The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1897-10-15
MODERN MerAlLURoY.
There Have ncen Many Failures but a
steady Advance

There Have ucen Many Failures but
steady Advance.
The process man is always with us.
with each recurring period of ten or a
dozen ycnrs. lac bohs up scrcnely with
new and revolutionary something to
which his predecessors gave lnhorlous
birth, maybe dozen, hundred or I'VE
hundred years ago lie always IL pro-
llhc with new dcsulphurizcrs. Some
thirty odd years ago Colorado was
ovcrrun with his Kind. aud we never
saw one Of bis Inventions which had
not n preceding brother In some past
age. once only did we fnd one which
we could not discover described Ia
some old and maybe forgotten metal.
lurgical record. That was furnace
built by Mr.. u. A. willard. In Boulder
county. twcniy-Onc years ago. Glad OF
something new under the sun In that
Hue we wrote fun description Of II.
Three months afterwards came let
ter from Sweden telling Of other roast.
Ing experiments aud furnaces exactly
Ike Mr.. Wizards which had long be-
fore been tried and abandoned In that
lnnd Of the midnight sun. Hut IL does
not follow because certain kinds OF fur
nnccs have been tried aud abandoned
nH failures, that they may not, under
other conditions aud with better skin,
be successful In fact. almost every
successful thing has been failure
somewhere aud sometime.
Notwithstanding many Of the expert
mcnts look pucrllc ana may be- foolish,
they are not without some general ben.
EFT. At least someone learns some
thing. and the sum total OF human
knowledge IL Increased, which IL n
thing not To bc dcspsed In itself. hut
M Mr.. Weller remarked about having,
with great effort. learned the alphabet.
Il N questionable whether II IN worth
while going through so much to learn
10 little. AT least the man who pays the
bills In most eases will appreciate the
Weller remark more than he vii. that
other chunk Of wisdom about the sum
total Of knowledge.
There are "A few facts which might
well be- called fundamental. that lie NJ
the basis ~ the improvements In metal.
lurgy They are that all ore must be
crushed 10 various degpces Of iincncss.
the degree depending upon the special
ore and the kind OF process To be used,
before the metal can he extracted This
is true ns 20 every method Of treatment
known except smelling. Second. In cv.
cry Kind OF ore known, which N treated
other than by smell Ing, where the met
/ ais can not be extracted by either anal.
gnmntlon Of cynnldatiun. the ore must
be roasted. The object Of roasting N
10 change the chemical combinations
into other combinations. which render
the metals trnctlblc To some one OF the
many kinds OF treatment. This crushing
and roasting are the two greatest clc'
ments OF cost In most processes. conse'
I quently II IL not to be wondered ut that
Efforts should be- made tp cheaper them
/ These efforts are commcndnblc. These
efforts nre bearing fruit every year. M
Witnessed by the Brown Horseshoe.
Penrce Turrct, lIopp. and other known
improvements In furnaces, which are
modern In their perfection. though per-
haps old In conception. They are part
OF the sum OF human knowledge. They
are the Shndrach. AcHhnch and
Abednegoes who have passed through
the fiery ordeal aud come out o. X
They are the plus sign 10 the world nj
large, though 10 the many who sirewet
with wrecks the road reaching 10 an
tlqulty. lending up to and making them
possible, there was only minus sign
10 tell OF the hopes and dollars that
vanished forever So II always proba-
bly, viii be. Measured by the world
standard OF golden profits, failures will
b. more abundant than successes,
Somehow an nll.wlse providence failed
miserably In fixing things up rs we
would like 10 have them, where the plus
sign would be more abundant than
minus, wisdom than folly. knowledge
than ignorance. and where we would
all have more Fun than troubie-Alin'
ing lndualry