Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-09
.FLUES ALL LEAD
TO BAG HOUSE
Devices Installed at U. S. SneIter
Have Converted 1t Into a
SmokeIess Plant.
SECRET PROCESSES Do WORK
Company Building Arsenic Refinery
Moro improvements Being Made
Mill In Operation.


With all fues leading to the ba;
house, together with the devices de-
vised by its engineers for the conser-=
walton of gases, the United States
Smelling company has effectively soT-t
ed the Smoke" problem as far as its
own plant is concerned, for all time.
The promise made to Judge Marshall in.
She federal court when the company's
officials and attorneys made appli-
cation for a modification Of the decree
of Injunction, which Il few months pre-
Nious had put practically all the smclt-
ing plants OF the Salt Lake valley out
of business, has been made good. Nat
urally every person connected with the
great smelling company feels elateG.
over the triumph of metallurgical sci
ence in dealing with this vexed qucs-
lion. Every farmer residing within the
so-caled Smoke zone doubtless feels
gratifled that the smelter is no longer
menace to the community but on the
contrary great benefit to it.
For many months past the rcpres
cntatiVes of the various Salt Lake
papers have sought information about.
the new processes for smoke eliniinn.
ton now used at the United States
plant In a general way. ii has been
given; but all the time General
Manager George w, Heintz pleaded in
about this way: "lf YOU will say just
as little as you can for awhile, until
1t has been demonstrated beyond the
faintest shadow of doubt that the
United States Smelling company has
solved this smoke problem, | will be
very much obliged. While we are
reasonably sure OF success now his.
declared "at the same time we would
prefer to get the adjustments made.
and everything moving nicely, before
very.much noise is made. II the thing
proves disappointing the less said the
better; if it comes up to expectations.
why then, we are glad to have the
public know it,
Mr.. Heintz then promised that when
ever the process had become a demon
strated success he would invite the
mining editors of the various salt Lake
papers to take a trip to the plant and
see. which was done yesterday, the
party leaving the city at II o'clock in
automobiles.
LEAD FURNACES. GOING.
! Only the lead department of the
| great plant is in operation, but an
| average Of 500 tons of ore Is being put
| through the furnaces every day and it
| Is difficult to discern at anytime as
! much smoke issuing from the top os
| the 50-foot stack as from an ordinary.
house chimney. The most of the time.
a thin white vaper is visible but to
view the plant from distance it bears
| every evidence of being idle.
The bag house is similar to bag
| houses in use at other plants, the pres
| ent one contains 5000 bags and an adj.
| ditiOn is being built to make room for
| 1900 more. Since the 10th OF last July,
/ the date when the smelter started,
| after Il six-month's shutdown. not
a single bag has been replaced These
bags are "a feet in length and made
! OF wooden cloth. There is not the
slightest doubt that the United States
/ Smelling company is further ahead
IN the handling of its gases and fumes
| than any other smelling concern in the
/ world
SECRET PROCESS DOES IT
BY its newly developed and patent
I ed process for the naturalization OF
! the acids in. the fumes 1t has made 6.
| big step forward in being able to bag
| house It's rooster and arsenic, as we'll
j as il blast furnace fumes 1t is the
| general understanding that while there
/ are many bashouses in operation il
| altering blast furnace fumes. no plant
4 TO date but that OF the United states
= pay iittS ptciiI Sblt w l1ItST
i through bag house the hot ana acid
| fumes eTanating with the roasting
OF heavy sulphide ores IN accomplish
! ing this result the combined efforts II
i the staff of the United States com
\ pany have been at work for more than
/ a year and while large sums have
| been continuously expended in the ex-
| pcriments that have been secretly go
! ing on for this period, he results seen
/ fully TO have justified the cxpcnoi.
| ture of both time and money. Not only
| Will the baehousing Of these gases re-
| suit IN savings of lead and silver that
otherwise by volatIizntion would es-
cape III the atmosphere. but II solves
| for the United States company the
Vital question of damages to vegeta-
| ton in salt Lake valley. The snelt-
| ers near Salt Lake City are located In