The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-06
Tells of the Big Forces at
Work on the United
Verde.
He Is NV Putting Up Five
Great Structural Steel
Buildings.
The Mine Producing Forty Tons of
Copper Daily-BIg Sugar Works
for Orange County.

w. a. Clark, the mining king of Mon
tana and Arizona, arrived here yesterday
on his way to Butte, in the former State.
He came from his famous United Verde
copper mines in Arizona, and will only re-
main day.
Mr.. Clark is engaged in many enter.
prises. Besides mining enormous quanti-
ties of copper and other minerals, reduc-
ing ores. banking and doing other busi-
ness, he is now building a sugar factory
near Anaheim to cost between $500, 600 and
$500, 600. He said concerning the United
Verde copper mine at Jerome, which he
owns:
1T is now producing about forty tons, or
$4,000 pounds, OF copper a day. This
means the mining of a good many hun
dred tons of ore daily. The copper is
almost pure, being 99H per cent fine The
small remaining impurity is taken out in
the East. where'it can be done, because of
the difference in the price of labor, cheaper
than l can do it myself.
II am making some provements-
putting everything under steel to pre-
vent fire. To this end five large struc-
tural steel buildings are being erected.
These will include the engine-room, con-
verter, blast furnaces, machine shop
foundry. boiler room and blacksmith
shop. The converter building will be 225
feet long, and the foundry, boiler and
blacksmith departments will occupy a
building 100 feet long.
1.-THE explorations in the mine are going
on all the time, so that We are always
keeping reserves of ore. About 600 men
are now employed in the mine and works.
Prices for copper are very fair. The cop
per business is about the only one that
has not been affected by the hard times.
Lately | have become interested in an
other enterprise, that of manufacturing
sugar, and 1 am now erecting a large SUI
gar-bee factory. 1t is at Los Alamitos,
nine miles west of Anaheim. in Orange
County, this State. The building and
plant will cost between $500, 900
and $500,000 The building Will be
of structural steel, and 26O feet
long. The machinery will be the latest
and best ana all of it will be of American
manufacture. Ths factory will have a
capacity of 700 tons daily, and VIII be
completed IN July, in time for the season,
which lasts Jour months.
81 have made contracts for three years
for half the capacity of the works. | ex-
pect to raise or have raised for me next
year 1000 acres of beets. The soil and
climate there are peculiarly adapted to the
production of fine beets. They average
about fourteen tons TO the acre, and there
is an unus ualIy large per cent of saccha-
rine matter in them. Some Of them run
as much as 20 per cent
This will make the seventh beet-sugar
factory in the United States. Ger
many has over 400 beet sugar plants,
France has over 800 and this entire coun-
try as yet but SIX. We produce in the
United States but Is per cent of the en-
tire amount we consume We sent $780,
600, 900 to foreign countries last year alone
for sugar. 1t is really, therefore. as l look
at it, dong good thing for this country,
when we put in money to establish plants
here ~