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Show NOW IN FULL BLAST AN Furnaces of U. S. Smelter Smel-ter Are Going. INCREASE IN THE TONNAGE Contracts to Bo Lot for Lead Blasts. I Work to Be Dispatched TJndor Rush Orders Rumored Bingham Con. Will Emulate Example. For the first time since it wns blown In the United States smeller Is operating operat-ing with its entire battery of five furnaces In commission, each doing the work which devolves upon It In a manner that is beyond reproach whatever, what-ever, said Mr. A. F. Iloldcn, the company's com-pany's managing director, on his return re-turn from the plant yesterday. While In the achievement of this there has been much coaxing and skill employed, the experience at the furnaces of the United Stales has not differed materially ma-terially from that Imposed upon the founders of neighboring plants. To this the management of any one of those now in operation will testify, but their teething days were practically over "when those of the younger one began. Yesterday there was reduced by the latter over S00 tons of ore, net, while this will be gradually Increased until the furnaces have been fed up to the maximum. Meanwhile the management man-agement has tho plans for the lead blast annex in which tho silver-lead ores are to bo reduced Jn hand, and It Is presumed that the active letting of concentrates under "rush orders" will follow in a few days. Of course this means competition In the valley on every variety of ore, with the producers' interests correspondingly promoted. In this connection it has been said that the Bingham Con. will also equip itself with a lead furnace, but more definite Information upon this subject will be had after the meeting of directors di-rectors in Boston next week. |