The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-04-11
A. S. 8 R. COMPANY
AND BUNKER HILL
Settle Their Trouble
on a $3.50
Basis
BIG CASE is DISMISSED
Bunker Hill Will Prepare to
Handle All Custom
Ore
BIG CASE is DISMISSED

| ~ reached between the American
n Smelling & Refining company
and the Bunker Hill & Sulli-
van Mining & Concentrating company
which at once terminates the litiga-
ton between the two companies and
results in the immediate dismissal of
the case. This announcement was
made last Saturday evening by Stanly
A. Easton. manager of the Bunker Hill
& Sullivan. and came as a real sur
prise to the mining fraternity. In
making the announcement Mr.. Easton
said:
Settled on $3.50 Basis.
1.-The differences between the COM
panies have been adjusted. The ad
justment provides for the future of
the Bunker Hill smelter. BY its terms
the ore produced will be divided
equally between the two companies.
Under the terms of the old contract
the A. S. & r. company received ore
containing 80 to rs per cent lead, and
the Bunker Hill retained ore having
higher or lower contents. About 1900
tons a month will be available for di-
vision under the terms of the new
agreement.
SmeIter Gives Better Rates.
'The old rates charged by the A. S.
& r. company have been readjusted
so that the Bunker Hill will receive
! payment for a full 80 per cent of the
lead content based on New York quo
tations and the grade Of the ore in
stead of the usual Coeur d'Alene con-
tract, which provided for split in
price above Sale to the 100 pounds.
"The documents have been signed
and the new arrangement will become
effective at once. The suit will be
dismissed if it has not been so dispos
ed Of"
Enlarge Bunker Hill SneIter.
In response to an inquiry Mr.. Eas-
ton stated yesterday that the product
of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine is
now being disposed Of under the terms
of the agreement, and that the pres
ent large custom contracts being ham
died by the Bunker Hill smelter, with
half the product Of the company's
mine, taxes the limit of the plant and
that the company will not be in po-
sition to handle additional custom ore
until the capacity of the plant is in
creased. Plans for the enlargement
have been prepared, but when they
will be carried out Mr.. Easton was
unable to say. This uncertainty is
due to the difficulty in getting ma
chinery and construction material
The enlargement of the plant is in
conformity with the original plans of
the company to become an active bid
Coeur d'Alene district. and every eff
fort will be made to get in position to
do this at the earliest possible date.
When this is accomplished the people
of this district will then realize the
tremendous benefit the erecting of this
great smelling and refining plant will
prove to be. The small producer with
few tons of ore on his udmp will be
able to convert it into cash, an oper-
alton that will prove most helpful in
the further development of his prop
erty.
Action Started Last Fall. :.
1t was last october that the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining company
started the action against the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan company, which has
now happily been settled out Of court
In anticipation of the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan company treating the ore
from the Bunker Hill mine in its own
smelter, the A. S. & r. company ap-
piled to Judge Woolverton, of the
United States court in Portland, for
an order restraining the Bunker Hill
& Sullivan company from doing so and
to force compliance with the contract
as construed by the smelling COM
pany, under which the product Of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan ore carrying
not less than 80 per cent lead and not
more than rs per cent should be ship
ped to the smelters of the plaintiff.
Other phases of the contract were also
involved, but the fight centered on this
main provision. A temporary re-
straining order was issued and in due
time the hearing was held on the
question of making the injunction per-
manent. In December Judge Wool
verton rendered his decision, which in
the main sustained the complaint of
the American Smelling & Refining
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