The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-01
NEW SHELTER
FOR SALT LAKE
Nevada Operators Reported to Be In
vestigating the Subject,
SCHWAB PROBABLY BACKS
MINE PRODUCTION AND DEVEL-
oPMENT AHEAD OF SHELTERS.
As \ RESULT of the discomfort that
y is being engendered in the ranks

A S \ RESULT of the discomfort that
y is being engendered in the ranks
of the Nevada producers. another
smelling concern is likely soon TO so
into business in Salt Lake. Since
Charles NJ. SchWab's visit to Nevada a
few weeks ago, when he declared that
some means would have TO be provided
TO give the producing mines OF that re-
gion a chance TO market their ores,
even though new smelters had 10 be
erected to relieve the situation, steps
have been taken in this direction.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
that prominent Nevada operators have
their experts in the salt Lake valley
looking for a smelter site. In view or
the talk that Charles NJ. SchWab con-
templated building a smelter in the
desert to meet the requirements Of his
own and other mines the rumor con-
corning the search for d site in this
valley is considered to have some toun-
dation in fact, because no one familiar
with conditions i'm Nevada, and parLic-
ularly the TonOpah-GOldfeld- Bullfrog
region, viii think for moment that "a
smelter of any magnitude will ever be
built there. Water might be secured,
but when it comes to securing coke,
tiai to the conduct of smelling works,
they must be located where these
| things are available. Utah is conceded
| TO be the Dlace-the place of places ia
| this western cOuntry-and IT Mr.,
! Schwab and other big operators Of Ne
vada are determined TO make them
| selves independent of the American
| Smelling & Refining company and its
| plan of accepting only such ores as II
! needs, and in quantity named by II
| rather than the producer, works VIII
| undoubtedly be erected here,
More smeIters Needed.
| 81 am not III a position TO say what
may be done in the future" said a
prominent local operator VINO is largely
| interested i'm Nevada properties and
who makes occasional trips through
I the various camps from TOnOpah south,
/ but I can tell you this: With all the
| smelter building that is now going on
! here and counting in all the plans that
are talked Of / fail to see where the
! smelting companies expect to keep pace
with the increased production Of the
| local and Nevada camps. More smelt-
ers have got to be built. That's all
! there is about il. Whether they VIII be
| built in Utah or Nevada will depend IN
| a great measure on what an inVestiga-
! tion of the subject may determine.
| TonOpah is already clamoring for a
market for many times as much ore as
! the present smelling facilities of the
| American Smelling & Refining COM
pany is able to provide, and year
/ hence, when the Salt Lake route has
| its tracks laid TO Bullfrog and the other
/ camps, there will be such a tremendous
| tonnage of ore and concentrates headed
this way that another smelling com
pany. should it jump into the lelc
now. would get all the business II could
prepare to handle in two years time
Should Go After the ores.
ITO get at the proposition right. Mr.
/ Schwab or his representatives II IT is
ne that is behind the movement should
begin hustling right now for the char
acters of ore that viii be required fOi
fiuXing purposes. Phoebe and some OF
the other southern camps should bt
looked to, for they will be able to meet
/ a large demand before long. Stockton
Ophir. DugWay, Deep Creek and somt
of the older camps nearer to Salt Lake
could also he depended upon 10 he'll
out materially. for in all of them great
Roadway is now being made IN the
matter of development. This Is the
natural smelling center for all Of the
western country. If the Nevada mer
want works of their own this valley
] believe, is where they should come tC
/ build them"