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

company's mines comes from tn,
Jordan and Galena mines at Bling
nam canyon. Most of the custom ore.
come from Tintic. while the compan,
gets Il. large tonnage of it's own ore
from Its Centennial Earkea mine TIL,
oxidized lead ores come from the
companys Richmond Eureka mines
at Eureka, Nevada.
INSTALL NEW PROCESS.
another accomplishment of the
Giolnpahy during the year has been the
,s,iilsl,Ioh 'asHh OF an electrostatic
separating mill of the HUFF procees
| which at present is probably the ONLY
| successful electrostatic senaratoT
,eatinS zinc ores. The Huff machine
nus peen running successfulIy ot
FlatteVille. WIS, for some time treat-
rS rnS custom ores at that place. Thus
lo tIls process has been highly
2Ps;;r,siactofy P;iy In treating ores from
zinc. ''iisioerapie
tne separator mill the iron-zInc
SoInIehtrates LII from n wet concentrating
IIlili are dried and then separated Snto
on IRON product, carrying most OF the
precious metals in the ore and n high
S.aue zinc blende product for ship
IT,, r,,oh ~ tne Zinc smelters. 1t Is high
~ Proodple that this plant VIII also
become great source of revenue to
me united States company.
aiiS III the year 1910 another COM
petitor VIII appear in the sneItIno
reio IN The International Smelling &.
neHning company, which Will shortly
@ iinlsh III IT'S smelter plant at Pine canyon.
t Iooele' Work on the plant has
oeen moving steadily ahead ever since
,ie early part of the year and the plan.
10 now assuming shape MANY of tbe
principal buildings are I'D and tho In
staliation of machinery has begun. This
rs one OF the big advances OF the min
ing industry during the year..
MDOUGALs UP.
AT present "a of the big McDoueal
loasters are in place and eight more
are to be added TO comnleto
present plans for the plant. The raa or
erS nave been so arranged that addI-
tions may be made from time to time.
as the necessity for increased facilities
arises.
Ihe machine shops are up and in
operation. This building was the first
TO be completed at the plant. Early
IN the year steel from the old Highland
BOY plant In the valley was torn down
and taken to Tooele for this building.
housed In this building is the machine
SHOP blacksmith shop, carpenter shop
and Office
The power house has been completed |
and machinery Is now being installed |
rms VIII take considerable time and it |
VIII be several months before the plant |
Is in shape to be run
Ihe only other completed building |
is the sampling mill. which has been |
rooted and walled in. The machinery
Tor this part of the smelling plant is |
now being Installed
SteoI 10 e,oipn -, ro~
bers. and work on the big smoke stack.
to be the highest In Utah, has now
reached height of 1Se feet When
complete this great brick chimney will
be $50 feet tall. All the heaviest work
in the erection of this is now over and
the stack advances at the rate of about
live feet a day. Although the men
employed on this piece of work are
high In the air. every precaution Is
taken toward their safety. The floor
N the center OF the stack is entirely
covered and trap door falls over the
opening where the cage comes through.
Many of the men employed worked on
he big stack at Anaconda
MAIN BUILDING.
The main smelter building is now
;oing up and the steel on 1t is being
'ut In place. 1t will be several months
before this Is complete
The company employees in the neigh
'orhood of $50 men. the greater part of
Vhom are skilled workmen The work
$ now becoming more technical and
oniined to the installation OF machln-
ry and the like.
One OF the achievements of the COM
any during the past year was the
ulidlng OF spur railroad from the | {
alt Lake Route tracks at Tooele sta
lon, through Tooele City. two miles
way and out to the smelter plant /
his involved the laying of about eight :
1iles of track Within O. week after {