Show ing In Utah Y ti 9 Y T K r C c r r y Nearing the end of a n long chain of industry in Utah Utah molten molten metal h t being poured into slabs at Tooele plant Editors Editor's Note This is the fourth in a series of six sir articles on Utah's smelting industry Tho Tiro first complete metallurgical plant erected in the West was the Germania smelter at Bingham which included complete smelting and refining departments The plant was designed as a lead smeller smelter as os copper ores in the Bin Brn Bingham ham district had not made their appearance in large ties Then the red metal associated associated associated asso asso- with lead was shunned just justas as zinc was shunned and lost to the slag sing dump Discovery Discover of copper in the tho Highland Highland High High- land Bo Boy mine at Bingham was wag followed by the erection of a copper copper copper cop cop- per smelter in the nineties Copper Copper Copper Cop Cop- per metallurgy was introduced to Utah as it was as practiced elsewhere Shortly after 1 00 OO metallurgists took up the problem of treating the low grade ore are of the Utah Copper Copper Copper Cop Cop- per mine ore then averaging 2 per cent copper At first the mine mino supplied ores at times for six d dif different different dif dif- ferent smelters but early in the twentieth century two large concentrators concentrators con con- were erected at Magna and Arthur and a copper smelter at Garfield In this period was seen development development development develop develop- ment of the copper Cooper blast furnace and the beginning of tory operations on a large scale At first the blast furnace ha had the advantage but was ms supplemented more and ad more by the tory furnace due to the increasing increasing- amount of concentrates an and decreasing decreasing decreasing de de- creasing amount of crude ore are that required smelting The fifth article in this series will appear soon in these columns |