The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-25
DAMAGED in Sum of $4,000, 900.

dealers in said metals"
Damaged in Sum of $4,000, 900.
The charge is made that, by reason
OF the wrongful acts of the plaintiff in
destroying competition and by reason
ol its failure and refusal to enter in
IL competition in the Occur d'Alene
district as contemplated by the orig
| inal smelling contract, Bunker Hill has
suffered loss and injury, between June
+ /, 1915, and the date of the filing of the
complaint. in an amount in excess of
So, 600, 600, as follows; The lead con-
/ tents of the product shipped to said
/ plaintiff between said dates was 162,-
64S,l4 pounds and the product shipped
contained an average lead content of
6S,S per cent"
But for the fact that competition
had been destroyed by plaintiff. the an
sWer alleges that Bunker Hill would
have received fun New York prices for
product shipped to Tacoma and would
not have been required to pay freight
Must Play Fair.
The answer continues "Notwith-
standing the wrongful acts of said
plaintiff, defendant is willing and here
by offers to continue to ship its pro-
duct containing more than 80 per cent
in lead and less than rs per cent in
lead excepting an amount which will
yield 81 tons of metallic lead, to said
plaintiff, provided the latter in future
do equity and pay to said defendant
fun New York prices for lead and pro-
Vided that Bunker Hill shall not be re-
quired to pay in excess of SIS per ton
freight and treatment. and also pro-
Vided that the plaintiff account for
and pay to Bunker Hill the amount
wrongfully withheld since July, 1915,
namely $3,000,000.00,"
President Bradley's Affidavit.
In the course of his affidavit in sup
port of the answer, f. w. Bradley.
president Of the Bunker Hill & Sulli-
van company, makes this interesting
statement regarding the condition of
the mine and the outlook for econom-
ical operation and treatment of the
ores:
Defendants last annual report
shows ore reserves blocked out total
ing 3,453 146 tons, with bottom level
of mine in the best ore body that it
has ever enjoyed. AS this is eight
years life at present rate of output,
with geological conditions in favor of
many years of additional life, defend
ant is fully justified in increasing the
efficiency of it's plant in order to for
tify itself against periods of low prices
for lead. This increase of efficiency Is
necessary with the growing depth of
the mines, because of the continual eX-
penditures for shafts, sinking machin-
cry, pumping machinery, etc The in
vestment in such machinery is not on
| ~ growing larger with depth, but min
| ing operating costs also grow witt,
depth and these growing costs can
only be offset by increasing efficiency
| in recovering all possible of the min
erals contained in the ores.
1T would be unWise for us to spenC
further amounts on the old water con-
centrating plants in face of the con-
tinual progress being made in the ar
OF metallurgy. In this line of progress
the fire concentration now installed il
the shape of our smelling plant is {
step in advance over water concen
trating practice for our special condi
Ftions. So the wet process method o
concentration, already CHEMICAL!
worked out. but not yet commercially
developed promises to be step ir
advance over fire concentration. Thi:
is because the wet process concentra-
ton will not only give Us metallic lead
but it will enable us to recover some
of the other metals contained in oul
ores that it is not possible to CONNER
cially recover by fire concentration"