White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-11
TO DOUBLE THE CAPACITY
OF THE COPPER SHELTER.

Mason Valley Mining company smell
ter at Thompson has been heralded
wherever copper mining is an inter
esting topic; it is not, however, SO
generally known that a big force of
mechanics and machinists is steadily
employed at the plant, engaged in
enlarging the capacity of various
features thereof, says the Mason VAL
ley News.
While the one furnace now in use
is turning out about 1900, 900
pounds of copper every 80 days, and
treating a half more ore than the
estimated capacity when designed,
there ore under construction at this
time additions and engagements that
will enable the smelter management
to accomplish even more remarkable
results, proportionateIy.
Just recently there has ben placed
in commission an enormous cooling
tower that receives direct from the
furnace water jackets the water at
a temperature of 10 degrees and re-
turns it in a very short time with a
reduced temperature of about one
half, thus provinding ample supply
of water for cooling the furnaces.
Since this tower was completed the
smelter has dispensed with the use
of the hot spring flow altogether and
the furnace operations are greatly
facilitated thereby.
No. 2 furnace, practically finished
months ago, but never blown in, is
bling enlarged one-fifth, and will be
blown in soon; it will have a ca
pacity of 500 tons in "a hours, as
the No. l funace, same size as No. 2
in the original construction, Is hand
ling better than an averege of 600
at this time. AS al No. 2 shall
be blown in No. l furnace will be
shut down and Immediately enlarged
o%neshalf, which will give it a capac-
ity of 1000 tons or better. The joint
daily capacity of the initial unit of
the plant will then be 1900 tons and
more, or about three times what 1t
now is.
In the rear of the ore bins, ad-
joining them directly, thousands up
on thousands of feet of dimension
timber Is being consumed in the con-
struction of additional ore bins, the
object being to give the plant more
reserve; the bins are of the fat bot
tom type, and have a much greater
capacity than the type of the original
battery of Is now in use. These ad-
ditional bins will be accessible by
means of the electric trolly road,
an extension of which passes through
the sampling mill; they will be fitted
loading the furnace charging ara as
are now employed-devices that re-
duee the labor to the minimum, and
afford the maximum efficiency.
A second unit for the sintering
plant has been ordered from the
eastern steel works, which will give
double the present capacity for tax
ing care care of the fne dust.
Large settling tanks. for the fur
naees are being constructed in the
shops at Thompson.
In fact, at every point of the plant
there is evidence that preparations
are under way to greatly increase a
capacity for ore treatment that is al
ready regarded everywhere as UNI
usual to a marked degree.
Regarding ore shipments, while a
dozen mines probably make up the
list of regular contributors of ore to
Thompson's smelter, the records of
ore receipts shows that settlement
for ores have alrtady been made
with no fewer than 80 different ship
pers, practically everyone in the
state of Nevada.
Putting the facts together, ii is
evident that the smelter management
has been convinced the ore supply is
to be depended upon, and they are
preparing to treat it.
Unless all signs fail Thompson
Nu4II he "a t, m =, ar 1 CAA ~ OAnn 49,.
of ore rally before another year has
rolled by.
STRENUOUS .sFIRST AID,