| Show THE GERMANIA WORKS on the occasion of our first visit to salt lake when briggan brigham m young gave us an excursion on the utah southern a though although we were prevented by the rain from a full enjoyment of the entertainment the scientific portion of our party were highly delighted with the inspection of the germania smelting smelling Sm elting and refining works eight miles from the city where the train stopped slopped foran noran nor for an hour we had time to go through the buildings which aio aie quite extensive and to examine the curious processes by which the mineral is refined from its dross and becomes pure silver the irrepressible gail hamilton who always wants to bee see everything and always sees everything to a good purpose was especially interested restes as it was quite in lier her line no one can eliminate such pure shining thought from d ill matters of fact as can this g gi ted ted fed lady now j just tell us all about abou t i it t every bit about it she said to I 1 he lle handsome young german who wih tended yount t the a establish establishment anent I 1 thought the other ladies u ere re more interested in the narrator than in the processes lie he described he said that flach flabb one of his countrymen was the inventor modestly in esal disclaiming any merit for ili iii himself elf eif although the company owes much to the ingenuity of his brain it would obviously be impossible to remember all the tho description given by mr billing but from some notes which lie he kindly gave me afterwards I 1 will endeavor to condense as much as maybe may be of interest without tiring the patience of general readers reade rs we were shown nive five largo large pots each on one capable of hold hoid holding over twenty tons of base bull buli bullion on tills this is thrown into inta one of them as it is received from niom the various smelting smelling sm elting works where it if has been extracted extracted from the ore an intense heat is kept up L by J the furnaces until the temperature is reached at which zinc will melt zinc is used for the separation of oid old silver and copper from lead because ca u S it it has a greater affinity y for these hese and other metals than rt ft has for lead when base bullion con coni i froni feromone fr omone otie orie hundred and fafty to two hundred ounce s s of silver sliver per ton two or three per per benl p f zinc is sufficient clen elen to separate te it completely after there is sufficient head heat tho th zinc is gradually stirred in and when wilen the mass has somewhat cooled e being d onn off offit it is found that tint the zinc boing thoroughly with the lead takes ti up the thie gold and copper with much of the sil sli sliver silver ver and rises rles to the surface after a while lle this tills scum is taken baken off ang ancl put into another pot when hen the process is renewed aej and afterwards into another renewing it aguin again until the separation is complete and by means of tapping the pot the lead runs out and the pure metal remains the whole time consumed in tho the operation is about twenty four hours the capacity of the tho works is is about forty tons per day the fuel used is coal and coke the latter is now nov very expensive as it is brought from pittsburgh pa at a cost coit of 30 per ton when the mines of coal in southern utah are developed these prices will be materially teri ally reduced the fluxes aped t i ed are hematite iron ore costing 15 per ton and lead slag which costs cost svery very little as it is to be had on the spot what is called the test by which at the tile termination of all these processes the pure silver is brought out was by far the most interesting to us As soon as the eupelia had terminated there was what may be really styled a beautiful phenomenon of brightening As soon as the last trace of lead cleared itself from the tile silver an instantaneous vivid flash covered the little silver sea and threw out a wonderfully pure and peculiar light the ladies were in ecstasies over this and begged tor for a repetition of it but as another twenty four hours must have elapsed before they could be gratified they were forced to be content with this one beautiful exhibition E each aeh ach of them was presented with a bit of the silver from which they proposed to have made some little ornament in token of their appreciation 0 of f the interesting practical lecture we had received from the courteous young voting manager ne the mormon Count ryby john codman |
