Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

the road was finished it began paying
It's way from the passenger and freight
| traffic between Tooele City and Tooele
station.
1t is the Intention of the International
company to have the plant finished
by April l. 1910, to be ready to take UP
the contract 1t holds with the Utah
| Consolidated for the treatment of its
ores. This calls for 1000 tons of ore
81 day.
1 When it was first intimated that
| there would be trouble In the Salt Lake
| valley Tor the Smelter concerns three
years ago. the American Smelling &
kehnlnS company soon made close in
VentoIy OF the situation and located an
excellent site AZ, Garfield. This is un-
questionably one of the finest smelter
sites in Utah. situated at the end of
Great Salt Lake, where gravity can
greatly assist in the work and the
smelter fumes are carried up into the
mountains instead of along the valley
where vegetation could be damaged
DOUBLE CAPACITY.
mo foresight of the builders of this
institution is plainly shown by the work
mat has been accomplished bv tbIs
plant. The plant at present is able to
handle $500 tons of orc and ii could he
quickly doubled should the needs of the
company demand it,
one of the main features about thI.
GugSenhetm interest is Its operation bv
gravity. The works have been 50 tor,
raced that there is an immense sayIno-
In the use of motive power at the nlant
a special feature of tho plant is the
McDougal roaSter building. which is 900
feet long and go feet wide. In This arc
~ lS-foot furnaces. Two sampIing mills
nave been established at the works ana
they cover an area of IS by So feet each
Inc main smelter building Is 800 feet by
800 feet. 1t is equipped with tbree 70
Verberatory furnaces.
The American Smelling & REFINING
company Is q Guggenheim concern
Ihelr interests In mining and smelling
are among the largest IN the world The
interests of the Guggenheims and as
socfates have done much to build I'm
tho mining Industry of the west. and
they were practically pioneers In the
smelling industry in Utah
The management of the Utah end of |
tho Guggenheim affairs are in the
hands of General Manager C. w. Wbit- |
Icy, whose ability to build up a bust |
ness IS shown by the success of tbo |
American Smelling s. Refining COMPANY
smelters In Utah.
NSANt|h1@iN IL Y
The company has another smeIter
In Utah, and that Is the one at MIR.
ray At this plant nothing but lead
ores are treated. 1t has been handling
q large tonnage throughout the voor
This company Is more commonly KNOW
rs the American Smelling & Refining
company plant, while the one at Car.
Held is known as the Garfield SmeItino
Refining company
one or the events Of the year in tho |
smelting business was the leasing OF
he Majestic smelter at Milford to f,
Augustus Heinzc for a period of one
Ie1r, upon THIS Mr.. Heinze organized
he Miners Smelling company but on |
,rations at the. plant were never com
nenced' 1t was to hold the contract for
he Silver King ores that Heinze leased
no property. For a time It was he |
le"ed that the old smelter would start
unnine. but it still remains idle.
The smclter building Is of n steel
rame on q stone foundation. The build
n9 was built TO accommodate four 950-
on blast furnaces with the necessary
machinery. 1t is equipped with one 25o-
on blast furnace for copper and a 10O-
on lead stack with Nesmith hot bIovt |
toves. heating the air to 500 degrees
y. before entering the tuyeres The | ,
melter was scarcely warmed I'D before | !,
was closed down, running at that | Z
me but 40 days. Since then II has :
ever been run.
SMEDTDR AT STDM. t
a little known smelter in Utah Is the y
'-ton plant of the Utah e. Eastern
opper company, at Shem. This plant :
as last run in 1907 by the present
'mpany and at that time 1t was abie .
} make considerable money. The =
nelter has 100-horse power. water \
-cket' blast furnace. with water power "
cured from the Santa Clara river II