Show electricity FOR REFINING revolutionizing the smelting smelling sm elting of zine ores and zinc concentrates the american smelt ing refining company intends to make the zinc smelting smelling sm elting industry a central industry of the intermountain country instead ot of shipping the concentrates to the gas fields of pennsylvania kansas ohio and west virginia says the herald republican of salt lake for months a series of experiments have been conducted at the murray utah and anaconda montana smelters shelters sm elters to determine if electricity could be substituted for natural gas and the company has decided that with proper rates tor for power the new process is superior to the old in that it saves a greater amount of zinc it is this discovery which prompted the building of a sulphuric acid plant at the garfield smelter it was stated last night that the units of heat are the essentials of zinc smelting smelling sm elting and that since gas gives a greater unit of heat than either coal or coke the concentrates have been sent to the eastern states for smelting smelling sm elting the process which has been employed at the murray smelter to determine the advisability of treating zinc ores in the intermountain ter mountain country has been to put the zinc in solution through the action of sulphuric acid and then to run it over electric plates and put it through the same process as if it were a matter of electro plating of gold silver or copper it was said last night that the discovery promises that zinc may be extracted from the concentrates at a much less cost through the use of electricity than by the use of gas for nine months the process has been a tryout at the anaconda smelters shelters sm elters but the power costs there are lower lover in comparison with the cost of power at murray C W whitley general manager of the smelting smelling sm elting company said recently that improvements prove ments would be made in all of the plants of the company in utah atall karl ellers eilers vice president refused last night to confirm or deny the success of the zinc smelting smelling sm elting methods employed at murray he confirmed tile the report that the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company is to build a number of buildings and additions to tile the present plants of tile the company but would wound not state the amount to be invested or what additional buildings are to be built |