The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-09
j. S. COMP ANY'S
NEW SHELTER
Its SmokeIeSs, DuStIeSS Plant
Is Now Handling a Heavy
Tonnage of Ore.
BAG HOUSE is BIG SUCCESS
NO OTHER SHELTER IN THE
WORLD COMPARES WITH 1T.

a smokeless smelter, a dustIess
smelter. the dream of the metallurgical
engineer,~the hope of the smeIter oper-
ator and the savior of the farmer.
rancher and fruit grower: the thing
counted upon to work a worldwide re-
Nolution in the business. and the lack
OF which has caused so much trouble
in thickly populated centers, where the
business of reducing refractory ores to
bullion is at last a reality that finds
perfect exemplification i'm the new
works of the United States Smelling.
Renn1ng & Mining company, at Bling
ham junction, twelve miles south of
this city. Here more than LOGO tons
of ore and fiuxes are being reduced
every Jwenty-four hours without per-
hitting enough smoke to escape from
the 3O0-foOt stack to show that fires
are raging below, and without permit
ting enough dust, SCOT or solid parti-
cles of any description TO reach the
outer air to soil a white shirt worn
about the works.
Nothing like il can be seen at any
other smelling works i'm the world; two
wears ago no one could have been made
to believe that such a performance
would ever be seen anywhere. But
the trick has been turned and daily re-
suits are proclaiming in convincing ar
gument that smelling can be carried
on anywhere without in the least
murking the atmosphere and without
in the slightest degree harming animal
and vegetable life. The works of the
United States company, which owns
the patented process by which the
seeming miracle Is performed, were
stormed yesterday by party of news
paper men. who went down as the
guests OF General Manager George W.
Heintz. 10 see what had been accom-
plished along the lines mentioned.
To give a detailed account of the
methods employed and the mechanical
devices installed at the works to pre-
vent the escape to the outer atpos-
of which the farmers of the valley
complained. and which resulted in the
securing OF an injunction against the
companies operating smelters in this
valley less than two years ago. would
require a technical story and the con-
sumption of much space. The scheme,
in brief. is this:
How the Bag House Works.
Al no place about the works where
are subjected to any of the various pro-
cesses through which it must go be-
fore the metal is finally extracted and
moulded into bars of bullion, is the
smoke and fumes permitted to escape
through fiues. doors or other aper-
lures. as are commonly found in the
usual plants for the reduction of ores.
From the blast furnaces. from the head
roasters. from the reverberatories, from
the mating furnaces, the long string of
new cheering ovens, from everywhere
and every place in which smoke and
fumes are generated. connecting
ground fiues lead to the mammoth bag
house, where, with the aid of two
mighty blowing machines or fans. all
the smoke and fumes carrying arsenic
and sulphur, the substances counted
as so deadly to animal and vegetable
life. are forced through no less than
ZOO canvas bags. held in perpendicular
positions. These bags are about eight
cen inches IL diameter and thirty-three
feet long. They collect all the arsenic,
all the sulphur, all the solid particles
that would find their way into the open
air through old methods. and permit
the escape Of clear vapOr which,
were il not for the fact that it is
heated. could not be detected at the
top of the stack into which it passes
after leaving the bag house
No Signs of Smoke or Gas.
After spending a couple of hours |
about the works and noting the TIRE
HtOiupuS dihouiit VI hldteildi- ore COLI |
centrates. fiuXes and fuel that is con- !
stsntly being burned up. SO TO speak |
the visitor simply marvels at the fact !
that nowhere is there belching Of |
dirty, grimy smoke and an atmos- |
phere charged with the choking fumes |
Of sulphur. arsenic. etc. He sees the |
charges poured into the furnaces; he |
sees the fierce fires raging and |
notes the yellowish sulphur and the |
blue zinc fumes within. and he gets |
glimpse here and there of the dense |
mass. mingled with the black smoke |
Of the fuel used travelling through the |
thousands of feet of fiue and dust
collecting chambers. ever in the direc- |
ton of the bag house; but there is the |
end Of it.
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