Show SMELTER FOR WALLACE wallace press idaho if I 1 can find a suitable site and can have a guarantee of sufficient tonnage portland capitalists will erect a ton a day or larger smelter here in wallace it will be entirely an independent plant with no alliance whatsoever with the smelter trust this statement was made last evening evenin by al blanchard who has just arrived from portland and who is interviewing local mining men on the proposition the smelter would not be the old style continued mr blanchard we have a new process one I 1 have invented the main difference is that we burn soft coal instead of coke I 1 have invented a process by which we can get 1000 degrees more heat out of soft coal than the usual furnace gets from coke we burn all the gas and smoke so that there would not be the ausum usua objection because of smelter smoke getting the more heat enables us to smelt with halt half the amount of flux most smelters shelters sm elters use we have built a 50 ton plant at oswego ore and about may 1 will run several cars of copper ore through and invite all mining men to see it 1 I have portland capitalists back of my enterprise and they will furnish the money to put a good sized plant in wallace as I 1 believe this is the best location in the coeur calenes dA lenes if I 1 can get e the location in addition to the other features our process saves more of the values we have even beat the assay furnace in saving values |