| Show t w w n w p 0 1 2 I I i smelting S Helloing ling In n How Hm I nt III Cotton tot I flu I t 0 n feet l null ii IS I Indies I I In lit ci I S 1 S 1 S 1 I or P 11 hI b E inu mid it Imir or Ir Sail Nill ril Ill III of nf T 1 ter t o g e ix e m 0 e t o i em e iri l loll or Ha of J I I X X X X o C C i t 7 c i S iY 1 l I x k f 1 t 11 j l J I f Y r X to I 1 t t 1 1 J i A A f fY I 1 fI A Ay y t A AY I y t Y j Epi f fy fj ft I 1 y A f fr I r A AY Y f y Y I Y A i fi f 1 I f Y Yi x i x f f I 1 i 1 00 f t I n t t tF i 1 11 i I f U a f II 3 1 1 L t 1 O i b J i I M 1 s x 1 0 1 r I I 1 0 Wn t o 1 r l 0 I 1 r jIk t r f r j I F f T s Y I iy Y 1 w X X w X oJ oJ I NEW BAG HOUSE OF A S It R CO AT MURRAY IN N OPERATION WI TH TR ITS SMOKELESS STACKS u h U n rr HAS ii lost enst the Uto Smelting Smelling IT 11 I Si I approxImately J COO to 10 hull build 11 a II house at nt tim the where plant Its Jt ti big b fumes originating I In thu blast aro are being under Buch Fuch regulation and nhI that here heie there is 18 l little chance of damage being done llano to lo growing vegetation In fact tIe smelter reIter management dent deit of or O this und unil also lliso that the tho farmers of or r the till Salt aIt LiUe valley illey w l never n er ng again tin tinline line have reason to 10 complain or find just cause to worry WOrT foi for fear tear tint that their crops crop will be ic b destroyed their orchards ruined or their thell horses anti cattle collie killed by coming coining in contact with tho thu death deal da dealIng Ing of ot poisonous arsenical fumes Indeed It has hns cost the Amerl Amer n tb company a U good deal more malO money mane I than the tho sum stated to a U way n to toie todeal todeal deal ie l with the time smoKe question which bus 1155 been beel a T most moot t for fori or 01 orl i l I not only In lit Ihs slate Mate but hut In II every other state tuto where tho tim business oc C ore Is carried on 15 16 1 ACRES OF CLOTH I To ro Ur use u r the strictly term the people call this huge hugo bulla Vun n Ing In which they thoy have hac elected at lit Mur Murray ray ruy tho past p t cai n p hag big house hou t that this tills Is proper name for or It II It Is 11 not out cut of the tha way to My liay that Hint It ILia Is II a smoke house foi fot or really that tha l IH is t It Is To Tn be he become become come como thoroughly convinced of this thill ono one needs only anI to 10 look nt itt the Ihl Interior I when whon It Is Ii not ant In III operation You will see seo dangling troll from mill the ceiling IO cot cal cotton callan cotton ton lan begs O 0 fiet teet long bug and und IS Indus IncItes In resembling In a II marked degree huge link sausages with all nil but hut butone butone I one link absent One of tho the smelter I told toUl the tho writer tho tIme other day that thal If I those these tho bags were wore all one ona piece or of cloth it would covet co an nn area alea of o about 1 l 15 lacres acres one whole city block In Salt lv Lake ka end and hal of ot another one In the tho can con construction of or c the building 1 Z brick and tons tona of oC steel building material were lere used The Tho building Itself Is I feet teet wide and anul an 2111 feet long and ami Is dl di divided I vided up UI Inton litton compartments or 01 0 chamber brick willis walls ue u 24 2 IncItes Inches thick at fit the thc bottom und and gradually ally taper towards time the top lop The Tl plant la is 11 I built buill big bl to tu tt take talu care caie or of the I gases coming cOIning from 1001 IB 16 1 blast furnaces t they are aru In full tull swing or Ji Jr twice the number being operated by tho the company at the present time thle JUST IN COMMISSION l Tho The plant plan wu ws placed In III P PI ow u I last Saturday SI night during the afternoon ton upon Invitation ot or o Manager F r W It was by the tho members of the tho smoke committee ap up 1 pointed by the thc farmers of at o the tho valley alloy several months ago Tho Tue negotiations which resulted In a n settlement or at nt least nn an understanding being belli at ut between tho the smelting company and the tho farmers fa con coil ducted agency of Qt this com corn I In or ot the farmers and Mr 11 In behalf of o Iho tim company At t the thc beginning or of the negotiations thu latter explained to III the antlers the time re Suits or