Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-13
Power Of he Omaha and Grant Smel,ef
Trust IS Made Manifest
MUCH TROUBLE Is FEARED.


The News" prints this afternoon an
Associated Press dispatch received
from Denver during the day. which will
be- read with particular interest by the
business, mining and iaborlnE men u
Utah with unusual interest II tells
% tho intention 90 close down every
plant in the state ~ Colorado belonging
10 tho American Smelling and refining
company, which will be- accomplished
by tomorrow night This Il f. claimed.
Will render Idle uevcnty-nvc per cent
Of the miners Of the state. The shut
down in the result u the oight-hour
law which becomes effective on Thurs
day This law was passed By the last
Legislature and o. an exact duplicate
Of the Utah olght-hour law, concern
INK which tho Colorado press has had
no much 90 say recently The Utah
law. II VIII be- remembered. stood the
test or constutionaiity before the Au-
prcmc court ~ the United States.
Several leading mining and amciter
men were interviewed this afternoon
Immediately on the receipt OF the dis
patch referred 10. and an agreed that
Il would IN no wise aftcct utah and that
Il would be- unlikely that Colorado ores
would be- shipped here Tor reduction
during the trouble. owing largely 20
the fact that the mines would be
imperative. The dispatch Is as fol-
lows.
Denver June ig.-Thls morning the
managers u tho Omaha a Grant Bmelt-
or began blowing out the furnaces and
by tomorrow night every plant belong
ing 90 the American Smelling and Re-
ming company otherwise known as the
Smelling Trust. will be- closed down.
throwing several thousand OF the en-
ploycs % the company out Of employ
mont and incidentally a much larger
number % miners, IN coul as well as
mctalliforous mines. coke burners.
teamstcra and other worhmon. Indeed.
the effect of the shutdown upon Color
ado can hardly be- computed az this
time. n is not known whether tho
Hmcltcra outside the trust. including tho
extensive plants % 81. Ouggcnheim a
Sons and the Boston 4 Colorado viii
close or not The former have offered
their employees somewhat higher scale
than the trust but not as high as tho
union demands.
The shutdown IL the result OF the new
s-hour law which goes into eject on
Thursday. The amelter employees union
adopted a scale based on eight hours
work. which r. practically tho same as
has heretofore been paid for ten hours.
| The American Smelling ana Refining
| company offered a raise OF about 10 per
| cent payment 10 be- by the hour and tho
men 20 work ten or twelve hours per
day u they choose. This proposition of
the union was formally rejected this
morning and the work OF closing tho
umelters began az once,
The American Smelling and Refining
| Co. owns uiHo Hmrltcrs IN the State. aa
| follows. The Omaha a Grant and the
Globe az Denver and Durango! the Ar
kansas Valley the Timetable and tho
/ Argentine at Leadylllo; the Colorado
and the Elier az Pueblo. and the walsh
| at slyerton. The only smcltcra not
l owned by the company are the extern
slye plant Of the Guggcnhelm's at
Pueblo ana the comparatively limited
one o. the BOSTON 4 Colorado az Den
| yer These may also close.
Il is estimated the shutdown OF the
American company plants win ueces-
| state the closing OF 20 per cent of the
mines IN the State only such ores az
can be treated by stamp mills and
! chlotlnation processes or are rich
enough Tor shipment to distant smelters
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