Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-03
UNITED STATES TO
FOLLOW THE REST
Complying With Orders from
Boston All Ore Receipts
Have Been Stopped.
PLANT is TO CLOSE DOWN
Fourteen Hundred Men to be Relieved
OF Employmcnt--Tint
Mines Affected.

The smelter of the United states
Smelling. Refining and Mining company
is to be closed. The order came from
the general offices of that corporation
in Boston late yesterday afternoon and
within a week Bingham Junction viii
have been reduced to a state of In
activity The Bingham Consolidated
smelter went out OF commission the
day after Christmas, the Utah Con-
solidated near Murray will be down
and out today and now the huge plants
| of the United States have succumbe0
| to meet the requirements of the order
of Injunction issued from the court pre-
sided over by Judge John Marshall.
What the future has In store for the
town of Bingham Junction, no one
knows. The shelters located there are
out Of business and maybe-forever.
AT any rate no more ores from any
source will be Accepted by the United
States company and II is certain that
the fires will never be rekindled under
the furnaces OF the Bingham Consoll-
dated plant, for plans are already well
under way for the early dismantlement
and removal.
Possibly, the situation is not so seri-
Gus for the United States company;
nevertheless, the management has de-
cided on a shutdown. the duration of
which is indefinite. In the meantime,
l,400 employees of the latter are thrown
out of employment in the dead of win
ter and confronted with q situation
which offers them little encouragement
towards finding re-engagement imme-
diately.
IL Is an unfortunate beginning for a
new year; but the courts have decreed
that the smelters are a nuisance If
located within a farming community
and therefore, they must make haste to
the scrap heap; Notwithstanding the
far-fetched evil effects which the min
ing Industry will fall heir to in this
western country No doubt in the end,
X VIII be all for the better but for a
time there Will be hardships to bear. |
The mine owner tho ssmelter owner,
the professional man and the laborer
viii share in this blocking of the wheels
of progress.
But after awhile, new smelters will |
be built to replace the ones now idle. |
or those about to become so, and they |
VIII be located far enough away from
the farms so that in the future there |
VIII never be any occasion for u repe-
tition of the warfare experienced In
the Salt Lake valley during the past
few years.
CONFLICTING STORIES.
Recently. there have been many con-
fiictlng stories circulated as to what
the United states company proposes
10 do In the future. Managing Director
A. f. Holden Is quoted In one of them
as saying that the United States com,
pany VIII rotire from the Utah field
altogetha' and establish new works
az soma central point in Nevada, An.
other story is to the effect that Mr..
H"lden and his associates have sold
enough of their stock to give a con-
rolling interest to the so-cailed ''snelt
sr trust pointing TO the late absence
IF competition in the local smelling
ield as the proof of It; that there Is
10 sueh thing as competition between
salt Lake smelters any more. Others
ieclare that a coalition of the inter-
ISIS Of the two concerns has been ac-
omplished; but that the United States
company is simply playing a waiting
'ame and when the time comes will
ONE no with "A trump card; that n
moving VIII be made in court to the
l
mated IN favor of the American Smelt-
ng and Refining company and con-
endlng that II the American can oper.
&c It's Murray plant without Injurious
fleets, there Is no reason why # too
hould not he permitted 10 continue in
usiness at Bingham Junction. Another
lain set forth is that the tTnifeo Z
tates company hBs gone to great OK !
ense in the lnstallaHon of bag houses 4
nd providing other equipment: that I
le problem OF eliminating tho poison !
us solids contained In the fumes has I
zen ACCOMPLISHED In both the lead and
inner plants. and that officials are
'ady to establish the correctness of
IFS statement.
CAN KEEP WITHIN LAW. \
A party who is held In the highest \
TEEN by MetallurglcaI Director Pros G
! has made the assertion that the L
'eragc sulphur content of the charges
It through the furnaces during the v
Onth Of December was under 2 per o
Mt, which Is considerably under Inc o
nit prescribed for In the decree OF
dye Marshall, and is undoubtedly the a
undation for the report circulated
me days ago to the effect that the
mpany would continue to operate ia
ants fully prepared TO show that IL \
uld keep well within the law; hui y
this plan were adopted, the company
'uld be compelled to make good on
@ several upfavorable contracts =,
lich the management has had an ~
satisfied desire TO abrogate for some n
ne. ~
With the closing OF the United States -
letter the mines OF Tintic are prac- a.
ally shut out Of the local market Il
c low metal market and the alleged h,
orbitnnt exactlons OF the smelters ~
late has caused many OF the Tintlc y
oducers 10 close down entirelys a,
lers have curtailed their output; hui "
? shut down OF the smelter takes q,
arly al the rest. AS to the Centen- Il.
Al Eureka mine, the ores from that ~
lroe for the time being viii probably Il.
sent TO the Mammoth plant IN cali n