Arizona silver belt., 1896-12-17
UNITED GLOBE.
Development of 8 Great Min.
 ing Enterprise.
THE PLANT pEsCRIBED.

Tue Obtcu NiOpe Min6S Wha organ
 ized as company for the mining and
 smelting of copper in 1892.
 The officers of the company are:
 Prof. James Douglas, president; Jo-
 seph Van Week, vice. president; George
 Notman, secretary, all of whom hold
 like positions in the Copper Queen
 Company, of B'sbee. However. the
 two companies are not in any other
 respect identified, the personnel of the
 respective boards of directors being
 different. The United Globe Mines is
 "A close corporation, the stock being in
 a few hands and not purcbasnble, while
 the stock of the Copper Queen is
 adversely held, although, owing to the
 large dividends pnid, it is never offered for sale in the stock market. The main office of the United Globe Mines is at No. go John street, New
 York City.
 Toe property of the company con- prises some 80 mining claims on the Globe copper belt, north of the town of Globr, | smelling plant and other surface works, and n saw mill on Pinal mountain. None of tho claims, ex- cept the Ruffalo--and the Hoosier, perhaps--were any thing more than favorable prospects when purchased hy the company, and the smelter was | crude affair of one small water jacket furpsce.
 The work done hy the company prior to tue fall of 1895 wns confined to mod crate development on few claims and gave no intimation of the large scale upon which the enterprise would be eventually conducted.
 In August, 1895, the work of re modelling and enlarging the plant began aud has progr, ssed steadily since. In this work of improvement the supsrinte pd.bt has had many ob- stacles to contend against, chef of which wss the difficulty of getting the necessary nmber, and the slow trans portation of machinery and other snp plies Happily these aunoyancss are now about at an end. and the visitor to the United Globe will Sc. one of th, most complete and substantial plants for the handling and smelling of cop per ores in Arizona.
 THE SIMPLIFYING PLANT.
 The smelter has been practically re- built, and the smelter building and tramway terminal cover an area 1sO feet squar~. The buildings nre spacious. thorough in construction, and planned for convenience and facility in handling the ores, coke, copper, etc. Tn. principal furnace is a l2tx3S inch, eliptical water jacket, oi the long as patent, built by The Samuel l.. More X Sons Co of Eliza beth, N. J. The new feature (the iu. ventiuu of Prof. Jas. Donglas) Is the leading ot the blast through the water before entering the fur nacc, causlng the heating of the blast with corresponding cooling of the water and more even temperature aruunu the crucible. The theoretIcai oi tn. new 'uruHce is l25 tons per day, but tue actual capacity, smelling the oxide ores of the district, will likely he from l50 to 175 tons A 36 inch jacket, of the ordinary pattern, will also be employed. There is con siderable work yet to he doue before the conf any will be prepared to com mence smelling However, it Is ex pected that un- of the furnaces will be blown iu early in the spring.
 The cycloid,I blower, to supply the blast for the large furnace, is mon ster casting, weighing ten tons. with of sixty seven cubic fee; per revolution and l25 revolutions per minute, at ordinary speed. It is from the ConnersvilIe Blower Go of Con- Ind. The transportation of this piece of machinery 10 Globe Qhe largest casting ever brought in) has proved difficult undertaking. and it reached the smelter only last week, having been on the road from Geronimo six weeks.
 In addition to tue blower and engine for the big furnace there is & separate blower and engine ter the 36. inch fur mace, and three boilers, with 100 h. D., to supply the required steam. The boiler stack is big affair, three feet in diameter and rising sixty feet above the roof of the boiler house. A l3x9 Cameron sinking pump at the smelter water to the Huosier mine through line of pipe 4500 feet long.
 THE CABLE TRAMwAY.
 The most important addition to the plant is the cable tranway, of the i'm proved Bleichert pattern, built by the Trenton Iron Works, Trenton, N. J. The line runs from the Buffalo ore bins to the smelt-I, distance of 3U00 feet. Ore from the Hoosier shaft will be hauled 15O0 feet, in cars drawn by mules, to the Buffalo ore bins and there trnnsferred to the cable tramwaY