White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-31

IS WARMING Up
NEW SHELTER AT TOOELE WILL
BE READY FOR OPERATION
WITH FULL COMPLEMENT OF
FURNACES BY SEPT EMBER 1.

Following the celebration of
rloneer day at Tooele E. p. Mathew
son, general manager of the Interna-
tional Smelaing & Refining company,
invited all who could be accommodate
ed on the special train to the new
smelter in Pine Canyon, where Gov.
William Spry lighted the match that
set the first furnace at the establish
ment on the road to operation. The
furnace was finished Saturday and
the fire was started to warm 1t up for
the treatment of ore. This will take at
least 10 days or perhaps two weeks.
In the mean time the men are push
ing work at the plant.
1t is generally believed that the
new smelter can be put into shape
with a full complement of furnaces,
reverbatories and other necessary ap-
planes, by Sept. l. On that date 1t
Is believed the entire plant will be in
shape. Long before that time though
the smelter will be handling ore. 1t
already has considerable ore in its
4,00O-ton bins. This will be put
through the plant as necessity re-
quires 1t.
For some time the machinery at
the plant has been in operation cut
ting off the rough edges. This is now
working in excellent shape.
Another furnace is ready to be
lighted 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
Consolidated mine. The ore after be-
ing sampled on its arrival at the
plant will be transported by convey
ors to the MeDougall building, con-
tanning 32 McD. roasters, where it is
calcined and made ready for the re-
v%erberatory building, to which 1t is
transferred in cars. Coming from
the reverbs in the form of matte, it
passes on to the next stage of refin-
ing into the convertors. From here
1t is sen to the casting shed, where
copper may be seen In a pure state.
The main, or what is called the
smelter building. is. over 500 feet
long and 80 feet wide, containing
five large converters. In this build
ing is installed a Cotton Morgan
lest machinery with the greatest ease.
The reverberatory building will con-
tain five mammoth furnaces, each 10
feet wide and 10 feet long.
The power house Is a beautiful
structure OF steel and brick and is
equipped with the most modern COM
and electrical units in use,
size IT'S feet long and IA feet wide.
The main dust chamber is of brick
and structural steel, 140 feet long
and 100 feet wide. The main fiue,
which is over 400 feet long and 90
feet wide and 20 feet high, leads to
the magnificent brick stack which is
$50 feet high and % feet inside
diameter
This smelter is situated at the foot
of the Oquirrh range of mountains,
four and one-half miles from the
town of Iooele and six and one-half
miles from the Los Angeles and San
Pedro railroad, to which it is con-
by the Iooele Valley railroad.
The plant covers an area of about
60 acres and the site is an ideal one
The smelter was constructed primar-
lily for .he handling of the Utah Con-
ore from Bingham.
On either side of the bench is a
deep canyon which will be used for
ash and Stag dumps. Up these can
yons 1t is planned that fumes from
the stack will be carried by the pre-
vailing winds away from the fertile
below. Water in ample guam
tity for years to come is piped by
gravity from Pine Canyon springs,
tnree-fourths of a mile away, direct
ly TO the storage tanks at the smell
ter.