Show G GLASS AND CHEMICAL WORKS two important and successful local industries today hugh wat oo od esq superintendent ot of the salt lake glass works courteously conveyed in a carriage representatives of the city press to inspect the works which are situated in the northern outskirts of the cit city Y on entering the building containing the pots furnaces etc a beene is presented which recalls features of the I 1 older manufacturing centres bentres of the thea east blowers were dipping their tubes into the pots and on the end of each tube lube adhered a mass of glass which in consistency resembled molasses candy in the proper state tor for pulling the blower blows into the tube and the mass of molten glass nils fills out like a bladder it is then by a dextrous movement enclosed in 10 a mold and a second later is released having now the dimensions AND FORM of a sods soda water bottle a beer bottle or a demijohn as the case may be the number of pots has lately been increased from four to six and at each is two or three blowers they are enclosed in a large brick structure tue the interior of which is kept at a temperature pera ture hot enough to keep the melted glass in a suitable state fot fok working rhe blower passes his tube through an opening in the bricks and down into the semi liquid mass a small wiant quantity ity of which he so quickly and skillfully transforms into a glass vessel sek when the blower has given the pro proper P er size and shape to a bottle the latter is conveyed away by a boy who uses a long forklike fork like tool for th purpose and laid in an annealing furnace there to lie and be cooled by derees degrees de rees when cooled the bottles are ready for shipment the process of waking making glass is very interesting to persons who witness it for the first time near the glass works is obtained an ABUNDANCE OF SILICA of a quality scarcely surpassed in the world as it averages 98 per cent it is laid down at merely what it costs to haul it a few miles soda ash made at the chemical works near by will be used in future sp so that the cost of raw material though higher than in other places in the united states where glass is made is not too high to prevent competition in prices between homemade home made and imported glass goods the works have contracted to furnish a vast number of bottles to the natural mineral water company at soda springs idaho and a carload containing 2600 dozen was shipped there today including all the various kinds and sizes of bottles made at the works the capacity of the latter laiter is about 50 dozen per day Axi another ether carload of mineral water bottles will be shipped to soda springs next monday vials flasks flacks and bottles of various sizes tor for druggists use dac elci are made also fruit jars we understand that the entire product of the works for some time to come will be required to fill orders already received or existing contract con trams THE OP OF is about 60 including boys quite a number of whom are given lucrative employment and the privilege of learning in a useful trade toe the works are doing doing a very profitable they nave been but a short time in operation p era tion and to all appearances appearance the company have very flattering natt ering prospects it to is such enterprises as these which are required to give permanency to the present omand loomand bo the public of the territory should make it a special point to sustain them we und understand ersland that the company are about to put upon the market about more stock CHEMICAL WORKS A short distance by beyond odd the glass works are the salt lake ake chemical works another home enterprise ol of great importance which is producing from raw material so abundant in this region a great variety of products lor for which there is a large and growing demand at home and abroad the party of press representatives visited this establishment of which prof hirsching has immediate charge in a manner which proclaimed Oro claimed him to be a thorough and practical chemist he explained the processes by which the products of the institution were manufactured salt from the lake is the principal raw ra w material now being used and from it a number of chemicals are being produced in large which are soda ash used in glassworks glass works woolen mills paper mills etc refined soda used in cracker J factories fact orits breweries and for pharmaceutical purposes sal sola for washing g etc carbonate bicarbonate bi of soda for baking powder etc caustic soda used in the manufacture of soap hypo sulphate of sodium for bleaching silver ores portland cement is also made operations were commenced last las t fall and conducted tor for a short time ont only but were recommenced a short sho rt time ago the machinery and appliances of the institution are being added to as it is yet in an incomplete state it is proposed to erect a soap factory near by the tanks tor for which have arrived A visit to the works will be found very interesting especially to a person familiar with chemistry |