El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-24

will be a duplicate of those in use at
the smelteries of Cananea,' and will
consist of three beds of capacity of
10000 tons each, also a bed for coke
OF capacity of $500 tons. The coarse
ore and coke will be conveyed to charge
bins over the blast furnace charge
floor. The fine ore will be conveyed
to the roasting plant
Roasting Plant.
The roasting plant will contain u.
q by feet diameter, Herseshoff
roasters each Of 70 tons of ore daily
capacity, or total OF 600 tons ThlS
plant will contain a brick dust cham
her to settle fine dust from the fumes.
Copper roofing will be used over these
The main smeltery building will be
16S by sos feet, in which will be two
blast furnaces, four reverberatory fur
naces, six converters, and the converter
Stag and copper casting department
Blast Furnace Department.
Two As inch by 40 foot blast fur
naces will be installed. Ore and coke
will be discharged directly from the
bins just over the charge floor into
charge cars resting on platform scales
TO weigh the charges OF coke ana COAL
and thence conveyed by electric motor
to the charge door of the furnace.
The steel dust chamber, so by 141 feet
by 20 feet high, will settle the blast
furnace and converter dusts. The con-
verter gases will pass through this
chamber.
ReverberatOry Department.
Four reverberatories will be installed
having hearths 19 by 100 feet, leaving a
foundation for fifth furnace. Each
furnace will be equipped with two
Wasteheat boilers of 712 horsepower
capacity each, and be charged directly
from calcine cars running on tracks
overhead. Matte will be tapped into
I large ladies and conveyed by cranes
to the conVerterS. The Stag will be
SKINNED directly into large Stag pots
on tracks below and in front of the
furnaces.
The main converter isle will be 55
feet wide and be equipped with two 40
ton electric travelling cranes. Six YER
teal Great Falls type conYerters will
be installed, also two straightline cast
ing machines. The steel chimney, brio.
lined, will be IS feet in diameter and
$50 feet high.
The cost Of the new plant will be
between $4,000, 600 and $4,000, 600. The
quired the Cobre Verde, group of 81
copper properties in the Superior dis
trict in Pinal county, Arizona, at the
price of 100000, and in other localities,
and has begun extensive development
New Smelter For Shattuck Company.
The site for the new Shuttuck smell
ter has been selected south of the Cal
Gmet & Arizona smelter site in Doug
las. Plans are being prepared for this
new reduction plant, which will have
a capacity of 400 tons. Arthur Houle,
of Douglas, will have charge of the
smelter construction work.
In an interview, L c. Shattuck stated
that plans for the new smelter would
be completed soon, and that construc-
ton contracts will be let shortly af-
terward. He stated that the estimat-
ed expense was about $1,000 1t is eX-
pected that bids for structural steel
will be advertised this month, and the
advertising for the other bids will be-
gin early in September that actual con-
struction work will begin Lnis fall.
Meanwhile development work is be-
ing continued with a force of 20 men
in preparation for the erection of the
smelter and only the normal shipments
II the Copper Queen smelter are being
made
Additions to Copper Queen.
The new, great stack which was
built to accommodate the new addi-
ton Of the Copper Queen smelter at
Douglas. and the new roasteFS and re-
verberatory furnaces are in operation.
This new addition to the smelter COW
ers a site 900 feet long by Zoe feet
wide and includes a plant of six Nc
Dougal roasters and two reverberatory
furnaces.
The plans for the addition call for Is