Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-11
CACTUS PROPERTY
TO HAVE SHELTER
New Fink Process Plant 10 be
Built at Beaver County.
Mines.
NEwHOUSE TELLS OF WORK.
Means Saving of Hall Million 60 Cac-
tus Through Erection of Twenty
Two Thousand Dollar Plant.

As the new Fink Shelter at Arthur
near Garfield has been success thus
Cor IN its experimental stage, Samuel
Hewhousc. who has been behind the
now plant, is making plans for the IN
stallation OF q shelter at the Cactus
property in Beaver county. He declares
mat thus far he is convinced that the
theory Of smelling and smelter build
ing as shown by Mr.. Fink IS O success
and that in building o plant az New
house according TO the same plans,
saving OF $500 900 a year would be &C
complishod for that property.
IN speaking Of the matter this morn
ing An. Nowhouso said that the cost Of
a new plant at Ncwhousc would be IN
the ncighborhood of $4,000 and would
have a capacity Of 300 tons daily. Ao-
cordlng 20 the now process, It has been
demonstrated that sllioious ores would
not be- as necessary as under the old
methods lly the new process tailings
and shines could Boz used 20 great
advantage
Mr.. Newhouso declares that much Of
the matter which now goes 10 waste
WIN be utilized. The building Of the
smeltor az Cactus win mean a revolt
zion IN tho smelling business such as
would be hard 10 estimate.
RESULT OF EXPERIMENTS.
Il do noi know what Is being done
at tho Fink smelter today" said Mr.,
Newhousc this morning II can only
say that things are working out beau
tifully I am certain that the process
A. a success as far as 1 have seen. We
are figuring on building a plant at the
Cactus as soon as possible. This viii
mean saving 10 that property OF
something Ike $500 600 a year. with
the new process u viii not be necos-
sary to use the silica that We have hao
10 in tho past
'Mr Fink told me this morning not
To come out 20 the smclter today, but
that tonight he would probably have
something that would make me moro
pleased than ever. ] believe that he
will endeavor TO make blister copper
today"
one thing that has been settled de-
nnitely by the smelter is that copper
matte can be produced with as great
an amount saved II not more than by
the old method. The general deduc-
ton from this Is that silver lead ores
can be treated successfully beyond any
doubt.
The plant and experiments Mr.. New
house believes win have cost him in
the ncighhOrhood Of $4,000. This in
cludes the building and everything that
has been used. Without considering
the cost of experiments and other costs
that have been necessary on account
OF experimental work. he plant caused
an expenditure Of close to $4,000.
MEANS MUCH TO UTAH.
with the figures thus far obtained
IL Is certain that a 5O0-ton smclter
would cost In the neighborhood OF s45,-
O00. As there seems scarcely a pos
sibility Of failure TO accomplish an
that WAS expected. 10 means that az
least dozen plants win be built in
Utah for districts that have hitherto
been uuprohtable. The smelter win be
able 10 handle "a lower grade Of orc at
an expense of clos 10 one-fifth OF form
EN- prices
Should the smelter be unable 30 pro-
duce blister copper IL could even then
treat ore that would bring "a world Of
wealth 10 Utah