Show THE NEW SMELTER AT LANDORE world world weiser idaho reports from landore as to the actual result in connection with the smelter plant erected by the ladd metals people have been at variance and the world has refrained from making any comment upon the matter pending such time as it felt it could give unbiased views on the subject from inquiries from a number of different sources more I 1 especially from D A utter the mining engineer who recently returned from a professional visit to the camp we feel that we are in a position to give the plain unvarnished truth of the matter unadorned by the roseate desires of interested parties or the cro akings of the knocker the smelter plant which has been installed by the ladd metals company at landore and which is designed to treat the ores of the seven devils district is somewhat in the nature of an experiment in that it is designed to utilize wood instead of coke or charcoal to generate the heat for smelting smelling sm elting the ore A gas is made from the wood available in a sort of a furnace and this is fed through jets to the smelter stack the gas generator is a perfect success the heat produced from it is little short of marvelous with fuel of ordinary white hr fir some of which was spunky and en an devoid of pitch they created a flamo flame of wonderful intensity to illustrate in the early stages of the smelting smelling sm elting the men at the head of the work had become thoroughly worn out from long hours of toll toil and as everything was running all right they left the plant in the hands of their assistants while they should secure a few hours sleep through some ill advised action the stack became clogged and in the parlance of the smelter froze up ordinarily the freezing up of a stack means that the whole mass must be cooled off and dug out not so in this instance the gas jets were directed at the frozen mass in the stack and it was actually melted out so much for the gas generator the smelter furnace installed there is a combination stack and from present tests it seems that the gas jets are not fully adapted to stack smelting smelling sm elting this may be owing to defect in the arrange furnace works to a charm charba and that system can be extended to meet all the demands of the district no fluxing flexing ore is used and ment of the jets however the the pro product duct of the smelter is 95 per cent pure copper I 1 the ladd metal company is to be congratulated upon its successful experiment of establishing a wood smelting smelling copper plant at the mine dumps of washington county and the mine 0 owners and prospectors have cause for elation the success of this system will open to successful operation other rich but isolated districts in the heart of this state including profile copper creek etc later As we go to press we learn that the smelting smelling sm elting has been shut down for the purpose of taking out the water jacket I 1 stack and putting in two furnaces which have been demonstrated to be adapted to the gas burners another gas producer will also erected |