Show ELECTRIC SMELTER TO f BE TRIED AT HELENA New Process Confidently Expected Expected Expected Ex Ex- Ex- Ex to Revolutionize Industry SAVING HIGH COST LESS Will Be First Commercial Smelter Embodying I Burwell Process I I 1 i Helena Mont March 20 An An Announcement was made toda today that the patents for the Bakes Baker Durwell electrical electrical elec elec- neat ore treatment have havo been heen transferred trans trans- erred to the tho Montana Metallurgical company of oC Helena a holding company com corn pany panr which wll vP act ct through operating operating ing companies and that plans have o be been n perfected for the erection at Helena lidena lid Hel ena cna or East ast Helena this summer of oC a n plant with a a. capacity of oC from froni to o l io O tons of oC ore a day If the method Is Js what its inventor in Dr Dl A. A W. W Burwell of Cleveland Cle Ohio claims for it it it fw eventually will revolutionize rove revo the smelting industry The smoke nuisance is criminated all nil the values aluc in the tho ores ors are arc saved wc the cost co t of If treatment i is much loss less than under the iho he pre present ent method and tho the refined product p Is taken talen directly in tho the smelter smelter ter ten from fram the raw or ore and Is ready for fOl marketing Jt It i is asserted that the new process th give a wonderful impetus to minIng mining min miri- ing log In the theet West et for ore which it i is impossible impo ihle to treat at present can be ht handled at a price low enough h to tomake tomake tomake make It profitable for tho the mine owner to operate his property Worked V ir on flit Plan For more than eight years Dr Burwell Burwell Durwell Bur Bur- well and associates havo have been heen perfecting perfect perfect- ing lug the tho invention and many test leSl plants handling oro ore in iii quantities ranging from four pounds to several tons have ha been erected 4 A plant was erected at nt Can Canyon on Ferr Ferry where the upper hydroelectric hydro hydro- electric plant of the I url River Power company is situated and was wa run for a n. year and a until every detail of oC the treatment and construction con- con ha had 1 been heen perfected and nel the tho announcement Is i now made mado that thai these there I operations have hn proved b beyond all question the thC entire success of the UH electrical treatment of ore r Every C I feature of or the process S ha hah has hashen h hen been en patented mid and experts expert In the United c States and England havo have cx- cx l and anti pass passed d up upon n its practicability among them thorn James S. S C C. Wells of the Columbia School of Mines and Professor cor C. C A. A DIehl formerly jt Oot School of Mines k Great E Expense h J I Tho The apparatus Is Identical for tor nil all kinds of or ore The Tho essence of tho the patents patents pat pat- is th the use of ot dry chlorine gas sas gason sason on nn dr dry ores the chlorine being recovered re- re covered cox ered automatically avoiding the great expense which has haR been the fault of ot previous processes The earning arnin capacity of a plant of any am given shen hor horsepower epo varies arles with the character char- char actor acter of or the ores treated said Dr Burwell Bur Dur- well while the capacity of or a plant plantIs Is not gauged by hy tf ton hut but t h by electrical hor horsepower which is the thc main cost Each Bach horsepower will extract a certain coy coy- tain tam quantity of metal and the earning earnIng earnIng earn earn- ing capacity ity will vary ary In ill the ratio mUo of 1 t to 2000 noo In accordance with the thel l kind in 1 of metal which that horsepower extracts The ratio was figured on the relative e values of copper and gold placed as ns follows One ounce copper one cent one ounce gold 20 The Inventor fn r says sar that the new nem process process pro plO cess will not come into direct conflict with tho the smelters smellers to for some time lime to come because e the largest field and the greatest profits under the electrical process are upon that class s of or ores which the thu smelters either cither reject entirely entire entire- l ly or handle only onh upon tipon a a. heavy y pen pen- allY alty Ores requiring concentration and tho those carrying hen zinc values constitute constitute con con- the tho greatest pl present sent field 1 of operations Where hero the smelters penalize penalize pen pen- alize zinc it Is asserted the tho electrical process not only does docs not penalize this but saves es more than 95 per cent of oC it as well as all other metals con In the thc ore and at nt a n remarkably I 1 i small mall cost I For the past three years Dr Dl Burwell Bur Bur- well voll has devoted his entire time to a study of the tho ores of this and other Montana district distrIcts and md has made mado thousands thousands thou thou- sands of oC runs In the plant at Canyon Ferry As tin example of or what the process will vill do this is t- given ghen on zinc zIn and ami lead ores A Ore A-Ore Ore carrying 20 p. p c. c zinc zInc- C ri p. p c. c lend lead 21 gold Sold and silver sll C Ore n-Ore Ore carrying 20 o 0 p p. p c. c zinc 5 I p. p e. e lead 5 sold gold and silver Ore C-Ore 1 Ore carrying 5 p p. p c. c zinc 10 p p. c. c load 5 gold sold and silver rh The electrical process saves saes oera over o a arid above o c all expenses of ot extraction tion figuring figurine electrical power at 50 oO GO per hor horsepower per year zinc at It five cents a pound and lead at nt four cents a pound On A ore oro a ton net netOn netOn On B 11 ore orf r U 1740 10 a a. ton net netOn netOn netOn On C Con ore oro 1005 a ton tori net I Helena wa was chosen us the center of ot operations according to the parties In Interested In- In because of oC the tho great amount O C on the of electrical power generated Ml Missouri rl riser near tho the city because C CIt It is IH ft in the center of a great min mineral hell belt and of oC Its superior Shipping shipping ship Ship- ping facilities Tho plant to be he built hero here this summer summet sum sum- commercial plant met mel will bo ho the first over ever erected under this now new process It will be built huilt on tho the unit system IO o 0 that It can bo ho enlarged from lime time to time lime as conditions warrant An n option option option op op- op- op tion on the tho process 5 for fOl this dl district has been heon given h by tho the Montana Metallurgical Met Met- company compan and tho selection of a site sHe for tho plant I is now being determined |