Mohave County miner., 1909-01-30
May RevoIutonize Smelling Industry.

At 10 o'clock Saturday night the first pouring of copper bullion, "blis- ter" copper, that was ever made in a single process furnace in the world was accomplished at the Edward Fink plant, out at Garfield, near the Boston Consolidated mill. Almost in the shad- ow of the American Smelling x Re fning cOmpany's works, where 5,000,- 000S has been spent in building a plant designed to do the same thing. at the rate of 1000 tons of ore day, Samuel Newhouse has erected a plant capable of treating l00 tons a day at cost of moth Garfield works accomplish it is estimated that less than a quarter of million dollars would be required With fifteen men on shift and with the utilization Of twenty-five horse power of energy and couple of tons of fuel, at the outside, the Fink smell ter has demonstrated its ability to con- vert Boston Consolidated concentrates into copper bullion at the rate of bet ter than loo tons a day.
 At the big smelling works, expert smeltermen say it costs close to LIDS a ton to s,nter the product ready for conversion into matte and that it costs not less than 2S a ton more to reduce the matte to blister copper. In the big smelters the crude material has to pass through several stages of re duction in different characters of furn- aces before 1t is finally turned into bullion, while in the Fink plant either high grade copper matte or a copper bullion, 95 to 9S fine, is produced at the one operation.
 Nothir- ike it was ever before ac- compl.shed in the smelling world, and some of the best metallurgists and ex- pert smeltermen in the business have shaken their heads and predicted that the tricS turned by Edward Fink nev- CT would be accomplished in com mercial way.
 Samuel NewhouSe, nothing if not daring and progressive in all that per tains to the business of mining, was approached by Mr. Fink and heard from him the details of the scheme. It Immediately appealed to him as having merit and possibilities not to be scoffed at, su he made an agreement with Mr. Fink to pioneer the process and bring it to the attention of the world. He gave the inventor carte blanche in having an experimental furnace of commercial size built, one that would treat loo tons a day, that should be set up in Utah. It was agreed that he should see the business through 10 a point that would either prove its complete success or absolute failure. About sixty days ago the ma terial arrived on the ground and, not withstanding the stormy, wintry wealth CT that has prevailed, and notwith- standing the fact that every little con- trivance which trials demonstrated would help in perfecting the mechan- ical handling of the business had to be improvised, the effort has given 10 the world new and most economical pro- cess of extracting the values from ores in an incredibly short time.
 For two weeks or more inventor Fink, backed by the advice and as sistance of w. c. Thomas, Mr. New houses practical shelter manager and expert, has been working out the de- tails of the plant. Time and again runs of few hours to a day have been made and copper matte has been pro- duced. Lack of electric power, the introduction of automatic feeding de- vices, the slipping of belts, the relin- ing of hues and the hundred and one little things that usually crop up to in- terfere have served to handicap oper- ations at the new plant. But there has never been a single minute, Mir. Fink takes pardonable pride in saying, that the process itself has been found at fault. The making of copper matte was easy and the inventor was certain that it would be just as easy to make blister copper, but things had to be smoothed out little before the fur mace was put to the test.
 The trial came Saturday night and in less than one hour after the ore was fed in, the tappets were opened and the molten bullion was allowed to run into the pots set to receive it. One bar was run out into flat mould and the sample, weighing possibly l5O