Marysville Smelter

MARYSVILLE SMELTER. – The Company Hopes to Blow In About the 1^st of June.

            Spokane, Jan. 17 – The pay roll for the Sullivan Mining company for the employees on its new smelting plant at Marysville, B.C., for this month reached about $7,000.  The men are paid on the 10^th day of the month, and bills for supplies are paid on the 15^th.

            The Spokane office of the company has received a number of photographs from Marysville, showing views of the new town and the progress of the work on the new smelting plant.  Last October the only building on the site of the new town was an old log hotel, but the photograph of the place taken the latter part of December shows a number of well constructed buildings, buildings in which is represented nearly every branch of trade, including a real estate office and a newspaper.

            The photograph of the smelter building shows that it is nearly completed, and a commodious office building has been finished and is ready for occupancy.  Close to the smelter building is a sawmill, which has a daily capacity of 15,000 feet of lumber.  The plant has been in operation for some time and is cutting all the lumber and timbers that are being used in the construction of the new works.

            Superintendent J.S. Austin is now in Denver, Col., purchasing machinery for the plant.  It is expected that he will return from there next week.  Work on the plant is being [    ], and the officials here say that they will be ready to “blow in” the smelter by the first of June.

            The railroad spur has been completed to the smelter and several carloads of lime and brick have been delivered to be used in the construction of the roasters, the foundation alone for which has already been completed.  The frame is up for the power house and it will be completed in a short time.