Show WILL SOON INCREASE SMELTER EQUIPMENT Contracts are arc to be let next week for forthe forthe forthe the commencement of oC work on the fourth unit of oC the concentrator at Smelter ac ae according according cording to tho Ely EI Mining Expositor The word was received yesterday by tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph from Irma the New Nw York office of oC the company to let contracts for the excava excavations cava required for the foundations on which work Is to tu start next Wednesday The grading contractors are arc now here figuring on the excavation work and are arc arcT ready T ad to start at once There are arc 1030 10 men on the payrolls at atthe atthe I the tho smelter at this time and the new work will demand the tho employment of several hundred more The first section of oC the second unit Is completed and the other section will be bc beIn beIn In another week The third unit will be completed In about six week weeks The plant is now no outputting blister cop copper copper copper per at the te of oC fifteen tons a day da or about pounds a year ear IThe ca capacity Capacity of oC the furnaces Is equivalent to a II concentrator conc capacity of oC tons of crude ore a day da daThe The building of ot the fourth unit will be only a continuation of oC the plans to make the Steptoe plant the tho largest In the world and Its Us erection will wilt not mark the com corn completion of oC the plant to Its maximum size but hut the enlargement will go 0 ahead until that Is accomplished |