The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

plant is so designed that its capacity
can be increased TO 5000 tons a day
with comparatively small additional
cost, and on short notice. Within two
or three years it is expected the latter
tonnage will be treated there.
When it was decided TO build these
works every care was taken 10 secure
land for miles in any direction that
might afterwards cause trouble through
the deposition of sulphur and other
matter in the smoke and fumes issuing
from the works. A study of air cur
rents and other atmospheric conditions
was made, and IL was finally decided
that no harm could possibly come to
vegetation beyond the limits of the
lands acquired by the company. The
great stack through which practically
| all of the fumes would have to pass
before reaching the outer air was placed
In an elevated position in a ravine or
draw running back into the mountain,
and upon which most of the smoke AMI
fumes must settle under ordinary con-
ditiOns North northeast or northwest
winds must carry the smoke into the
mountains. Southeast winds or south
west winds must carry the smoke either
across the Great Salt lake or along its
barren east shores, where it can do no
| harm.
Three lines of railroad. the Salt Lake
route. the Rio Grande and Western Pa
cific, run right through the lands of the
/ Garfield Smeiter and Garfield Townsite
companies, so direct connection with
every point of the compass is thus Sc
cured.
just this side. or east OF the Garfield
smelter. is the town OF Garfield. A
/ TOWNSHIP company and a water eompa-
ny, jointly owned by the smelter inter
ests ard the Boston Consolidated and
Utah Copper companies, control the
town. Here a model little city is being
! built up for the bepefit of the men who
viii be employed at the smelter and the
great milling plants of the two mining
companies mentioned. More than 100
coy dwellings and places of business
grace its streets already. By and by II
will be a city of several thousands OF
people.
The Big Milling Plants.
East and southeast of the Garfield
town arc located the milling plants OF
the Boston Consolidated and Utah Cop
per companies. The latter are rapidly
nearing completion. and, by the first
of March il is expected, the treatment
/ OF 5000 tons of ore per day from the
company's Bingham mines can begin.
This 3.000-tcn unit is to be followed by
] tn6 a0ultlOn OF dliOtntf JuSI DIS idI6ts
aud this second unit should be ready
TO go into commission a year or so
: later.
/ The Boston Consolidated plant. which
will also be able to handle 5000 tons
daily, will not be ready to start for pos
sibiy six or seven months yet. The
/ foundations. retaining walls, piers. etc,
are already in place, however, and the
knitting together of the steel structures
J ], col ord for nj
Ichinery end equipment were placed long
ta go. and weather conditions proving IA
vorable, there is.a chance of the plant
/ being started early in the summer. Like
/ the Utah Copper works, the Boston
I Consolidated plant is designed with a
view and purpose of soon doubling its
| capacity.
Separate lines OF railroad connect
! these works and the smelteTs of Garfield
with the mines of Bingham and before
/ the present year is over II is expected
that the eighteen miles separating the
camp from the works will be spanned
by parallel lines. in order that the ire
mendOus tonnage Of ore can be the
more easily handled
In the requirement of the thousands
of acres of land, water rights etc, and
i'm the building Of the smelteTs, town
and milling plants mentioned, not less
than $4,000 600 will have been expended
| by the end OF another year, while the
railroad companies and the street EAR
companies will have added several mill
lions more to the outlay in order to give
that section rapid transit 10 and from
Salt Lake. which must be the main sup
ply point, shopping and amusement
| center.
1t would be a great stroke Of enter
prise II matters could be so arranged
! that when the smelters are compelled
! to move from Murray and Bingham
Junction they could be given accom-
/ -aOdatiOfis in the vicinity of Garfield.