Show smelting Sm elting elfing in utah hard to nina find ores oreb from all over utah aind find their way to utah metal plants for tre treat adment ment meet here a utah mine sends up its share the si smelting sm elting industry in utah had its beginning in the latter day of the civil war many vears years before the completion of go the transcontinental railroad ox teams were still bringing their companies of better fixed mormon pioneers pi the plains to t the he valley of great salt lake and those in les ser or circumstances were still pushing handcarts bande hand carts arts over the same roads to t the valley the firsts first sm elters melters were of the crudest t type e erected at mines they thley we were re burt bulit built eto ato to serve built of adobe bride or stone they could treat only a few tons per day of carbonate or oxidized ores ortis and as fuel charcoal made from the wood of juniper and aspen gathered from nearby hills the early seventies saw caw the introduction tro of water ackels at the old winni much smelter smelter at bingham and at the sultana gelter in Amer american bima fima fork canyon cenyon canyon it was waa not until the early eighties that smelting sm elting began to take form as an industry separate from mining this was waa after the miner felt the full force of the of silver 1873 and pros prospectors had turned their attention from the precious to the base metals discoveries of lead and other ba base metals were numerous and larm larn larze large lead plants were needed to handle handl the increased tonnage of ore the the fourth article in this bennes series will follow soon in these columns |