Show ca I 1 wf we aall if be sled to Is sea te any olour of our ma aminy noly ft frienda do ot at our a and ates from them day ny detail of f tw acu andla lort iff ife ineat 1 I J u As af he da any mineral a in lc forma 1 14 10 lafewt sire vf of a 6 call an ORE SMELTING IN UTAH I 1 tho the on the subject i of sm smelting smelling elting i ores orea will mil bo be read with great grea by all classes chour of oaf mining bulling population I 1 sall aake city march 6 J 0 comeron Cam I 1 tron jr I 1 BCD sur ormea that you have bavo bad a varied and as a engineer god metal agist in tile llie mineral region of lako lake superior mich and elsewhere I 1 should es teem it a favor to la got et the benefit of your our knowledge 1 there seems to lo be considerable difficulty existing in ID the reduction of our ores orca in ia utah and more mor ps nicular ij y if you jou could solve the problem which coubal autes the ib destructive element clement io in our sm shelters smelters elters in ia utah as 1 ita am well tell aware I 1 ibal bat thase sm shelters smelters elters in ia lake superior run rua from nice to twelve months willij ot repair ay aay 0 ther oilier views you MAY feel pleased t to n express tz prel upon development of our mines generally will be thankfully received very truly yours A n H M D ml tiit like city lace jane irth 1672 cl 1 H U MM da dir sir your oar letter requesting re we nie to present you with my views on the lbs problem the destructive octive cle beai nj in ia the iho allaer lead farn far sacos of fit jtb amo in 0 o tib hand aza LO due dua tine time befog beo at the ibe time ot of its receipt but bot a lew jew reaid cut eDt of 01 utah I 1 aisik d myself L er ti f time examine to 4 I 1 abo con et ruction and operation ration of a 0 operation oje few furnace aro sees m and oil oa examina exam loa tiba lion I 1 find some twenty twi two owning from one to three sm shelters smelters elters each constructed and worked by the th same general mode at the timo time I 1 made examination I 1 found about nineteen of them topped stopped the lawes au es of this I 1 will tr not dot venture to discuss at this time but will confine myself to cho subject you jou cresent present and submit as plainly AS posts poa possible sible le my opinion on a subject of great grant to the future desel or of the rai resources of uth tah it is i generally assumed by cal CAI metallurgists that for the lion of crude cruda bullion by cupola fur fu J once F cialli termed erst a 06 feet 0 alminas km are required viz til oro charcoal coke or coal cl for or fuel fad aria iron limestone or other olber bibi suit eab ad aa flux aad DJ upon the economical combination ol of these substances and the improved form of cr depends tho the quality and oil profit do rived front from the manufacture but it ill this branch of industry iod ostry as wull well as aa others of importation and value to tile ilia human race waste the great des troyer or of mini mans furrio thrusts in its in ruthless hand to curtail some boma profit or enjoyment in ia the bo product of skill la ila order to overcome ove coomo this now alij bocrie co ed crie are r being nude made and nd the st t anon of wally winds anil and hoiu genuit Y of OOL a 4 few feir aro ard engaged ja in endeavors to solve it sad ui in deviling nodes a and ad 1 phannee to remedy ahi his dollia pro among tho the di call proposed ail is 1 I the introduction ol of it heated healed air ir bladt to the metallurgy or of sarver led lead ores 2 A sufficient amount of atmospheric air ir supplied to tile furnace at a proper pressure 3 A in tho the atomic condl coldi tion lion of iho cho material matei vals ahli charged aged A Q nd d proper per proportions proportion a of tho the a ame vo ibcal add delices proposed and carried into iaco practice in tho the reduction of the ibo tilter silver lead ores of utah would in a measure prevent tho the wear or tion ilan of the line cue materials of abich furnaces furn acea tire are constructed in ID the reduction or of iron ores the ibo introduction of the be hot blast has been followed with economy in tho the production of crude pig iron if allot a hot air blast is 13 followed by valuable results resi ilta in the prod production action of crudo crude pig iron its application to the metallurgy of crude bullion would follow is as a matter of C course although cold a air ir way nifty sup BUD port combustion ibs well is as hosted sir nr it docs anna not follow that ia busee cil usco like fol rebuild suits would bo be produced tho the relative proportions of oxygen aud and ni nitrogen tron in ili cold air is not altered in ia ibo cho heated air nod whatever suL atances exists in the cou cold air ir is