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Show fornla, at Grasclll, Indiana, and Chrome. New Jersey. The United States Smelting plant at Mldvale wag completed In 1902. It has cost THIIKE MILLION DOLLARS DOL-LARS for buildings. Improvements and general equipment, and haa a dally capacity of twelve hundred tons of lead ores and eighteen hundred tons of copper ores. It handles all five of the metal ores taken from the mines of Utah, though Its principal output at present la lead and zinc. The present equipment of the company com-pany at Its concentrating mills and smelter, for saving and smelting the r.lnc from the complex ores of Its own and surrounding mines, has greatly Increased the Importance of I's planta to the mining Industry of this region. This company was the first to erect a complete baghouse at its smelting plant, and It 1.1 now op-enitlng op-enitlng thirty-four blast furnaces without any smoke or fumes leaving Its stuck. Ily this system It recovers arsenic and several valuable solids as by-products. AMKKICA V SMKLTINQ AND ItK-FINING ItK-FINING COMPANY': The American" Smelting and Refining company began Its operations In I'tah In 1K9S. when at took over the Old flerrnaula, Han-auer, Han-auer, the Ibex Smelting company of ; Leamington, and the Pennsylvania plants, then smelting lead ores principally. prin-cipally. In 19U2 the present plant nt Murray was built at a cost of $1,-2.'i0.000. $1,-2.'i0.000. The furnace building, power house, hnghouso and storehouse are all of brick and steel construction. The plant has a daily capacity of twenty-two hundred tons of ore. The eight blast furnaces and twenty-seven twenty-seven roasters are used In treating lead ores, lead-copper ores, slllcious ores. Iron ore and gold and silver ores. There are five miles of railroad on the ground and forty bouses belonging be-longing to the company In the vicinity vicin-ity of Its plant for the use Oi Its employees. The big Garfield plant of this company treats only copper ores, at present handling the entire output of tho Hlngham mines of the I'tah Copper company, and does a general commercial smelting. This plant was built In 1900. It Is also of brick and steel construction and has a dally capacity of forty-live hundred tons. The blast furnace building Is 840 feet long. 305 feet wld and 92 feet high. It contains four blast furnaces, six reverberatory furnaces, and thirty roasters. The two smelters of this great company, together with Its power houses and other buildings cover an area of eighty acres. Fleetness ef Rumor. The phenomena of rumor Its my terlous origin and marvelous spread-so spread-so Impressed the ancient Greeks that they made of It a deity, Phoeme. to whom altars were raised. This deity, however, was not so completely personified per-sonified as tbe later Roman Fa ma, ut considered rather as a divine rolce the vos Del, as Grote puts It fading Into the vox popuJL The ilanle cae Is tbe news of the Greek rlctory over tbe Persians at Plstaea, k Doeotla. which "Phoems" waa said |
