Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-10
SITUATION.
The Mining Reporter Calls Aatten-
ton to Serious Condition.

ton to Serious Condition. d
Work at the ~Guggenheim $4,000 Q
900 smelter, located at Point San y
Bruno on San Francisco bay has been
discontinued, and the bulk of the ma
chinery ordered for this immense
plant is reported sent to other works
OF the American Smelling and Re-
fining company. The main reason
for the abandonment of the enter
prise appears to be the recent de-
cision handed down by the United
| States supreme court in the SUIT
brought by the state OF Georgia
against the Tennessee Copper COM
pany, whereby the latter was charg-
ed with destroying vegetation by
permitting the escape OF injurious
fumes from its Duchtown reduction
works. Immediately after this de-
cision. which was preceded by the
judgments in the Salt Lake valley
cases and the long-contested and ex-
~pensive Anaconda litigation, strong
ly organized and misguided (both
from the commercial and scientific
s%tandpointsl opposition has been
shown by the residents of San Ma
! teo and vicinity, who have instituted
or formulated damage suits against
the says the Mining Re-
porter.
1t is an unfortunate atfair-un-
!, fortunate alike for the industry, for
the and for the rebuilding
> Golden Gate city. For the industry,
e because of the increasing Importance
of shelters, and particularly of one
+ al which copper ores OF the PACING
~ coast states and of Alaska could be
j most advantageously marketed; for
the company, in that upwards Of
goo has already been eXpend'
\ ed in grading. foundations and rail
10 road trackage; for San Francisco
= because In the rehabilitation OF tn
city the plant would have consti
or tuted an important industrial rae
nd tor,
~ This leads us to a study OF IN
&c, smelter situation. Undoubtedly, tn
nv smelling companies have suffere
o. primarily from uniformed, prejr
al diced and technically perverted Of
nosition in the Montana, Utah an
"a. Tennessee cases. 1t cannot be gan
M said. though, that the companies nav
displayed lack of consideration Il
fine surrounding communities and Il
terests-as in the case wher u
ma plants were built in, or in proXlml
to. valuable agricultural areas wh'
ala as equally available sites could ma
90 been secured elsewhere at points 81
,on acientIy remote to preclude n pc
sible devastation of cultivated
80 nonulated tracts. Furthermore. SIM
ter operations have, until recent
Nv given little attention to minimizl
,m of the smoke and fume nuisance. IL
had question should. and probably "
voc no made a metallurgical study hen
.ona forth. with the result that deVl'
will be perfected !" pio =
Tho harmful escape of noNious fumes q
was of their profitable utilization In
ena. manufacture of %sulphuric ACID =
other saleable byproducts.
nine The American Smelling and re
ing company, in its selection OF
NM Bruno. secured a site which G
and bined advantageous tide water L
ansel ton near an important indust
center and where operations she
not have interfered with other In
ests. Again. the company had
t+tea ranged for the installation OF
y,,at. proyed devices for the prevention
smoke injury. Had there beer
: adj played more fairness on the par
70 as the opposition We venture to q
mar that smelling operations would
land been carried on with as little hi
"A he full result as is the case az Del
(. "a. IN the outskirts of which are loo
three operative plants.