The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-12-13

TO the highest bidder. and resulted II
! the making of many concurrent an
, over tapping contracts for any guam
tity Of ore that we had to spare ant
, for periods Of time varying from 81,
months to one or five years; and II
! practically all cases provided that IN,
Bunker Hill company would have thu
benefit OF any reduction in freight
rates, and also be paid for any exces.
In iron. Such smelling companie.
were the Globe Smelling & Refininf
company, operating at Denver Colo.
RADIO; the Pennsylvania Smelling com.
pany. operating at Carnegie. Pennsyl.
Iyania; the Ohio & Colorado Smeltine
g. Refining company. operating at Sa.
Ida Colorado: the Selby Smelling &
Lead company. operating at Selby
California; the Puget Sound Reduction
company, operating at Everett, Wash
ihgton; the Philadelphia Smelling &
Refining. company, operating at Pueblo
Colorado: the Colorado Smelling K
Refining company, operating in Color
ado; the Tacoma Smelling company
operating at Tacoma, Washington, thr
! United Smelling & Refining company
OF Grating at East Helena, Montana
the Pueblo Smelling & Refining COM
pany, operating at Pueblo, Colorado
the Omaha & Grant Smelling & Re-
filming company, operating at Omaha
Nebraska, and Denver Colorado; the
Chicago & Aurora Smelling & Rein
ing company, operating at Chicago, H.
! linois. the Consolidated Kansas City
Refining company, operating at FL
Peso, Texas; and the American Smelt
ing & Refining company, now known
as the trust in control of all but two
OF the foregoing mentioned smelling
plants.
Each of these smelling companies
! had what | called its personal equ;, :
ton That is. some Of them were
more honest in the weighing, sampllng.
assaying, settling, etc, than others
We're. They had different ways of de-
termining moisture, lead contents, etc,
which ways were all calculated to be
in favor of the smelter and against the
shipper
| The first annual output from de-
PENDANTS concentrating plant. the
building of which was begun in 1890,
was made with loss in concentration
of over 80 per cent of the lead and
over 33 per cent of the silver. From
/ that time on, it has been constant
effort and study not only to lessen the
failing loss in concentration but also
to increase the lead content of the
concentrates, so as to reduce the
amount of worthless material upon
(which freight and smelling charges
have had to be paid. In this effort,
three Commentators have been built in
addition to the first one in 1890. OF
these four COMMENTATORS, the first one
has been partly abandoned with its
remaining portion partly undermined,
the second one has been completely
abandoned, the third one is being ex-
perimented with in the effort to work
ont a wet process for making high
grade lead concentrate, and the last,
or fourth one, is still being changed
and modernized from time to time, and
meanwhile has reduced the losses in
concentration to eleven and fraction
per cent of the lead contents and to
twenty-five and a fraction per cent of
the silver contents. The wet process
OF concentration, now being CONNER
cially developed, promises to still fur
Their reduce these losses. to make a
concentrate of approximately pure
lead, and to recover in marketable
shape some of the other valuable con-
tents of defendants ores.
Most of the old time custom smelt-
ers were situated at such a great dis
lance from Kellogg that. a consider
able cost was involved for freight So,
in 1898, the defendant company pur-
chased an interest in the Tacoma
smelter for the purpose of assisting
in building up and putting that smell
ter on its feet; because freight rates
to that point were more favorable than
the freight rates at that time to other
smelling points, when taking into con-
sideration the fact that Tacoma en-
joyed a favorable water freight Fate
on lead bullion to the Selby refinery
at San Francisco. and then on refined
lead from Selby by the Isthmus of
Panama to New York. Tacoma thus
not only had great natural advan- |
tage in freight because both of it's |
nearpess to Kellogg and of its situa-
ton for ocean competition; but the I
personal equation of the Tacoma !
smelter had always been good. That |
Is, 1t had gained reputation among
,re shippers of returning fair weights,
making correct assays, and in general
making an honest settlement of all ore
for.
But by 1898 lack of working capital |.
rad rather put the Tacoma smelter
'ut OF the way of receiving sufficient
'olume of ore to enable ii to operate
i profit. Although this lack of
working capital had resulted in the
Tacoma plant running short of sufi- F.,
lent custom ores, still IL had splen- |
i'd tide water, frontage which had ,
zen filled in with Stag and a good f
pland acreage, and above all n good