The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 26

STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT, 15, 1917. PAGE 26 SEES ELEMENTS FOR A GREATER SEATTLE HERE Continued From Page 25 Third Section - wHy, WHY ALL a? This Rusn 1d 1% SERMON) A ROUT COAL 7 ° the atates adjoining Washington It fe not alone that Seattle will gain a larger percentage of the trade with Idaho, Montana and kindred tates in future, As manufac turing and facilities alowk other leew show a” Increase, the volume of trade with the melgkboring states will become still more favorable. Hut maintaining only the present ratio of commerce, the trade in thin direction will naturally increase as | these sparsely settled states be come more widely developed and populated | Russia, China, Japan, the Duteh East Indies and other lands of the Orient are about to enter upon a} new © Th countries are pre paring for a pertod of development The nearest port to them is Seattle. ; Here will be added man-made facil! ties to a great natural harb mak: | ing It one of the finest ports in t world, The trade will follow. In} the past the foreign trade has bee large, bat its size only lends giimpse at the commerce future, Russia, the great ore and timber—a vast storehouse of treasure—is at the doors of Se attle. | Trade with Siberia will include, ores, lumber, agricultural produc furs, livestock and all the natural resources of & great raw country,| os large tn area the United States, and all this will be tribu tary to Seattle. The lumber and fishing industries | will go on into the future with some increase in volume, due to higher manufacture of their product and with a considerable increase in their value to Seattle because of our manufacturing more of the things that the tndustries use. In the lumbering industry a larger set- tlement of the Wost will assure a more complete use of the products of the woods. The recent accept ance of Pacific Northwest timber for use In constructing aeroplanes lends a forecast of what the future may bring forth. The prospect of the early con struction of a great iron and steel plant, some place on the round, an indication of the intensive tn dustrial development which ts now getting under way. In the past, So ttle has been largely serving the functions of a distributor, where, in the future, it will become a real manufacturing center In making this analys tried to point out that t that have made Seatt! today are onty a portion ments that will make the Seattle.” Every American city has been built to Its present size on ability to sell its merchandise to a) territory many times larger than/ that of Seattle. It is safe to say! |that no city east of the Missouri |river ever attained one-fourth the! size of Seattle during that period of ite growth when it was con) fined in ite trade to a district that contained no more people than does the trade territory of Seattle | What, then, of the future? The elty essentials which have created in the past are to be increased many fold. Its future may be vin fonized by any one who wishes to look back 20 years, make a stud of the present and then reach aj logical conclusion as to what is coming. If any person tried to make a definite prediction with out forcing upon his visitor a full comprehension of the situation, he would be considered a dreamer. But there are more than natural conditions required to make great city. In reducing my belief in Greater Seattle to a logical analysis, I have merely applied the! |natural conditions which have made great cities everywhere. But hese conditions alone do not make! great city, and that ts the vision the Chamber of Commerce jand Commerctal Club 1s seeking to! convey to you. The mere posses sion of a cholee corner near the center of this city does not ma |the livest business in the city. Too frequently {t lulls the business man who has that favored location into a feeling of false security | The thing above everything else that builds a great city is to have within that city a live, progres sive, aggressive community spirit which recognizes that a modern city is nothing but a great busi ness institution that must have force, organization and community epirit in order to be a marked suc cess. | The Greater Seattle Spirit is) seeking to do its part toward pro-| |viding that spirit for Seattle by in-| viting all the people of Seattle to} Join in and be a real part of the great community «movement, for the purpose of building a Greater ttle. North Pacific Bank Note Company 1103 Post St., Seattle CAN'T stor! GoTTA ORDER THAT WINTER Fuet !! Gea: . evenvoooys GONE BATTY Sut me! | ITS JUSTA LITTLE Toucw of the ole Greater PaciFic Coast COAL Co. PHONE tue MAIN 5080 for a satisfied Palate Lambs, Hams, Bacon, Lard Killed, Cured, Packed and Refined Bonds: Stock Certifi Insurance Policies— Checks—Drafts—Notes Receipts—Letter Heads Bill Heads Business Cards AT OUR OWN PLANT SEATTLE, WASH. Statements BARTON & COMPANY \ Packers and Provisioners fad 40 Kinds of Corporation, Bank and Commercial Forms PLANT OF THE GREAT WESTERN SMELTING & REFINING CO. Great Western Smelting & Refining Co. Telephone: Elliott 450 ——— SEATTLE, —=— WE MANUFACTURE — U.S. A. P. O. Box 278 WHITE AND YELLOW METAL ALLOYS—Made to Formula—Analysis Guaranteed. OUR STANDARD GRADES LINOTYPE TEREOTYPE COMBINATION METAL TONING METAL SOLDERS BABBITT XXXX NICKE METALS COPPER HARDENED DIADEM ANTI-FRICTION WHEEL BRAND puiie Coe doves ® RON FIEND FLUX 2285 SPECIAL RAILROAD HARDWARE GRADES NOS, 4, 2, 3, 4 CALKING LEAD BRASS INGOTS ALUMINUM BAR ZINC SPELTER PIG LEAD ANTIMONY INGOT COPPER FOUNDERS Personal Record Forms History of Successful Mining Enterprise Dr. G. L. Tanzer, by Loyalty to Hundreds of Share- holders, Thwarts Plans of Erratic Promoters and Doubles Value of Assets of Western Smelting and Power Company. It makes no difference how fine a reputation a man has, un lons it is backed by the kind of character that justifies {t, the time will com as sure as fate, when that reputation will crum ble and tumble, leaving its former possessor without stand ing or prestige And no matter how unfavor able a man's reputation may be if he be a man of good character the undesirable reputation will become dispelled and the man will rise to his rightful place in the esteem of his fellow men just as surely as the sparks fly upward and fire ascending seeks the sun No man can dabble very ex