The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-11

With an assured healthy supply of
ore for the coming year the Hanauer
Smelling company will, early in the
spring, make some extensive improve
nents in its plant. which is now one of
the most complete in the west, its only
drawback being the size of its furnaces,
which are hardly up to the present
standard. Any deficiency in this direc-
ton is more than made up, however,
in the cheapness of the power used at
the works, the water of the Cotton
woods having been harnessed insorder
that they might operate all of the ma
chinery in use. Among the improve
Gnents to be made will be the construc-
ton of two Brown Horseshoe Roasting
furnaces The furnace is a new thing
and said to be the most improved OF
any now in use. Very satisfactory tests
have just been made in LeadvllIe and
Omaha and there the furnaces are Civ
ing the best of satisfaction. Among the
prominent smelling people VINO Wit
messed the tests made at LeaGvile was
"A. Hanauer and the gentleman was
greatly pleased with the work done by
the new furnace. So well pleased in
afact that he has practically decided to
$Gf in d couple Of the ovens, provided,
Jas before stated, that the smelterS are
assured of a sufficient ore supply.
Mr.. Hanauer has just returned from a
business trip to Denver, Leadville and
Omaha and was yesterday seen by a
Herald reporter and questioned as to
prospects of the early formation of the
proposed refinerS' combine for the pur-
pose of maintaining the price of silver
He stated that since the appointment
of the special committee TO take the
matter in hand and agree upon some
plan nothing has been done. 1t is
highly probable, however. that some
agreement will yet be reached whereby
the producer and smelter can be pro-
tected against the present ruinous
fluctuations. During Mr.. Hanauer's ab-
sence a contemporary made itself
ridiculous by the puhlioa lion of a screed
sanent a proposed change in the
Nmethod Of ass2ying which was supposed
TO be on the tapis, but which in reality
was never heard of undl sprung on a
long suffering public by that journal.
The dissertation and advice to pro-
ducers and smelters was extremely
funny and made the paper the laughing
stock Of the street. Every mining man
know that the outside assayeTs of
ANS city, as well as the Union assay
9lfhce, which is owned Jointly by the
tnEee SmelterS, have always used both
methods of determining the values of
metals in the ores submitted to them
end there has been no demand for a
Manage. With the possible exception
of few miners who have a few IONS
of low grade ores. 20 sell and expect the
smelters to make their consignments
yield as much as would a similar num-
Der of tons of high grade rock, there
is no complaint. The same paper
gravely announced that Mr. Hanauer
had gone east for the purpose of pur-
chasing a new assaying furnace When
shown the statement Mr.. Hanauer
simply smiied-that was all he hao 10
say.
For the first time during the past
six days I. r. Jones was at his desk
yesterday, having been confined to his
home with a severe cold, and when
questioned regarding the alleged inten-
ton Of the smelters to make a change
in the assaying methods the gentleman
was as much amused as had been Mr..
Hanauer. There was no use in denying
such a story, in his opinion, for the
simple reason that every miner knows
that both methods are now in use, one
being held as a check against the