Salt Lake Herald | 1899-12-31 | Page 17 | Increasing Importance of Smelting Industry

INCREASING IMPORTANCE i Of SMELTING INDUSTRY i Old Plants Increased Their Output and Three New Smelters Smel-ters Were Erected Like all other features of the mining IndustrY the smelting business has witnessed a remarkable Increasean increase which lack of capacity alone haa prevented from being greater than It really Is Three new plants wore put Into commission during the year by companies needing them to reduce the ores from their own mines while preparations for the erection of hare h-are under way When the three custom cus-tom smeItersthe Germanla lIngo and Hllnsuerwere absorbed by the American Smelting Refining company com-pany last June attem latter were closed down and an attempt was made to handle the business with the Ger I mania alone At the end of a very few weeks the Inadequacy of the works bc J came very plain to Manager Jones and the lingD was again blown In With these two plants In full oPeration the I management has had tD resort to all sorts of expedients to make room in the I yards for the ores which began to accumulate ac-cumulate and this in the face or the V f fact that whenever possible consignments consign-ments were shipped to outside plants operated by the company and rIght now after only six months of real activity ac-tivity ores valued at close to 1000000 are piled up In the smelter yards awaiting await-Ing treatment The Hanauer plant has not been started for the reason Mr Jones says that It would require much repair work to make It available and I he Is not InclinEd to bother with It This would indicate that the corms t