The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-22
A new SMOKE CONSUMER
The Tests Prove It Is Built on
the Right Plan.
1T WORKS LIKE A CHARM
Consumed All the Smoke Arising From
Several Tons of Ore-Capital Is
Ready to Take Up the
Invention,

Some months ago Barney Bohm of
south Butte and George Hudson erect
ed model of a smoke consumer in the
Holland skating rink. A few tons of
sulphurous ore were roasted and the
crude affair demonstrated it's practic-
aolllty, for 1t succeeded in consuming
the smoke arising from the furnace. An
invitation was extended to smeltermen.
crty and county officials to go down and
inspect the consumer. A few respond
ed. day or two later a wind storm
came along and blew the pipes down.
Recently Mr. Bohm and T. J. Mcclure,
the genius who invented the consumer,
rebuilt the stacks and added some i'm
provements to the model. Yesterday a
reporter for the Standard visited the
plant, which was in operation. About
two tons of base ore were roasting in
the furnace and not breath of smoke
escaped from the stack or any other
part of the apparatus.
The model in brief consists of brick
oven; Pinch iron stack As feet high
carries the smoke up to the top, which
is covered with an iron cap. From this
cap extends another pipe which con-
meets with a water spray pipe, the top
II.
ter spray forces the smoke down into a
large tank set just back of the oven or
furnace. At the end of this stack is a.
similar construction of double pipes
about IL feet high. The fumes and va
por from the tank are carried up one
stack and the vacuum created in the
twin pipe by the spray of water in turn
forces the fumes down into a cisttern
below the surface of the ground. From
this cistern pipe connects with the
hood of the furnace so that the escap-
ing fumes are returned to the smoke
stack.
This consumer is the result of years
of study to which Mr.. Mcclure has de-
voted himself. Last winter he set up a
miniature model consisting of an oil
lamp and an atomizer George Hudson
assisted him.
Years ago Mr.. Mcclure, who is a car
penter by occupation. was working
alongside of smokestack at the upper
works in Anaconda. His saws, squares.
planes and other tools were scattered
about him on workbenches. A rain
shower came up suddenly. The rain
immersed the mining saws and squares
and when Mr.. Mcclure attempted to
wipe the tools with a cloth, he noticed
thick deposit of sulphur on the saws.
1t ait once occurred to him that the rain
had carried down from the curling vol
umes of smoke a large amount of sui
phur. He began right there and then
the study of the problem which he now
believes he has solved with his model
, smoke consumer. In this belief he is
associated with everyone who has seen
his plant in operation. While Mr. Nc
CURE is the inventor of the consumer,
he has interested a number of local
men in the scheme of introducing it to
the attention of smeltermen and local
officials. Barney Bohm is assisting in
a financial way and so are Messrs. c.
H. Smith, Charles Curtis, Brown and
Judge Bliss.
1t is the aim of the promoters to in
terest the smeltermen to the extent of
assuring them of the practicability Of
the consumer so that the latter will
apply the test to some of their rooster
stacks. The consumer is patented.
Mr.. Hudson, who last spring took so
much interest in introducing the inven-
ton to the public, left the city soon
after the first test was made and has
not been seen or heard of since.
The model will be in operation to-
day, and the promoters especially invite
the operators of smelling plants to call
and inspect its workings.