Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-30
SULPHUR GAS AS
CROP DESTROYER
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they did not produce sulphuric acid,
and aided the escape OF the ingredients
of this deadly acid. TO do jheir work
upon surrounding farms, where they
would continue to be the grave nuis-
ance they had been for a long time past.
Fumes from the roasters, Judge Howatt
maintained, and the discharge into the
bag house would be commingled in
the stack, and kept down to the limits
of sulphur allowed in the proposed
modification of the decree.
PREVIOUS MODIFICATION.
The modification granted the Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining company
was the cause of a flinging bit OF rhc-
toric between attorneys. Judge Howatt
from time to time demanding to know
how about it's provisions, ana asked
that the justice of this new request be
judged by those already granted.
Atty. Rawlins In reply held that the
facts are notorious that this gas Is
nuisance, and that IL does great
damage to the health of people forced
to take il into their lungs to animals
and TO crops, and that If any modifica.
don of this decree Is made, allowing
the escape of this gas in quantity, the
old evils which caused the original suits
to control the smeltcr problem, win be
in existence TO the extent heretofore
complained of.
ZINC IN PRECIP1TATE SALT.
Zinc to precipitate zinc oxide, Atty.
Rawlts said would be very expensive
since I would require two tons of zinc
for every ton of sulphuric acid con-
VerteC into zinc sulphide, thus making
n COS; out of commercial proportions
MI Ii alnaN Ia. Il L.. Ia.
bag louise was merely a device to drive
the gas off. and that the new concern
trato's helped because they stopped the
formltion OF acid within the bag house
where IL would attack the bags in
stead OF vegetation outside.
Tie accumulation of arsenic dust was
mentioned, and a demand made to
knew how IL would be disposed OF, as
II vas so easy TO heat 1t and drive OFF
tho volatile gas into the atmosphere
secretly. Fifteen hundred tons per
anlum of arsenic the attorney claimed
would annually be precipitated I'm the
bag house, all this to be disposed OF.
BURDEN OF EXPENSE.
1T is wrong" declared Senator Raw
lhs, ito make farmers, already heavily
taxed, to continue to be on guard TO
prevent the recurrence OF the evils
from which they have sought redress
and constant inspection and guarding
would be required should tie shelters
over obtain a concession allowing them
10 reopen on the proposed basis. They
could run certain kinds Of ore, under
the present decree, and ought never To
be allowed to smelt other classes
WITNESSES EXAMINED.
with the problem thus pu before
the court Managing Directol A. f.
Holden was put on the stanl to b.
queried by attorneys for bot sides,
each anxious to establish it's points.
Holden testified that the law q gases
was responsible for the ready diffusion
of sulphur diOXide in the air while
Atty. Rawlins read from memfy the
chemistry lessons OF his boyhod To
prove that the gas was heaNle than
air and would settle when discharged,
remaining for a long time at IN bot
tom before diifuslng.
III the decree should W mdined,
Manager Holden, "A man much rsem-
bling Roosevelt In looks, VINO pmes
from the same college class, prolised |
that the smclter would build ail alenic |
plant TO make a commercial prodpt OF |
IL and market II. Pressed 10 tel the |
present capacity OF the plant, h' de- |
clared II To be 900 tons OF smdlng |
ore, and $50 tons OF roasting ore. Tho |
smeltor had been closed for lree |
weeks and would require six maths
10 put into shape TO operate agailNn-
der the new decree.
An enort 10 learn the exact an1lnt
OF sulphur In the various ores rested
in a declaration that the records ply |
show this item since April l. l90Ipnd
n was requested that the record Delro-
duced since that tune.
BY tho time of adjournment me gu
ments had sunken deep into the te'ni-
calities OF the mining and smeltlniln-
dustrL.s and Chemist Benedict wa on
ne stand. explaining details OF thd1ag
house, now under his supervision