Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-12
GARFIELD PLANT
IS A SUCCESS
Management Denies Some OF the
Stories Which Gained CirCuIa-
ton Through Eastern Press.
NO TROUBLE WITH BIG STACK.
Fuel Shortage Is All That Prevents
Full Number of Furnaces Be-
Ing Operated.

Several eastern publications have
been energetic In the circulation Of
reports to the effect that the new
Garfield smeter of the American
Smelling and Refining company. which
was completed last year after the
expenditure of more than s2,00O,0QO, is
not metallurglaoal as well as q
mechanical success. The Boston Fin
aneIal News came out the other day
with q story In which 1t was declared
that while the plant had behaved very
satisfactorily IN a mctallurgical way,
the management IN having Other
troubles and went on to infer that il
has been unable to get the smoke
out of the big stack which
stands at an elevation of bO0 feet above
the furnace floor of the smelter Oh
account of back drought coming from
the fringe OF hills back Of the smelser.
Believing that the circulation OF these
reports called forth some kind of
statement from the smelter manage
ment, "A representative Of the News
called at the offices nf Manager Sco-
field In the Mccormick bank building
who dictated the following statement;
There mas been no difficulty WHAT
soever with the stack OF draft AT the
Garseld smelter, except such difficulty
as has arisen from the inability OF the
operating department TO place In CONF
mission the full complement of fur
naces on account of the fuel shortage
with which every smelling company
In Salt Lake valley and many of the
mining ana other concerns; as wei as
the people at large IN this state. have
had to contend.
THE smoke has at all times risen
clearly and freely above the top OF the
stack at the Garfield smelter and
measurements OF draught taken AZ
various times has always shown o
pressure as great as expected. or could
have been anticipated, With the num-
Der OF furnaces operated.
1--WE have now two reyerberatores IN
operation and a sufficient stock of coke
TO enable the blowing~in OF one of the
blast furnaces will be on hand by the
18th inst. The remaining furnaces
will be placed IN operation as rapidly
as fuel supply to maintain them can
be secured
''The operation OF the plant to date
has developed absolutely, no CONSTITUTE
tiopal, metalurglcal or mechanical de-
fects and the plant has been operated
sufficiently 10 give assurance that none
viii occur later. The plant could be
operated at It's full capacity today II
we had coal and coke TO maintain II.
When the American Smelling ~ IKE
filming company undertook the con-
struction OF it's Garfield plant. there
were summoned into service stan
of engineers who We're experienced IN
this line of work. and 1t would hardly
be reasonable to suppose that they hao
made such serious mistakes as solQe
NJ these eastern papera have led their
readers to suppose. When the fuel
famine Is over. the Garfield smelter
will show it's critics what it can do,
The Bingham smelter has been
working with about one-third on it's
capacity, while the United states COM
pany has not maintained treatment OF
normal tonnage for several weeks