Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19

and 1t was While in the progress or
these experiments that successful
method for the elimination OF fumes
was discovered The operation Of the
process is kept q secret as far as pos
sll2le; but the company has its rights
preserved by patents in this, as wei
us in foreign countries. When 1t was
positively determined that fumes which
play havoc when coming In contact
with vegetation can be so neutralized
that the operation OF the company's
smelter at Bingham Junction would
not endanger growing crops or live
stock in the slightest degree whatso-
ever, the court was appealed to Tor a
modified decree permitting the opera
ton OF the lead section of the plant,
which was granted. The furnaces have
been in commission since last Septem-
Der and. according to authentic infor-
nation, the operation OF the process
referred to has more than come up TO
expectations. An average of 500 tons
of ore n day Is being smelted and 1t Is
difficult to discern at any time as
much smoke Issuing from the top of the
25O-foot stack as from an ordinary
house chimney. The most of the time.
{. thin white vaper Is visible: but to
view the plant from distance 1t bears
every evidence OF being idle.
The bag house is similar to bag
houses In use at other plants, the pres
ent one contains $500 bags and all ad-
dition is being built to make room Tor
/ $50 more. Since the 10th of last July,
the date when the smelters started,
after q six-months shut down, not
a single bag has been replaced. These
bags are "a feet in length and made
of woollen cloth. There Is not tho
slightest doubt that the United states
Smelling company Is turther aheau
80. 4 Jt,,,, <.l ono On
than any other smelling concern in the
world.
SECRET PROCESS DOES IT.
BY its newly developed and patent
en- process for the naturalization OF
the acids in tile fumes it has made
big step forward in being able TO bag
house its roasters and arsenic, as well
as its blast furnace fumes. 1t Is the
general understanding that while there
are many Lighthouses in operation In
altering blast furnace fumes. no plant
to date but that of the United States
company has been able to filter
fumes emanating with the roasting
OF heavy sulphide ores. In accomplish
ing this result the combined efforts OF
the staff OF the United States COM
pany have been ut work for more than
a year. and while large sums have
been continuously expended III ines N-
perirnents that have been secretly go
ing on for this period. the results seem
fully TO have justified the expenditure
OF both time and money. Not only
will the haghousing of these gases re-
suit in savings of lead and silver that
otherwise by yolat!lizarIon would es-
cape IN the atmosphere, but it solves
for the United States company the
Vital question of damage to vegetation
In Salt Lake valley. The smelters
near Salt Lake City are located In the
midst Of a rich agricultural district,
and while 1t has been claimed that
great damage has occurred thereby to
vegetation. the extent OF which is very
much IN question. still the system
adopted by the United States company
win the absolute and unauestionable
control5of all aeleter!ous matter in the
fumes and gases, seems certain TO
relieve that company of the expense