Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-12-07
GREAT
Smelling CENTER

within FIVE years Ely will be the
greatest smelling city in the world.
So spoke Judge Lindley to an Ely
EXpositor man while he was in this
city last week-and Judge Lindley
knows what he talks about. Asked
for authority t. quote the statement
as 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 uncultivated
areas of the West"
To fully understand the import
ance of this prediction, it is neces-
sary to explain to the uninitiated who
and what Judge Lindley is. First
and foremost, he is the worlds au-
thority on American mining law; Is
the author of several works that are
considered the fountain head of in
formation on the subject. But he is
not only a 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 Gnaakipn f,pthGr. m the cub
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
noyed by farmers, on account of the
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 fol
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 whicr
this point offers for the location o
the worlds greatest reduction
plants; with quantities of copper ant
lead-silver ores near at hand and al
around; with only short lines of rail
road to construct to be placed Il
close connection with the dry golC
ores of the Tonopah and Goldfiel,
districts, and to the Clark road a
Phoebe, that will render every dis
trict in the southwest tributary. w,
already have railroad connection
with the coal fields of Wyoming an,
Utah, and it Is the wiser economi
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 its ultimate ca
pacity Of 10000 tons daily, the lars
est in the world, is only a starter
and hat other companies will com
here with smelters OF little less mag
nitude; that Judge Lindley had thes
in mind, when he predicted that El
will be the worlds greatest smeltin
/ center.
Write d. G. Doubleday, Merchants
: Exchange, building. San Francisco
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