Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-26
START WARMING UP
NEW SHELTER PLANT
Governor Spry Strikes Match That
Sets Fires Going In First Furnace
OF International CO.'S Works.

Following the celebration OF Pioneer
day at Tooele yesterday +. +. Mathew
son. general manager OF the Interna.
tional Smelling & Refining company,
invited all who could be accommodated
on the special train 10 the new smelter
in Pine canyon. where GOV. William
Spry lighted the match that set the
first furnace at the establishment on
the road to operation. The furnace
was finished Saturday night and the
fire was started TO warm It up for the
treatment Of ore. This will take at
least 10 days or perhaps two weeks In
the mean time the men are pushing
work at the plant
II is generally believed that the new
smelter can be put into shape with a
full complement of furnaces, reverber-
atories and other necessary appliances,
by Sept. l. on that date II is believed
that the entire plant will then be in
shape. Long before that time though
the smelter will be handling ore 1t al
ready has considerable ore in its 1000
ton bins. This will be put through the
plant as necessity requires IT,
For some time the machinery at the
plant has been in operation cutting off
the rough edges. This is now working
In excellent shape
ed up almost at once while the other
three still require considerable work,
These will be rushed into shape as
soon as possible.
The ore at the plant Is received over
the tramway from the Utah Consolidat-
ed mine. The ore after being sampled
on its arrival at the plant will be trans
ported by conveyors to the McDougall
building. containing 90 Med. roasters,
where il Is caicined and made ready for
the reverberatory building. to which
II is transferred In cars. Coming from
the reverbs in the form OF matte, IL
passes on to the next stage of refining
into the ConVertors. From here IL Is
sent to the costing shed. where copper
may be seen in a pure state,
IN MAIN BUILDING.
The main, or what is called the
srnelter building, Is over 900 feet long
and so feet wide, containing FIVE large
cOnverters. In this building is in
stalled a cotton Morgan crane capable
OF handling the heaviest machinery
with the greatest ease. The reyerber-
atory building will contain five mann
moth furnaces, each 10 feet wide and
10 feet long.
The power house Is d beautiful
structure OF steel and brick and Is
equipped with the most modern COM
pressOrs and electrical units in use,
size i75 feet long and "a 4vet wide.
The main dust chamber is of uriclS
and structural steel. l40 feet long and
100 feet wide, The main flue, which
is over l.40O feet long and 20 feet wide
and 20 feet high, leads TO the mag
brick stack which is $50 feet
high and 20 feet inside diameter.
This smelter Is situated at the foot
of the Oqulrrh range Of mountains.
four and one-half miles from the town
of Tooele and six and one-half miles
from the Los Angeles and San Pedro
to which It is connected by
the Tooele Valley railroad
The plant covers an area Of about
so acres and the site is an ideal one.
The srnelter was constructed primarily
for the handling OF the Utah Consolid-
ated ore from Bingham.
on either side of the bench Is a deep
canyon which will be used for ash and
Stag dumps. Up these canyons IL is
planned that fumes from the stack
will be carried by the prevailing winds
away from the fertile valley below.
Water in ample quantity for years TO
come is piped by gravity from Pine
Canyon springs, three-fourths Of mile
away directly TO the storage tanks at
The smelter.