Tombstone epitaph., 1921-06-12


centrates. Even small smelling
plan, would do for us In fact any
thing to get GU, of the clutches of the
present smelters.
This district cannot afford TO let
The Douglas snelter charge us for As
rer cent OF our silver chlorides. 1t is
crime against economical intelli-
cence The smelter has a legitimate
base treatment charge but where
they make YOU pay As per cent of your
silver chlorides and twenty per cent
OF your ore when it exceeds $3.50 per
ton, il is going just little bit too
strong, Really. the government should
have direct supervision of the sampl-
ing and classification Of all ship
ments. The ore buyer in big sme!t-
er has got TO make good FOR his cor
poration. II he falls down he loses
his job Make no mistake about that.
This ore buyer is human like all the
rest of us. so when he imposes smelt-
or charges and forces down the real
value OF our shipments 10 a point far
below what we feel to be correct. you
must remember that he has 10 make
good on his lab" otherwise he loses
his position Hence. we all know what
happeps. As case in point the writ
er can produce the following facts:
One of our local leasors shipped
some manganese-silver ore TO Douglas.
The ore was good ore and it carried
some gold. Now the Douglas smelter
will only pay for the gold content in
the ore when il amounts 10 sl00 and
over per ton. If il runs few cents
under you do not get paid for the gold.
Now. this particular shipment carried
GAS gold per ton. which means that
the gold in the ore was valued at
about Sc cents per ton. The shipment
amounted to forty tons, which, of
course, means that the shipper OF the
ore would have received better than
/ $500 if the smelter had paid for the
gold. But. nothing doing. Why? Be
cause our metallurgist at the smeltss
favored his boss All this shipper
needed was cents more in gold per
ton and he would have been paid. Can
any assayer reconcile himself in hon
estly believing that that smelter as
sayer could not have sincerely weigh
ed his gold bead so that the four
cents would have been a credit for the
shipper.
The question of that four cents
meant that the smelter corporation
took the entire gold content and the
shipper did not benefit
When one stops to remember the
other unfair charges its enough reas-
on for wishing the government would
step in a call halt" on such preda-
tory action. Think of it. IS per cent
of your silver chlorides and then 20
per cent Of your ore when il runs over
sll.50 per ton. Well, that's rubbing it
in too deep. And then, being charg-
ed for not having copper in your ore.
Yes. that's true. but what can We do
about it?
OF course the smel;ers did not pro-
fiteer duronG the war-oh. no. far be
it from such. but just remeber that
we have TO pay 45 per cent OF our sill
yer chloride and on top of that terri
fic handicap we have to work over
20 per cent of our ore when it runs
over s1l.50 or else pay an enormous
penalty on the silica and alumina con-
tent. beside other sundry charges.
To the big operator We offer a splen-
did opportunity for conservative in
vestment. The tonnage here is the
raw product. The big operator can 20
into the manufacturing business, for
that is what il means. convert this
low grade produot into high grade
product Our camp offers every in
ducealent We have millions Of tons
OF ore. We have unlimited quantity
OF water. it only needs to be pumped
from the ground. Our ores concen-
trate satisfactorily and a first-class
profit can be made on every ton run
through the mill. Water gravity Ia
bles can be used TO good advantage.
but surely a firstclass modern custom
mill having Uotor copccufvaf;o, ~,