Show DIPS AND ANGLES samuel newhouse ne was recently asked to accept the management of the monarch mines smelters shelters Sm elters corporation organized several months ago to operate in beaver county utah and other camps but the copper magnate declined the consolidated mercur gold mines 1 company has leased its old mill at manning to arthur H brown and W P janney of salt lake together with the tailings dump which they propose to retreat re treat the mill is being equipped for this purpose the dump contains tons of ore which it is claimed will average 2 A large bed of coal has just been discovered in beaverhead county about ten miles south of redrock on the oregon short line says the idaho falls register the beds comprise acres of what experts call high grade bituminous coal being partly in montana and partly in idaho work on this deposit means cheaper coal at once the discovery means cheaper coal for the big montana smelters shelters sm elters and to the industries of southeastern idaho the ontario silver mining company was the sufferer in a severe fire on the dinst the hoisting plant at shaft no 3 being destroyed entailing a loss approximating more than a half million dollars the buildings contained a great deal of expensive machinery including the great cornish pump at one time considered to be the largest in th thle world the plant was not insured and two hundred men were thrown out of employment the mine and mill are closed pending the rebuilding building re of the plant george C westly of missoula montana has secured patents for a device to eliminate poisonous gases from smelter smoke he recently gave a description of it to the spokesman review the principal feature of the discovery is the liquefaction liquia action of gas by means of compression con at some temperature below 14 degrees fahrenheit to effect this liquidation a device has been perfected in the form of a horizontal flume into which the metallic substances contained in the furnaces make such as arsenic particles of gold silver and copper or the solid poisonous products are thrown out by passing through a chamber of baffle walls and a system of cooling chambers and economizers until the temperature is reduced by means of what is called an expansive ice fee machine the temperature is reduced to about zero and the purifying gases are drawn through a flue and refrigerator chamber by means of a mechanical draught fan this fan is the power which makes possible the liquefaction of the gases by forcing them through the chambers |