Show MR ON SMELTER SM SMOKE t President of Chemists and Metal Metallurgists Metallurgists Discusses Ques lon tion of Local Interest EXPERIMENTS I IN MONTANA erI cre Very r Sit y Ye t of l Es cry r 10 of Igo Is lh or o the thc Wester Western tso fIO of at Technical hem lits Metal ts arc hulln holding their second Li oh Lost Last livId In iii the Iho chemical laboratory of tie tire of at Utah nid those to al an interesting address by President I F W Y his theme them being hoing The Smoke Problem which was a followed by a general die ot of the subject line hns been Im eta for tor several yeats by the tho Ana Aria conda Copper company In Most Ion tana 1 mis nn an expert on smelter smoke effects and amid therefore IL a fir 1 wih with his subject Ind and under his dIrection aim farm wL ll con conducted d nt not in the smelt era cra nt at Mi h declared that smoke mini sulphur fumes emitted from the smelter wl do a 11 amount of damage to Bol In some cents localitIes as wel well ns as to 10 crops Ild amid lIve lIvestock stock but not as much UI us genery generally claimed by t There I Is no solution for or time the smelter moko continued the speak speaker er other than letwen between the armor and the smelter operator The smelter operator must admit the farmer mUst estimate lila his losses conservatIvely and the two tae inc tons loris settle theIr differences In the tho bas best possible milner manner this declaration rr stated that In experiments experiment conducted on the Ito Montana farm reo re erred to It was WIlS fount that sl smelter ler smoke dl not Injure the lie Montana al kalt soil and In fact helped I lt that the tho atmosphere ere about the tho farm tarm was of high that It ibid did not affect the crops tt to nn an alarmIng degree Ind and that the most exacting tests nl Ill hilled to cattle brought no bail nel results stated however that th the ull soil conditions peculiar to Montana were to a large lare degree responsible for tor the excellent reo re sula suIts obtained from the experimental Irm and that In the tho rich agricultural sections ot of Utah trial ld California the tho smelter would injure to 10 a certain degree stock crops crop 11 and sol soil There Thelo wi will ho bo no afternoon Ie session slon today but In the tho evening there wl wilt be two papers read and discussed Frank Leonardl Leonards on Cyanide anille Practice on Boulder Coutt Cola Colo Ores V H paper on f Vol VoI Methods In General and a discussion betS lell b by I H C Parmelee on the tho ot of Insoluble Sil Sili claus cious wi will lie he taken up by visits to different Among other points Ihl the delegates wi will go to 0 Sat urda the tho banquet wi will take pi place nee at time tho CommercIal club The rhe or I Is designed for tor mu mutual help Vel Very ofen often I a chemist do de sires the tho assistance of the tho gist while the metallurgist needs need the tha chemist every day fly Dy bringing the two In closer touch by means of these coser the tho conditions It II is hoped wi wilt be brought broucht about Most of the delegates are front from Colorado and train other points In the west est Owing to the holda holiday trips coil vacations many ot of the delegates arl are not hert liens this years arl than thun before The big blK Plants or of the tho Amer AmerIcan Ican Smelting Co at Mar Marray ur urro ro ray und mind the States Smelting RetIring Mining Co were vIsited today h by members at tho association |