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Show Yampa Smelter to Be Enlarged Big Company Makes an Appropriation Appropria-tion of SI 50,000 for Improvement Improve-ment of Plant. Without delay whatever, the proportions propor-tions of tho Yampa smelter In Bingham canyon are to bo Increased to those of on adult, tho management of the Yampa group of mines to bo provided with facilities fa-cilities that shall ennblo it to supply tho enlarged plant with approximately COu tons of copper, gold and silver-bearing ore dally. To this end an appropriation of ?150,0CO has been made by the company by which plant and properties are owned, while In a message from tho East Inst night Walter S Kelley, general manager of the proposition Is authorized to proceed pro-ceed with the execution of tho plans at once. For the additional equipment of tho smelter, that, under tho masterly direction di-rection of Mr. Bellinger, has settled down to tho work of a pioneer, a contrnct for a second furnace was awarded some weeks ago. the material of which to construct II to be upon tho ground next month. In addition to this, however, provision Is made for the Installation of an adult Edwards Ed-wards roaster In which tho ores are calcined, cal-cined, with a revcrberatory furnace to follow, fol-low, tho adoption of tho Edwards mothod of calcining, said Manager Kelley last night, having been decided on after exhaustive ex-haustive tests and trials, comprehending a period of several months. With thcsij devices the mnnngement will be enabled to reduce over 100 tons of "fines" dally, while the capacity of the two main blasts will bo not less than 450 tons The plans also provide for storage bins of double tho present cnpaclty. while facilities for handling han-dling and loading of tho plant's product will bo Improved. Anticipating tho additional addi-tional requirements of the furnaces, tho management has Just Increased Its supply sup-ply of water to the extent of 250 gallons per minute, this How from a shaft which has been dropped down within the yards of tho smelter and to a depth below tho quicksands, the well to bo equipped with a triple, electrlcnlly-drlven power pump, for which an order has Just been placed with Curtis P. Mason of Fairbanks, Morao & Co. A new office building Is also to bo reared within the enclosure, that now In use to be converted Into a laboratory, while a distilling plant, that puro water may bo provided for the men, will be another an-other acquisition. With which to produce tho Increased tonnage that these enlargemento at the smelter will require, tho management of the mines Is authorized to proceed at once with tho sinking of an Incline that sliall havo two compartments, these to extend from tho surface to the tunnel level, a distance dis-tance of about 1CC0 feet, electrically-equipped electrically-equipped hoisting engines to supply the energy, while levels will bo extended In each direction from tho Incline, with everything systematized and put In condition con-dition for the most economic extraction. This Is tho campaign for which tho dU rectors at tholr meeting with Capt. Henry Stern In New York, havo mado provision, and within the next ninety days the Yampa Yam-pa smelter will have attained tho proportions propor-tions originally projected, the company the output to which It has looked forward. |