The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-14
SHELTER SMOKE NUISANCE.
Denver Publication Is Not Surprised
at Farmers Change of Heart.

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-
raised the valley smelters and have late
~ secured an injunction whereby sue
cessful smelling operations are we'll
nigh prOhibitive. are now fearful on ac-
count of the possible early removal of the
plants says the Denver Mining Reporter.
At last. and maybe too late, even a
ma jOrity Of the farmers realize the I'M
portauce of the smelling industry in their
midst With the accomplishment of their
aim there has como a realization OF what
their cts=tailed operations and possible
shut down means to them financially, in
dustrially and socially.
So long as the smelling companies could
he made TO pay for real or alleged DAM
ages attributed to smoke and fumes. the
farmers and their business adherents
seemed satisfied. but now that the smelt-
ing companies have become weary OF the
constant annoyance and litigation and are
looking for new fields where they may
carry on their business unmolested. il is
different-with the farmers.
BY the removal of the several plants
II Murray. Bingham Junction and Sandy.
tho departure Of 10000 employees and their
dependents is a foregone conclusion and
the doom Of the business interests IN their
respective settlements Is sounded. The
farmers. too. appreciate now what the
discontnuance OF smelling operations in
the valley means To them-viz.. loss of a
nearby and high-priced market for their
farm products. and of n place of profit
able employment during the winter
months. The question Of maintaining the
county institutions without the taxes
paid by the smelling companies, is also
regarded as serious.
The realization of these losses is now
paramount consideration with all the
valley settlers. Petitions signed by many
business men and farmers. whose names
appear in the original petitions for the
granted injunction. are now being circu-
throughout
tons pray the federal court for an anne
Iteration OF the operative injunction.
From the petition originating with the
merchants of Murray we excerpt the fol-
lowing paragraph:
THAT we did not. when we became
parties i'm said suit. contemplate expect
or desire, nor do we now desire that the
right OF injunction should be used with
such effect as to require an approximate
~ immediate shutdown Of this important
industry. and thus disrupt business opera
tons and unscttle and make all develop
mcnt Improvement and investment en-
terpriSes uncertain and even hazardous.
ieopardizing large property interests OF
salt Lake county and creating a business
stagnation."
other paragraphs are 20 the effect that
many of the original signers of tho in
junction petition "joined as parties to
said suit with the impression and under
standing that the principal object was to
require tho smelters to take care of their
smoke and believing that such a thing
was possible IL is stated that all OF
the business. and more than three-fOurths
OF the farming interests viii be repre-
scented i'm the several petitions: and IL is
anNiOusly hoped that. as result. the in
junction may be in fact dissolved by the
court and that something in the nature
Of an arbitration committee representing
smelling, business and farming interests
may be established with power to am
icably adjudicate all differences in the
future.