The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-05
Time to Protest Against
the SmeIter Trust

When a powerful organization like
the American Smelling and Refining
company, commonly and truly known
as the smelter trust, can dominate the
purchase of the foundation of the mon
etary system of the entire United
States of America, and foster or throt.
tie at it's mere pleasure any camp pro
ducing gold, Nevada being particularly
affected at this time, it is time for the
people to make an emphatic protest
says the Goldfeld Tribune.
This is the attitude of the directors
of the Goldfeld chamber of commerce,
which met Saturday evening and took
initial steps to afford needed relief to
the greatest mineral commonwealth in
the union.
Mass meetings dealing with the pres
ent ore situation will be held all over
the state, led by Goldfeld, Tonopah,
Reno, Rhyolite, Manhattan, Wonder
and Fairview. Those thoroughly con
versant with the situation, which de
mands immediate attention, will ad
dress these assemblages, and public at
~tention will be thoroughly aroused. The
intention is to have each community
send special delegates to Washington,
his expenses to be raised by popular
subscription. The estimated cost OF
each emissary is $500. Through con
g%ressional representation, it is expected
that the president can be reached in
person and be made acutely FAMILIAR
with the analogous conditions prevail
ing in Nevada at this time.
Nevada reeks with gold, yet it's pro-
ducers cannot sell their product, owing
to the attitude of the smelter trust.
The various press associations will
be interested in the movement, and
ample facts will be compelled to place
the purchasing power in its true light
before the great public at large, and
also before congress.
A full investigation of the smelter
trust is demanded by the chamber of
of Goldfeld-the representa-
tive body of business men in the heart
of the richest gold producing area in
the world. That Goldfeld mines. ac-
knowledged to be without peer any
where, should not be able to dispose of
their gold ores because they are at the
mercy of a combination of ore purchas-
ers, is considered ample justification Tor
one VI the IHOSt TlSlu Inquiries III tHr
history of the country, and President
Roosevelt will be asked to lend his
personal aid toward congressional rem-
edies. The trust is admitted to have
created an artificial conditic3, and the
public suffers. 1t says it can't take
silicious ores from Nevada, and then
in the same breath it declares it can
not take wet ores from Idaho To those
observing the trend of events, the
monopoly has placed a boycott op the
metaliferous miners of the west.
Goldfeld is going to set a pace that
promises to accomplish things and as
sist in restoring the financial situation
to a normal basis.
Charles s. Sprague presided Satur-
day evening, the president, Henry T.
Bragdon, having sent his regrets that
he was unable to be present, owing to
the fact that he was compelled to meet
a party of eastern capitalists at the
hour designated for the meeting. The
directors assessed themselves $40 each
to defray the preliminary expenses, anil
John Holley offered the use of his hall,
free of charge, for the proposed citi
Gems mass meeting.