Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-01 | Page 10 | Smelter Congestion Wll be Relieved

SMELTER CONGESTION WILL BEJEUEVED American Smelting1 & Refining Re-fining Company Will Solve Problem. !'"or t hr ;it tb rt; inoiit hs t !if .uf 1- trrs of thn S;ilt f,iiUrt v;i.-y hav bo-il 1 cnnrtfil with on, owinj to t ha im -usual activity in mining I'loulit about hy thf lii'h iricR of loail, silver aii'l eop-ji.-r. It in admitted that the plants liavt' ln-cn nmiliM 1 ( handli- all tlio ura otlVred tlicm mid havt U-r-n njmjpfll-'d to n;fiisi ores of a ni'Ji! that wa.s gladly t-j jT t-i i in norma I t iim'H. Hut tno bitf imMcrn will tioou )m! solved, ju'i'or.iinn to an ot-fir-ial wtatt'iin'tit made, Vht-rday ly nmrlf-H W. Whitlry, oncral manager of tli(! Auifri-aii tSiiio'itiii it Refining cnni-j;iny, cnni-j;iny, whii-li has itn bi copper hhwUct ai liaj'tit'UI unit also u yifintic plant at M iirniv, Mr. 'Wlii t Icy naid yesterday that within with-in nix months tint rapacity of the Garfield Gar-field sine Iter would bo doubled, giving it a rapacity of K(MJ tons of copper every twenty-four lionrn, or about -is, 000, DUO pounds per month. The plans are completed, com-pleted, houin of the steel is already on Ihe ground ami at. the end of nix month , it is i'oii t'idcnt ly expected, the bi Hint'l-ter Hint'l-ter will bo in whape to turn out the 800 tons of copper every day. hut that is only part of the diffi-e.iillv. diffi-e.iillv. Tailing earn nl the lead-silver ores i" loin the various mines has proved a problem erpialiv as difficult as handling han-dling the, output from tho copper mines; in tact, one that has caused oven greater great-er annoyance, ns the producers operat-' operat-' inp finiM Her mines hc uttered over tho region tributary to tho valley havo been oven more insistent in their demand for accommodation than, wore the copper people. Mr. Whitlev said that within six mouths tho Murray plant would bo ruin ru-in red to na extent (lint would enable it to take care of all tho lead ores that tho cum I omers mipli t briii in ; ho did not ca re how reat the vol u mo might be. The furnaces will be enlarged, augmented aug-mented and improved and n new stack 4-mi feet high, the second highest in the world, will bo built. Mr. Whitley sets k: months as tho time required for the ooifipletiiui of tue big task. "Wo do not expect to be ever again caught in the predicament of being unable un-able to take en re of the ores offered us. ' ' ho doidared. The plan! s at Murray and Garfield employ about 3o00 workmen and this fi:rco will be enlarged during the const con-st rue t ion period and necessarily Increased In-creased alter the improvements are jnado. As to the possible shortage of coal iu the event of a possihle railroad strike, Mr. Whitley said that his company had anticipated this and" was prepared to continue operations without delay.