The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-10
MINING NEWS
OIL USED IN THE KELLY
SMELLING PROCESS

Salt Lake, June 9.-Sfnce local
attention was called to the Fink smelt-
ing process. by which a greater per
centage of values could be recovered
| from the rock, at lower cost, than
can be obtained by the old process
now employed. great many smelt-
ing methods have sprung into exist
ence One man who was employed
around the Fink plant is said to have
lost his position by reason of being
inefficient, and he Immediately began
experimenting on a smelling process
OF his own. The Cation process Is
being tried out in the northwest coun-
try with some degree of success, and
now the Kelly process has been
sprung in Los Angeles, and is herald
ed as a world beater.
A demonstration made last week of
the Kelly processes Of smelling with
oil In specially constructed furnace
was a success, the work having been
done in a 25-ton stack located at the
plant Of George NJ. Babcock, who has
been associated with Mr.. Kelly in
bringing his furnace and his processes
to the present state Of efficiency.
Scores of mining experts and owners
of copper, iron, gold and silver bear
ing properties contend that 1t will
revolutlonie the smelling of ores
throughout the entire country and the
world wherever crude oil Is obtalnable
at a low cost Economy Is the Key
note and the cost of production by
old methods, with a coke furnace. is
reduced by the Kelly processes to
such an extent that 1t will be the
means of developing hundreds of prop
critics that have not been worked be-
cause of the heretofore prohibitiye
cost of production.
The demonstration was on copper,
and the contention that the Kelly pro
cesses kill the sulphur fumes was con
clusiyely shown to those who prior
to this time had said that 1t could not
be done, This destruction of fumes
demoves one Of the chief distractions
heretofore raised against the location
of a smelter in the vicinity of Los An
geles, and it may therefore be con-
cluded that the present plans Of the
company will develop rapidly.
Although the furnace Is a radical
departure from the old lines, there be-
ing many novel and patented features,
it is the Kelly processes that underlie
the whole working principle, and to
which the chief value Is attached. Mr
Kelly has completely upset all here
tofore known theories, and, according
TO experts, has accomplished the i'm
possible Just what the Kelly pro-
cesses are is known only to the in
yentor and his associates, but that
they do what is claimed for them is
proved by the production of better
than 9S per cent matte from 8 per
cent ore containing sulphides and run
ming high in silica.
The value of the Kelly processes
lies not only In the low cost of extrac-
ton, but in the purity of the metal
poured off and the small percentage Of
values in the Stag.
A company has already been formed
for the practical promotion of Mr..
Kellys Inventions, and the stock will
be controlled by limited number OF
local investors and capitalists,
Mr.. Babcock, when seen concerning
the plans Of the company, said that
although they had not been perfectly
formulated, the initial work will prob
ably begin with the erection of sew
eral twenty-five. fifty and 100-ton
stacks. for which orders were received
prior to and contingent upon the sue
cess of the demonstration just given
There is great amount of interest
manifested in the proposed custom
smelter to be erected at tidewatcr
which Will mean the development of