Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-10
SHELTERS PROMISE
SOLUTION SOON.
In Answer Filed Today Pledge is
Made Trouble Will End
Next Year
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES.
Disclaim Farmers Right to Complain
Or Close the Smelters New Say
That Time Has Gone By.

In the injunction proceedings brought
to close the smeters at Murray and
Bingham Junction by the allied farmers
Of salt Lake valley, the answers of two
smelling companies We're filed In the
federal court this afternoon. They were
to have been the last answers in the
case as fled but one more win be re-
quire1 before the case proceeds. this on
account Of the fact that the Bingham
Consolidated Mining 4 Smelling COM
pany denies the ownership Of the Bing-
ham Consolidated smelter located at
Bingham Junction It has since been
learned that the Bingham Copper n
Gold Mining company owns this smell
ter, and a motion will be made before
Judge Marshall by the plaintiffs to in
corporate the name OF this company in
the bill Of complaint.
DIsCLAIM FARMERS RIGHTS.
The answer Of the United states
Mining company and the Ameri-
can Smelling x Refining COM
pany which were filed today
both allege that the plaintiffs have no
legal right TO seek to have the shelters
close because they stood quietly by
while the vast sums Of money spent 10
build them. were being invested, and
then allowed them to run unmoested
Tor long period Of time.
This plea was successful on former
occasion when an attempt was made by
people around the smelters when they
tried to get out an injunction, and one
of the principal reasons why the farm
ers refused to delay this suit and try
to let the shelters work out their eN"
periments, is that the time would pass
i'm which they could legally COM
plain. The AREA Of damage spread
greatly last year on account OF the m
crease I'm the height Of the smokestack
Of one Of the shelters.
WHAT SHELTER CLAIMS,
As IN the case OF the Utah Con-
solidatcd these shelters put forth the
claim that infinite damage would re-
suit TO Utah should the smelters close.
In support Of It's claim the United
states smeltcr advances set OF hgures
that run away into the millions,
II states that II spent In building
the smclter and equlpplng H. Sl,3O00Oo.
That It smells no ore containing zinc
or antlmony and it's smoke sends out
only a trace Of arsenic.
That no sulphur In injurious quanu-
ties Is emitted.
That It's smeter employs 1000 men,
liz lime quarrics, 50 men. Its coal mines,
used to supply coal to the smelter, iS5
men its coke plant Sc men, and It's
iron mines, 40 men, total of 1881 cm-
ployea,
That depending on It's employees for
support are 1924 people, members of
their immediate families.
That engaged In working mines
which sell their ore TO the smelter arc
e67 employees upon whom are lS06S
dependent people
That the annual payroll for tho
smeher Is $500 900, for the lime kiln, S40,-
coo, for the coal mines, Si66,50O, making
total annual wage list OF S952 800. I'm
addition 10 this the men who work in
mines shipping ore to the smeter re-
oeige annually A21O,O00,
That IN buying supplies for its plants
the smelter company eXpcnds annually
S394,9iO.
That In ores Il handles 3li7O5 tons
annually turning out In bullion Sl2,-
0iS,55i27,