Show PLANS FOR UTAH CON SMELTER bulletin bingham utah the plans for the new smelter for the U utah con are now completed it will have a capacity of 1200 tons of this 1000 tons will be furnished from the highland boy and tons from tonopah will keep the smelter running to its full capacity A plan will be put in operation to use the waste heat from the smelter furnaces to generate steam power which in time will be converted into electric power and in this way sufficient power can be obtained to furnish all the necessary power for the smelter and the tramway and have enough over to furnish light and also the necessary power for operating the mine to carry the ore to the smelter an incline tram would be used to carry the ore from the mine to the point where the semi gravity aerial tram begins and from there pass over the mountains to the smelter the cost of transporting the ore would te U from 10 to 15 cents per ton as against 46 cents at present the estimated cost of the smelter is including cost of tramway tramways tram ways the usual cost of treating tonopah ores is from 8 to 12 per ton but as the W oh land boy ores contain a large surplus oi if iron and sulphur rendering other fluxing flexing that aba material unnecessary it is estimated it will cost the utah con not to to exceed axce 1000 giving a net profit of over daily it will thus be seen that by cuttle smelter expenses in different ways the would shortly pay for itself |