The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

emf and the excellence of the work is
largely due to his unfiagglnS attention
TO the details of the construction during
it's progress. The plant complete viii
cost about 100000, and viii be com
pIeted within nine months from the
breaking of ground. In the operation
of the plant there Will be required about
$50 men. those on the furnaces being
divided into three shifts.
Highland Boy Smelter.
At an approximate cost of $225, 600 the
Utah Consolidated company (the High
land Boy has, since June last, made
improvements at its smelter and ore
hauling tTamWay equipment at Bing-
ham which viii easily double its Out-
put this year. To date the maximum
capacity of the great plant has been
30 tons of ore daily. but with the eight
new. coasters and the addition of three
reVeTbeTatOry furnaces the capacity VIII
be 500 tons, and the amount of copper
bullion produced will approximate l.,
000 900 pounds per month. as against
an average Of 100000 pounds per month
during the past year
The Trusts New Plant.
Taking cognizance of the fact that
its requirements could not be much
longer met by the rather antique and
Out-Of-date plants which it owned in
this valley, the American Smelling &
Refining company officially declared its
intention, late in the spring, of building
what was declared should be the finest
smelter in the world, adding that the
cost would probably exceed $1,000, 900.
Without delay a most admirable site,
adjoining that of its Germania works
at Murray, eight miles south Of this
city, was purchased, ana the work of
preparing the ground was commenced.
tt was announced in the beginning that
the plant would be completed within the
year, but many unforeseen difficulties
interviewed to make the task impossible,
and it is now unlikely that the work
VIII be completed before August next
and possibly later than that. The de-
tails of the undertake are well in
hand however, and orders for machin-
cry, structural material, etc, are now
in the hands of the manufacturers, Gnd
the grounds on which the great
structures VIII be erected should pre-
sent d very busy scene within the next
ninety days The plant is designed to
treat any and all classes of ore of
which this section is productive inciud-
ing zinc ores. and the belief is express
ed that the filed of mining viii be large
~ increased in consequence of the com
pany's declaration that the latter char
acter Of ore viii be given market.
Other and Prospective Pls nts.
During the year the St. George Cop
per compauy's thirty-ton smelter and
the Uinta-Summit cOmpany's hfty-tOn
plant have been internationally in COM
mission with the result that the for
mer has produced $780, 500 pounds of
copper and 1855 ounces of silver. while
the latter's product is estimated at 300,-
900 pounds of copper for the twelve
months.
\ couple of months since a fifty-tOn
mating plant was also started on ores
at the NaIeo mine. Park City, but as
yet it has not got down to steady
work
What is true of the Valeo is also true
Of the CoconinnO company, which has
put up quite a pretentious smelter on
its property in the Buckskin noun
tains, down in the southeastern portion
of Grand county
For the year now opening no small
amount of snelteT building is promised.
Besides the trusts big plant, the
chances for the United States company
70 carry out the plans it had ia con-
iercoIation over year agO, when L