The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29
THE SHELTERS OF
SALT LAKE CITY.

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/ ing silver and gold Of a class that is
self-huxing, requiring no admixture Of
other ores. It first roasts them to get
rid Of the sulphur, using the reverber-
| atory furnaces TO reduce them to matte
and then refining to above 80 per cent
! oy passing the furnace product through
/ ccnverters and finally shipping the bars
/ to eastern refineries.
Bingham Company's Plant.
The Bingham smelter was erected by
/ the Bingham Copper & Gold Mining
/ company at Bingham Junction for the
reduction of the iarge bodies Of iron
/ and copper suphides developed in their
I mines at Bingham, together with sill
/ clous copper ores, which pred0minate
IN this mining section. After securing
O. most desirable location. ground was
/ broken april Is. 1900, and the first one
Of three furnaces was fired Jan. 81
1901, or about nine months after break
ing ground.
The s1rfiting building proper is con-
structed entirely OF steel and iron, with
steel and concrete floor. wood being
/ used only in the ore bin positions. ana
these bins being located a safe distance
from the furnaces the plant is practi-
cally firepToof
The plant Is built on the terrace plan.
covering a section Of ground 150x{90
feet and is equipped at present with
three furnaces, having o total capacity
OF 500 tons per day. Since Feb.
so 600 tons Of ore have been put through
the furnaces, and the product, consist
ing Of an iron and copper matte to the
q Of
showing a concentration Of about ten
tons Of ore into one ton Of matte. This
matte has been shipped to the High
land Boy plant and the Butte shelters
to be converted into blister copper.
With the beginning Of 1902 a different
method OF operating viii exist, or rath-
er, the old method will be carried fur
Their and instead of shipping the matte.
the Bingham smelter viii be forward
ing 100000 pounds of blister COPPER
per month.
The original proposition was to make
and ship a matte but after being in
operation two months the management 4
In Boston saw the advisability Of car +
rying the operation a step farther by
taking the matte directly from the
blast furnaces and converting it into /
blister copper. With the usual activ- I
-
cisive measures were at once taken to /
equip the plant for the production of /
blister copper, ct an additional expense I
Of $50 600. and from April 7 the work 4
has been pushed with phenomenal /
sUeed, considering the conssstsd state (
Of steel and machinery industries, but {
no material delay has developed, and I
with the large bodies Of ore IN sight in /
the company's properties to back the I
increased capacity Of the smelter, a /
brilliant future for this company is as /
sUred.
IN brief. the plant as it now stands 1
has four blast furnaces with a total .
capacity Of 800 tons per day. supple +
mented by two stands equipped with
the largest size (ten-ton) converters,
and with a blowing engine with a ca
pacity for turning out up to 5000, 600
pounds Of copper per month.
No changes were necessary in the
original plant. as the four blast f5ir-
naces were provide for in the con-
struction OF the blower room. blast
pines. dust hues and stack In fact.
more furnace can be added and viii