Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 28 | Smelter Planned for Dugway Region

SMELTER PUNNED FOR DOGWAY REGION Company Is Organized and 100-Ton Plant Designed to Treat Copper Ores. With a view to stimulating development develop-ment of properties in the Dugway region re-gion which are producing ore of too low a grade to be shipped with the present transportation facilities, the Dugway Smelting company has been organized for the purpose of erecting a smelter in the district. The company is capitalized capi-talized for 2,0.00,000 shares, and the following officers are designated in the articles of incorporation, which were ready for filing yesterday with the secretary of state: F. A. Dederich, president and general manager; K. D. Kuhre, vice president; C. S. Goddard, secretary-treasurer; C. G. Adams and L'. R. Hardy, additional directors. It was announced yesterday by the management that Pierre Peugot, a local mining and construction engineer, would be in charge of the work of designing de-signing and construction of the smelter, smel-ter, and that Professor Otto Stahlman hacl been retained as consulting engineer. engi-neer. Mr. Dederich was formerly connected con-nected with the Ohio Copper company, and Mr. Kuhre is a prominent assayer and chemist of Salt Lake. According to the plans of the company, com-pany, the first unit of the smelter will have a daily capacity of 100 tons, and provisions will be made so that future units mav be added to bring, the total dailv capacity to 500 tons at a nominal expense. The furnace proposed is a 35x120 water jacket. Preparations for financing the project are reported to have reached a . satisfactory stage, but the date for beginning work has not been designated. The organizers of the company have acquired about 160 acres of laud at a point centrally located with reference to the various active properties, the longest haul, being approximately six miles. The 'site for the smelter has been selected' with a viow to permitting a down-hill haul from practically all the properties. The proposition of erecting a smelter in the Dugway district has been under consideration for several months, and exhaustive investigations have been made as to the available ore resources of the district as well as the smelting qualities of the respective ores. Inasmuch Inas-much as the majority of the properties which are under development are producing pro-ducing copper ores, it is planned that the first unit of the plant to be erected will be a copper smelter. . Mr. Peugot and Mr. Dederich have conducted the investigations, and exhaustive ex-haustive tests as to the smelting qualities quali-ties of the ores have been made by Mr. Peugot. The results are reported to have been highly satisfactory.; Contracts Con-tracts are now being arranged with the various mining companies to insure the delivery of 100 tons of ore a day to the smelter. Manager C. S. Goddard has announced that the Dugway Bertha will contract to deliver fifty tons of ore a day. The property recently acquired under bond and lease by Mr. Dederich and Mr. Peugot from the Dugway. Copper Cop-per Mining & Milling company is expected ex-pected to furnish twenty-five tons a dav, and it is expected that the additional addi-tional twenty-five tons can be procured from the other active properties of the district. ,, According to recent Teports from the Dugway Bertha an immense body o good copper ore has been exposed and it is believed by the management and bv engineers who has visited the property prop-erty that it will be a comparatively easy matter to produce fifty tons a day for' an indefinite period. On the claims acquired from the Dugway Copper Mining Min-ing & Milling company an immense bodv of low-grade ore has been opened To "and thousands of -ions havo been bloeked out. - ..... ; Reports of investigations made m the district Tecentlv indicate that nearly near-ly a score of properties arc active and many of them ina position to produce, ore 'in limited quantities right away. It is believed by the management ot the smelter company that the. returns received by the various companies from ores produced during development will greatlv stimulate activity in the district dis-trict and further the development ot the properties. toward a big and regular producing basis.