Show TOOELE SMELTER STARTS UP TODAY Manager Mathewson Will Touch Match to Combus Combustibles in Furnaces READY TO TREAT ORES BIG DIG UNDERTAKING IS ACCOMPLISHED AT LAST Special to Tho The Tooele July 24 Tomorrow the I smelter at Tooele will bo be started by byE b bE byE E P Mathewson Matheson general manager striking a match In the furnaces The first corps of engineers arrived In Tooele December 8 1908 1508 and the very Ter next day work was begun Through snow and mud cold and antI frost the task of connecting the Salt Lake Lako Route with the smelter site was start started ed eel 4 and continued until the last Jast of or May 1009 1909 when the Tooele Valley rail railroad railroad railroad road was vas completed and actual work on I th tit the smelter was commenced I The months that have followed have been boemi active ones one and have hae established bed beda a record In construction work erk and when one considers the numerous de tie details tails to be bo looked after nor it seems mar marvelous Telous that where here less than a n your year ant anti ago go stood nothing but sage sagebrush sagebrush sagebrush brush and scrub oak now may be seen soon mighty machinery Krom t Aerial The Tho ore from the aerial tramway Is being delivered to a sampler and nd after aCter being sampled will wil wilbe willbe willbe be transported by conveyors ors to the tho McDougall McDOUg ll building containing 32 3 McD roasters where It tin l Is and made ready for the building to which It IB Is transferred In ears cars Com Corn ComIng ComIng Corning Ing from tho the In tho the form fonn o ol of matte It passes pa es on to the next stay stage of oC refining Into the tho converters Frost Froal here it IB Is sent to the costing coating shed where here copper may be bo seen In a pure purs state The Tho main or what is III called caned tho the smelter building is over oer feet long and 89 se feet teet wide containing five rIe largo large converters In this building Is l In Installed installed stalled a Morgan crano crane cap capable capable capable able of oC handling the tIme t cry or with the greatest ease ea e The Tho re bUilding bunding will contain fIve mammoth furnaces each nineteen foot fee foetId wide Id and feet foet long The power house is a beautiful structure of stool steel and brick and I Is equipped with the most modern com corn and electrical A units In use size alz ITS In fe feet t long und anti 74 feet feat wide The main dust chamber Is of oC brick and structural steel feet long anti and 12 feet wide The Tho main flue Clue Which Is I over oyer 1400 f feet t long Jong and 20 feet foe wide and nd 3 2 20 feet teet high leads to th the magnificent brick stack which hleb Is 36 3 feet high and 2 25 feet fe t Inside In diameter This Thin smelter smelt or which means so much mach to the city elt of Tooele Is I situated at th the foot of the Oquirrh range rang of oC moun mountains tabs four and miles from the town of ot Tooele and six and one half haIC miles from rom the Los Angeles and andton San Sn ton Pedro railroad to which It I l connected by th ti Valley Vally rail rall railroad railroad road The plant covers cover an area of oC about abou sixty acres acre and anel the sit site It Is an Ideal Idea on one The Tile smelter was wee constructed tirl manly marily marll for Cor th the handling of the Utah Consolidated ore from June Juno tics On An n Ideal Site SUr On either side of the bench Is a deep canyon caRn which will b be u used d for ash and slag dumps Up tip these canyons canons it I Is pUnned planned that fumes from the stack will be carried by the prevailing winds wind away from th the fertile ferUle valley below Water In ample quantity for lor years to come como 1 I S piped by b gravity from Pin Pine Canyon springs of a mile away way directly to the storage tanks at atthe atthe atthe the smelter The on which the smelter Is located has h ample mple slope to permit haul haulIng lug lag to various buildings on down grade graIe The ore of the th Highland Boy noy Is III con conveyed conveyed Teed direct to the smelter by means of oC an aerial a tramway while all cue cus us torn tom ores will bo be hauled over Oer the Valley railroad from San Pedro Junc June Junction Junction tion and placed In the spacious bins on the highline These The bins have hav a capacity of or from three to four thousand tons ton |