Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-19
COMPETITION IN
THE ORE MARKET
Articles of incorporation OF indie
pendent Smelling Company
Filed Today.
TAKES OVER OGDEN SHELTER
Plant VIII Go Into Commission In
Junc-Nlontanan for SUI
pcrintendcnt.

IL VIII be good news to the owners of
copper mines In this region to know
that they are again TO receive the ben
eft Of competition In the local smelt-
ing field. The fact was stated in the
News several days ago that the
smolter owned by the Utah Smelling
company and located near Ogden had
been leased to a local syndicate and
that members Of this syndicate had
taken the matter of more equitable
freight rates zip with the railroads The
fact was pointed out that under exist
ing conditions, the ogden plant could
not compete with the Salt Lake
shelters in the treatment of ores from
some of the camps south OF Salt Lake
CITY particularly the product OF the
mines OF Tintic and Bingham
According to information obtained
IRON trustworthy source today the
transportation companies have consents
ed to make concessions which will war
rant the new management of the Og-
den plant going ahead with it's plans
to kindle fires under the furnaces again
and hence the pragrom is to be carried
out.
ARTICLES FILED.
Accordingly. articles of incorDoration
OF the Independent Smelling company
VIII be filed in the office OF the county
clerk this afternoon. The corporation
VIII have capital stock of 500 shares
of The par value of 500 each and the
incorporatnrs are Mat S. Browning and
Leroy Eccles of ogden; Joel l.. Nibley
John q. Crltchlow and j. h. Jenson of
SAT- Lake. The company takes over a
lease with option to purchase given tn
l. II lnl1 ~ 4.
and the headquarters of the company
VIII continue to be al Ogden, but A
branch office, in all probability. will
he located in this city. The man
agement of the enterprise. II Is under
stood, Is to be under the Immediate
direction of Mr.. Jensen. formerly con-
nected with the ore purchasing depart-
ment of the American Smelling &. Re
inning company and later i'm a like
capacity. with the United States Smelt-
ing. Refining & Mining company. 1t
has been suggested that possibly the lat
ter might at least have close working
alliance with the new Independent COM
pany In view OF the fact that 1t is
barred by decree of court from operat-
Ing its copper smelter at Bingham
Junction. An official of the Ogden COM
panty. however. when his attention was
called to II. insisted that the United
states company would have Nothing to
90 directly or indirectly with the enter
prise. but IL would be operated indie
pendently of any other smelling com
pany in the state,
CLOSED ORE CONTRACTS.
The Independent company has al
ready closed number OF good con-
tracts and has more than enough ore
pledged TO keep the smelter running up
To the capacity of the present equip
mont for an indefinite time. Arrange
ments have been made for an addition
al furnace. which when installed. will
provide facilities for the treatment of
400 tons of ore daily.
Charles Williams, formerly connected
with one of the big Montana shelters
and who comes highly recommended,
has been selected for the position of
smcter superintendent. Mr.. Williams
is now In New York, but is expected
to arrive here some time. next week,
when he will get into the harness with
out delay.
While the Ogden smelter during the
time II was operated last year did not
prove to be a financial success il did
nevertheless prove itself all right met
allurgically. Where the owners lost out
was IN the purchase of a lot Of ore
during the high metal prices which
could not be disposed OF before the
slump. Besides owing to arbitrary
freight rates, number of contracts
accepted turned out to be Improbable.