Show THE MAJESTIC SMELTER beaver news work on the majestic smelter is progressing at a most satisfactory rate the foundations for the lead furnace the big fore hearth the engine and power houses are finished and adlof all of the general foundations will be completed within a few days the spur from the main line of the 0 S L is nearly completed and the iron for the superstructure will soon begin to arrive contracts have been made with the railroad company for three and a half million pounds of freight equivalent to seventy carloads and this does not cover near all of the building material to be used the construction work is of the most solid and substantial character throughout and much massive masonry work is required for instance the fore hearth into which is conveyed all the slag from the copper furnace will rest upon an immense circular column of solid masonry extending down into the earth to considerable depth the railroad company will build six miles of spurs including to the smelter and from the mines all of these spurs will be built from the frisco branch and it will be a down grade haul from every mine to the smelter the ore will be brought to the smelter over a spur from the frisco line started at a point due north of the smelter at a point over feet from the smelter th this track commences to raise and it comes in along the west side of the building at an elevation of twenty six feet above the ground directly underneath the track will be the ore bins of 1200 tons capa capacity capacio cit v so situated that the ores can be brought up in dump cars and dropped through directly into the bins these L lins bins ins and the elevated track rest upon trestlework with a heavy masonry dounda tion the rock being laid upon a bed of cement the sampling works will be bd located on the west side of the elevated track and ore bins the big pit for the crusher is now about completed adjoining the sampler will be the hot blast furnace the air is fed to this furnace from the blower and heated to a temperature of or degrees and thence conveyed to the smelting smelling sm elting furnace this thia hot blast feature is a new device and effects a sav saving ng ef one half in the item of coke as compared with the old cold blast process A temporary assay office has been built near the smelter and an asater from colo raco who has done manager Paris hs assay work for years will be placed in charge six hundred and forty acres lying to the north and west of the smelter have been platted for the new town of lewisville Lewis ville but it is stated that no lots will be offered for foe sale until next spring A park is laid out in the center of the plat p lat and it is intended that a handsome school house shall be erected in the center of the park it is stated that water will be piped upon every lot and a complete sewerage system built and every purchaser of a lot will be com compelled belled ta 9 connect with the sewer engineer ayers has general supervision of the construction work with W M white as resident engineer in direct charge general manager parish farish reports satisfactory conditions at all of the companas comp anys mines A new gasoline hoist has just been installed at the old hickory and the shaft will be sent down as rapidly as possible the big working 7 shaft on the vicksburg is also being sunk at a rapid rate col parish is greatly pleased with the mineralogical conditions in this county and believes it to be rich field but states that the development of the mines will require much capital |