The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-09
FARMERS USE
STRONG WORDS
Adopt Resolutions Against
SmeIter, in Which Ogden
Business Men Are Criticised.

Following the meetings held by the
farmers in Willard. North ogden and
Plain City the petitions containing the
protest against the placing of an indie
pendent smelter at the Hot Springs are
being freely circulated and rapidly sign
ed. Already more than $50 names have
been added to the petition and it is esti-
mated that fully that many more Will be
added within the next few days. Those
who have placed their names on the petit
ton so far represent more than lO,UOO
acres of farming and horticultural land.
Those behind the movement are not in
Viting persons who are not land owners
in what is believed to be the district
that would be affected by the fumes of
the proposed smelling plant. That the
opposition to- the proposed location of
the new plant will be vigorously prose-
cuted is testified to by those who have
the matter in charge.
The resolutions which were adopted at
the public meeting of farmers held at
South Willard last Monday evening, and
which form part of the petition nov be-
ing circulated by the protestants, are as
follows:
with all due respect for the influen-
tial gentlemen of the Weber club of Og
den and their indOrsers, we regret and
deplore the fact that they in their anX-
iety to dispose of a bad investment, in
their excitement over a new toy. for the
possession of which they would unwit
tingly destroy more valuable old one,
and in their laudable desire to appear
well before their Salt Lake and other
visitors, ignored our written and signed
protest on the subject under discussion;
beittled the value of our farms and live
stock, asserted positively that the plant
should be- located at the spot in question,
if that was the desire of the mining men
present, and insinuated that. were we
foolish enough to bring suit for damages,
we would get no redress in Ogden courts.
THAT we see no reason why this I'M
savory. pestilential smelter plant should
be infliSted on an unwilling farming COM
munity, who protest against it We are
satisfied that a 1,00O-tOn per day plant
will be an offensive and dangerous nuis-
ance; more than liable to poison our live
stock, lessen our crops and destroy the
value of what little we will produce. and,
last, but not least, be unhealthful and
disagreeable to our families.
That our homes are as sacred to us as
are those of our city counsins to them,
and that it is not Christian spirit that
actuates one community to force upon
another community an unwelcome nuls-
ance
ss'That rather than encourage the en-
Iargement of the present small plant now
in our midst, we would prefer to enter
tain a proposition whereby subscription
from us would be employed to remove
permanently from US the present plant.
That we do not believe that the intro
duction of a horde of Greeks or Italians,
forming a filthy village at our doors,
would benefit our market sufficiently to
offset the damage of the smelter, and we,
being only farmers, cannot understand
how this plant could be so immense as to
be of Unreasonable benefit to this sec
ton, and at the same time so small that
the fumes would do no damage. Nor do
we admit. as the gentlemen, who had
axes to grind, so unanimously asserted,
that the mining and smelling interests
are more important to this country than
the agricultural interests, and if such is
the fact we know that there are many
desert districts I'm which there is ample
room for all the smelling plants neces-
sary.
All Sell Farms or None.
"And finally that we will sell outright.
for a fair valuation Gf such valuation can