Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-03-07
DEER LODGE MINE
TO SEE ACTIVITY
EMERY CONSOLIDATED SOLD TO
BIG SYNDICATE AND OPER-
ATOMS START SOON

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Citizens of Deer Lodge are jubilant
over the good news which has been
disclosed by Elmer Whitwerth, who.
returned recently from Los Angeles,
where he completed a deal selling
the Emery Consolidated mine to the
North American Mining and Smelt-
ing company, a unit of Associated
Metals.
According to information given Mr..
WhitwOrth, Deer Lodge has been Sc
lected by the new owners a. head
quarters for an extensive program of
mining activities, to be ~inaugurated
this year under the direction of Walter
Gordon Clark, chief consulting en-
gineer, and Andrew Stevenson, presi-
dent of the North American Mining
and Smelling company. The tentative
program as outlined by these officials
to MI. WhitWOrth, contemplates devel-
opment and production activities on q
large scale, and it is believed that these
efforts at the outset will be cOncen-
trated in the Emery district, which is
only nine miles north of Deer Lodge,
and which has frequently attracted
attention as one of the most potential
fields in the state.
The North American Mining and
Smelling company, which is controlled
by Associated Metals corporation of
New York. owns or controls, or is in
the process of completing ownership of
mining properties in the principal
proven mining districts of this con-
tinent, and represents n of the larg-
est consultations of it's kind in the
world. Executive offices of the corpOr-
alton are maintained in Los Angeles.
Just recently the company an
nounced an extension of their activities
on a large scale in Mexico, acquiring
northern Mexico, having large potential
values in gold, copper, silver and zinc,
in what is regarded as M of the high
est mineralized in North America.
In completing its acquisitions in
western Montana, the North American
Mining and Smelling company an
nOunceS its intention of maintaining
the corporate identity of the Emery
Consolidated Mining company.
The North American Mining and
Smelling company recently made a
public offering Of 500, 900 shares of it's
capital stock of So per share, the pro-
ceeds of which are to be devoted to set
ting up of reserves for working CAPT.
tai, property payments and develop
ment work.
al tiiC PlNoNllt tllllC fAooOCidtCO NlCl-
ais, parent corporation, owns four OPP
Grating units, of which will be
operated under a Canadian charter.
Richard w. Saunders of New York,
comptroller of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ky motion picture corporation, and
chairman of the advisory committee of
the Chemical National bank of New
York, is president of Associated Metals.
Andrew Stevenson, founder and first
president of the Bank of Alaska, heads
the North American Mining and Smelt-
ing company. Mr.. Stevenson is we'll
known in Deer Lodge, having made
several visits there to inspect the
Emery mining district. Among the di-
rectors and stockholders of both cor
porations are men of national prom
inence identified with various lines Of
industry and finance.
Arrangements are being concluded,
states Mr.. Whitworth, by the North
American Mining and Smelling COM
pany for the immediate opening of its
Deer Lodge office and it is confidently
expected that mining operations will
commence early in the spring.