The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-19
COPPER PLANT
IS TOO SMALL
Garfield Shelters Capacity Is
to Be Doubled During
Present Season.
MINE OUTPUT DEMANDS IT
ENLARGEMENT WILL COST OVER
A MILLION.
MINE OUTPUT DEMANDS IT

The mammoth copper smelling works at
Garfield, though barely in commission,
are already proven to be altogether too
small for the business that is assured the
company and plans are now well advanced
for the doubling of their capacity. AS
completed, the plant has capacity for
handling approximately LOO tons of crude
ore and concentrates per day. That much
and then some is being delivered at the
plant now, while neither the Boston Con-
solidated, Utah Copper, Cactus and other
propositions are beginning TO deliver the
tonnage of which they Will be capable
during the next few months.
Early in the spring the matter of en-
larging the works was taken up and a
committee consisting of Karl Ellers
Franklin Guiterman and other experts
was sent out TO determine what should
be done. 1t was at once decided that the
capacity of the works must be increased
10 at least $500 tons per day, and it is
now having its recommendations carried
into effect. While the original plant is
understood to have cost the company in
the neighborhood of 100000. the belief
is that the capacity of the works can be
more than doubled for less than half that
sum.
Structural materials and equipment
were ordered without delay and so rapid
ly have the demands OF the company been
met by the manufacturers that material
for the additions is already beginning to
arrive. Construction is to be crowded
fall, the magnificent plant viii be in shape
TO meet the demands of all patrons The
works were built with the expectation
that they would need to be enlarged be-
fore long, but II was not expected that
the pressure would come before the big
mills OF the Utah Copper company and
the Boston Consolidated had been
screwed up to capacity.
The great works of the Garfield COM
pany are now capable of taking care of
world of ore, much more than it is posi-
sible to convert into copper bullion. It is
the converting end of the works that Is
getting too small. and here it is tn at tho
first engagements will be made From
the manner in which the mines of this
state are being developed, it win NOT he .
year till the company wiz have 10 DIan
sun greater eniafselnents. and the prob
abilities are that, in eig <,een months from
now, the company w have TO arrange
for the treatment o. not loss than ( 61G
tons per day of crHde ore and concen-
trates.
With these conditions to face it will not
be more than al wear or so until The T-tah
copper and the Boston Consolidated will
be demanding still larger accommoda-
uolls LOT thef product Of their mills and
MINES On account of this and the re-
guiremeEts of other producers, it is real
Izeu lIFdt the new town of Garfield the
toWn near the smelters and mills con-
trOhed by the corporations n3mN is also
soinEs to OutgrOw its boots. Not lar from
10 homes for WOrkmen have already been
1provided there, and il is learned that
orders have just been given for the build
ing of 100 more cottages. these to be fol
lowed by the addition of others next
spring. And so the good work progress s.
To cover this new work, the smeiter and
home building, will easily call for the ex-
penditure of 81 100000 in new money with
in fifteen miles of this city. during the
the situation will call for as much more
during 1903.