The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-11-10
NEW sMELTER FOR SALT LAKE
Nevada Operators, Backed By Schwab,
Investigating the Subject

As a result of the discomfort that a.
being e~ngendered in the ranks of the
Nevada producers, another smelling
concern is likely soon to go into bust
ness 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 region a
chance to market their ores, even
though new smelters had to 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 of
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 a site in this
valley is considered to have some
foundation in fact, because no one
familiar with conditions in Nevada,
and particularly the Tonopah-Goldtield-
Bullfrog region, will think for a mo-
ment that a smelter of any magnitude
will ever be built there. Water might
be secured, but when it comes to secur-
ing coke, coal, iuxes and other things
so essential to the conduct of smelling
works, they must be located where
these things are available. Utah as
conceded to be the place-the place of
places in this western country-and if
Mr.. Sehwab and other big operators of
Nevada are determined to make them
selves independent of the American
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plan of accepting only such ores as t
needs, and in quantity named by it
rather than the producer, works will
undoubtedly be erected here.
81 am not in a position to say what
may be. done in the future said a
prominent local operator who is largely
interested in Nevada properties and
who makes occasional trips through
the various camps from Tonopah south,
"but | 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
smelling 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 it. Whether they will be
built in Utah or Nevada will depend in
a great measure ON what an investiga-
ton 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 a 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 field now,
would get all the business it could pre-
pare to handle in two years time.
ITO get at the proposition right, Mr..
Schwab or his representatives, if it IS
he that is behind the movement, should
begin h~ustling right now for the char
acters of ore that will be required for
luxing purposes. Phoebe and some of
the other southern camps should be
looked to, for they will be able to meet
a large demand before long. Stockton,
Ophir, Dugway, Deep Creek and some
of the older camps nearer to Salt Lake,
could also be depended upon to help
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 men
want works of their own this valley,
/ believe, is where they should come to
build them