| Show NEW PROCESS FOR SMELTING P L L Old Expert Has Built a Furnace to Rev Revolutionize Revolutionize Revolutionize Things John T Jones of Mountain Michi lIcht Michigan gan an well Known in Utah as the chief ex cx expert exp pert p rt for Peter L Kimberly when the lat latter latter latter ter was negotiating the purchase of at more than worth of oC Iron properties In Iron county count this state is in the lime limelight limelight light He Be has been working for five years On a new process of reducing iron ore to pig pl iron and according to Horace J Stev Ste Stevens Steens ens ells the author au thoI of oC t f Copper Capp Hand Book he will shortly blow In a new ne furnace that resembles the old style st blast fur furnace furnace furnace nace about as much as a piece ot of sewer pipe resembles a coffee coHee grinder The experimental plant has produced pig iron and apparently Mr Stevens says tho the commercial plant should work as well The rhe significance of this news to west westerners westerners westerners erners rests in the knowledge that while Mr Ir Jones has not been parading the fact he is also depending on his new furnace turnac to work a revolution in the business of or reducing copper ores to matte More than a year Jear ago Jones came west and ant secured ores from the Weimer cop copper copper copper per property in Idaho with which to make experiments Later he h took a lease on some somo of oC tho the ground and but for the pre pro precipitation of financial panic he e would now be working the ground to open oLSen up ore or for Cor his furnace Lust Last spring a leasing company compan was organized to take Over v r about fifty o oL at the tile Weimer copper com eom pan s claims under a agree agreement meat ment and while that company has baa hot got down to business yet it is under understood understood stood here that it will ill soon be ready read to commence operations and it may be said at the same time that John JohnT T Jones is deeply concerned in the proposition be because because because cause he Is Js now figuring on equipping that property with one of oC his furnaces If it will work vork there ther it will work vork anywhere almost So that copper mine owners owne and may get an Idea of what the Jones process is the following paragraphs from Mr Stevens account of ot the new method and its application in iron ores is given The new nc Jones furnace at Iron Moun Mountain tain tam is mainly an immense tube nine feet Ceet in diameter and feet long Ion elevated at al atone alone atone one end and rotated by spur gearing It has corrugations and Is lined with fire tire firebrick firebrick brick giving a gradual feed from th the thu upper the lower The raw ore are crushed Is fed In at the upper end where there is a temperature of or degrees Fahrenheit and in a few tew hours reaches the lower end where the heat Is 1400 1100 de do degrees grees Fahrenheit just short of o the melt melting melting ing In temperature of oC Iron The fuel Is hy hydrocarbon hydrocarbon in gaseous form presumably producer gas The rhe phosphorous contents are volatilized to the extent of oC 90 per percent percent percent cent to 93 95 9 per cent of oC the original con contents contents contents tents The Tim product is a spongy pig iron oi ol superior bessemer grade grad made from froni low grade hema tE assaying about 37 per cent Iron as compared with Iron contents of 54 per cent to GS 63 per cent In the standard Lake Lalta Superior bessemer hematite ores The cost of the new Jones furnace was 1000 and Its rated capacity is tons of pig iron daily dally A furnace of equal ca capacity Capacity would cost about if It built bunt along the regular lines Furthermore the Jones furnace can be loaded on three flat flatcars flatcars cars by b cutting the rivets removed to any desired location and set up for work in a few days The Jones process of ot iron 1101 smelting if successful as It promises to be will work the greatest revolution in the iron and steel trade of oC the world that has been made since the process In Invented invented vented some fifty fIt years Jears ago by Sir Henry Bessemer The standing of or Mr Jones is IsI such that t at the blowing in of the new fur furnace fUrnace furnace nace is awaited with the keenest Interest I by trade all concerned In the Iron and steel |
