The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-02
A NEW SMOKE CONSUMER
1t Seems to Be Doing the Work
All Right.
1T SOLVES THE PROBLEM
That Is the Opinion OF Those Who Have
Watched 1.-THE Result of Sew
eral Months Of Ex-
pertinent.

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town 1t is up and doing business at
the Holland skating rink To the cas-
ual observer it looks like the correct
solution of the smoke problem To
man up a tree it seems to be worthy
of serious consideration by the smelt-
ermen of Butte who are in favor of
eliminating a nuisance. 1t suggests to
the average man that it is more than
possible to rid the city of sulphur
fumes without having to send the
smelters out of town At least 100
men visited the rink yesterday, and all
declared that the invention of George
Hudson and Barney BONN has much
to commend it to the public.
The invention is the result of sew
eral months study and experiment in
a small way. Mr. Hudson is practical
chemist and mineralogist a gradu-
ate from Ann Arbor and a student
of things practical. He has been in
Butte about year during which time
he has worked al the Butte Sampling
works and studied his smoke con-
densing proposition. Mr.. Bohn's in
terest in the plant was secured through
assistance and suggestions which Mr..
Hudson applied to his invention.
The model is simple indeed: it is
simplicity from the oven up to the top
of the smoke stack and down the wa
ter spray pipe to the tank and out
through the overflow pipe. Roughly
outlined, the model consists of an oven
built of brick about SX6 and five feet
high. In this three tons of sulphur
Gus ore are being roasted. The smoke
is carried up through 15-inch stack
for so feet, the top of which is cover
j l,,r, 9
wire running to the ground. Two feet
from this stack is a similar one. This
is connected with the smoke stack by
flue extending from the top of the
latter to a point in the water spray
pipe about two feet from the top. In
the top of the spray pipe is perfor-
ated tank or vessel about a foot deep,
into which a stream of water flows
from an inch pipe connected with a
hydrant near the furnace or oven.
The spray of water down the 10
inch pipe creates a vacuum in the COW
cred smoke stack. and the action of the
water causes a draught which carries
the smoke down the spray pipe into
the large water tank alongside of the
roasting oven, a strong circulation of
air, smoke and water From the water
tank which is constructed of wood
projects 15-inch steam escape about
eight feet high. This carries off the
vaporous condensations, which. while
mpregnated with more or less OdOr of
arsenic and sulphur, are not essentially
noxious.
The tank is supposed to be air tight
in construction, save for the escape
pipe.
/ The plant has benin operation about
IL hours, and already a thick scum
%of sulphur has collected in the reser-
voir, besides a perceptible accumula-
ton of slum in the bottom. With the
three tons of rebelliOus ore undergoing
the roasting process yesterday it was
possible, not disagreeable in the least,
for a person to walk around the not
furnace and inspect its workings. A
small amount of smoke escaped, but
this defect, it was explained. was to
be remedied by placing a more secure
covering on the oven, which is now
composed of a couple of sheets Of boil
er iron placed without regard to alb
solute tightness or connection of the
joints. H. =.
The visitors yesterday included Sher-
iff Reagan. County Commissioner Far
rell. Clerk and Recorder Moran, Alder
man Noyes and other business and
professional men. While none of these
ion they all regarded the test as dem
onstrative of the efficacy of water as
condenser of sulphur smoke.
Messrs Hudson and BOhn have ap-
piled for a patent They extend a gen.
eraI invitation to smeltermen especial
ly to inspect the model.