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Show THE RICH COUNTY KEaPER. RANDOLPH, Ui rff f ?i r'W TTT1 v t rrvvv ti in -- 3 'tt rrTn TURNING ORE TO COPPER Scenes in Modern Utah Copper Smelting Plant essary to treat the copper matte in converters steel cylinders with a large opening in the middle through which the matte is charged and the finished copper drawn off. When the converter has sufficient matte for a charge it is rolled back until a set of tuyeres (air vents) is beneath the molten metal. Air is then blown into this and siliceous ore added from the bins above. As the air is blown through the charge some of the sulphur is driven off as a gas, the iron is changed into iron oxide and forms a slag with the silica in the siliceous ore. As the process continues, all the iron is thus slagged, but the copper, which is in the form of copper sulphide, is not affected. When all the iron has been slagged off the air begins to work' on the remaining copper sulphide. The sulphur then burns to sulphur dioxide gas, passing up the flue. At the end of this operation the matte, converted into blister copper, remains in the converters. This is poured off and transferred to the casting furnace to await pouring into slabs or bars. The waste gases from the roasters, reverberatories and converters carry much fine dust and fumes. These gases, before being released are through the smokestacks cleaned in Cotrell plants. High tension electric currents precipitate the dust on steel plates from which it is periodically shaken into hoppers beneath. During 1935, 762,587,340 pounds of copper was produced in the United States. .Salt Lake Valley copper smelters produced 155,400,-00pounds, or 20.4 percent of the total. Production from mines in Utah amounted to 120,972,668 pounds. The difference, some pounds, represents copper in ores originating in nearby states that was shipped to Utah for treat- By E. Me. L. TITTMAN copper and accompanying ores treated by Utah in 1935 would cover a Salt Lake City block to a depth of 40 feet. This material, gathered from Utah, California, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada, before it could be made useful in industries and the arts, called for the labor of 1500 men, 20,666 railroad cars and $729,085 worth of supplies, principally of Utah origin; four billion cubic feet of natural gas, 36 million k. w, hours of electrical power and large tonnages of brick. The ore had to be transported, mixed in proper proportions, freed from some of its sulphur by roasting, separated into metals and slag by smelting and,' finally, parted in- -' THE to individual metallic substances by refining. Certain natural advantages make Utah an ideal copper smelting center which attracts ores from a wide area and creates a market, not only for producers of copper, but for miners of gold and silver ores. The advantages include food and clothing ample for a large number of skilled and unskilled workers, plentiful supplies of fuel and water and the services of three great railroad systems. Disbursements by the smelters help sustain agriculture, wholesale and retail merchandising and the professional classes. The treatment of copper ores is interesting. - Unitil paid for, the shipments from each mine must be sampled and valued separately. Bites of crushed ore taken at regular intervals from conveyor belts are averaged by successive divisions to a sample small enough for the assay which forms the basis of settlement. The lot is then mixed with ores necessary to form In a suitable smelting charge. roasting, the ore is heated to a point where some of the sulphur is burned off as sulphur dioxide gas. A series of revolving rakes in the roaster Insure even heating. Temperatures in the roasters vary from 500 to 1200 degrees. After the charge has been roasted it is hauled to the reverberatory furnaces in The reverberatory larry cars. furnaces are 120 to 140 feet long and, 20 to 30 feet wide. Above is the charge floor carrying the tracks from which the larry cars dump the roasted ore into the furnace. There it slowly melts down until two products are formed. The copper, sulphur and some of the iron combine to form copper matte. The matte also collects the gold and silver in the ore. The waste products form a slag which floats and is drawn off and consigned to the slag dump. The matte is tapped out at a lower level near the firing end. To obtain blister copper It Is nec " . 