Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1902-03-23 | Page 22 | Lucky Discovery

LUCKY That S Saves ves a Year Yeu Was Going Up in Smoke Omaha Neb Cor N Y World Two years ago white workmen were making repairs to the root roof of a build buildIng Ing In the Omaha plant of the Anion Amen an Smelter Smeller Refining company they were amazed to find the shingles and boards covered with atoms of metal One of oC the boards was taken to the assayer who burned it retorted the ashes and Imparted the startling I matlon that the metal was W s composed of gold silver lead and copper Other boards were burned with like results and th the m mystery grew more perplexing Finally someone standing on the root or of the building had occa skin sian to brush from his hia coat sleeves flakes of soot which were dropping from the great rolling clouds of smoke and gas emerging from the giant stacks near by Sheets of common cheese cloth cut cutto cutto to fit the Interior of the stacks were prepared Through the center ot of the heets were cut holes large enough to allow the necessary alj free draught The 1 sheets were fastened at various heights In the stacks and allowed to remain In position for several weeks When re removed re removed moved and submitted to treatment the chemist produced gold silver copper and lead worth hundreds ot of dollars More cheese cloth catchers were In sorted In the smokestacks a few feet apart one above aboe the other from the bose to the crown croWD A semicircular steel house was built extending from the furnaces to the base of the stacks a 8 blower was plated placed in position to cool aid for force the smoke and gu gas through the steel house and up the flues In Its passage the smoke do de in the he steel hou house hundreds of pound ot of grIme which was allowed to gather and pack Kick for six months That of the grime which managed to travel through the circular bou house e and reach the flues was caught by the cheese cheesecloth cloth a very ven small portion practically escaping to the outside When the steel house became filled wI With h packed Inflammable the mass was touched off with a corn com common cornmon mon matCh and allowed to burn for tor several days after atter which it was found that there still remained In the In inCloSure clo CloSure ure many tons of a peculiar dead looking cinder hard and worthless in appearance Tills cinder was run raft through the furnaces receiving treat treatment mont ment in the same manner as the inal ores and readily yielded its pro pre procious cious wealth During January the Omaha plant months smokehouse e and cheese cloth harvest receiving to toOf tons Of cInder which yielded elded more than Fifty thousand dollars per year ear scat over Omaha In smoke what It has amounted to for tor twenty years