| Show I HARNON ON TO TO- BUILD BULD NE NEW GAS EMS fAS SMELTER Said to Be Backing Inv Inventor r in ir Plant at Reno Nevada NO SMOKE SUITS TO FEAR Fuel Cost Important Item in Smelting Cut More Than Half Half Nevada a advices are arc that John Harnon liar Har- lar- lar non millionaire e mine owner formerly of Cipple Cripple Creek now of or Seven Troughs has agreed l to back J. J S. S S L Loder er inventor In of the gas burning as smelting furnace in building at Ileno Heno a 0 plant using the theIo Io er process If It I pr present 8 nt plans are arc Ire carried carrle out work worle will wi be started almost Immediately and it I Is expected to havethe have havethe havethe the new sm smelter ler In operation before the he close of or the year D By the use Ue of or the new process It Is la claimed no poisonous fumes rumes or gases escape an and accordingly according according- J ly y there Is no problem of damage amage to vegetation to be reckoned with wih Harnon an and his associates have been Invest investigating the merits meris of oC the process process pro pro- cess tess nn and have called to their al aid some of if the tho best mill mili rl men nn and metallurgists In 0 the country An experimental plant was vas in operation at Reno for some sometime time line and it I is said that the Investigations ions tons have hase proven entirely satisfactory One of or the experts cale called to assist in Investigation was WS C. C G. G Logan Losan who for some fome time was In charge of the mills of the he T Tonopah Nevada Mining company compan an and ad who is a recognized authority on smelting melting problems problems While hUe he is said to 0 have h c no Interest In the tho success or orthe orthe the he failure of or the PIo proposed ose new plant he e Is convinced that it I will wi prove a complete success One of the advantages tn oges s he ho claims for the process Is rc t reduction In the fuel cost Seventy p per r cent of the cost of oC smelting melting under the system now not not- In Ino o ogue e he lie said Is charged to the the fuel uel Uel account alone 30 0 per cent being charged e for Cor handling refining and lending blending the the- ores With Wih Loder's Loders Ld rs r's aye SS system tem m o of smelting with wih gas gasI gasdo I do not believe heleve that the fuel cost w will exceed 28 per con cent t of the total total Th There re are kinds hinds of coal that can en an be used for Cor the purpose purpose of making gas sas as by crushing It i and ant utilizing tho the slag from hig from tf forthe purpose of ot t- t generating hydro-carbon hydro gases and lending blending with wih oxygen J gas This coal as S a rule contains too much ash and ant silica sic lica for tor cooking purposes and Is only fit t for mal making gas sas where here a a large amount mount of heat hoat Is going to waste as Is Isic the ic case casu with smelting operations with wih the IC waste slag With this system the thedoric doric can cnn be utilized in tho tho- manu manufacture ranu- ranu facture of gas Tho slag Is Intro Introduced by means of ofa a rotating cylinder nn an and l tho s slag nS from rom tho C furnace Is utilized or tor making gas gaB fn rn other systems now employed for tor that purpose oil oU oll-H oll iq used tol Cl k jo en n rn M tOT Ih i I l. l aU tor tri ii-tri o loon o- o U I. I he C waste is US used for tor pro producing hydro hydro- arbon rhon gases This will wil materially re- re luce arIon cc the cost both in quantity of oil on cil nn and the production of gas cas as |
