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Show THE SMELTERS. The "Old Tele-r;i)h" Knhrg-its Knhrg-its Cajiitciiy Rig Work aud Lots of It. Itulllou In Cur I.oiuU Avtulta Salt Lakb City, Mar. 27, 1S77. Editors Herald: Since the all-searching eye of Hip professional Faber-drivera h;is (ailed to discover the geographical position of the West Jordaa smelters, you will probably excuse the attempt of a novice to furnish to the world the information. Tho smelters here, three in number, num-ber, are known respectively as tho Galena, Telegraph aud Sheridan Hill. THE GALENA, in its palmiest days, was the properly of the Galena S. M. Co , of Bingham Cufinn. Fnr n. Inner limn llnmt ivnrL-u' bid fair to become pernrui'Mit and remunerative, re-munerative, but tiie l.ites have decreed de-creed differently, au.l the proprieties with becoming good gr.ico, acccuud the inevitable, and are now reduced to one furnace. THE SiltUIDAN HILL has played an open anil shut game, ever since its establishment, and was again vacated a couple of weekb since by Mr. DuRell, who has leased the Wasatch smelter at Cottonwood. Cot-tonwood. This old, unoccupied poison-pen should never be allowed to blow another blast unless proper and necessar improvements are made. In its present condition it is not only worse than a pest house, but the Blacks are dangerous to work undor, one leaning from a foot to eighteen inches out of perpendioular. aud the balance following suit, but at a less angle. THE OLD TELEGRAPH COMPANY of Bingham, durinc the latter nart nf 1876, leaaed of the Galena company about 1UU feet of land immediately adjoining and south ot the Galena works, for the purpose ot'erecting three luraaces and necessary ore houses, etc. Just previous to New Year, laborers and teams were employed to make the required excavations, and the masons at once set to work building the slacks. The company's first improvements im-provements confuted ol three alncka, a brick fume catcher, about 20.10 feet, built on a substantial wooden frame treaael work. An ore house, 70x20 feel, divided into six bins, and acbaige house, 70x30, wilh pitch roof, springing from frame walls sixteen six-teen feet to the square, thus afWdiug a ventilation unprecedented iu the history ot Utah smelting. Since the completion of theabove named works, the company has taken in forty feet of the Galena old works, lying north of their leased property. Tue old buildings, crumb-hug crumb-hug to decay, were at once demolished demol-ished and an engine room, 18x30 feet, with adjoining boiler house, 15x30, under the same roof, erected in their stead. I may here state that , the engine room and boiler house is duiii on me wedt, ana ouisiue ot tne west line of the new smelter build-, : ing, thereby leaving room for the extension of these works as far north as the company may acquire the property. The lurnaces are at present running run-ning by water power, fed from the Galena canal, but will be put under steam power as soon as the engine wbicb is already in position shall be in running order. The blaat is furnished by two "noiseless" (?) blowers, running at about 3,900 revolutions per minute. These will be superseded by the "Baker blower," one of which, a No. 5, has recently been imported from Cnicago and will be put in position posi-tion thitj week. Others, I am iu-1 formed, will ehortly arrive. Of the private business arrange-1 meota of the company I know nothing, noth-ing, but the indications to a casual observer are that the Old Telegraph company will, ere lung, absorb all that is left of tho declining Galena, when their works, bo substantially bdguu, will be extended north at least another hundred feet, thereby admitting admit-ting the erection ot three more stacks The engioe, you will perceive, will then be exactly in the centre of the entire works. The works are under the superintendence of Mr. J. Long-maid, Long-maid, to whom much credit is due for his able and energetic management manage-ment cf the erection of the buildings and supervision of the smelting. There are about twenty car loads ol bullion slacked by the smelter ready fur shipment. StiUiB. |