0 ment. In treating copper ores and con- centrates, other types, such as siliceous and sulphide - ores, are necessary to make a suitable furnace charge. In this way the copper smelters have been able to offer a market to the producers of these gold and silver ores. Because of this the mining territory tributary to Salt Lake valley has been constantly expanding until 30 percent of the ore smelted originates in other states. The economic advantage to the people of Utah is obvious. - The copper smelting Industry should be a substantial asset of this state for a long time to come. Whether or not this will be the case depends on the efforts exerted, not only by the industry, but by the people of the state to overcome adverse conditions which will crop up from time to time in the future. - Valuable Poem ; Most Phillippe Desportes died at one, having achieved immortal reputation as the highest paid poet in history- - Desportes, an ecclesiastic and a diplomat apparently well deserving of the title of diplomat, was asked by King Henry III of France to write a verse with which the royal lover could pay tribute to Earliest Paints It is unknown who first mixed and sixty-- used paints since paint has been employed from a very early period. White lead was mentioned by Theophrastus, Pliny and Vitruvius, who described its manufacture from lead and vinegar. Yellow ochre was used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Pots of it were found in Pompeii. .Naples yellow has been found in the yellow enamel of Babylonian bricks. Verdigris was familiar to the Romans. Indigo has been employed by the East Indians and Egyptians from an ancient time. , Desportes poem had only three lines, but Henry III was so pleased he rewarded him with the title. to four abbeys which brought in Desportes a total revenue of $3,300,000. In those days the abbeys derived a share of the income of every person in the district. art. t Area Drained by Amazon The area drained by the Amazon and its tributaries is more than .. King of Ireland of It became the United Kingdom1601. in Ireland and Britain Great Erin By the treaty of Limerick, bowed to British sovereignty, and William III, a Dutchman, who was never in Ireland, became king of the Irish, too. square miles, largely untamed tropical forests. The volume of water discharged into the sea an- -. nually is probably five times that of the Mississippi. Vessels of small draft can ascend the Amazon proper for more than 3,609 miles. ' 2,970,000 i Red Blue, Green Hens May Thwart Robbers Chicken Bastrop, Texas. thieves who have been profitably active in this section during recent months may have more difficulty in disposing of their loot. In the hope of attracting attention to their flocks, poultry farmers have dyed chickens brilliant colors red, blue and green. - SAVES HER SON BY DASH THROUGH FIRE Heroic Mother Risks Life for Imperiled Child. Milwaukee, Wis. A mother risked her life twice running through a wall of fire to carry her son to safety. . And her husband, though critically burned, saved the life of another son by showing him how to roll on the ground to beat out the flames which enveloped them both. The mother, Mrs. Bernadine Hambach, was burned on the right arm and her hair was singed during the daring rescue. Her son Ralph, four, was unhurt, protected by the blanket she had wrapped around him. His brother, Douglas, eight, was burned on the legs and the upper part of his body. The father, Dr. Clarence Hambach, prominent dentist, was critically burned. Toy soldiers led to the tragedy. Douglas got a lead molding set from Santa. He asked his father to help him make the toy soldiers. Dr. Hambach went to a basement laundry room with the two boys, and started melting lead with his dental torch. A two gallon can, half filled with cleaning fluid, stood near the bench where he worked while the boys looked on. The torch apparently ignited the fumes from the can, for there was an explosion. It blew out the basement windows and ignited the clothing of the dentist and his elder son. Dr. Hambach seized Douglas by the hand and together they ran upstairs and onto the lawn. Shouting for Douglas to imitate him, the doctor rolled on the lawn. The doctors cries brought his wife to their aid. Get Ralph, the father implored. Hes still in the basement. Mrs. Hambach ran into the house for a blanket. When she returned to the basement door a sheet of flame blocked her way. She could hear her sons cries. Without a moments hesitation she dashed through the fiery doorway and reached the boys side. Wrapping him in a blanket, the mother ran back through the flames, and fell exhausted outsid the door four-year-ol- d' Capitoj Dome News Utah Legislature (Continued From Page 1) tion, with only one major measure-direc- t primary, finally passed by Doth houses and tne appropriations bill stili untouched by enner nouse. Over this situation still hung the storm clouds of controversy over the pension bill, homestead exemption, beer control, governor's appointments ana appropriations. of the diattie over pension bill in the house Saturday brought