The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-30
IS SIZING UP THE SMOKE
Ct. D. Mitchell Has a Consumer
He Wants to Try.
HAS MADE NO PROMISES
He Says It Is a Great Saver of Fuel
and Consumes Both the Carbon and
the Sulphur Smoke-Experi-
ments VIII Be Made.

G. d. Mitchell arrived on yesterday
afternoons train from Colorado for the
purpose of looking at Butte's smoke
with a view of taking a fall out of
it. The Standard published some time
ago a letter from Mr.. Mitchell to Mayor
Harrington, inquiring in regard to the
smoke, and stating that he has con-
sumner which he would like to try here.
The mayor wrote him that there is no
field on earth as good for a smoke con-
sumner as Butte, and if he had an appa-
ratus that could get rid OF the smoke he
would do well to come here.
Mr. Mitchell arrived yesterday went
to the hotel, got shaved and then went
over to the city hall to have a talk
with the mayor. Mr.. Mitchell is a gen
tleman apparently about 90 years of
age with white hair chin whiskers and
moustache. He is tall and spare and
from his appearance evidently a man
of much practical experience.
Il don't want any newspaper noto-
riety at present" said Mr.. Mitchell. II
don't want to make any promises about
what l will do until | look the field
over. Just leave ME quiet for day or
two until / can get started. | propose
TO put up my own plant and so at it at
my own expense. | don't expect peo-
pie to adopt my apparatus until they
know it will do what l claim for it. SO
| will demonstrate what il will do be-
fore / ask anything at ALL"
rs your apparatus expensive?"
1T is very simple and inexpensive. 1t
does not require any change in the fur
mace at all. 1t can be attached to any
furnace"
Can you get rid of the sulphur
smoke as well as the carbon smoker"
Certainly. My apparatus consumes
all the smoke. reducing it to gas. When
| get ready i want the people generally
to see it working. | will try IL on a
small plant of 80, so or 100 horsepower,
and l would like to try it somewhere
near the business center, so the people
can watch its operations
Where is your apparatus in use?'
1T is being used in Dallas, Tex, and
has been used there for five years.
Three big concerns of Dallas use it,
because of it's great saving of fuel"
Have you tried it on the smoke from
burning oreS?
Yes: used it at Cripple Crek with
great success. / don't want, however
to make any great promises in adj
vance. / prefer to remain quiet until /
get everything ready. and then you can
all see for yourselves what my eonsum-
err will do"
j. =. Collins. whose consumer is now
being used at the Butte x Boston, also
called on the mayor yesterday, having
Just received very laVofaple reports OF
the work done by the consumer from
the master mechanic The saving in
fuel is much greater than originally
claimed. Mr. COLLINS does not claim
for his consuHler that it will do away
with the sulphur smoke, but does away
with the carbon smoke and greatly re-
duces the sulphur smoke. The two
smoke messiahs We're introduced to
each other and talked pleasantly re-
garding their respective smoke con-
sumers.
Il wish you all the success possible, -
said Mr.. Collins to Mr.. Mitchell. II
have not taken up this matter to make
money, but because | am a citizen of
Butte and expect to live here all my
| life. and ] think Butte would be as fine
a place to live as there is on earth if il
wasn't for the smoke. / hope YOU will
be successful in disposing of this sui
phur smoke"