The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-10-14
NEW SHELTERS WILL REVOLUT|ON|zE
REDUCTION Of COEUR DALENE LEAD ORE
BUNKER HILL SULLIVAN DETERMINE LOCATION OF
ITS SMELLING PLANT-NoRTHPoRT PLANT is BE.
PUSHED RAPIDLY TO COMPLETION

The determination of the independ.
ent lead miners of the Occur d'Alent
district to break away from the Am.
erican Smelling & Refining company
is attracting much attention in mining
circles throughout the country, and
there is no attempt to conceal
the feeling of satisfaction that gener-
ally prevails that the "smelter trust
is about to lose its grip on what has
perhaps been its most profitable field.
There seems to be no doubt that the
producers of lead in this district have
long been deprived of a large percent
age of the profit that properly belong
ed to them on account of the ability
of the A. S. & r. company to enforce
arbitrary terms of settlement, and al
so in exacting freight and treatment
rate in which the length of the haul
appears to have been left out of con-
sideration. Whether the action of the
Days, following the refusal Of the A.
s. & r. company to renew the Hercu-
les contract last spring, in purchasing
the Northport smelter and preparing
to embark into the smelling business
really represents a bona fide break
with the Guggenheims Is still matts.
upon which opinion is divided; but ii
any event the failure or refusal of tho
A. s. & r. company to renew the Her
cules contract or to grant satisfactory
concessions removed the only chance
the Bunker Hill & Sullivan company
had to secure a downward revision OF
it's contract, as it's contract provided
for revision based upon the terms un-
der which the majority Of the ores"
of the district We're being shipped
Location of Bunker Hill Smelter.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan COM
pany has long had in view the reduc-
that no favorable modification Of it's
contract, which has Is years t. run
Mas no doubt the deciding point that
caused the company to make a deCis-
i've move toward erecting a smelter
How 1t will evade the terms Of the ex-
listing contract with the A. 5. d r..
company is a matter of much specu-
lation, but it may safely be assumed
that there is way out of the diff
,ulty. 1t is said that the contract is
| United to ore or concentrates carry
L ing between 35 and rs per cent lcai,
land 1t is claimed that with the high
| ly efficient milling facilities of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan it is possible
to turn out product above rs ger
cent, while large part of the ore can
be delivered crude direct from the
mine to the smelter.
No definite announcement has been
made as to the location of the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan smelter, but the i'm
preston grows that it will be located
Iat Kellogg. On this subject Manager
Easton is quoted as saying that thu
Kellogg location would give certain
metallurgical advantages, one Of
which would permit handling consid-
cradle of the ore in the smelter that
now goes through the mill He also
pointed out the advantages to the
district in having a plant here to
which small producers could ship
with small cost.
The entire question of location
seems to turn on the rates of freight.
which includes rates on ore, lime, coal
and also the products of the smeter
Several points on the coast are max
ing a hard pull for the big plant but
indications point to Kellogg as the
winner. 1t Is understood that the
Bunker Hill company favors Kellogg
and will locate the plant there unless
some disadvantages not now appar-
ent develop which can not be over