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Show II i'v:" I Records Broken in Consfrnc-I' Consfrnc-I' ' fion Work on New I Plant, i i 1 ; DELAYED MATERIAL ., 1 RETARDS -PROGRESS 1,' Massive Machinery Will Re In-I In-I i - stalled in Completed I Buildings. I Special to Tho Tribune. If- - TOOELE. .Ian. '1. In spite of the se-l se-l vere winter weather prevailing In this I . section, work Is progressing In n voty I favorable manner on the new smaller y 1 , ' plant of the International Smelting and J Refining company. ' The new plant, the completion of which means so much to the city of Tooelo ' nntl vicinity. Is situated at the foot of Jl . , the Ooulrrh range four and one-half I 1 miles from Tooele proper, and about six I. and one-half miles from the San Pedro. I' I .os Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, to I which It Is connected by the Tooelo Val-lev Val-lev railroad. The plant will cover an area of about sixty acres, and the site Is con-, con-, sldcred an Ideal one from the smclter-' smclter-' , man's standpoint. 1 , ' The smelter, as is generally known, Is being built primarily for the purpose of handling: the product of the Utah Consolidated Con-solidated company's properties at Blng-' Blng-' ham, and the mines will be connected with the snicker by an aerial tramway four and one-half miles In length. This iramway, which Is rapidly nearlng com- plcllon. will have a dally capacity of transporting 1200 tons of ore per day. i ! Rapid Progress. ! The first corps of engineers connected ' with the building of the new plnnt arrived ar-rived In Tooele on December S,. 100S. and J the next day work was started on the line ' Intended to make connection with the San ( i'edro. In the faco of many obstacles 1 encountered on account of the severe weaiher. the railroad work was continued contin-ued without delay and the connecting link, the Tooele Valley railroad, was completed in the latter part or May. and following the opening of the lino actual, woik on the smelter construction was slartcd. Since that lime operations havo lwen carried on on a big scale and tho constructing con-structing forces hnvc made a record of note In their progress. When the numberless num-berless details of the carrying out of such a big undertaking are considered, It seems llttlo short of marvulous that where a few months ago there was only sagebrush and scrub oak to be se'-n. there are now mighty titrueturcs of stool and brick, ponderous engines and many pieces of massive machinery. Ore Treatment. The ore as It arrives over the aerial lino from the mines at Bingham will be delivered to a sampler, and after being sampled will be taken by automatic conveyors con-veyors to tho McDougall building, whi-h contains thirty-two McDougall roasters In this section of the plant the ore Is calcined and made rcudy Cor the revor-beratory revor-beratory treatment. Coming frnni the reverberator furnace In the form of matlc. the product Is passed Into the converters, and after treatment there It goes to upcasting up-casting room, where the pure mctul Is handled. Main Building. The smelter building proper, or the main building as It Is called, will be. when completed. 500 feet long and 80 feet wide, and will house live largo converters. con-verters. In this building will be Installed In-stalled a sixty-ton Morgan crane, capable capa-ble of handling massive pieces of machinery ma-chinery with tho greatest ease. The reverberators' building will contain con-tain five monster furnaces, each 10 feet wide and 110 foot long. The power house, a symmetrical building of steel and brick. 175 feet long and "I feet wide, will be equipped with the most modern compressor compres-sor and electrical machinery' In use at tho present time. Tho mnin dust chamber Is of structural steel and brick and Is 110 feet long and 120 fcot wide. The main Hue. which Is over 1100 feet long. 20 feet wide and -'0 foot high. lnds lo tho plant brick stack, which will bo H50 feet high, with an Inside In-side diameter of 25 feet. This stack at the present tlmo Is 201 feet high. Work has b"on somewhat delayed of lttto bsr the delayed arrival of material, but from present Indication the big plant will be completed by .T.uue 1, 1910. |