The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-14
HOW OTHERS VIEW
SHELTER MAT TER
Mining Reporter Not Surprised
at Bad Effects Following
Smoke Suits.
PLAINTIFFS DID NOT
APPRECIATE NJUNCTi0NS
Hardly Anticipated the Com
plete Cessation of Activity
by the Smelters.

We are not surprised to read In Salt
Lake papers OF recent date that the bust
ness and farming communities. which
| have for several years so constantly har-
rassed the valley smelters and have late
ly secured an injunction whereby sue
cessful smelling operations are well-nigh
prohihltive, are now fearful on account
OF the possible early removal OF the
plants says the Mining Reporter. At
last, and maybe too late, even majority
of the farmers realize the Importance OF
the smelling industry In their midst
With the accomplishment OF their aim
there has come realization OF what
their curtained operations and possible
shut down means TO them financially
industrially and socially. So long as the
smelling companies could be made to pay
for real or alleged damages attributed TO
smoke and fumes, the farmers and their
adherents seemed satisfied: but now that
the smelling companies have become
weary OF the constant annoyance and lttl-
cation and are looking for new fields
where they may carry on their business
unmolested it is different-with the far
ners.
By the removal OF the several plants
at Murray, Bingham Junction end ST.
dy. the departure OF 10000 employees and
their dependents is foregone conc!u-
sion and the doom of business interests
In their respective settlements is sound
ed. The farmers, too, appreciate now
what the dscontinuance OF smelling
operations In the valley means TO them
viz, loss OF nearby and high priced
market for their farm products, and of
place Of profitable employment during
the winter months. The question OF
maintaining the county institutions. with
out the taxes paid by the smelling com
panies, is also regarded as serious.
The realization OF these losses is now
paramount confederation with all the
valley settlers. Petitions signed by many
business men and farmers, whose names
appear on the original petitions for the
granted Injunction, are now being cir
culated throughout the valley. The pc
titions pray the Federal court for an
From the petition originating with the
merchants OF Murray we excerpt the fol-
lowing paragraph:
THAT we did not. when We became
desire. nor do we now desire, that
the right OF injunction should be used
with such effect as to require an approx
imately immediate shut down of this i'm
portant industry, and thus disrupt busi-
ness operations and unsettle and make
all development. Improvement and invest
ment enterprises uncerta! In and even
hazardous. teopardiZing large property
Ing n business stagnation.
Other paragraphs are 10 the effect that
many OF the original signers Of the In
junction petition "jolned as parties to
said suit with the impression and under
standing that the principal object was
TO require the smelters 10 take care OF
their smoke and believing that such
thing was possible" 1t IS stated that
all OF the business, and more than three
fourths of the farming interests, Will be
represented In the several petitions; and
IL Is anX!ously hoped that. as result.
the Injunction may be in fact dissolved
by the court and that something In the
nature of an arbitration committee rep
resenting smelling. business and farming
interests may be established with power
10 amicably adjudicate all differences in
the future.