Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-21 | Page 3 | Great Acid Plant is Working Nicely

GREAT ACID PLANT IS WORKING NICELY Mnnagpr E. L. Newhousp of the Garfield Gar-field Chemical & Manufacturing com- pany. a subsidiary of the American Smelting & Refining company, returned return-ed yesterday from an Inspection of the big' plant at Garfield. Installed during; the past few months, for the manufac-j ture Of .sulphuric ucid Manager Newhouse said the production produc-tion was now up to the norma f 100 tuns of acid per day. A concentrator has just been install-: ed, the purpose beim-, to increase the Strength of the acid over the crude form in which it is first produced. As M it comes from the plant the product is 77 per cent sulphuric acid, but through the concentration process that takes out the water the acid becomes 95 per cent pure, a process that adds correspondingly to its market value for the treatment of on s. nn I