Show international SMELTER AT TOOELE GRADUALLY EXPANDING operations supt bupt A B young of the international smelter announced this week that another blast furnace would start at the lead plant jin in a few days says tooele thoele bulletin of the he said that it was planned to operate three blast furnaces for the present to keep the stock piles down to a certain quantity and if lead shipments should increase during the next few months that half of the lead plant ifould w be kept in operation permanently work on another furnace has also been going on for several weeks which will be blown in according to supt bupt young about the first or the year the starting up of both these furnaces will require about one hundred additional men which will make the number of men on the daily payroll nearly five hundred besides the men paid by the month this will mean that both half of the furnaces at the lead plant and half of the number in operation at the copper plant will be in operation it is expected that the increase in operations will be gradual as it has been since the smelter started up last summer with the lead stocks in the country rather limited and the price remaining as at present for some time a decided improvement in iia the shipment of had ead I ore krould seem to be warranted |