The daily sentinel., 1899-07-01

bining all the natural advantages with
few or none of the disadvantages, for {
smelling center of the largest and bes
ore producing area in this country, il
not in the known world.
In another solumn will be found ar
article from the Aspen correspondent oi
the Denver News which points out in
detail all these natural advantagev. The
project not only seems to be revived but
| it would seem that the erection Of 300,
ton smelter at that point is reasonable
possibility for the near future.
That it will come sooner or later is a
decree of nature from which there can
be no appeal Our hustling neighbor
in the valley has the men of brains to
see the advantages possessed by their
location and natural surroundings, and
the enterprise to see that these advant-
ages are realized.
Take Grand Junction as a center and
draw circle with a radius Of 200 miles,
and you will take in as rich an ore-pro.
ducing area as can be found in the
world. From nearly all of tt" rich
camps embraced in this circle, IL ere are
railroads leading to Grand Junction.
From nearly every camp there is clear
down hill pull to the mouth of the Gun
nison.
The distance Is less from most of them
than to either Denver or Pueblo. There
is a superabundance of coal and lime
stone in the immediate vicinity. The
variety of ores necessary for proper mix
ing and huxing would be all that could
be desired.
With all Of these points of advantage
it is difficult to perceive why capital
should hesitate to seek Investments in
q smelter at the city on the Grand.
Trust or no trust, strike or no strike,
eight hours or ten, the smelling business
has come to stay in Colorado.
1t lies at the middle point in the
great chain of industries which makes
this state unique in the industrial world,
ALI the apparent differences and difficult
ties now menacing this chain @: indus
tries will be short lived. They cannot
endure long. Some adjustment will
have to be made, and made speedily,
since the interests OF all parties so de-
mand.
Our ores have to be smelted. The
necessities Of commerce demand our
bullion and we require the proceeds.
Whether trusts will dictate hours and
prices to employees or whether employees
will dictate to trusts, the business Of
mining and the work OF smelling will go
rig h: on, with just such brief interval as
necessary to determine some sort of
basis supposed to be in the interest Of
ALL Ia
ILstead OF smelling trust being de.
structive Of poss. bilities in the line of
SINE. ter extension; it is really an advant
age. The trust rage has gone beyond
the limit Of profit.
The gigantic combinations are degen-
Grating into stock jobbing schemes. 1t
will be difficult to hold them together
for any long time. They are '.ver capt.
allied, even to the point Of weakness.
They cannot compete with independent
producers on even footing and at the
same time pay dividends upon capitali-
zation watered to the hundredth tritura-
ton and weakened beyond the point of
solution.
People are 80 scared by the name Of
trusts" that they have not stopped to
look over tho bogy-man which the poll
clans have been exhibiting. 1t may bo
essen TALLY weak and harmless. II it is
antagonistic to the best interests Of the
body polite at large it is bound to be 80
but strong or weak, dangerous or benifi-
cent, it cannot override the laws Of ma
ture. Nature has ordained that there
shall be a smelter on the western slope,
and nature has selected the site. Grand
Junction is the place and it now looks as
il tho close Of the century would be
about the time.