The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-29
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OR several weeks Missouri and colo
RADIO men engaged in the handling
and treatment Of ores i'm which zinc
predominates. or at least plays an i'm
portant part in determining the com
mercial value of the rock have been
seeking a foothold in this state 1t
has been known that for every mo-
ment of the last two months the en-
terprise has been incubating, but il
Was not until Thursday that the propO-
sitiOn was rounded into form and ar
ucleS of Incorporation of the operating
company were filed for record With
that formality disposed Of the preSi-
dent of the company. Herbert Harris
who had previously looked after the
purchase of site for the works and
arranged for the awarding Of contracts
for the erection Of buildings pulled out
for headquarters at Denver, to return
a little later. While there is nothing
on the surface to indicate il. il is
known that the Lanyon Zinc & Lead
company of New Jersey and Missouri
Is behind the Harris combination.
As the company. which is to be
known as the Western Ore Separating
company of Denver, is much in the
nature of d close corporation. its capt.
tai has been placed at the nominal sum
of $4,000. 1t might have been $1,000.
or any other sum, 50 far as the public
could feel concerned. the real siguih-
canoe resting in the fact that the COM
pany has been organized to handle
class of ore in this state which. up to
the present time, has either had to be
marketed at a loss. so far as the zinc
was concerned. or for margin of
profit that made mining hardly worth
while That having been the case
miners ana mining companies having
the characters of ore mentioned will be
glad to know the new company will.
during the next few 'fnOnths. be hooked
up for business and prepared to make
It worth the while Of ziHc-Iea d-siIver
producers to cut loose At their prop
critics and roll out the ore
Buys Five Acres of Ground.
The location of the new works will
be One-half block south and one block
west of the new Oregon Short Line
shops. between Sixth and Seventh
North and Fifth and Sixth West
streets Here the company has pur-
chased five acres of ground and as il
lies between the main lines of the ore
gon Short Line and Rio Grande rail-
roads. short switches will give either
company d chance to move ores to and
from the works at will. In other words.
II gives the producer, not matter over
which road he ships, direct connection
with the receiving bins at the new
plant
Will Use Electricity.
Electrical processes Of separating the
dlnerent metals contained in the ores
VIII be employed altogether and after
separation the various products will
De shipped TO the shelters for CONVEX
sion into bullion. This plant will be i'm
no sense a smelter. and every particle
of machinery in il will be run by cleo
tricity, with the single exception of
the dryer, which viii be employed sim
ply to free the ores of the moisture
they contain when received at the
works.
Plants of the same character arc
Oelng successfully operated at Denver
ana I'm the Missouri zinc fields by Drac
ucally the same men who are behind
the enterprise here, and the expecta
non Is that within a year or so a large
business Will be esta blished in This class
OF work II will provide employment
for a large number of men and greatly
enhance the value of many mines OF
this and adjoining states. Work will
begin on the plant during the next few
days.