Arizona republican., 1899-10-02
THE BLACK WARRIOR.
A Great Mining Enterprise Success
fully Started.


The Black Warrior Copper company
is an incorporation, organized under
the laws of the territory of Arlzona
capitalized at one million dollars
100000 shares at a par value CT ten DOL
lars per share The officers are: Hon.
James A. Fleming of Globe, AriZ 0na,
president; Ernest l.. Tustin, vice p-esi-
dent. and Henry A. Frye. treasurer,
both of Philadelphia; Porter w. FEM
ing, secretary; Charles Sumner FEM
ing, general manager; Richardson
Fleming, assistant manager. The
company is a close incorporation, no
stock on the market. James A. Fiem-
ing is the owner Of $1,000 shares; the
balance CT the stock is held by a few
wealthy men in New York and Phlla-
delphia as a permanent investment.
The company owns and has paid for
about twenty mining claims, over four
hundred acres, all of which are admir-
ably located to cover as much as pos
sible of the choicest parts of tbs dis
trict in which they are situated.
On last Monday we drove out six
miles from Globe to Lost gulch, where
the company's reduction plant is To-
Gated, says a correspondent of the
Globe Silver Belt. We first came to
the barns and stables of the company,
then to the warehouse, filled with all
kinds OF goods and mining supplies;
next the company's store, where we
found large stock of all kinds Of
goods in the store, which is connected
with a large cave, cut into the hill for
seventy feet in which is stored all
smoked meats and perishable goods,
with a large refrigerator for keeping
fresh meats and butter. The office, IN
the same building as the store, IS Mt
ted with all modern Office fixtures, in
Guiding one cf the largest safes in the
territory In front Of the store is 10
Gated large wagon scales, upon which
everything is weighed i'll and ont.
Next we came to the company's
boarding house, fitted up with large
steel hotel range, to accommodate one
hundred and fifty boarders. The kitch-
en- is filled with all modern cooking ap-
pliances, all of which are. open to in
spection-same as a first class hotel;
the dining rooms are arranged with
perfect neatness. This is one Of Mr..
FIeming's hobbies-to have as good
things to eat as can be found at any
hotel. and the service as good as the
best. (Some gentlemen who recently
came from the east to the coast on d
pleasure trip took meals at this board
ing house and pronounced them as
good if not better, than anything they
had found on the trip. One of the
rules OF the boarding house is that any
man looking for work is invited to
stop and take one meal free of charge
MIR. Fleming will not have anything
served to the bcarders that he would
not relish himself. Everything must
be the best that can be had in the mar
ket. From the boarding house we
came next to the blacksmith and ma
chine shop, which is fitted up with all
kinds Of tools for the purpose. We
then visited the laboratory or assay
office. which is fitted with all the lab
Dratory appliances to be found n any |
laboratory in the country, together
with a well selected library, containing |
over sixty volumes on mining, smelt- |
ing, assaying, treatment of ores and |
analytical works.
From the laboratory we came to the |
refining furnaces with large brick |
stack, fifty-six feet in height, lined |
with fire brick The furnace itself is a
reVeI beratory pattern, skis feet, all |
lined with fire brick. The fire brick /
used in this construction came from
Pittsburg, Pa, the freight alone cost
ing something like 5000 per carload. 1t
required two carloads Of fire brick, be-
sides one car OF fire clay and lime, TO-
900 red brick and one carload of iron
work.
A short distance above the refining
furnace is the teaching plant. First
IS a boiler house with two fifty horse
marine boilers built by the Erie City
Pa. Iron works; condensers, feed
pumpg, air receiver, or large boiler
shaped compressed air reservoir; next
Is the engine room with a 100 horse
power latest pattern Corliss engine,
built by the Philadelphia Corliss en-
CINE company. In the same room is a
compound air compI essor, capable OF
air up to $50 pounds 10
.he square inch.
From this we assembled the hill 20
where the ores came in by cars from
he mines; with dump cars the ore is
irst dumped into bin and from that
it gees into sixteen-ton Blake rock