The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-28
WILL EXTRACT COPPER
NEW s5o,ooo MANUFACTURING N- DUsTRY FOR MONTGOMERY.
A. B. Rains ef Columbia, Tenn, Building
 Plant to Extract Five Products From Copper Pyrites of Clay County.

Before November I5. there will pc in active operation in Montgomery the third plant erected in the world Tor the purpose of extracting copper, gold and silver from copper pyrites.
 For several weeks works has been going on near Riverside Park erect. ing a permanent and commodious plant and before the middle of November this plant will be in active operation, employing over fifty skilled laborers.
 The Alabama Copper Company, un- der the management of A. B. Rains, of Columbia. Tenn, who is also inter ested in the Tennessee Fertilizer Com pany which has its plant near River side, will operate the plant, which It is confidently believed win be in a short time one of Alabama's greatest mineral industries.
 Two plants for the extraction of | copper from the pyrites have been in l active operation for some time in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The plant of the Alabama Copper Company will be built on exactly the same plan and will have monthly capacity of 5e,o0o pounds of copper and varying amounts | of gold, silver, iron and sulphur. | Through the methods of extraction | employed, five products are secured. Heretofore the Tennessee Fertilizer Company has been using the pyrites simply for the purpose of extracting sulphur to be converted in to sul- phuric acid. The Alabama Copper | Company will after the sulphur has been extracted. extract copper. gold and silver and dispose of the iron left, which is of a very high grade, to the pudding mills.
 | The raw product is secured from a mine recently purchased by the company at Pyriton, Clay County. about twenty miles from Taliadega. To this mine the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has extended a branch line. | The gold extracted from these py- rites has been essayed and will aver age sf.50 per raw ton and the silver a less amount For the grade of iron secured after the process of extrac- tion, the Northern market pays be- tween s4 and $5 per ton. The market | value in Alabama Is something like $s.50 per ton for this grade.
 MT. Rains has been in Montgomery since August. Montgomery's eentra
 location on all the prominent road' 1 attracted him to the city. His com
 pay has been capitalized at $50 900. He is young business rience in the mining and chemical man
 ufacturing industries. In speaking O his industry yesterday he said: 'Thii
 Is no experimental plant. The process of extracting copper. gold and silvel Lfrom copper pyrites, used in the man ufacture of sulphurio acid has beel tried successfully. Two big plant
 are making money on the business il the East. Here I have the materia
 right at hand and the pyrites distric of Clay County insures me plenty O material for some time to come. Why right now, there is a vast amount 0 the ore from which the sulphur ha
 been extracted at the plant of tn Tennessee Fertilizer Company, and vi
 also control one of the biggest mine in Clay County started building ol September 1. having secured ptopert!
 adjoining that of the Tennessee com pany. I expect to nave the plan ready for operation on November but 1t will be surely be fin operation by the middle of the month.
 You see under our system of ex traction. where they heretofore SC
 cured one product. sulphur, we secur five. sulphur, iron, gold, silver an' copper There is ready market for al
 of these products and I do not Sc
 why the plant will not be successful
 Mir. Rains has apartments at tn 1 Melrose.