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Show METALLURGICAL DISCOVERY ! OF WORLD-WIDE INTEREST j Production of Blister Ccpper by New Fink Smelting Process Will Revolutionize Rev-olutionize Mining. Salt Lake City. Saturday night at 10 o'clock the first pouring of coppei bullion, "blister" copper, that was ever made in a single process furnace fur-nace In the world was accomplished at the Edward Fink plant, at Garfield, Gar-field, near the Boston Consolidated mill. With fifteen men on a shift end with the utilization of twenty-five twenty-five horse power of energy and a coaple of tons of fuel, at the outside the Fink smelter has demonstrated its ability to convert Boston Consol- idated concentrates into copper bullion bul-lion at the rate of better than 100 tons a day. This means a revolution in mining a cheaper production of copper bullion, bul-lion, a greater output in a given time, and the installation of a method ot treatment, that has long been looked forward to, but hardly expected. In an interview published in the Salt Lake Herald, Samuel Newhouse, the millionaire mining man, says: "You are now at liberty to say for me that the Fink process of smelting ores is a demonstrated commercial J success. You can make the statement Just as strong as you like. It will be hard to exaggerate what this state- ; ment means. There is no question ; of its amounting to a revolution in the art of smelting; it is a triumph In the science of metallurgy that j must command world-wide attention. The process will be the means of making mining profitable in hundreds of places and under innumerable con- j ditlons where and under which profit-making profit-making is now impossible. "I have waited with as much patience pa-tience as possible for the tests of the process that, would justify me in declaring de-claring myself satisfied. I have watched watch-ed the plant in operation; I have seen it make splendid high grade copper matte in a few minutes' time, and I have listened to each report as it has been made to me with almost breathless breath-less anticipation, and it has been a supreme source of gratification to me that at no time has the furnace itself j been at fault for any delay. In other words, the only difficulties that have j been encountered have been caused i through imperfections in the naturally natural-ly crude appliances tha have had to Le used in working out the,nechani-cal the,nechani-cal features of the adaptation of the method. And even these have presented pre-sented no problem that could not be overcome in a few minutes to a few I hours. "Now I am absolutely convinced ; that every Claim of Mr. Fink is to be more than realized in the actual operation oper-ation of his process, and I am going to organize a company that will ex- . I loit the process all over thej mining ; world. The details of this organization organiza-tion have not been worked out yet. j It may call for separate organizations to care for the business in different countries and in different fields; and one thing is certain, no time will be lost in getting ready for business. I ; am going to New York and, upon my return, at the end of the month, 1 shall likely be ready to tell you more ffbOut my plans in this respect." |