ot a long Ion io series of ot conducted at great feat expense to the smelt company by h some soma of oC the tho ho heat best chelt metallurgists Ho told them that tim thu Ih American Smelt Smell ing K Kenning were Just that confident that the fumes could bo ho controlled wit without haul damage to lo tho the sin rounding country that they vera w to spent spend n IL good sized fortune to demonstrate It Ho told them th m that the tile com corn piny pall pail was willing to settle for any aam dum age ule attributed to Its JIB plant In the past Anti 1111 ll gave assurance that thal It t wn was U the deHu to treat trent land lani 1 fairly In lit the tho future futuro anti that l it was Just as liS 16 to t the tIte to of o the 3 to the tile difficulty as It was tas ns to II tho hut turners Judge Marshall ot or thc tho fed eral ual court had gra granted d the In Injunction junction In Iho cane tuse I Inca ii t Ih l ultimate i I I ii itu I abandonment Li meat or i r j i very 11 In n the unless was lo to get a II of lIf 1 the courts decue Ien At t cue ron time It II was n a ton ten to a one aile that tin III would have huc to tu go 10 Hut But About that time the who had been king on an t the lIc c V that It had bail been bpI II solved This inv 1 1 new newhope Ir hope hole The Tite ers and tt ti the t I he man managers mu it II agers got ut together antI had n a h nit to heart tall talk tulIon TOR on THU COMMON cm OMMO lo GOOD TheIr enin nH ele stacked rind they the decided to together loi CUI or tho the tom com mon mOil nod mod of or tim thu county and hlll Mi l explained that thal It would take a number of time lo IC get ge In shape to hat ness the 1111 dense of or smoke but declared If It his bis hi compan was given Ien a D a little chance It lo hc Ion 1 and h lie believed the would be efy cl Rind to la have the th Ameil oan un A plant ilant continue to smelt oro ore at it Us its Mur Murray Murray ray rn plant llant It was 1 during some saute of these conferences that the P regarding the building or ot a n big bag house bouse were MIP explained e and amI the promise given Riven that I It Il would bo be e leady reatty for or Ir operation lion early eaily In lit Jul Jub July Mr has ful fulfilled fulfilled til filled hIs bin hl promise and aUll the big building hull dIng at nt Munny now low stands as os a monument to t the tue effect that he has hall kept his word lie Ito of ur the com coin committee to set sec the plant llant before It went Into hence they the were ero given lie Hie I opportunity and nul while hilI they were CIO I In Ill H the the tho operation at of the plant wan sam to them In III detail rite members ot or the committee which has hall the thC matter of up UI all nil for tor or damages done In the thiC wac re alo nil present and expressed the opinion that thai wits was being done by Imy Uw tIN tb company that be done HOT HOTT IT Tot For 1 ol the benefit of those readers of or orth the titi th News ens who are not net as IR familiar with ith the of oC a n bug house batten houseplant plant na nm the th members ot or tInt tho commit committee l tee are nr It is IH bably well velI to o state that the object of qt If this bag house houe Is l I to 10 take rare of ot the th blast llla l furnace gases and to by ly eon cop condensation mid migration all nil metal which may lila been volatilized In lit bo lt h furnace and moro more particular enlo anti cad carI carITh Th e tare garet In are drawn through suit able lib Ie F by h a 0 D motor driven Ill IV en fan an 16 feet tlc the largest one Installed In nn In III the west Ht which forces them Iitti it n liu with lIh I ti lower chamber cham bel of f the tho bal bag house The Th sIze ot or these ue mo very er ruch larg larger er cr r than tra tle flu cod nil tho coming into Inlo the under pressure pr ot or the th ran fan immediately expand n ft vol yol volume YO 1 utile ume many times that orIginally occupied pled plea In this title due This rapid results In lit n a very material decrease in h temperature and In these chambers tilt tho Is thus reduced to lo a I point which brings about the ot DC PItY or 11 nil all Including ai III which may Inn have been oen along In the form oral of vapors lOIs vo Time Tho greater part of the solids 1011 thus formed by b condensation are nt at mica on co precipitated by b gravity onto auto