Show HEARS PETITION IN SMOKE CASES I United States Smelter Believes It Can C ln Prove Its Fumes Free From Poisonous Matter GASES AND THEIR EFFECTS EXPERTS GIVE OPINIONS ABOUT ACTION OF CHEMICALS The petition for a modification of ot the permanent injunction against the United States Smelting Refining company compan to prevent it from smelting ores containing more than 10 per cent of ot sulphur was ivas brought to tho the attention of ot the United States court yesterday forenoon It is expected that the hearing will last two or three days dals Generally Generall speaking the proposition Is this The farmers of ot the valley went into court and succeeded In bringing about abolt the closing of ot the smelter on the ground that their crops and land would continue to be damaged unless the smelter were com corn compelled compelled to cease smelting ore containing more than 10 per cent of oC sulphur th smelter was given permission to file a petition for tor the modification of ot tile the In Injunction Injunction Injunction junction when It believed It could treat ores without harm to land crop human or animal life At great cost according to the petition the smelter Installed a bag house through which the smoke and fumes from the fur furnaces furnaces furnaces naces In passing were so acted Upon that ores containing a much greater percentage of the forbidden substance can be treated and the tho vapor apor that finally leaves the stack be harmless The petition is being resist resisted resisted ed on o the ground that the devices of the smelter are in fact not possessed of oC the thc qualities claimed for them and that the gas that is emitted from the stack Is practically just as poisonous as the old time smoke used to be Chemical Analyses Introduced There Then was as 8 a presentation yesterday by b attorneys representing both sides in which legal lore ga gave wa to chemical feature and phenomena The company was represented represented by Judge W V Yo H Dickson and Judge Andrew Howat Judge W H King Icing and former Senator Joseph L Raw Rawlins Rawlins Rawlins lins represented the farmers t and E S Ferry was present as an interested party In connection with the firm that Is smelt smelting smelting smelting ing ores under a slight modification granted the American Smelting Renn Refining Rennin Refining ing in company com pan The arguments ar melts In the opening on behalf of oC the company compan were a cont that the bag house and concentrators and other devices installed by the company com pan were practical and would remove renive Jve the polson g matter from the smoKe The contrary was maintained by the farmers who claimed that the apparatus s was merely a device to change the chem chemical chemIcal chemical ical properties of the fumes and to send nd out In the end In spite of contrivances a poisonous vapor as harmful aa as though lift th contrivances were not there at all allA allA allA A F Holden H the tim director of the com corn company Compan pany pan gave evidence after atter the lawyers lawers got through bearing on the subject of quantity quality and ss of ot gases in general and those generated in his smelter In particular W V L Bene Benedict Benedict dict diet an expert chemist gave technical testimony and his examination will be b continued today |