The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-08-24
DEDICATE BUNKER HILL 8 SULLIVAN
SHELTER WITH FITTING CEREMONIES
THE WALLACE BOARD PRESENTED
FIRST METALLIC
DALENEs

smelter celebration at Kellogg last
Saturday and Sunday were greeted
with the above slogan and it made a
hit. Kellogg is TO have million dol
lar smelter plant, owned and operated
by the Bunker Hill q Sullivan COM
pany, and it has a right to be proud
of the fact. The entire Occur dAlene
district joins in the rejoicing, for the
entire Coeur d'Alene district will reap
wonderful benefits from such an in
sttution. The dawn of new day ap-
pears for the greatest silver lead dis
trict in the world.
Kellogg was in gala day attire and
gave a royal welcome to the several
thousand who participated in the cele-
bration. The miners picnic festivities
gave opportunity for everybody to
have a good time along picnic lines
while the ceremonies incidental to the
smelter celebration held the attention
of mining men from all parts of the
northwest.
Smeter Means Greater Activities.
DR.. Francis Burgette Short of Spo-
kane, speaker of the day. aroused the
minds of his hearers to important
facts in connection with increased in
dustrial activity attendant with the
smelter and on through the day his
keynote was emphasized by speakers
from various parts of the country.
A feature of the exercises was the
presentation Of four bars of pure me-
tallic lead, the first metallic lead pro-
duced by the Occur dAlenes, to the
Wallace board of trade, the Spokane
chamber of commerce, the Occur
dAlene chamber of commerce and the
Mullan board of trade c. H. Seelig,
president of the Kellogg board of
trade, presented the bars TO represen-
tatives of each civic organization, j.
E. Clyde receiving the gift for the
Wallace association. The bars were
suitably engraved with the wording:
"B. Fl. & S. First Metallic Lead Pro-
duced by the Coeur d'Alenes August
19, 1916. Presented to the Wallace
Board of Trade by the Kellogg Board
of Trade" The lead was produced at
the electrolytic experimental plant of
the Bunker Hill, where experiments
and tests have been under way for
the past two years and which Mana
ger Easton states have been highly
successful in attaining the desired re-
suits.
Many Speakers Present
During the smelter program ad-
dresses were made by Stanly A. Eas-
ton, manager of the Bunker Hill and
chairman of the Columbia Chapter Of
the American Ingtitu-e of Mining En-
gineers, many of whose members were
lig, president of the Kellogg board of
trade; Mayor Chas. Fleming of Spo-
kane G. B. Dennis, president of the
Spokane Mining Mems club; w. S. Nc
Crea, president of the Spokane cham
ber of commerce.; Capt. J. c. White,
president of the Occur d'Alene cham
ber of commerce.; J. E. Clyde for the
Wallace organization and ]. B. Wilcox
for the Mullan association.
A number of the speakers pointed
out some of the beneficial results to
up %
smelling plant in the Coeur d'Alenes.
While the full import of such an un-
dertaking will scarcely be realized
until it is in full operation and the re-
sultant stimulus to production over
the district exemplified in dollars and
cents handed the small producer for
his ores that freight tariffs barred his
handling before many are beginning
to appreciate the Importance of the
project and take view down the years
to the time when Coeur d'Alene smelt-
ing activities will rival the great
plants in other parts of the country.
Will Handle Custom Ores.
The Bunker Hill plant will handle a
custom business. In q recent address
Mr.. r. W. Bradley, president of the
corporation, stated his company would
be in the market for all the ores they
could buy and intimated that manu-
featuring concerns, handling the raw
lead and producing the mr. +erials used
in the home, thereby consummatfng
the program of crude ore, smeltcd and
refined and manufactured for the use
of the ultimate consumer would find
q hearty reception from the smelter
officials in this northwest. The fact
that the Bunker Hill company will al
so refine it's product at the local smell
ter is an important step, second only
to the smelling of the ores.
Dedicate Smelter.
The celebraton last Saturday dedi-
Gated the great smelling and refining
plant to the people of the northwest
1t will become a factor in the develop
ment of the mining industry Of this
region and the associated industries