Show ii rT t y f e sa o o 0 0 o o a at t f I If t f 4 f t J t i t tit t t t i t l A Y R v Y i F p a a Y rY K Ky y y Y a xa s L T J x 1 S 0 S 4 4 4 4 4 t 4 BOY DOY WEST OP OF idY t JK Ne single ale view can pax do 0 full fui 3 to t all the Ute features ing IDS in the rear The trestles trestle tre carry the tracks at various 01 of elf ite plant Plank A view from atom om either of ol the four fout sides rides heights to which electric oars are elevated and from p would present distinct features t of the plant The photo which they read reach the different tnt buildings beyond the i iwu wets was tT tota fR trout from the railway embankment up which the ore monster stack appearing above the structure la lD the lot lat latter sad and fuel are ruled hauled to the ore bins an Important part of or ter building some MO feet teet in Ja length a powerful the establishment The pow power r house hoWle is 18 at the left aad and the crane i is installed which is J a a m marvel ef of modern m dern equipment t machine shop to the ri right ht M the foreground of ot the pic plc In Its adaptation for doing the heavy work ture tare The McDougall roasters Rh occupy the next nest great eat MH M I i M It M j M tt t t 1 1 HE smelting branch of or tae mla min mining THE p ing industry is 18 a steadily growing JT in importance not only ol l In 11 the tM state but bat in the country at lara Tarr Within an area less lea than six x miles square and within a leas e distance ce than thana a dozen miles mile from Salt Lake qty are an located all of the smelting plants that are re in successful operation within this thin great Intermountain basin The topography raphy of the land for sites shoat the wa water water ter supply and the facility for railway connections onn with the two f important h roads coads of If the state which afford ready 7 shipment of cf ores from the mines sad and of the bullion to market are all fea feature f feu lures ture which have contributed to t t 1 location cation of this important business bue bua at athis this Its point L 4 There is the one great reat plant of or flit tha American Smelting ft d ReC ni any pany L which handles ore for everybody eVEl of t all al kinds ana anti classes if not in vocal local plant then by forwarding to lo 10 rarities laities where here special ores can be han handled cried to better bt a advantage in ill other plants 1 to tG the same company The hipping shipping f returns show that they iE eive altogether close to t 1008 1009 tons to per day and when the new smelter IE its J complete it is announced that induce inducements ments menU will be offered that will Wili largely increase shipments from the mines especially es especially especially of lower grade ores Then there are the three independent companies the Utah Consolidated or Highland Boy Bo the Bingham Copper Gold old smelter and the United States State Mining dining plant the two forr for toI former r mer both in successful operation and the tha t h construction of ot the other being rapidly raphy pushed to completion The Highland Boy smelter buys He rte ore Ire in the general market but confine its operations to treating the product from its own mines about BOO W 50 on one per day The ore has hall a copper base bane carny on Next Page Pae 1 t f wit i t li 44 r f ff y f s N NY Y r r r t fi vY vYe Y e s Lt a 1 L r t 1 J 4 ig THE OLD GERMANIA SMELTER SMELT ER AT MURRAY If II one might have the value of ot th the products that h have ave been put through the furnaces of this old plant he might vie with almost any of the multimillionaires of th e a modern period and if he could enjoy as a daily dally in income Income come what is shipped away in its bars of lead and copper bullion each hours it would be more money than most men would know what to do with even eren with the disposition of a Carnegie The power Ower house home ho hoat t is at the right and the smelter proper roper at the left Compared om pared with the new plant which is being constructed near by this is however but a preliminary t t i t M t 1 ti 2 t t 7 r r g u Y W N J 4 Mb ones nom iu iua W e a Oi 3 w u oats x yr v vr y S r y rc J Jik ik Yr 2 i n r Jv o Yx Y k p woe N 7 R 6 3 F MS fw t s AA r ri x i C Fa c 4 a sT y p pr r r rS f Y S y B Bi a Y r r Ci CiA tt I I i j A J M 1 t it ite r Y r rw w 4 t v fr frt frt t e r b r 4 4 t 4 ROOM BOOM OF aF THE TH G a A Af f f These ese two powerful electric motors the ih e cur current both for every possible emergency The blast blut If rent from the Utah Light a Power Fewer co com plant ar a must be continuous and for tor months mouths at a time Ume A failure 4 used teed for driving the immense Root blowers blower which furnish of the blast even eyen for a short time me might cause a serious i 4 1 0 the blast bIa t for all of the furnaces loss Joss by per pe tae ie e furnaces to freeze when there 4 There are also two steam engines g of ample power In is trouble deed themselves to sups ly the blast bla t It is a double plant of oft t t t t tt t tt tt tt tta i J 3 1 r s a h e O i 1 I I I T S k 4 0 T k kt kV 4 4 4 4 4 t t 4 r 4 4 raT V 4 4 r a ar 4 4 a 4 r 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 e 4 v c Lis P 4 4 j 4 4 4 S 4 q S 4 4 Iw 4 4 u j jY ja Y x a 4 4 x x 4 4 4 4 Y a f 4 F k 5 ASS r 5 yA Pt 4 m y BuILDING Where there er ie Is J an exoe of ef ui r in