Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-17
GREAT wAsnoE SHELTER.
Anaconda Plant Turns out 100000
Pounds OF Copper Monthly.

A recent issue Of the Anaconda
Standard gives some interesting data
concerning the great Washoe smelter
at that place, where large bulk Of the
ores mined ia the Amalgamatsd prop
critics az Butte are taken 30 be smelt-
ed.
Three months ago the Washoe plant
bfoke the record for the production
Of copper, and fixed the new mark at
$4,000 600 pounds Of the red metal as a
months output Two months ago am
other top notch was fixed, which was
considerably higher than the one which
was made IN May. July's showing
exceeded that NJ June, making three
months In which the plant has pro.
duced more than half million pounds
Of copper "a day For records this Is
pretty good but " the closing two
weeks Of August make the same show
ing that has been made IN the fort
night, the Washoe will have outdone
Itself and will have fixed the figure that
represents a months results at n point
which, even a year ago, would have
been regarded. II not unattainuble. at
least not probable NJ realization. For
this achievement Eupt Mathewson is
receiving merited congratulations,
There are $500 men employed at tn
HIilNlItI anu llh dllttA liulllNt MI WI
these men have their homes in Ana
Conda. They come and 80 by night
and by day, keeping In constant mo-
ton the wheels Of the magnificent In
dustry that has built up the city, there
Is no cessation ~ operations at the big
plant on the hill. three shifts each day
keep things lu motion and one takes
up the work where the other leaves Il
when the shifts change, II is Contiu-
uuus performance.
As much OF the manufacture of this
machinery as Is possible is being done
at home the foundry plant Is rushed
with work and lbs capacity is being
tested these days All this extra work
means employment for more mechau-
les, and the number Of men employed
on these additions 10 the plant would
make a payroll that would be boosted
OF In many towns, though the work
progresses here without attracting
much attention,
At the Washoe they have recently be-
gun treating the Shines collected
from the Stun ponds below the plant
| These "slimos" which are tho fine
| tailngs settled An the ponds, are con-
veyCd to the works and are smelted,
| adding greatly 70 the saving OF ore
| values and making the plant by FAR
| the most economical Of any in the
| world that IS handling copper ores by
| concentration and smelling.
For the handling Of the Shines" two
| large ItdgeryoOd aerial rOpeways are
/ employed, with Iredges attached. The
! nrst takes the material from the ponds
! TO the piles where II Hos until il is dry
and the other removes II from these
] piles and transfers II 10 the cars IN
| which It IS taken to the smeltcr for
| treatment the amount Of metal re-
| covered from this material Is consid-
! cradle and the dredging process by
! which II is handled Is one ot the most
| interesting operations carried on at
! the works
Across the valley at the site OF the
| old upper and lower works, large
! gangs OF men are at work recovering
| values from what was once considered
| purely waste material The values re-
/ covered from this one-time waste are
! surprisingly large and tho acumula-
| ton below the old plants was 70 great
| that there is enough to keep the pres
! emit operations IN progress for a long
| time