Eagle-Picher to Remodel Tri-State Lead Plants

By Telegraph to 
“Engineering and Mining Journal” 

Joplin, Mo., Feb. 6, 1929—Improve- 
ments to the Galena, Kan., and Joplin, 
Mo., plants of the Eagle-Picher Lead 
Company, to cost $250,000, have been 
approved and will be made immediately, 
according to an announcement by John 
A. Schaeffer, vice-president of the com- 
pany. The Galena plant, 6 miles west 
of Joplin, will be modernized and 
doubled in capacity, and when com- 
pleted will be the central pig-lead pro- 
ducing plant of the company. A Dwight 
& Lloyd sintering machine and refining 
equipment, housed in a new building, on 
acreage purchased adjoining the com- 
pany’s present smelter, will be included 
in the improvements. As a result of 
these changes the company can treat 
complex ores from its Arizona mine. 

A sheet-lead rolling mill will be added 
to the Smelter Hill plant at Joplin, 
which will become an exclusive fabricat- 
ing plant for the company. Completion 
of the sheet mill will make the Smelter 
Hill plant one of the most complete lead- 
fabricating plants in the United States, 
capable of producing any one of the 
various lead products. All smelting 
formerly done at the Smelter Hill plant 
will be done at Galena

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