Show 1 cHo + < 94P 4 < 0 Ii UTAH9S SMELTERS AND WORI DURING 19010 I 1 j < 0 0 O tO < e > 4 > < I > > f H < > < i 1 u i One year ago today The Tribune with pardonable arrogance told Its jt reader that wIthIn eighteen months Salt Lak valley would have become tho greatest smelting center in the world Twelve month have now been 1 4 torn from the calendar and In that period pe-riod nothing is found that is not in fulfillment 1 ful-fillment of that prophetic paragraph Il Today the stacks of no less than four Independent plants car themselves 1 like mighty columns above the great basin while an army oC artisans arc working with furious zeal to com plftc r the fifth When that prediction was icglstcred by The Tribune above the i neu tenin3 the valley was supporting two custom plants The Germania has survived and prospered under the management of Hon T H Jones division manager for the Ameil I cqn Smelting company The other that old Mlngo on the active operation of whose furnaces tho good people of Sandy beloved themselves so largely dependent has since I FLICKERED OUT like the lives of some of those who founded It However portions of Its machinery and the more modern devices de-vices I with which it had been equipped on the eve of Its absorption by the American Smelting and Refining company com-pany have been made to serve the latter lat-ter In other localities It was thus that the patrons of tho industry found them eelves confined to a solitary plant No bless 3our soul it has not received into Its fiery mouths all the custom ores that were raised from the camps of Glah during the year for what It did 11tah not hnndle found warm reception In the u the Argentine plants of Colorado others at gentine j smelter out of Kansas City while still other volumes went northward f north-ward for treatment However there was fed Into Its burning maws during I the year no less than 150300 tons of ore In 190U I Over on the banks of the Jordan was the Highland Boy smelter but It was too much engrossed in reducing the I ores from Its owners mines at BIngham to accommodate the neighbors Indeed Rob White Its superintendent has no I time to devote to neighboring needs however neighborly his Impulses with Ian avalanche of ore from his own mines I pouring dally Into his bins Presently the smoke began to belch from the stack tint towers above the Dlngham Con s SET OF HISSING FURNACES on the Jordan banks To the producer produc-er who rapped at Its dooi Superintendent l Superintend-ent Nutting was more hospitable Ills plant was In HOP 1 of a silk lous product with which to blend the ultra sulphides from his 2oYiipanyj i > mines atBlir ham and thats how the customer found hmo li accommodated HccOjTntelng the need of additional furnnces It was then that the American Ameri-can Smelting and Keflning company decided on the 1000000 plant at Murray Mur-ray and at whose furnaces the fires are to he kindled as spring approaches Independent smelter building had become be-come epidemic at this time however and while Bert Holden managing director di-rector for the United States and Centennial Cen-tennial Eureka Mining companies had been repeatedly warned by his Intimate chum the lion T R Jones of the American company that the reduction I of ores was on such close margins that those engaged In It v I XERE CONSCIENCESTRICKEN every time they permitted 1 themselves I an extra dinner he brushed aside the admonition and blazing away with George K Fischer at his back ordered a 500000 plant Inn the United States Mining company And the rashest thing of all Is that he Is putting U together as rapidly as skill and energy can promote pro-mote It and promises to have Us fires I going by the 1st of July Perhaps Samuel Xewhouse who developed I de-veloped the great Highland Boy mine at Bingham and followed It up with the election ot the Highland Boy smeiter In thl valley la I equally reckless In his determination to erect In the same valley val-ley a 500000 smelter with which to treat ores of the value of 0000000 exposed ex-posed in the Oaotus group of mines out of Frisco However this may be the distinguished gentleman had no sooner received the deeds to the property than the announcement followed that the smelter would be constructed is soon as a site could bo decided < on and material ma-terial for It PlO ured And there Is yet another smelter pi ejected but shsli 1 It is not necessary however for The Tribune to go beyond those already In operation and in process of active construction con-struction to see us pradlctlon of a year ago fulfilled SMELTING IN 1901 I I Great Activity Among the Furnacss and Stacks The year among the smelters afforded a perfect example of prosperity Through their furnaces was put as much asSlOOOO tons of ore from which there was derived nearly 20000 000 of metal In the tonnage consumed the Highland Boy asserted the lead although al-though its operations were confined entirely en-tirely to the output of its ovn mines at Bingham from which Superintendent I R H Channtng dispatched in a raze of a little more than 500 tons a day Of this the furnaces from the big roast lng plant down to the converters disposed dis-posed with scarce on Intermission While a model at the hour of its completion com-pletion the management saw how It could be strengthened by the Intioduc clon of the McDougal furnace and a lUll set of these most Interesting units was added and put In commission early In I the year The result was a most sat Isfaotoiy one the first months run showing a more perfect bllstci while the economic advantages were most Inv nouned Some other accessories looking to further reductions in the loin of smelting were employed but the were inexpensive and theplant as finally rounded out by Manager White has elicited unstlnlcdpralse from every mechanical engineer who has sought It for instruction on uptodate smelting The mechanism and the various va-rious devices employed I that the actual cost of smelting maybe brought within with-in thcj3 mark has been Ircquently exploited = ex-ploited in the column of The Tribune and Rican only repeat that an efficient management has made it possible during dur-ing the year to Improve upon what was originally characterized as perfection To