open accusations by Representatives Holbrook of Davis and Granger of Iron, that Speaker J. W. Jensen of Weber had ignored and arbitrarily set aside house rules by resurrecting the pensions measure trom obscurity and placing it at the top of the calendar ror reconsideration. The speaker obtained an opinion from tne attorney general that the house had a right to recall a measure, even from the governor, for amendment, but he did not pass upon the point of reopening a bill for amendment without reconsideration of former action. Mr. Granger voted for the bill in order to move for reconsideration but in doing so said The wnole proceeding has been irregular and illegal and this bill would never become a law, so I vote yes. Representative W. D. Pack voted no in protest against the method of pro cedure while Representative Weggeland voted no in protest against the alleged irregular actions of the speaker. Representative W. D. Wood, of Weber, who had been ruled down three times when he sought to get the floor in protest against the measure declared the bill was not an old age pension and never would be so he would vote no. S. B. 8, which creates a state department, of justice with district attorneys as deputies and takes liquor enforcement out of the hands of the liquor commission and places it in the was hands of the new department The house. the governor by passed signed a bill providing for theissuance of tokens by the tax commission for payment of fractional taxes. The senate passed Holbrooks beer and bill giving, the state commission pities and towns joint control of beer Nelsons bill which would licenses. have taken from the governor the right to fill legislative vacancies was killed by the senate. The house passed a bill to create a new agricultural cooperative act. The senate pased H. B. 4, 7, and 8, fair trade practices acts, designed to rive the small, independent merchants of the state the benefits of the best features of N. R. A. and these measures have now gone to the governor. After boosting the fees on large commercial motors, the house passed Nel eons senate bill repealing the a schedule ,of and substituting eradicates registration fees in lieu of The measure had already the been passed by the senate. The homestead exemption measure. H. B. 19. was passed by the house with the fnll S?.000 exemption. The house passed 8. B. 1. direct primary. on Wednesday, the senate, concurred in amendments made by the ton-mile-t- ton-ta- x. A Cough in Time Saves Ten Who Thank Grandma Cough drops? Grandmother Jennie Bacon, who is seventy-three years old, doesnt care for any, thank you. Shes glad she can cough, for firemen told her that her cough may have saved the lives of all the ten persons in the Bacon Chicago. household. Grandmother Bacon was upstairs with her husband, Fred, seventy-seve- n years old. Downstairs were and their son, Raymond, thirty-fivhis family, and their daughter, Miss Bessie Bacon, thirty, and some guests. Miss Bacon heard her mother cough and went upstairs to see if she needed cough medicine. She found her parents had been overcome by coal gas. And then Miss Bacon realized that she was losing consciousness; She managed to telephone for firemen, who got there just in time to save every one in the house from the fumes, which came from a broken furnace pipe. e, Jumps From Hotel Roof; Is Rescued in Midair New York. The life of Miss Marie Alperowitz, twenty-fiv- e years old, was saved after she plunged from the roof of a thirteen story hotel. Her leg caught in the metal clasp of a drain pipe at the ninth floor where a rescuer drew her to safety. Guests of the hotel watched in horror as the young woman dangled, head down, her leg imprisoned by the metal band. Frank Loftus, assistant hotel manager, seized her clothing as he hung over the ledge of a window, freed the imprisoned leg, and drew Miss Alperowitz to safety. Lack of sufficient leverage made his task very hazardous. At a hospital it was learned that the sudden halt of her fall had broken her leg and caused internal injuries. ' Enough Rope A thief has entered Troy, N. Y. the apartment of J. M. Coleman twice. The first time he cut away 175 feet of rope from the dumbwaiter. The second time Coleman reported the clothes line missing. Charcoal Feeds Flames Heres one fire that Troy, N. Y. didnt lack fuel. When fire destroyed a frame building, 156 bags of char- coal stored in the cellar burned to ashes before firemen extinguished the flames. lower body and this measure now has gone to the governor. The senate passed S. B. 90, requiring publication of monthly reports of the actions of county commissioners, after amending the measure to provide only that the commissioners furnish the newspapers with copies of the their meetings. utes of min- . |