Show The St Story y r 0 of G- G Grfield Garfield Garlie i p k I I Ir r I II I I I a M b by I I y r j a J JL I II f L vv s f I J- J 4 1 I The Garfield Id sm smelter lter which treats approximately third one-third of nations nation's I output copper Is s one of country's leading reduction plants and one of i Utah's greatest industries II EdI Editors Editor r Note This Sa k the tint first of fu fa series eerie of eight eight I titled The Story of or Id Garfield Utah situated on the n north northpoint rth l point of f the Oquirrh range of mountains virtually in fn the shadow of of hIstoric Black Rock on the Southern Southern South South- ern em shore shore- of t Great Salt Lake was named after atter James A. A Garfield twentieth President of ot the United States Essentially a smelter community Garfield constitutes one of ot Utah's industrial communities supported by the smelting works of the American Smelting and Refining Company Compan which today is pouring approximately third one of oC the nations nation's copper into the war effort Treating TreatIng TreatIng Treat- Treat Ing production of the worlds world's largest open-cut open copper mine Utah Copper together with other ores the Garfield Garfield Gar Gar- field plant Is one of the w worlds world's largest copper smelters Organized in 1899 the American Smelting and Refining company first erected a smelter at Murray Utah and then acquired a number of smaller smelters operating In Salt Lake valley With development of the Utah Copper ore body the Garfield plant was constructed in 1905 and equipped with six rever- rever furnaces and three copper blast furnaces together with necessary necessary necessary sary roasters and copper converters With the advent of ot flotation and the depletion of high grade direct copper smelting ores copper blast w furnace practice pr practice was abandoned In I favor of smelting Improvement in the smelting practice together wi with h the advent of basic lined converters expanded the production that could be economically treated in a cop cop- ner plant and today the Garfield smelter not only reduces copper l concentrates but also handles bandies a large tonnage of low grade sulphide concentrates and crude sulphide ores together with tonnages of lous silver gold silver gold ores The smooth precision lake operations operations opera opera- at Garfield causes one one to almost almost al ale most overlook the thc magnitude of the I plant and the industry It represents In Utah As an example average I yearly figures show that tons tuns of ore and concentrates are smelted at the Garfield and Murray pla plants ts of ot the American Smelting I Refining company This tonnage I originates In Utah C Colorado l rado Nevada Nevada Nevada Nev Nev- ada Idaho and California bringing Utah closer to the West as a smelting smeltIng smelting smelt- smelt Ing center In Ili smelting this ore cubic feet of natural gas are consumed A total of is p paid id out I In wages wages' and salaries to approximately 1200 workers Expenditures for supplies and equipment amount to and is 18 paid t to railroads for freight on ores and supplies Succeeding articles in I The rhe Story of Garfield series will appear in this publication |