Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11
MINING, BUSINESS AND STOCKS

mony and zinc IN tho nue dust they
can be saved In the same way and later
on separated from each other. The
roasted dust left behind IN the rooster
can be made into brlquertes and run
through the smelter again where the
copper and silver aud gold will pass
into the matte and be saved, or they
can be leached with some OF the acid
and the silver copper, and gold values
saved in the usual way, without max
Ing the dust into brlquettes.
SOME OTHER ADVANTAGES.
There are other advantages resulting
from the production OF such vast guam
titles OF sulphurous acid az a nominal
cost The shelters especially those OF
the nOn-pyritlC type such as the lead,
silver and gold smelters or the United
states and American Smelling & Re-
fning companies types can refine their
product on the ground instead OF ship
ping II east, and can do II at a much
reduced cost, compared with the ex-
pense now, This as already indicated
would make OF Salt Lake city n great
metropolis, and double our population.
The fact that the smelter smoke null
sance could be abated was first brought
out by the writer I'm the Evans case
before the district court here in 1903
but 80 far the writer has never been
able TO get the facts before the courts
for the reason that the smeter men
do not want the facts known and the
farmers lawyers do not feel under any
obligation TO Introduce evidence on this
subject II Is curious trayesty ON
justice that q witness Is sworn 10 tel
the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, so help you Cod and
Ia hi %
truth. One would suppose that case
al law was for the settling matter or
justice and settling II right
SOME CHEMICAL TRUTHS
There are other things about these
smclter suits that are neither fair nor
right Though most OF the suits filed
so far are against the Highland Boy
This sneIter Is not the only offender
an the other smeltcrs including tho
American. are equally bad IN proportion
to the tonnage OF sulphde ores treated
after making duo allowance for the
height OF their stacks, completeness
and efficiency OF their plants, and rela-
tive distances from the lands dam
aged, II Is nonsense 10 charge the
siueltors with doiug permanent damage
to the lands OF the valley except so tar
ns they have deposited arsenic ON the
land but II Is fact that the llue dust
In the form of copper and iron SUI
pilates are temporarily damaging 10 the
soil TN they have been neutrallzed,
and are liable to do damage even after
that so long us sulphur acids are leach-
ing down through the coil. II Is
fact that sulphur acids falling on the
soil are beneficial to IL II they come ln
contact with lime for they turn II into
gypsum which Is fertilizer, but they
must not be In excess Of 200 pounds OF
gypsum to the acre, however many
times that amount OF gypsum Is pro-
duccd on every acre every year IRON
these smelters, and thereby the produce
tive capacity Of the land is temporarily
Impaired TO the extent Of the excess
Of gypsum but If the shelters should
cease to operate the lands would, In
the end regain their old fertility and
for time surpass il till the gypsum
was exhausted. As soon as the top
soil Is turned to gypsum the sulphur
acids falling on the surface become
q serious menace 90 the crops because
they are not nelurhize and plants
growing through the gypsum come In
contact with the acids and are killed.
Up tan recently this danger has been
slight, bat hereafter Is will become
more and more noticeable as the gyp-
sum increases.
SMOKE PREVENTS DISEASE.
Another fact should be stated in
justice to the shelters, namely that
smclfer smoke Is not wholly evil. II is
ID remarka BILE fact that aymotic diseases
1 are rare In their vicinity The common
epidemic and contagious diseases do
not thrive there as the sulphur gases
pro DEATH to all kinds Of germs, But
D .sUlf ttsfl, 40 AZ II
kinds Of kidney diseases are too COM
mon idue TO Hrsenc), Every man who
works long I'm a pyrItic smelter gets
| fat short windcd, and hoarse. The
tat Is dropsical and not good flesh, the
| kidneys soon begin To- break down and
end i'm diabetes or similar troubles.
| The hoarseness Is due to chronic
| irrita ton OF the throat and lungs, but
| does not result In pneumonia or con-
! sumption so long as the man continues
| To work az the smelter (because Of the
! germ destroying effect Of the fumcS),
| but as soon as he moves away the
! raw state Of his air passages makes
| him an easy mark for pneumonia and
| consumption The damage done by
| smeltar fumes to domestic animals is
| very much greater than IL commonly
| supposed, There are few animals with
| I'm i've miles Of any smoltcr that are
! not more or less poisoned one grain
/ Of arsenic or AN ounce Of blue yitrol
! taken at once win Kill horse or cow
| Any one Of the shelters produces
| enough arsenic I'm e year to kin every
| animal on the globe Arsenic taken In
| minute doses az is the case with ami
| mails subject 10 smeter fumes II rs
| none the less poisonous though its fatal
! effects are spread over a greater length
| Of time.
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