ARSENICAL POISONING FROM SMELTER SMOKE. 
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men, banks, business men, working people, hotels, stores and rail¬ 
roads will be so vitally affected as to cause unprecedented depres¬ 
sion in the most populous part of the state ; that the county 
government of one county of the state may not be able to exist; 
that the farmers of the valleys adjacent to Butte and Anaconda 
will not have nearly as good markets as they have enjoyed; that 
the industry of smelting copper sulphide ores will be driven from 
the state; and that values of many kinds of property will either 
be practically destroyed or seriously injured—remembering- al¬ 
ways, that the courts of law are open to Mr. Bliss—I hold that, 
under the evidence, as he has submitted his case, discretion, 
wisely, imperatively guided, by the spirit of justice, does not de¬ 
mand that injunction, as prayed for, should issue.” 
And thus ended what was, perhaps, the greatest contest in 
veterinary toxicology that has ever been heard, and the farmers 
lost their case, but not because of» failure to prove the fact of 
poisoning. 
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