Show IS PRAISED I i I fR OR PLANT PAT Willard Wiard S. S Morse director direCtor of or the American Smelting and Refining company com corn pan pany who has been stationed at the hoaI local lo ho- cal al aI offices of the company in this city for about a year ear will wi leave o ca in a n fe few days lays for Mexico exico to look after company business Before leaving leavin ho takes occasion occa ocea- sinn sion to assure the thc producers of Utah that tho the new Garfield smelting plant is if I doing oin nicely and that stories to the tho ef d effect ef- ef I feet that the plant was a failure are without the tho slightest fonn foundation He lie confirms the statement recent recently made by Daniel Dniel Gu Guggenheim enheim that the smelter on oa the lake Jake is s now the largest copper plant in active operation in n the world and that Carl Eilers of th the construction construction con con- staff staf will wi remain here for soy sev several cral eral months month to have havo the time capacity increased in creased to meet all al of tho the demands ma made o upon it i. i It I should be a matter mater of con congratulation ratula tion that the mines of thin thio and anu nd neighboring neigh b- b boring states are arc provided with such an nn excellent plant for the i- i tion hon of copper and if tho the stories stores to the effect that the plant was not a success had llad been true tre j it t would hn have havo 0 been bern n a matter mater to be bo greatly reat deplored Thug Bing ham for which the smelter was original original- originally I ly designed has been the cause of many of the troubles experienced by the time company com coin pany in in blowin blowing in the now new furnaces It I has required some n additions to metallurgical metallurgical metal metal- lur methods method formerly employed to brn bring these ores to subjection I Too 00 much credit for the successful i solution of these problems cannot be bo I given en to General Generl Manager lana cr Whitley Whitey and his staff according to to Mr lr Morse for he says they havo have labored unceasingly h to brin bring the tho plant up to its is present standard of efficiency Mr Morse lorse says that ho bo doubts if the plant could have havo ha c been rounded out so o quickly except for forthe forthe the thc long experience in the business of Manager Whitley and he ho asserts that both tho the American Smelting people and Utah mine owners should feel Chat it i has bas been their good fortune to have such an efficient man at the thc plant durin during the tho time timo that so many experiments had to tobe tobe tobe be conducted and so many changes made in tho the original inal lansI plans lans It I means more or to Bingham that the tho problem of commercializing its it product has been solved than can bo ho appreciated at this time when tho the producers arc are still sti in the first stages of usefulness Today tho the mines and mills mis of that camp are furnishing employment to ds of ff skilled skied and unskilled laborers 1 Yet et in ina ina I a short timo these forces will wi bo be more than doubled by the opening up of more I of that mineralized territory as well as asb asby asby b by the increase of tho the output of tho the present producers This means that eventually e the Garfield Gar Gar- held field smelter will wi ha have havo 0 to increase ca ca- probably more than twofold and that Utah will wi increase its is hold bold on the title tto as the smelter center of tho the west |