Mi H F Poland the local manager of the companys enormous Interests and theientlic staff the shareholder is Indebted for much more than he will probably ever be disposed to accord The years operations at THE OLD GERMANIA wjih Its neverfalling pace have been equally prosperous and while it wm be consecrated to the handling of the sulphide ores with the firing up of the new American It can never lose Its peisonality with the present generally Few of the patriarchs who were familiar famil-iar with its mechanism ten years ago would recognize In It the smelter with whose workings they were conversant rut that time As new devices looking I to a more perfect reduction of the enor mousvolume of ore with which Its furnaces fur-naces are annually charged have appeared ap-peared they have found a place in the now pioneer plant and while the weight of many jrns Is on Its shoul dcri k Is supported with the ease of a sturdy youngster Founded as a lead smelter and molded over from the first by the Hon Thomas R Jones today to-day there Is embraced within its walls every I modern equipment and every device de-vice necessary to the efficient treatment of every class of ore thuit reaches its bins 1 > Ilowevei its days as a lead smeltei are numbered for with the blowing in of the big American it will be required to serve the p > rltic ores with which not a few of the camps are overrun As a lead smelter Its career has been < a typical one and that Its founders have derived a fortune from Its furnaces no one will envy While the plant so successfully launched by the management of the BINGHAM COPPER AND GOLDI Mining company during the past earlsI I tho youngest of the cluster in this val = I hey It has grown and expanded so rap idly that today it Is as capacious as any of them with Superintendent W H Nubtlng handling nearly 500 tons dally while this volume will In all probability be doubled the present year The erection erec-tion of its furnaces heralded the Introduction Intro-duction of pyrItIc smelting into the alley al-ley and while every unit in the original l origi-nal plant was knitted into place with the skill of a mantel hand In not a few pal tiQulals has it been strengthened since Its fires were started Its pics once here is due almost entirely to Col O P Poseys quick peicopilon of the ne dsor the Blngjiams sulphide and upon a perfect knowledge 01 what py ritlc smelting could bo made to do for them rested his faith In the ultimate productiveness of the great camp Then he sought the best italent the field af forded and before a community had lime to learn the alphabet of the process pro-cess the plant was doing business and Its attendants drawing off great volumes vol-umes of ratite carrying copper gold and silver Of this since July last It has produced over SOOO tons all sold under contract with the United Metals Selling company of New York While then was a really mallet for this pro duct the management saw something a notch or two better In the production of blister copper and to that end the necessary nec-essary machinery was asked for The management responded and early the present year the converter will have been installed and the production of blister copper begun The success of the snieltei has afforded an astonish ing example of strides made In the science sci-ence of smelting and yet as remarked by one of its vDtailes the smelting of ore Is yet in > ts infancy In addition to thb treatment of Its own ores the company com-pany has accepted a limited tonnage from some of the mines In whose pro duct silica which im I required In the process ruled quite high so that It has beers of no Ijttle benefit to several of tho fraternity With the purchase of the Dalton S Lark and contiguous groups at BIngham the company acquired ac-quired not small amount of lowgrade ajgentifeious lead ores and to treat i ese at the minimum a lead blast furnace fur-nace has been projected the construc tion of such an additional feature en tailing but little cost With this at all events it will be capable of smelting all ores of which Its domains are capa I ble and place the company on a basis entirely Independent Down at the American Smelting and Refining companys new smeller at Murray on which is builders arc ex pending as much as JLOOOOOO to pro cure the most modern smelter In the world an > army of skilled workmen Is employed In rushing it to earliest pos Bible completion and if itls fired up as scheduled the drawing off of bullion will begin In March As originally planned the smelter will excel any of Us kind that has been constructed in this or any other land It will have a capacMy for handling at least 1000 tons of ore dally and at a cost according to experts with which none other is ca pablo of competing At all events the management has proclaimed that with its completion a less working charge shall be exacted of the producer Into Its ensemble every appliance that can posslblv reduce the cost of smelting a ton of ore Is being Incorporated and the finishing touch with the new scale of working charges is wafted on with no less Interest by the miner than Is it by talent that will find It a fine field for stud The new and Independent plant which Is being constructed by THE UNITED STATES Mining company with which w smelt Its empire of sulphides at BIngham along with the slllcious ores of the Cen tennial Eureka at Tlntlc is gradually acquiring the form that will be presented present-ed by It at completion and unlss some obstacle greaterthan is now apparent should arise the active treatment a those ores will have begun In July AI designed the plant will combine tlr best features of the best smelters in thi country England and Germany and i lowest cost will be capable treatin as much as 1200 itons a day The cot of the plant according to estimates ll whlch Messrs Fisher and Holden con > curt cd will not exceed 500000 but with this expenditure the management H assured the best results of uptodati smelting are to be obtained However it Is a bagatelle as compared with tha riches now exposed in the two bonanzas bonan-zas It Is intended to serve The blowing In of this plant and Salt Lake valley will be provided with furnaces capable of smelting nearly 4000 tons of ore dally |