Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-12-06
WORLDS GREAT
SMELLING Center


grealest smoltinE oity In tho world.
50 spoke ludrs Llndlcy to an Eis
Exposition man while be was In this
city last week aud Judge lindley
knows what hc talks about Asked
Tor authority to quote the statement
rs coming from him. he promptly re-
piled ''Of course YOU can quote
me. It's no secret. Every one In
the business knows that the smelters
are being driven TO the uncnltivated
areas OF the West
To fully understand the import
anee of this prediction. It is neces-
sary to explain 10 the uninitiated who
and what Judge Lindley is. First
and foremost. he Is the worlds au-
thority on American mining law: il
the author of several works that are
considered the fountain head of in
formation on the subject. But he Is
not only student and a writer; he
is an active and successful practi-
TONER He is retained as attorney
for the most gigantic mining inter-
ests in this country; therefore knows
what these great operators are do
ing and propose to do, for they act
largely on his advice.
In speaking further on the sub
ject, he hastily summed up the sit
uation, as those familiar with min
ing and its kindred industry, smelt-
ing. know to be the conditions OBJ
tanning at present: That the smelt-
ers in agricultural regions are an
alleged damage done to crops by
smelter fumes, and that the tendency
of courts is to rule in favor of the
grangers. The American Smelling
& Refining company has been try
ing to put in a big reduction plant
down on the California coast for sew
eral years, and after spending a mill
! lion dollars at one point, abandoned
| the enterprise on account of threat
ened litigation. Towns, whose chief
attraction are their flower gardens
and whose paramount ambition is to
attract tourists, don't want smelters
and their smoke and sulphur fumes.
The men who control this great in
dustry are beginning to recognize the
fact that they must get away from
| the farms and flowers, and go to the
deserts.
Transportation. of course. is a
| prime requisite for success in the
business; but the big combinations
are SO strong financially that they
can build railroads themselves, and
derive an additional enormous profit
from that source of revenue as well.
No tonnage pays larger profits for
transportation than do ores, which
fact has been demonstrated by sew
eral railroads built in Nevada during
recent years.
And then Judge Lindley pointed
out the obvious advantages which
this point offers for the location OF
the worlds greatest reduction
plants; with quantities of copper and
lead-silver ores near at hand and all
I around; with only short lines of rail
road to construct to be placed in
close connection with the dry gold
ores of the Tonopah and Goldfield
districts, and to the Clark road al
Phoebe, that will render every dis
trict in the southwest tributary We
already have railroad connection
with the coal fields of Wyoming ant
Utah, and it is the wiser economic
policy to haul the same distance fue
than ore, being of far less tonnage.
1t is reasonable, therefore, to sup
pose that the smelling plant now be
! ing constructed, with it's ultimate ca
pacity of 10000 tons daily the larg
est in the world is only starter
$ and that other companies will come
: here with smelters of little less mag
t nitude; that Judge Lindley had thes,
in mind. when he predicted that Ell.
/. will be the worlds greatest smelling
center.