The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-01
THE THING MAY WORK
Some OF the Details About a Style
OF Stack That Will Prob
ably BE Put to
the Test.


Butte, Feb. as.-A great deal Of inter
est Is being manifested by the mining
men of Butte over the recently invented
stack for use i'm siucltcrs, the main idea
being tn dispose Of the smoke which is
obnoxious to the residents OF this city. An
announcement of the fact that the lila
gram OF such n stack was on paper was
announced i'm the STANDARD this MORN
ing. A %r,.iorter has been cntleavoring
FOR several days to- obtain a description Of
the invention, hut the person most
Interested modcstly prefers that
his name should not bc known. Tie Is
has been a mining man and contractor
since hc was in his teens. tie il now
about "a years old. During the past four
years iie has been >iCkly and during that
time has only been engaged i'm one impor-
tant business, that of building the III
mott hotel.
During these four years the gentleman
has studied and planned much of his time
on a new style of stack. utilizing i'm his
practical experience since the time he
superintendent the building III II stack
AT 1, years of age. He has read and
studied carefully and constantly the Ss-ics-
t.Hc .iD.c'icoa and other scientific jour
mails. This winter he has put his plan ON
paper and within the past few days In, has
submitted il to- a number Of the best min
ing experts of Butte. Major Hornbrook.
Superintendent Tibb.y and Suicriuteud-
ent Mcstdcr have examined il carefully
and do not hesitate in p~rpuouncing il the
best plan. Theoretically that has yet been
proposed.
The inventor says himself that the
scheme can only bc called experimental,
but II - an experiment. hat mining men
say promises much. A patent has been
applied for. The proposed stack. il il be-
7 licvcd by the inventor. will do away with
80 per cent of the smoke, that now trou-
blcs Butte, and some of the experts place
the percentage even higher. Assaycrs es-
Inmate that 10 per cent of the mineral is
lost in the smoke and gases that escape.
The new stack promises Z" sav.U ~ per
cent IL not nearly all of this lost mineral
substance. The stack il "a three
mcnt shaft, a~ggrcgating in all lS feet in
length. The shaft rises first tn a height
of * feet according to the plan
drawn on paper. although il is proposed
ing To the atmospheric pressure in the lo-
cality in which it IL built.
Al the top of the first compartment "A
provision * made for getting rid of TN.
gases and the mineral matter that
passes of in the form of vapor. This IL
done by means of a conveying pipe that
carries the gas and vapor back tn the fur
mace, being purified en- route 10y means
OF cis'crns of water in descending. The
rirc to- nr.v Trm cnrrosion' In" Saving Inv
this utilization al the mineral matter in the
gases and vapor will bc IA large item.
There is also "a dust chamber. such is il
fo,iRd in all stacks. hut the dust chamber
i'm this invention varies ia being per-
p~cndicular instead ~ horizontal. The
dust chamber il one of the gIsatcst points
of economy in the new stack.
At the bottom of the second coInpart-
mant of the shaft, down which, the smoke
slesccnds that has not been carried off in
gas and yapor, is "a cistern of salt water.
From this cistcrn n spray of salt water is
constantly, thrown Ia any height
desired. The inventor "a number of years
ago discovered accidentally that salt
water will readily collect sulphur, and by
this arrangement IL il believed that the
smoke will bc purified from it's sulphur.
the latter being left down i'm the cistcrn.
The third compartment il n natural shaft.
al feet in height. according To the present
plan, mp which the smoke, only onc-tcnth