The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-02-08
Will be Erected in East lola
This Summer by Mr.. VIM.
Lanyon Under the
Name of the
STANDARD DCO., OF lola
Mr.. R. Ziesing Will Operate
a Smelter Using the Cal
cined Blende From
the Works
lola forever ! We're it !

AS soon as the details are com
pleted Mr.. William Lanyon will be-
gin the construction of sulphuric
acid works on the twenty acre tract
which lies between the Claiborne vine
gar works and the Nicholson smelter
just east of lola city. At the:same
time Mr.. r.. Ziesing will erect and
operate zinc shelter, using the cal
cined ore from the othersworks. The
two plants will find about the room
they want on the twenty acres and
will give steady employment to 100
men.
The smelter will be three block,
1900 retort factory, such as is already
familiar to lola people. About forty
five tons, or two cars, of iack,will be
required daily at the acid:works and
the smelter will use the blende from
there in making spelter Mr.. Ziesing,
the proprietor, is here and has made
full arrangements with Mr., Lanyon.
He was formerly with the Matthieson-
Hegeler Company of LaSalle, Ill.
The acid works is an old project in
lola, having been discussed by the
Lanyon Zinc Company and by Mr..
George f.. Nicholson at various times,
but it is a business by itself and Mr..
Lanyon, who first was taken with the
idea some fifteen yeara ago, has
finally worked out plans to realize his
desires.
The Jrks will consist of a series of
lar buildings, one being 500 feet
long and seventy feet wide. There will
be tall towers in which the acid will be
cooled, and altogether it is expected
that the twenty acres of ground pur-
chased from the lola Realty Company
will not any more than suffice to hold
the plants. especially if they are
doubled, as it is certain they will be,
should the market for the acid Justify
such move.
The process of making acid is most
easily explained, but very difficult to
carry out. Large lead-lined rooms
hold the fumes from the roasted zinc
ore and into these clouds of fumes
steam is squirted. The two unite and
form sulphuric acid which is later
concentrated. The acid eats most
metals but spares lead, hence its use
as lining. The combined steam and
fumes drip to the floors of the rooms
and are drawn of and stored in large
tanks, air pumps being used. a line
of cars will be also owned by Mr.. Ian
yon, having tanks on them and all
The acid will be shipped in these tanks.
Outside each will be the words:
STANDARD Acid Company, of lola,
Kansas" carrying our fame to the
corners of the land. The plant as
nowSplanned will have daily output
of about thirty tons of acid, and
as soon as he learns how the market
is going 10 side up to his product and
prices, Mr.. Lanyon promises to i'm
mediately double the plant. He thinks
he will be able to make his acid cheap
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and will merely have to contend with
the difficulty of being located at a dis
lance from his market.
Sulphuric acid has a commercial
value that is yearly becoming moer
varied and important. 1t is used eX-
tensively in treating copper mat, the
refuse from copper smelters. 1t also
enters into the smelling of other ores
but finds perhaps its most extensive |
use in the making of fertilizers. 1t is
not at all improbable, as Mr.. Lanyon
himself says, that the presence here
of an abundance of it may be the
means of locating other extensive
factories here. Soda ash, one of
the important ingredients of glass, is
made by treating common salt with
sulphuric acid. Kansas has the salt
lola has the acid and the gas; trot out
your glass factories.
1t is d neat compliment paid to lola
by Mr.. Lanyon when he locates
here. Several years ago he and his