MINEBK00514

• County: San Juan
• Document: Manager
• Suffix: B

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Silverton. The Company alto Daps 70 acres of ground, adjoining the town of Sil- ~{ ii'~
rrrton, upon which the smelter is located. Detailed mention of the mining prop- iil ~~;~'
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erties owned by this coaipaay Hill appear later in this report.
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In the location of a smelting plant, success depends very much upon trans- ~! , i
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portation facilities and co~enience to available supplies of the different kinds
of ore required as sell as to cheap fuel and fluxing materials. ~! ~ I'
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In tl;ese respects the i:endrick ti Gelder Smelter is Host favorably cif- -~' ~i
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ueted; located at Silverton, the principal eosr}ercial and railroad center of San ! _ ~'
Juzn County, the terminal point of four different lines of railroad, that jointly !~}I ~'.
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cover tl:e entire mining territory tributary to Silverton, and afford cornectfon ~~ '
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dth ore, fluxing and fuel suppliss from adjoining counties. 'i~l
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In addition to the Deaver ~ Rio Grande, which is tl:e main line to Deriver 1
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esdother outside points, the Silverton ~ Red Fountain Raad, up Laneral CreeY., IG°
a distsict tHat is prolific in pyritic iron and copper ores, especially
to this class of smelter; the Silverton b I;orti:era, up the Animas River
tor7ire3~, tapping a large mining district, rich in both pyritic and high-grade
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eelicious ores, and the Silverton 8 Gladstone Reed up Cenent Creek to Gladstone,
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sdang available to this smelter a section that !a rapidlq forging to the front 1, ?!1
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sea producer of pyritic urea, carrying well ir, copper; also higl:-grade pilling ~f~
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Bold ores, yielding a heavy tonnage of eoaeerrtratea.
ins Silverton h Northern Aoad sill be eztended beyond its present termira j ,` ~~
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ntFLreka, to AnirAa Porka and Cineral Point, the coming Year, giving the smelter ~ ~
direct rail co~ection *ith a rich distsict alwae loner grade nines have thus far ~~
reasiaed taactive for asst of flu cheap treatr~e~ this Plant can nos offer. ~ j
7nis type of saslter is especially adapted to the econopical reductfo^ cf `~,~ ~'.
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