the ores eres under hand had roasters r as shown in n oa with fc ceper rr r 4 l the methods meth da d of k It Is first subjected to toa plant Tha building shown herewith tea tan of ta ra raa 4 a roasting g process to get rid of ot it ft is I found in every ery other class cia the Bruckner router roaster It n is ht a modern m n 4 f s rate of or pe parc n from 1 to 40 it 0 It must mut be reduced to in n e respect In the new nea plant room NOm hi Is provided r 4 i is tr fr from S t to t f according to the class dase of f ore that is hr I hem ben bey n a tw twenty ge g s ty y ot these machines although only tea ten teat are ace bring bein 3 i t f treated There Terre r are many may forms of roasters The stalled a t the 4 Toned and probably bly more common sort are the flat fiat or orf 4 4 t 44 J f f f U 1 t 4 4 t to tF rid r 4 s N Y is j ja a al r X t tr r x y j L LI I e a ti 1 y I J i a 5 m s a aV aTHE Ck 3 c V THE COPPER AND GOLD AT BINGHAM INGHAM JUNCTION The illustration hardly gives an adequate idea of the magnitude of this plant the great smokestack at the tile J rear being nearly feet away from the end as shown Since the photo was taken the new converter COD building wilding has been erected and a fourth furnace has baa been added the former being entirely beyond the machine e shop 8 OP at the further end of ot the dump The four furnaces have a capacity of 0 t tons per day each and aad space is 4 allowed for tot placing two more in the line giving an aggregate a capacity for the plant of tons daily da T 4 tt 1 t t j Y T t tt T t a r k o R t m g eo r rr r r F 1 cone r j q T TYs Ys x t r rf ri ri q r Y s f L i N V 4 5 5 5 o w i f i it iq ri riK t i i t K q q 4 4 TiT OS 4 4 These as illustrated at the Grman k an ar arr not of or mod abl abi manual labor Each Bach lf lot t or rl f c of nt ore f or is i put pt in n i a ib in n 4 ern era construction and th the use us of et C them therm th rn h vole i ln b by f itself to be drawn from 11 n g tu 4 t t tt t t tt t t t If t 1 c THE SMELTERS SMELlERS OF SALT LAKE CITY Continued from Page Paging ii 5 ing tug sliver silver and gold o of a class that is requiring no admixture of other ores It first roasts them to get rid of the sulphur using the rever atory dory furnaces to reduce them to matte and then refining renning to above W lie per cent by passing pasting the furnace product through f Cf and finally shipping the bars to Eastern astern refineries Bingham ComP Plant Th The Bingham smelter v was as erected by the Bingham Copper G Gold 1 Mining i company at Gingham Junction for e reduction of the large bodies of iron 1 and an c copper su sulphides developed in their mints minu at Bingham together with si sil dOUR cious copper per ore ores which predominate in this mining Becton seeton After Afler securing most moss desirable location ground was w s broken April Apil 16 1900 and the first one of three e furnaces was waa w fired Jan 31 I 1 01 or about nine months after break I ing ground I The si sr a building proper la Is con cons i s strutted d entirely of steel 1 and iron with i steel and concrete floor wood being u used fd only in the ore bin and these bins being located d a safe distance from the furnaces the plant la Is practically practically practically cally fireproof i The plant is built bunt on the terrace plan covering a section of ground l feet and is 18 equipped at present with wah three furnaces hav having ing a total capacity 1 of tons per day Since Feb Peb 1 i 80 se tons of ot ore have been put through the furnaces and the product pro consist ing of ot an iron and copper matte to the amount of S tons has bas been shipped showing a concentration co of ol about ten tons of ot ore into one ton of matte This I matte has been Doe shipped chipped to the High Highland land Boy pant and the Butte Batte smelters to be converted into nto blister copper With the beginning of 1002 1102 a Ii different method of operating win will exist or rath rather rather er the old method will be carried fur tur further further ther and instead of ot shipping the matte the Bingham smelter will be forward ing pounds of blister copper per r mon tb The original proposition was to make and ship a matte but after being in operation two months the management t tIn In Boston saw Ay the advisability of car carrying carrying carrying the operation a step farther by taking the matte directly from the Mast blast furnaces and converting it into blister bUster copper With the usual activity ity It of the directors of the company de decisive decisive measures were at once taken tak a to equip the plant for the production of blister copper at ai an additional of ot and from Apr 1 the work has been pushed with p D ps sr s eel eed considering the theof c ate J of stel st el and machinery had Ind indu induno no material delay ha h deve eve with the largo large bodies Fire ere J d girt th inthe in inthe the properties to to back the theIn th e Increased In capacity of the smelter a brilliant future for tor t COmpany is as assured cured In brief the plant as u It now stands atan s has by four blast t furnaces with a total capacity of ot 80 tons per perr day supple supplemented supplemented by two stands equipped with the largest size tenton converters and with a blowing engine with a ca en capacity for turning out up UT to pounds of