Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-14
PLANS SHELTER
ON YAQUl RIVER
INTERNATIONAL PREPARES TO
ENTER FIELD
RAILROAD BACKS AM ERlcAN
COMPETITOR
Big Plart viii Be Necessary to
Handle output of Mines in Dis
trct When Rail Connections
Are Perfected

DOUGLAS, Dec. 10.--For some time
it has been talked about among the
mining men who visit Douglas, and
especially among those who come UP
from the Sonora mining district, that
there will be smelter necessary some
where along the upper Yaqui river TO
supply the needs Of the mines in the
districts of that section of the state.
There is at present an ideal smelter al
Toledo, which was erected in 1902, ana
never operated. 1t is reported that TINS
smelter has on stock 100000 worth OF
ore, and that it will be blown in as
soon as the Southern Pacific railroad
gets as far as that place.
But the report comes from Eel Paso
now that another smelter is to be built
somewhere in the district of Moctezu-
ma, or thereabouts, to handle the ores
produced in adjacent mines. TINS
smelter, according to report, VIII De
built by the International Smelling
company of Boston, a big corporation
organized, it is said, to compete with
the American Smelling and Reilnih6
company.
At a recent meeting of the board Of
directors it was decided to issue So"
O0O.0 900 worth Of bonds, and the outcome
of this it is said, will be the erection
OF new smelters. The company has
already acquired three smelters, two Ill
the United states and one in Mexico,
and In addition to a new smelter
which will be erected at El Paso, IL IS
believed the company will put one sup
at Tonichi, Sonora where II is thought
the Southern Pacific will enter the field
by April 1, 1910.
Outlet to the States
with this news also comes the re-
port that the Mexico Northwestern
railroad. recently acquired by the Pear
son interests will run line from the
connecting link between Terrazas ana
MADEIRA to Tonichi, giving the smelters
and the mines I'm this section OF the
state an outlet TO Isl Paso.
Cole, Cotton and Ryan, and the estate
of the late L. H. Hartman are heaVy
stockholders in the international Smelt-
ing company.
DR. Pearson says the Mexico North
western will probably connect with the
Southern Pacific system at Tonichi II
an agreement could be made with the
latter company covering an aEreeable
traffic arrangement Otherwise, the
Mexico Northwestern would build an
independent line through from the ter
minus TO the Pacific coast.
II Is believed by mining men that the
new smelling plant to be erected at El
Paso will be mostly on a copper base.
1t is also rumored that the smelling
plant of the American Smelling and
Refining company now operating on the
north side of El Paso will be largely
changed from n lead to a copper base,
and that additional roasting and cal
ching ovens viii be erected on the east
side Of the tracks of the Southern Pa
ciflc and Southwestern railways, oppo-
site the present smelling works.
Lead Ore Decreases
A converter plant will also be erect
ed at the same place. This change is
said to be due to the fact that the
visible supplies of lead ores are de-
creasng rather than Increasing In the
territory tributary to El Paso, while
the phenomenal increase OF low-grade
copper porphyries and gigantic concen-
trating plants to bring the copper sui
phide ores to a shipping basis in the
different copper camps in the southwest
will in the near future enormously in
crease the tonnage to be treated at the
lei Paso smelters.
what is needed | nthe Moctezuma
district and that territory between Ma
Cozari and the border of Chihuahua"
saws n prominent mining man who Is
stopping in Douglas, sis a new smelter
I'm the district around El Tigre. 1t is
not Just so necessary at the present
time as IL Is going to be when the mines
which have been making great records
on the development of low-grade ores
come to the state where they will be
ready for heavy shipments. There are
dozens of great low-grade propositions
In Sonora which cannot be worked at
present because of ore packing cost,
but with railroad within hauling dis
tance many of these lodges will enter
the market as heavy producers, and
this on n profit