Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-16
SHELTERS ARE
OVERRUN WITH ORE

An unusual condition confronts the
mining and smelling industries of
this region, and, in discussing it, The
first thing to say is that it is not true
that the smelters here are refusing
to pay cash for the ores they buy.
Neither the Silver King Coalition nor
any other company has made such a
statement, but such inference has
been drawn, undoubtedly, from con-
ditions that have arisen. This was
made plain yesterday in talks with
both smelter and mine managers in
this city.
Here is the situation. During the
present season the mines of Utah,
Nevada, Idaho and other sections of
the west have been producing heay-
Ter than at any time in the history of
mining. The smelling companies
have hustled with all the energy at
their command to meet the require
ments of the industry, and, while
their capacities have been materially
increased, manufacturing, railroad,
fuel, labor and other conditions have
been such that it was difficult for
reduction companies to handle all the
business that has been offered. This
has been particularly true, as it has
and does apply to the production of
sulphide as compared with the out
put of oxidized ores.
The result has been that the bins,
yards and all available places about
the smelling works of this valley are
now congested with the ores the ma
ture of which does not permit of
their handling only as they can be
worked up with characters and
grades of ore into which and with
which they may be mixed to make
desirable charges for the furnaces.
To meet this abnormal and IN
usual condition of affairs, the smelt-
ing companies are temporarily COM
PEELED to decline much new business
and urge upon their regular con-
tracing patrons an easing up in the
shipments of grades and classes of
ore with which their plants are all
ready congested. To help out the
situation, wherever It is possible to
do so, ores are being diverted first
to II plant and then to another in
different parts of the country.
A message from Goldfeld Thurs
day night said the Mohawk had been
closed down because the American
Smelling Company had refused to pay
cash for the ore. In the first place.
the Mohawk and other Nevada ores
are not purchased by the smelling
companies direct. These ores reach
the smelters through the sampline
mills in the Nevada camps which buy
them. BY the time they reach Salt
Lake or the several other markets In
which they are disposed of, they have
lost their identity, so it would be i'm.
possible to say that a smelling com
pany had refused to pay for Mohawl
or any other ore similarly shipped.
But the statement is made here
that every lot of ore recelvd and ac
cepted is being settled for in pre-
cisely the same manner that settle
ments have been made all the time
II ore is shipped from Utah, Neyads
or Idaho mines to Colorado, Nebras
ka or other points more remote from
the point of production, and ship
ments than are the Salt Lake plants
it requires just that much longer :,
get returns. And it evidently follow,
that in cases where all of the work
have loaded up on certain grades o
ore and that they are lacking in 9th
ers there must be a slowing dow
somewhere till things are straighten
ed out again. These and dozens O
other reasons are advanced in smelt
ing circles why producers have bee
asked to help the situation out
Salt axe Herald.