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Show URGES RECOVERY OF UTAH SMOKE VALUES i Senator King Asks War In- dustries to Make an j Investigation. I'lspatchfifl from Washington are to the I effect that Snnator Kins, at Tnf-srhiy's j con ff.ro.nce with the chemical .section of the wax inrJustrh-s board, urI that a government In vf-sfialion be mnflo at ! once wtth a view to vfiv;!opirier some , process for recovering sulphuric aci'd i tl(,m t!lR nmoko of the Utah smelters. Tho nenat.or said that if a practical method meth-od of recovery can be obtained Ihe pov-ornmerit. pov-ornmerit. can rfalllv pet vast fimni itir-s or chemicalH from the smelters of Utah, Montana and elsewhere. Hr. W. C, VAm upti, prominent conMult-chemist conMult-chemist of this city, paid yesterday 1 ha t there was no o nest ion whatever as to the IVasihility of recovering larpe quarititicH of sulphuric a-id from the wmoke of the Utah melters, the only questions beinp those of local demand ind transportation charpe on the rnami-rai-turod acirl. " ( t Is a pener;! I proposition," he said, "that whenever the ores are roasted, sulphuric sul-phuric acirl may ho obtained from the rmioke. We worked the problem out here ya rs apo, when t he far mers were liav-inp liav-inp trouble with the smelters and I found tha t the smelter smoke in this valley would about supply the United States with sulphuric acid then if it were all treated. "The sulphuric itcld plant of the American Amer-ican Smeltiup company is already makinp larpe quanLllies of Ihe ncid at " its Garfield Gar-field plant. That product is larpely used in the learhlnp of the Utah Copper ores and some is sold to the mini it ions plant a t Ilacchus. "Sulphuric acid may be regarded as a "barometer of trade. In peace times it brinps from one -half to three -fourths of a cent per pound. Now it is worth from one and one-half to two cents per pound. Tts principal use is in the rcfininp of petroleum, and we refine no petroleum here. It is larpely used in the makinp of explosives, but the explosives factories here are limited." Dr. Kbauph pointed out that the transportation trans-portation of sulphuric add was almost as costly as the transportation of dyna-mite, dyna-mite, it belnp one of the "extra hazardous class" articles. Hence its manufacture lias larpely heen confined to eastern centers cen-ters where the field for its demand was comparatively close at hand. |