The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-05
SHELTER FOR
ORE PRODUCERS
Crippled Operators Have a
Chance to Run the Fine
Plant at Milford.
SMELLS LEAD AND COPPER
COULD BE PLACED IN COMMITS
SION QUICKLY.
SMELLS LEAD AND COPPER

With the alternative Of accepting
longtime contracts at greatly IN
creased rates or waiting until new\and
independent smelling plants can be ar
ranged for and constructed, many ore
producers in this region are up against
n tougher proposition than they ever
had to face before in their lives 1t Is
being talked around that mine owners
win have TO get together and build
works that viii make them tndepend-
ent of the present smelling concerns
and when il is considered that, with
out the mines the smelters have no
chance to exist, the wonder is that the
mine owners have steered clear of the
proposition so long.
An Available Idle Plant.
But this is a DEPRESSION. There is an
opportunity right now for the mine
owners who are up against the prob
lem of finding a place TO set their ores
treated TO get almost immediate relleL
Down in Beaver county, within mile
or so Of Milford. are the smelling works
of the Majestic company, works that
were erected during the fiotation Pc
Rod OF that company by A. b. Lewis.
This slnelter is designed and equipped
for tho treatment of both copper and
silver-Iead ores. A part of this plant
was run by the company for short
time and did splendid work. 1t is con-
nected with the main line of the san
Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail-
road and is located in a barren desert
where there can never be any queS-
ton of damage from dust and Fumes.
Water for the plant is supplied from
artesian wells. which tap the subter-
ranaan flow of Beaver river, so there
ran be no difficulty on thac score All
L on ~
this plant is there; it is new ami prac-
tically ready to be Iimbered up
Works Might Be Leased.
About a year ago this smelter was
examined by an expert il the smelling
business. and The Herald is in posi-
ton to say that he reported that, with
a very few slight changes, the plant
could be brought right uD TO the min
ute IN the matter of the best modern
smeiter practice.
In the absence of Managing Director
e e AbercrOmbie of the Majestic
company, il is not possible TO say just
what might be done, but as the plant
is NOT in operation, it is believed that
the mine owners of this region might
either lease the plant ard run il them
selves. or the Majestic company might
be induced to run it for them. If mem
ory is not at fault, that Smelter has a
daily capacity OF 300 tons OF copper
ore and $50 or 200 tons If lead-silver.
There is considerable ore that could be
obtained right in that VictnityS there
is world of f1uxing material iron and
lime-right at hand, and it will cost no
more to deliver coal and cake there
than it does to get fuel at the plants
around Salt Lake.
Plenty of Ore to Run 1t.
Producers in the camps surrounding
this valley could send their ores there
for a little more than it costs to de-
liver them at the plants in this valley.
They could sample in transit or they
could sample their ores at the mill
when is a part of the smelling plant.
If they lacked ore enough from their
own mines to keep the works running
full blast, they could get the ores from
the GCOd Springs region. from Phoebe
and other Nevada comps AM De dong
rushing business in ninety days from
now, and possibly sooner.
At present there is no information at
hand as TO how the officials o. the Ma
jestiC company would view a PROPOSE
ton TO use its smelter in the manner
suggested, but IT would cost nothing
TO make inquiries at the Boston offices
of the concern. 1t is contende1, how
ever, that it is the one real, tangible