El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-24

contract was made diverting to 81
Paso al the concentrates from the
/ great mill. at Hurley, New Mexico, of
the CHINO Copper company. These con-
centrateS required a different treat
ment from the ores hitherto handled
IN the blast furnaces, and an equip
ment costing about 100000 was put
IN TO handle this product In Septem-
Der, 1911, the first blister copper ever
produced IN Texas was made at the FL
RaSO smelling works. With the in
creaslng price of copper, more ores Of
this metal were brought to the plant,
and in 1912 further additions were
necessary, and now In 1914 operations
are being rushed or the construction
of improvements to handle still larger
quantities of concentrates and other
fine copper ores.
At the present time about 100 men
are employed at the plant, including
zOO or 300 who are working on the
new construction
large cOnverters 10 feet in diameter
and about % feet long, and one smaller
converter about II feet in diameter
and 16 feet high.
Blast Furnace Building.
The blast furnace building is Of steel
construction 25 by 2SO feet and con-
tains six lead furnaces and three COP
per furnaces, the lead furnaces having
a capacity Of 200 tons each of charge
In "A hours. The copper furnaces have
a capacity of over 800 tons each Of
charge in "a hours. The STAG from
the copper furnaces flows into IA foot
settlers which are circular and made
OF One-halT inch steel plates lined with
fire brick. The Stag overflows and is
transported by the hand pots to the
Stag cars in the train which carries
all the Stag to the dump. Improve
mentS are now being made to arrange
for the tapping of all this Stag directly
into the pots Of the train without any
hand labor
Roasting Plant.
The rooster plant for the copper de-
partment consists at present of five
Wedge roasting furnaces. These fur
naces have three roasting hearths and
a drying hearth and are % feet in
diameter Each furnace is capable Of
handling 200 tons of material in "a
hours Three more Wedge rOasters
are now being added to this equip
menL These new furnaces viii have
two more hearths than the old ones.
ReveFberatOry Plant.
The reverberatOry plant consists of
two oil fired furnaces, the hearth di-
mansions Of which are approximately
10 feet in width and IS feet in length.
with a smelling capacity Of over $50
tons each a hours. Each furnace con-
sumes about 300 barrels Of oil per "a
hours.
Local Tramway System.
The equipment of the smelter tram
ming system consists of seven steam
q
tons each, and about so cars of various
kinds. There are also used for charg-
ing the blast furnaces and charging
the reyerberatOry furnaces six electric
cars with number Of trailers.
Power House.
The power house is a brick and steel
building 90x200 feet and contains the
various engines, generators, com
pressors, blowers and auxiliaries nee
essary to operate the plant In this
building there are two two hundred
and fifty kilOwatt generators, direct /
connected to COrliss engines: three
Connersville blowers direct connected
TO Corliss engines and one Root
blower, motor driven; two air com
pressors that compress about 10000
600 cubic feet of free air in a hours
for converter use; two 80 pound air
compressors for shop tools, etc. and
an the necessary pumps, feedWater
heaters and other auxiliaries. The
steam for these engines is supplied
from the waste heat boilers at the
reVerberatory plant.
Shops Wen Equipped.
The different shops, such as carpen- !
ter, machine, boiler, blacksmith, pipe 4