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Show OWE MORE FUSE I1EMT0JE FIB Second Reverberator' of the Tooele Plant Soon May Be Warming Up. . One furnace of tin new Interna Lioual smelting plant nt Tooele is being warmed up to get ready for action, and a. second rovcrbcratory Is about In condition for the same process, but it is not known definitely def-initely when tho tires wjll bo laid In this furnace. Tho plant still has a good number num-ber of workmen employed In rounding out many finishing touches hero and there, and tho furnace building Is a hive of Industry In-dustry In the cmleavor to lose no lime. In getting tho live furnaces in compluled shape. As far as could bo learned Saturday, the Utah Consolidated- company is the only customer of the new smelter now sending In ore tonnage. The friends of tho smeller believe that before tho furnaces fur-naces will 1)0 blown in some better grado rock than the Utah Consolidated company is now shipping must be secured. Not that the ore Is of poor smelting quality; on the contrary, Its wealth of iron makes It Ideal stun: for the furnaces, but the copper content does not exceod about 2.S per cent, and this hardly allows copper to be made fast enough. But with such oroa as tho Glroux mlno will ship, however, how-ever, or the concent rates- from tho South Utah mill, the Utah Consolidated ores will be ull that could be desired by tho smeller management- It Is undorstood that tho Utali Consolidated Is shipping close to an average of 450 tons of ore daily while giving the new tramway every opportunity to display its weak or Its especially lino points. Nothing definite Is known yet regarding tho South Utah concentrato shipments, nor has It been announced yet whether or not the officials have succeeded in rounding up the contract with tho railroad rail-road company. Tho mill Is oxpoctod lo bo In commission shortly and shipments of Its product to the extent of 150 to 200 tons dally will be coming In soon. |