copper CO er per Jer month I No changes changer were necessary nee ary in the th e original as the four blast Wast bJ t iMri i i naces were provide for in the con I of the blower room blast blas t I pines dust dUlt flues and stack In fact more mere furnace can be added and will r probably be necessary The plant is i s thoroughly equipped with all date data appliances Among which are ar e g hopper bins 8 tracks for slag haulage e complete sampling department labora labors t tory 1017 and a press for fo r bridling bricking flue duet dual and fines The Th e f i power for operating the plant is sup j plied by the Utah Light Power com corn pang pany and trin the past year has bas I proved vary pry iti 1 factory I The finite nit 1 States lining Inning a Smelt Smelting SmeltIng Smelting ing company is 1 ere erecting a i smelter for its on own products and as we W understand un withe it tt any intention I to buy in the op n market Further description of ot the foregoing I smelters will he be found incorporated inthe In Inthe i the a Recount fount of the operations of each I company as a i whole All An of the sev several se seI I I oral eral pr ro e se es as a described d may be I properly d as a concentration ration or reduction by fire tire It disposes of all allUe I Ue waste elements that are found combined d with the ores with the least I KM in Values al alues U S r Americans Smelters I IThe The scope of this company is far I broader than either of the others and it Its operations are on a much larger er J scale It is in the market for every i f class of ore that may b OA be offered pro provided vided they have sufficient value In I precious metals or in l lead ad or copper i I to p pay y for tor treatment AS the business i i is conducted bv by this company it re ic qin c at Ill normous m inn investment fitment of rap cap ap 1 ital but it offers otTers advantages that the i i smaller establishments Cannot Where I the latter have the opportunity for j I combining th the ores of their respective i districts and thereby securing better j I I result results in the economic sense Bense the American company com with its enormous plants In to the different mt sections all aU over the mining region relon can en ship from oneto one oneto oneto to the other effecting economies that enable it to reap the higher reward while at the same time offering ottering special i advantages advantage and inducements I to the producer of ot the ores orea The illustrations presented pre herewith TV with ith the brief explanation attached to each will rive clue a more comprehensive idea Idee than any written description de will convey convy as to the general methods of smelting It calls for tor the employment emp of ot a high class cla 8 of skilled Milled employee I and all the practical sciences are are called upon to furnish the precise data upon I I which the success s of the various pro processes processes ceases depends I f The carload of o ore when it reaches the smelter Is 18 to the unpracticed eye ey no more than a carload of ot rock and earth and even the practiced eye of ot the expert ore orter cannot definitely 1 determine the value without an assay It may have passed Pu ecI first through an Independent sampler established with the view to protecting the seller seDer or to afford a basis bests for competitive bids If It not it is unloaded systematically ev every evy ery cry y third or fourth or bar barrow barrow row load going to the sampler floor and the balance going ping on to its proper ore bin The detained portion is IB passed pa se over the grizzlies or screen and the i coarser portions are fed through the I Jaw crushers Then all allot of it Is thor thoroughly thoroughly mixed together so o that either quarter of ot it will fairly represent ent the I whole One quarter is then passed be tween rollers that crush it still finer tiner and again it is mixed and quartered When the sample is 18 so reduced in to bulk balk us as s to t permit its iu betas being handled bandIed by the assayer ills itis sent ent to the laboratory Arata Aran ran the th fining and quartering process is repeated until the whole car carh I ii h a u a nu ll Uy y represented by not more than a handful of the material in the carload How Row Assaying is Done The process of or assaying a ts 16 simply smelting on a miniature scale and the object is to not only determine the ex er act value of ot the ore but hut also what fluxes are necessary and the due pro proportions proportions I portions to be added One ore will contain a heavy beavy per por percentage of ot lead another of copper an ap another another I other of iron all of which facilitate the melting of them and another may supply a part or all of the limestone required for fluxing Others may be de deficient in one or the other of or these requisites requisites ui itea In practical smelting the cur sur surplus plus of one is 18 made to supply the de of ot the other Many ores car carry carry carry ry su such h a percentage of zinc or an aD as aa to tomake make difficult the separ cepar separation of ot the metal from the slag these are classed as rebellious ores The excess of the th objectionable 0 tion able elements Elem of the one on Is counterbalanced by their ab absence sence Bence in another All Alt of ot these the lb points pinta and many |