to purchase their supplies.
! In addition to the s125, eco required fol
! building the works it would require