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Show : M - MAY ELIMINATE ACID i FROM SMELTER SMOKE BUTTE. Mopt., April 21. A despatch ) from Anaconda says that P. P. Pratt, !, an Atlanta, Oa.. acid manufacturer, and f? j W. P. Heath, a federal expert chemist, h who inspected tho smelters of the Ton- ne&Foo Copper company at Ducktown, y Tenn.. and devised a process by which acid might bo eliminated from the ; smoke there, today arrived in Anaconda j to inspect tho smelter of the "Washoe Copper company, which is tho largest iu tho world, fhe visit of the experts ? is nn echo of the famous "smoke" suit, f brought bv farmers living in tho Leer 1 Lodge valloy, near the smelter?, who I claimed that their property had .been damaged by sulphur fumes. Shortly before ho left office. x-President Roosovtdt began the present in- quiry, and it is as a result of his ne- ' 1 tion that the experts arc at work in ' 1 Anaconda. The Washoe compnuy has 1 profesfed itself willing to install a fcafi- , , iblc acid plant. ' , |