tensively in mining promotion without having his reputation, in the minds of a very great per centage of the human race, at times seriously Jeopardized. But whatever his undertaking, be It lawful and right, no man’s real character is in any danger, come what may for the time being, to his reputation. The Golden Rule ean be ap plied to this branch of American industry just as consistently and beneficially as to any course of individual conduct. A notable example of this fact exists today in the Western Smelting and Power Company, with offices in the Northern Bank Building, Se- attle, Washi ‘on. About fourteen years ago a group of Northwestern promot ers organized to develop a fa-| mous old mining camp close to the borders of Yellowstone Na tional Park. It Is known as the New World District and is rich in gold, silver, copper and lead ores, Many noted mines jocated in the mountains around it. The idea was to smeit the ores on the ground, thereby say ing the tremendous expense of transporting the ore to other regions far distant Along about that time a young| German, native of Troebnits in| Thuringia, by the name of G. L. | Tanzer, who had gained the priv-} llege of prefixing his name with the term “Doctor,” was dispos- ing of his business and profes- sional good-will in Chicago and ng the prow of his shtp of © toward Seattle, to be ity chemist. Here Dr. work in the noted for maldehyde crusade distinguished him, and he was appointed spe- cial state chemist Soon Became Prominent He was a thirty-third degree | Mason, president of the German | War Veterans’ Society tn Chi-| cago, and soon became prom! nent in fraternal activities in his | newly adopted state. He became! a member of every German 80: ciety in Seattle and served six terms as president of the Krie gerverein Without recounting how it happened, nor what impulse lay back of the transaction, Dr. Tan zer one day in 1906 acquired a plece of beautifuiy printed and gilded paper setting forth the fact that he was an extensive stockholder in the New World Mining and Developme Com- pany, and in due time became its president, attributable most likely to the fact that he took from the very first a sincere and deep taterest in the operations of the company. Soon after be. coming its president, several other gentlemen who had been in the organization prior to Dr. Tanzer’s becoming interested, | came to the new executive with the proposition that they and he be voted exceedingly corpulent salaries, He turned them down flatly and for this act of loyalty to some 400 whose shares rep resented the minority of stock, was voted out of office, Stayed With the Ship He cherished no resentment, | but remained in close touch with the progress of events, more than once being of material help| to the erratic financters who had} misjudged the character of their | scholariy Teutonic associate. In 1911 his oft repeated warnings | extimi not analyzed the man’s charac-| came true and the concern went through bankruptcy, leaving $100,000 worth of perfectly good and so far useless mining ma- chinery on the ground, and the aforementioned 400 stockholders holding 400 empty sacks Then Dr. Tanzer came for- ward and bid in the whole con- cern at auction. Of course, up to this point his reputation had naturally suffered some in the jon of everyone who had/| ter. But the real and enduring attributes of the man had come | through unscathed. He at once reorganized the company, giving it the new name of The Western Smelting and Power Company. Then he got in touch with every stockholder in the old concern and issued them their original amount of stock in the new or- ganization And the greater part of a thousand people who held those beautifully printed and gilded pleces of worthless paper repre- senting stock in the old, bank- rupt concern, realized that there was a man of honor, integrity and sterling character at the head of the new institution Unprecedented Procedure Judge R. A. Ballinger, the company’s counsel, told Dr. Tan- zer he had done a most un- precedented thing, but it was done in accordance with a set of | principles inculcated very eariy| and brought with him to this country by the young Thuring- fan twenty years before. Un- scrupulous promoters seem to have an affinity for the mining industry and have brought it into more or less disgrace, con. sequently old-fashioned scrupu- lousness and level-headed con: servatism of the Dr. G. L. Tanzer varlety cause more or less com ment and not a little ridicule from that element who go into the game for easy money and to whom conscience is an unknown | quantity. Very early in its career the new Western Smelting and Pow- er Company retired half of its five million shares, and up to the present have added about $200,000 worth of new machin- ery. The Livingston, Montan Enterprise in several-of {ts Aug: ust issues speaks of the activ- ities of Dr. Tanzer and assoct- ates, some of whose names are prominent in Wall Street, in the development of Cooke City, which the paper designates as a most wonderful gold mining camp, in Park County, Montana. The tangible assets of the company of which he is the e: ecutive head are set down above the! $2,000,000 mark, against which there are Habili- ties of less than $3,000. Such is the brief epitome of the history of one who came to this country, a humble immigrant, unable to speak the nglish language twenty years ago, and one phase of his achievement in the face of obstacles which, to a man of lesser moral vitality, would have been unsurmountable, The history of the Western Smelting and Power Company {s the history of the struggles of this adopted German to upheld a business ideal which would measure up to his se of right and fair play te several hundred strangers scattered throughout the Northwest who held stock in a mining enterprise in which he became interested in perfect good faith. There are no insurmountable obstacles In the path of a de- sign that is wise and just, and no man who ts made of the right kind of stuff will for one, nor for many, repulses forego the purpose which consefence dic- tates must be effected, be it mining enterprise or any othe! in which he is engaged. The right course is the invincible course. Such is the busin creed which briefly summarizes Doctor Tanzer’s aracter and which will win and meintain a good reputation, no matter how untoward circumstances may sometimes seem.