Show I I 1HAMON I THE FURNACES I 1 11 I I I I t r1 Enormous Tonnage Reduced 1 i During August ci I I I I F TREATED OVER 100000 TONS II 1 IiI Ii-I Big Payrolls and Mouths Now 1 < I H I Going Fed i Il j 1 < j II I r 1 J f 1t t It if II t J Enlargements in Hand and Progress t of Work Highland Boy Makes II 1 a Sensational Spurt I t tof of j II I i The August payroll down at the I furnaces of the American Smelting and i1 I Hcllnintr company and for which cheeks 1 have Just been executed by l j Paymaster Price reveals the employment i f c employ-ment within the smoky microcasm at i I present of a force numbering over a J thousand persons with as many more I distributed among the furnaces of I 3 I f noiyliborliiff plants On a basis of r ji three to the family this tells of he 1 I l feeding of oycr GOOD mouths by the valley I val-ley smelters and yet not one of the I I I plants hut has room for a few more I men of experience Meanwhile the capacity I ca-pacity of but one of the batteries has been attained while nt that the management t man-agement now enlarging and preparing i prepar-ing to accommodate a larger volume of 1 > ore from its Bingham mines AccordIng J Accord-Ing to returns from the local 1 offices I 1 of the various smeltors there was reduced I I J duced In the valley during the month I of August as much as 100000 tons of 1 t ore the furnaces al the American run 4 I 4 ning ahead of all previous records owing I ow-ing to an Increased levy on them while i J I the companys plants were seeking I vainly to adjust their differences with 4 the strikers That this tonnage will 1 ever be any less without interruptions I 1 1 from other than normal causes is not 2 believed On the contrary there are j f assurances of a tremendous Increase as 1 i i soon as enlargements now In hand and j new furnaces being constructed are N completed On Monday last the week at Ihe f 1 Highland Boy smelter opened with a 1 reduction of no less than nGG tons of ore a figure that has been reached J f only at long intervals at thfc plant I I while to increase lie normal lo 750 tons I t r enlargements arc now in hand At the 4 UnIted States the sixth blnat is being r hurried to completion by Superintendent I Superintend-ent Masters while Manage McArichie of I the Bingham Con has no reason to believe be-lieve other than that he will be required 4 f re-quired to order the fourth furnace at I l that plant into commission at an early I j l day Between the mines and the smelters IF I l 1 smelt-ers the valloy is doing moix for the r commonwealth if i not for the nation H j indeed than ever before I J |