| Show S elting Refining Co Cos s Smelter an a.- t t of 5 5 every eiery in me stion tion that rill 11 bo be spent spelt on OD it as d. d t tie ret PV pw of Smelt rg arid and Refining s the nido of and Boston h Cooper p ie mines led to tois his is giant giRo ant plant t. t r i upon lIpon during O 05 The G G ms s pints rf of f th A American fir 11 n company ny being nines mes ines and aad be beu beug ug l in n the Uta Utah Uth Copper Copperi i d that thai the ftc facilities for jor Bor tonnages were ate te then arnee sm ns II to the thea a n smelt r plant which ea easy y i rah riah of out ont of the tho reach of all cultural lands Iud whose 1 Jot be damaged by br the tho K rem the flu plant plait KIl 11 cr- cr already adv been filed m mI ting companies nies I al' al arH ael J the Gug 3 1 foresight determined f along the be line of keep- keep l 11 I such ruch n s I. I I 15 site tc ws w's 8 selected with ains on 00 one si site p pia Hal ind ia k on the other where ier r smelter of it its k td T hd in l One of oi tilt nio mo mot i the West Wt were werf t q ti teJ t 0 ot Smelter I ur in m lC e v rp eft t. t I Ii b feet Iron from 1 i l' l n e f re- re I es to the tn and I it aho ahan- the i ion on t t tie tIC tICy on oval I the width ty yf y- y four f feeL et Ti TI walls waliA he hoe in For lOT cean n the thero lil t ing j ro with ottoni and ari ar an- arnan iI i nan feeders Near ri try ry furnaces are four C cona con con- a 8 ea each h feet A F r berlein converting V ll of twenty pats all ed cranes s ru running the tho I. I Wj F J y j I I t- t t 4 I j iJ 1 t list 5 17 t a A- A r- r GARFIELD ARFIELD SMELTER Y 4 A A f i ji r i i f i i A 1 t d' d di f tI 1 t I length of the main smelter building are capable of handlin handling a ton sixty-ton wel weight ht I each having a sixty foot t span Electric cranes are are- also used in the power house i and the machine shop and each portion of af the plant is well provided with the I latest facilities for work I IThe The McDougall roaster building is feet in extent and it contains sixteen 18 foot 18 foot furnaces The area of the two sampling mills are each feet The main smelter building is feet long feet wide Two rever reyer furnaces have been installed and the third will soon be in commission commis commis- sion The present plant having a Capacity capacity ca ca- of 1500 tons daily is almost completely com corn in commission for the plant Isnow isnow is isnow now treating 1000 tons a day This unit will be bo added to until the capacity is brou brought ht up to tons a a. day The plant is under the direction of Charles W. W Whitley the general manager for forthe forthe forthe the Utah possessions of tho the heims Used Bricks A total of bricks were used in the tho stack dust chambers and rever rever- besides extensive steel and cement work worIc More than has been expended on the flue and aud stack alone Tho power power plant plant building building- alone is a monster brick structure supported by steel trusses and having an roof Here there are facilities for developing devel- devel when necessary engine power horse and boiler horse horse- power Everything is of the best that money can buy and is placed for years of service Utmost economies have havo been practiced u i-u ill ib its assen assemblage blage and yet so very large laige is it in all respects that many hundreds of thousands of dollars scarcely describes the expense of its in in in- j feet long and The rho room engine room engine is 80 feet wide The Tho boiler plant at at attached is feet long and 30 feet wide wid Coal is is delivered to the tho boilers in in dump cars from the railroad on an elevated trestle through h seven gigantic pocket shoots and affording in the ag aggregate aggregate ag- ag capacity for tons Coal is delivered by gr gravity vity from these pockets pockets pock pock- in front of the furnaces ets eta in piles in and is shoveled eIe into tho the furnaces by hand There Thore tire are re four power borso power Stere Ster Ster- J F e ling boilers wh which ch are o operated at pounds steam pressure There are also waste-heat waste boilers in in the I furnace building each equipped with wit two power horse Sterling boilers Steam team is is taken from these boilers into into into in in- to to the same header or conveyance pipe ripe that feeds from the other boilers The total boiler capacity installed is power horse horse and provision is is made for the installation ion of or two more 50 50 power horse-power boilers and a a. when the flame same may be required Great Engine Equipment The room engine room engine equipment constitutes constitutes what engineers eng consider th the th most complete up to plant operating at any smelter anywhere Other such power plants aro are larger and having more capacity but none is is regarded as su superior in in its class There are two compound engines en on- gines that are driven revolutions per minute volt dir di die dier r current ct-current generators which supply electrical energy for power and lighting light light- ing lag one ono volt generating generating generate in ing alternating torrent turbine delivering delivering deliver deliver- ing for the Garfield Water company two tandem compound Corlisa Cor- Cor liss lisa engines driven revolutions per minute and directly connected to No 10 blowers which deliver cubic feet per minute each at 32 ounces pressure into the tho blast furnaces two 54 twin forty twin ht-twin cross compound blowin blowing engines with capacity of of 1800 cubic feet each per minute at 75 revolutions revolutions revolutions revo revo- per minute at 12 pounds pressure pressure press press- ure for furnishing air for the tho c copper converters and there is also a cu cu foot bic-foot cross cross compound compound 2 stage 2 air compressor delivering air at pounds pressure for the tho shop tools and pneumatic pneumatic pneumatic matic devices The smelting operations of the American Amer ican Smelting and Refining company in Salt Lake valley valloy previous pevious to embarking on the larger scale e a at Garfield 1 have been confined to the plant pt at Murray J. seven miles south of Salt Lake which wits was undertaken in 1902 as the tho successor success or r of several small independent smelters previously operating in this vicinity in in- dependently In the tho beginning tho the Murray plant was designed designe for growth and has grown until it fins has nas a capacity of tons of oro ore annually and tons per month i |