mingled lui ogled to th tho esme BatIe with the heated blast tho the superiority of the heated ait air ver over tho h a cold blast consists con in tho the expansion of its vol nine thereby producing a more per pera feet combustion in in conie consequence quence 0 of f tho the enlarged surface presented by the stoma of oxygen for combination with the carbon I 1 hn hit would infalvi abe supposition that I 1 tonn status a of f or oxygen are themselves expanded by by beat the economy of the heated blast over the cold would consist in ia the bo units of beat carried into the furnace by the volume of air introduced to furj for does managers who are familiar with the production of ot heated air for furl naces it would be superfluous to present the be subject moro more in dot ailta those who are not nor it may he be prudent to state that the ovens for boating can be supplied by tuel fuel from the escaping gaie of the thi th s could be easily applied to furnaces already built forming at the imo atmo time ar B re 0 fur for the ibo escaping camping particle of silver bilter and lead and a sanitary provision for the health of men employed as fillers etc eta thus remedying two evils edla of by silver alyer lead lad workers from the 60 results of my mf I 1 tiona ions on n thu big subject I 1 aa nil inclined to the opinion that the volume of air in trod aced into the furnaces in ia utah is i A dot 0 t projected with a relative amount of pressure ibia I 1 b is opinion is supported by two facts athe 1 the large volume of air admit ted iota into the be furnace at a low pressure creates a lone of fusion upon the circumference cumfer cum ference enco of the column of materials for fusion with a greater amount 1 of r epbert of fusion would bo be maintained in 10 tile the center of tho col amo of materials for fuston fusion the ro suits ol of which would av tho be firo fire goter materials ia Is of 0 which the furnace is ii constructed from tile rapid destree tion lion to which it is now exposed by tbd abd low pressure wilh with hibb lie ito tir air is i projected ioto into tile tho furn furnace a C t 2 it is 13 a well known fact that ed adm m brition in illa chemical action in id ali oil dirtion and in its mechanical concussive I 1 torn rem this it would seem alpar cat that the L furco rio etith fix which the oxygen are projected upon the lit tome atoms of carbon in a state of comac tion proof in ia practical metallurgy y the atomic condition a of i the bah b stances charged jinto bintai furnaces ia isaf of vast importance io to tho results to lie ite obtained it I 1 r its work the ore coal and fin flocca acs ics charged should a proper ja a particular tho the data cronl which tho the exact conditions condit ione thoum be basa based could ionly bo be obtained by practical tute tests I 1 it iam am informed that ia mantlow many of uie its works already built and in ia operation the van uso of weights and measurement 1 of tto cho materials charged cli arged el is m altogether illel alel her ignored the value of the ilage to dedge of the I 1 rola tire of materials in ate rials charged the lio furnace fornace 1 I well al LS the breure pree eare ni which the be ai last is 19 admitted wily bo be sarr I 1 in a the future metallurgy of utah the tbt rapid and add permaul develop acot me t of th the mines of lah intas in I 1 tiia future will depend in a i great maiure upon the connoted coo noted CA 1 success of the reduction redaction of then their oro ores bullion the of the bullion bit io sad aad the dadufa deture cf af the lead into articles of commercial vaille ane in the ha valea ballf B adjacent to tho the idinea the use UM of charcoal as aa fuel for or the reduction of the be ores can be bo easily substituted by the mineral coal chalot of this ration at a great abing saving to the lh loan on the cost coat sheat or of big product I 1 the fache prevented are the result resul of careful nod investigation and 11 ll although they MY bay 1 be disputed they cannot be disproved dif proved claiming for them a freedom from in any y theory as they wit vis be i oust abara iu in the practical redaction tbt lh oies ortt of VIA which isitt ottily true basis for brath viewing this thia one of viet vait importance to the future interests of tho the country I 1 jt st tho i duty of all enga engaged bcd to coptain obtain uch such knowledge and praZ tica e 1 ucb in tho the production of the InIn mineral gral suit luh weighed out olit to a us in ili the CA I 1 as 0 of r our creator to so that we cau answer walh a char con science ciance tho the ever recurring question or of nature to min man I 1 havis hate the cho honor honorato ho norto to be very vs re 1 couri I 1 I 1 C sunho JR |