The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-18

left for New York, about the happiest man
that ever boarded a train for the east
When Mr.. Fink had the furnace con-
stTucted for the trials that have been
In progress it was designed to burn oil
instead OF pulVeTized coal for fuel. When
he arrived here ii was found that II was
going to be difficult to get fuel oil de-
livered and so he was asked to change
the burners and blasts to utilize coal.
Now that he has made the tests with
coal for fuel he Will Immediately change
and substitute oil. which is now avail
able He declares that it makes no diff
ference with the work of the furnace
whether coal. oil or even charcoal Is used
for fuel. It will operate equally wei
on either. There is no use to talk about
coke for fuel. he says. as that is too. eN-
pensive and not at all necessary. where
sulph- de ores. such as those he has been
conducting tests on. are used, the sui
units necessary. without the addition OF
fuel. Oxide and carbonate ores. botn
copper and lead. will yield to treatment
most readily when properly fluxsd and
an exceedingly small amount of fuel will
be required. The size Of the furnace can
be adjusted to any character o. work.
and Mr.. Fink expects to handle zinc ores
with perfect success The fuTna ,eS m
use at the Garfield testing plant are nine
feet long and nine feet in diameter. For
some classes of ores il viii likely be pos
sible to make them larger; with others
il may be necessary to reduce the size.
For plants of limited capacity small
furnaces will be built and in all cases
it will be a case of making the pun
ishment fit the crime.
Makes Producer Independent.
Now the world must sit up and take
notice. There can be no more charging
of exurbitant prices for the treatment OF
ore. The man with material that carries
so ton in value can erect a small smeit-
er at a nominal cost and treat his ore
at a convenient spot and ship his bull
lion. In this way he can do for a mat
ter OF dollar OF two ton what now
costs him so much that it is impossible
to move his product at all He can take
the smelter anywhere. almost, and he
can drill men to run il tn short order.
for the mixing Of the ores is the only
thing that will require metallurgical tai
ent. The simplest kind of machinery will
supply the necessary power. and the re-
suits will be certain, all the time. Th1
smelter can be shut down and started
again at viii. as there are no freezing
up difficulties to contend with Owing
to the cutting off Of power the testing
plant at Garfield has been frozen up
a dozen times during the past couple OF
weeks 1t has been "thawed' in an hour
without the least trouble or damage. and
the amount of heat generated has been
controlled just as easily as il IS TO turn
the water on or off al bathtub faucet.
When it is known that it costs often as
much as 5000 or 5000 to dig out a 'froz-
en-" charge in a blast furnace of the or
binary kind. the Importance OF tnlS fea-
ture OF the process becomes readily ap-
parent
Explanation of Picture.
4 glance at the accompanying haif-tone
picture OF the plant. which was taken by
Howard p Saunders. Saturday morning,
under trying difficulties owing TO N
storm shows one Of the two cylinders
that make the complete furnace The
connecting chamber is that TIN ouEh which
the heat fumes and smoke pass from
one TO the other The stacks are located
at the outer ends OF each cylinder and,
while Mr. Fink states that fumes do 20
out through these stacks into the opel
air All tho solid particles in the fin
are so thoroughly disintegrated In the
smelling Of the ore with which they be
come mixed that none escape through the
stacks.