The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
Garfield SmeIter Now Treating
Eiqht Hundred Tons of
Ore a Day.
Construction Work on Great
Plant Continues With Fe-
veriSh Activity.

many at Gdrneldr Wnile UoWn the Mill
.ide shift lollows shift on con-
.trIction work and n tbs actual treat
.oent Of ore. OF which hundreds of tons
s4r adv are goins through the plant
daily.
10 "a east other hundreds of men
.fe WorSing at the limit of their ca
racitv hurrying to completion the big
Milling plants of the Utah Copper COM
.suv and the Boston Consolidated COM
nauv. Office buildings adjacent to all
he uiauts are filed with busy account
ants and draughtsmen. Heads of the
iepartments are i'm their shirt sleeves
and rushing from point to point from
eariv morning until dark, squirting the
worlzlucu TO even greater effort. The
entire ueighborhood has all the hustle
that goes with construction combined
with The steady hum of actual opera
ton. making Garfield probably the
busiest spot i'm Utah today.
wonders have been accomplished in
the few months since work began on
the big plants, and the men in charge
are seeking to accomplish even greater
T1arveIs in the short time that will
elapse before the construction work has
been finished. Steam. not only that va
rietv generated in boilers, but the kind
that ChaTaCtCTiZeS men of energy in
This age Of business, is evident every
where IT could be bad for the peace
Of the community if work at these
nlants should end suddenly. Some of
these men. now keyed to so great ten
sion. could not shut off steam at once
and would be liable to wreck some
thing.
With all the hurry and hustle and
excitement system is evident all the
time. No effort is wasted. No mans
ability or strength is misplaced. No
false moves are made. The huTrying
men all work in accordance with plans
conceived long before a blow was
struck at Garfield and now being car
ried to successful contamination at ter
rife pace. Every man knows what he
has to do, and he does not turn aside.
Every man knows who his superior is,
and does not waste time in asking
anybody else about anything; there is
only one man for him to obey. and he
0beys that man only.
The Garfield enterprises are big pro-
jects that are moving to fruition along
broad lines. OF necessity, they require
the direction of big men and the men
are there; otherwise. the pictures on
this page would not speak so eloquent
" of the change that has come where
the sagebrush alone occupied the scene
Eighteen months ago.
The Garfield smeiter was treating
about 500 tons of ore a day last week. |
It will handle about 1000 tons a day
when the plant. as at present planned,
has been completed. The fourth con-
verter Of the eight that will be used
is now being set up. Two of the four
blast furnaces are already in position
end three of the four reverbeI atories
are at work This is the situation in
h. e n kr4S
places In the great plant. To the roar
If the furnaces is added the noise of
the builders, while high over head two
giant travelling cranes, each with a
capacity Of 10000 pounds, move back
and forth, bearing .ons of iron and
wood to be added to the structure,
stopping frequently to pick up a few
iron cars or fOrty-five tons of con-
verter to be moved about the room.
Just outside. the railroad trains come
and go. bringing ore and building ma
terial and taking away the metal prod
ucts Of the plant. Electric engines,
loaded and unloaded but always hur-
rying. wind in and out through the
works. bringing fuel and carrying away
the waste material
Copper Chief Output.
The ore. after it is delivered by the
railroad TO the plant, is handled by belt
conveYOrS through ali the stages of
treatment and it moves rapidly. The
product of the Garfield smelter is bis
Ter copper and "a per cent pure and
small amounts of gold and silver.
Tn the way of figures. the plant is
able to boast a brick stack 300 feet
high and of thirty feet inside diameter.
which carries away the smoke and
fumes, while the dust is collected in the
great fiues that lead to the stack. OF
these. the balloon fue, so named be-
cause of the shape of its cross section,
is a noted dust catcher. The accumu-
lated dust is removed when necessary
through traps I'm the bottom of the f1ue.
This flue is of iron. The others. called
catenary fiues-alsO because of the
shape of their cross section. which is
Ike the catenary curve of geometry
are Of brick and cement and are hun
dreds of feet long. Three main flues
iead to the big stack on the hillside.
Plenty of Power.
The plant has forty motors Of from
niteen to eighty-five horsepower. Eiec-
trlcity is the principal motive power,
but steam and compressed air both are
rcpresented. Two blowing engines,
furnishing air at fifteen pounds press
ure for the blast furnaces, and three
positive pressure blowers furnishing air
Al forty ounces pressure for the rever-
OeratOTy and other furnaces. are in the
power house. Many pneumatic tools
are used in the plant, also. Attached
70 The reverberatory furnaces are steam
ooilers of 2,100 horsepower, fired by
waste gases from the furnaces, and the |
power house has steam boilers of $500 |
horsepower for relay equipment or !
emergency work and fired by coal. Coal
used in the reverberatory furnaces
and coke in the blast furnaces.
Ire plants water supply comes from |
reservoir of 100000 gallons fed by |
sprlhes In the Oquirrh range. The |
pumping plant has two centrifugal |
pumps and one positive rotary pump.
A Unique Device.
The Garfield smeIter has a device |
nat is unique. useful and the inven- |
I'm or one of the company's men, B. H. |
Inennetts, superintendent of the plant |
- IS called The Stag machine" and its |
..,sslon is to expedite. cheaper and /
p.serwise improve ths old method of |
HeiGling Stag frnr1 the furnaces that /