Show The Horn Silver Smelter A HERALD reported paid a brief visit to the Horn Silver Works some seven miles sonth of this city the other day In the absence of the superintendent A Raht Esq the foreman Mr E Gerrich did the I gentlemanly Only two of the stacks are now rnning for the reason that fluxing material insufficient in-sufficient quantities tu keep an running run-ning cannot be obtained In sir weeks however it is belifved that all the stacks can be kept going constantly con-stantly if desired The erection of the buildings and supervision of the work of putting the machinery in place was directed by Mr W H Jones master mechanic me-chanic The tin and sheet ironwork iron-work was done by Geo M Scott Co the cast iron pieces were furnished fur-nished by Davis Howe Co and the boilers are the work of Messrs Haines Sons The whole super vision and management was unaer the direction of Colonel J M Lock From what it was possible to discern dis-cern in so short a time the Horn Silver has the model engine room and works of this country their machinery especially the engine and six blowers one to each stack which were noticed in these columns on the occasion of the starting up for testing the machinery being features of ingenuity The Horn Silver is now in active operation and the ore is piling in so fast that it is getting hard to control it but as said before fluxing material being so scarce they will not open out to their entire en-tire capacity for a couple of months to come |