Show IK PLAT FO UTAH SMELTER CAPACITY A J N o A Il t First Industry of Kind West of Colorado to toBe to toBe toBe Be Built Here Within 4 Months Company t Also Acquires Mine By Ira ITa C. C Tichenor UTAH'S U TAH'S first zinc smelter ter which will be the only industry of its kind west of Colorado is now in process of construction and will be he inI in incomplete incomplete complete e operation within the nex next foul UI I 0 months iThe i v vi i The site selected for the which will cost approximately tel 11 Is s at the station known as Firestone FIrest ne about a mile this side of Murray The he plant Is being erected by the Utah Zinc company recently incorporated incorporated Incorporated with a capitalization of 00 and of which L L. B B. McCordick Is president Herbert er vice president M M. H H. treasurer I L. L D. D D D. Foreman secretary and James W. W Wade managing director 40 TONS ORE DAILY l The Initial capacity of the smelter will be forty tons of or ore a day or a a total of about 1200 tons a month which will necessitate th the Installation of ot twelve furnaces It is stated that for the present the operations of ot the plant will be restricted restrict restrict- ed to the smelting of tree lead zinc ores bres ores from which Is obtained zinc carbon carbon car car- bon now being used to toa a great extent In the rubber rubber- trade and which is said to be m much ch in demand ADDITION IN PROSPECT There Is a possibility that after the smelter Is in complete running order and taking care of the greater part of at 1 the lead-free lead zinc ores produced In in n Utah and adjoining states there will be I constructed an addition which will be devoted to zinc lead-zinc ores and which re require require ye- ye quire a different process from that used in extracting the zinc from ores containing containing con con- taming no lead A ALSO SO OPERATE MINE In connection with the smelting project project project pro pro- there has been formed another corporation corporation cor cor cor- known as the Tecoma Leasing company which has taken taen over the zinc deposits of ot the Tecoma Mining l c company corn com m- m pany whose property Is located near the Utah linein In Nevada The leasing company which Is controlled by I the Utah Zinc company will supply the greater part art of the ore necessary t to keep the smelting pl plant n nt In and with this object in view v ew the leasing company already has a force of men menat menat menat at w work rk developing the zinc ore ore de deposits de- de posits FIRST FUIST SHIPMENT IN MAY It It is the expectation that the Te Tecoma o na property will supply from the i from to 1000 tons of ore Jre a month Continued on page 12 I SMELTER CAPACITY Continued f fo from o page i. i 1 j. j f fand and that that- Initial l shipments will willbe be made made in May Up to the present resent all of ot the zinc Inc ore mined in Utah and in states to the west and north has been shipped t t Kansas and Oklahoma where the smelting has been done by the use ot natural gas Owing to the excessive cost of ot shipments shipments shipments ship ship- ments much zinc ore mined hi in Utah still remains on the dumps Su Such h a supply providing it is of the lead free variety will have a ready market following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing the completion of ot the new smelter |