The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-25
SANDY MEETING
is FRIEND TO
u. S. SHELTER
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smelter run, because 1 shipped SILICA
to the plant. I replied that my interest
was not in the SILICA, but in the 1000
or 1000 men who would be thrown out
of employment when the smelter was
closed. AS to the SILICA, 1 will state
here that I will gladly give to charity
the value of the amount l annually
send to the smelter to see the idle
smeltermen once more at work.
"All Draper can hope for when the
smelter is opened is that 1t will receive
some small portion of the S1,O00,0 900 or
more disbursed in this part of the
county in wages every year by the
smelter.
There seems to me to be no good
reason why the United States smelter
cannot handle the same sort of ore
that is taken to the smelter at Murray.
And 1 say to you, that if the United
States smelter is forced to close, the
southern part of Salt Lake county will
receive a most serious blow"
Mr. RideOut then told of a visit he
had paid to Mr. Rhodes at the United
States plant, and explained in detail the
effectiveness of the bag house" This
new method of taking injurious eie-
ments from smoke has already been
explained in The Herald
with at the United States plant" said
Mr.. Rideout 'many people think that
the smelter is closed. Yet it is run
ming steadily, more than 700 tons of
material being smelted every day"
Mr.. Rideout declared that it would be
unjust to grant special privileges to
the Murray plant, and said that the
United States smelter was entitled to
square deal"
IF the United States smelter were
doing the damage to the farmers in the
past ] would not now urge that the
plant be allowed to resume operations.
But recent Improvements have re-
moved cause of complaint on that
score.
"To illustrate the effectiveness of the
bag house through which the smoke
goes before passing out of the 270-foot
chimney, l might tell you of the 800
tons of dust gathered by this device.
This contains IS per cent lead and %
per cent arsenic
"A new bag house under construc-
ton will, when completed, cost $780,
000 This shows what the smelter is
doing to remove all cause of COM
plant"
The United States company has in
vested s3,OOO,O0O in its plant. Shall the
smelter be permitted TO rum"
Mr.. Rideouts question was greeted
with wild enthusiasm and shouts of
yes"
J. L. Rawlins, of Draper, declared
that the farmers had spent $4,000 in
fighting the smelter.
Where did they get it, demanded
man in the crowd.
Mr.. Rawlins replied that the farmers
had raised the money by toll and by
forcing the smelter to pay them dam
ages.
He said that the smelter should find
some other location. He called Mr..
RideOut a man who sat at desk"
This stirred Mr.. Rideout to ask Mr..
Rawlins to answer the question: Are
you willing to allow the United States
plant to run on the terms granted the
Murray smelter?"
1--WE object TO the smelling of cop
per-" replied Mr.. Rawlins.
1.-THE United States plant, like that at
Murray, is for handling lead, not cop
per- said Mr.. Rideout. "All the smell
ter asks is what you have expressed
willingness to grant.
At this there was another outburst of
cheering.
other speakers were w. w. Wilson
and Mayor Brown of Murray.
After the meeting, the committee of
five gathered together to discuss plans
for ending the contest between the
farmers and the United States semlter.