the lilt floors ot or the receIvIng The TIme roof ioor roo oC or these receiving chambers Is III of oC sheet metal perforated tell with holt holes hoi II 18 Inches In suitable flanges tho Iho holes boles to permit of at tho tito at attachment ot or the cotton colton filtering liege bags Tho The whole halo ot at t the second story of ot the hut hog house or all of that portion of the tho lower lowel tilled filled with tho bags hags of at the ii character chucto and nil II dimensions refer referred referred referred red to In the foregoing These bags are Kr X MX C X Xi Mx X t t tJ J tA f A I i y A AY Y A Af f f J 1 1 V l I t i t f s Y I X t y y A Y A Y A Y Y s A Y Y I Y i Ii V Y Y Y v I Y X f Ii ii 1 f y yX Y YX 1 X i ml i Jt YX Y I X s ij y S i y y 1 1 Y s I i S 1 1 1 Y t Photo by o X INTERIOR VIEW OF OP ONE CHAMB EH ER BEFORE INFLATION OF BAGS BY GASES OASES o O suspended from the loot loof 01 or coli hi ot of the tho upper tipper department anti vertie 1111 the lower end helm being stretched over oel tIme the which Is riveted the cIrcular opening In lii tho the Iho tipper tightly lightly Ugh 11 DEPOSIT m or OF DUST thin DUP to the tho pressure ot of o tho In Inthis Inthe this the loner compartments they through the tue holes In the floor Inside ot of the tho bugs where the same pressure de tie derived rived from the Hie fan fazi all forcel the tho liRe through the tho meshes of o th the j closely woven won hag All 11 particles nt nr the ton eon Ien oll or what Is In more Ioro com coin commonly commonly known us as fine flue dust which hail not been precipitated bv hy gravity Into tho the lower louer mire 1110 thus thuu taught caught on the tho Inside Inaldo of or the ling hag nl The gases freed reed from till nil metallic particles Hue lIue dust through the tho meshes of or the bug and la ta lie Into Inlo the t ht hm through four separate steel stacks slacks sIx x feet feel In there thore being n a stark for tir each of 0 thin the upper of ot the tile bug bilK house Time The top of ot stacks Is nt at nn an elevation feet Ceet above the For Tor each ench of the compartments of the bug l house theme arc nrc four our cur lower com coin or chambers and tind by menus of ot v connected with time the flues hues the gases can be b shut shill oft off from coin ow oily nn 01 or nil all of or these chambers Thin Is lii provided for the tho th rca rea reason son I on from Crom time to time tinte for or the ISe of ot cleanIng denning lOMi PRECAUTIONS S SIn lit Ill this work the greatest precaution tion Is be necessary owing to the deadly poisonous character of oe the arsenical lust dust It Is III frequently necessary for fot Home person to enter the tile containing the bOlts bags for or the purpose e of ot Rhine them a II good gooel shaking so 80 nn am to cause the accumulation oC or dust on tho the undue of the bugs bags lI and through h the tho openings In III the tho floor hoar where It Il drops Into the tue lower chambers from froni which U Jt is periodically collected for tor treatment for foi the recovers of f thin the metals which It contains particularly tile the arsenic DIVING DIVINO SUITS WORN It Il may Ina be Interesting to know that tim tho person on employed to clean the bags bal tram from time to time does docs I not to enter the building without being clothed In lit an II submarine bathing suit stilt or op the thA back hack backor or ot Is attached n a ii tuniC tank of or com coup pruned etl IIII air front from which the lung mire lire nr supplied Although the AmerIcan company began the construe construction tion of ot this bag baS house about a II 3 year ear I ago tile the actual time lime nm am construction j ho H Mr stated Hinted him hils been op 1111 live tho months Inability to get building material 1111 im wanted having man delays The Time Munny wall tin built for tor forthe forthe the treatment of ore and nOlI the time smoke inoke question as II tar far us mis It Il Ii is nd Is lit fettled lI lutch At Atthe Atthe the tIme several copper r smelters of the th valley alley y the time problem I has han not nol been boen sat eat satisfactorily solved yet et However pro Iro hIm gress IH Is being belnA made and anul chemists unit null metallurgists now at al work nork cOnfluent confident confidently ly I belIeve bellec they will wilt soon lIoon master the subject |
