Arizona silver belt., 1899-03-16
OLD DOMINION COPPER co.
Good Record of the Past few Months.
 Additions to the Plant.

tuners III progress arc very noticeable
 and significant as indicating an expan
 sion of business and a prosperous flu | ture for the mine to which Globe owe,
 So much for its past support and repu
 ta'lon asa copper camp.
 or greater importance than the en
 iargement of the surface works are the
 developments of ore in nearly every
 level of the mine from the Sth level tc
 'he surface, and particularly in section,
 winch were supposed to have been
 worked out years ago. We are assured
 that the mise never locked SO we'll as il
 does at present. which was proven to
 our satisfaction by trip underground
 on Tuesday, when under the guidance
 of Superintendent s. \. Pnrnall aud
 Mine Foreman John Crossmap, we visi-
 ted the stopes on the 9th and Sth levels
 and saw great bodies of fine carbonate and oxide ores AS the numb of men
 working in those stopes is not one twelfth of the whole furce ip the mine. some idea may be had of the work being done underground.
 The niue is not taxed to the slightest degree iu supplying the smelter with ore In one day, recently, 449 cars of ore were hoisted from the mine. in ad- dition to which a considerable quantity of ore was delivered by cars through the surface tunnel. On the same day the cable tramway conveyed 1925 buck. cts of ore to the smelter, record which would be hard to equal
 While in the mine We also veiwed the new Nordberg Corls compound pump, recently installed at the 18th level station, $50 feet from the surface at the shaft opening. The pump Is a huge affair, weighing about oo, ,00O pounds. Its capacity is 300 gal Ions per minute, raised 1000 feet. The present lift to the drain tunnel is 700 feet With tLe ground below the 10th level drained, the company will be enabled to open up the levels tributary to the shaft below the Sth level, which heretofore has been delayed by the ex- cess of water over facilities to handle It, and will be In a position to sink the shalt deeper preparatory to opening new levels below the 18th level.
 The stonemasons are putting in the foundation for the new hoist. directly back of the gallows- frame. The hoist which will soon be shipped from the Nordherg works, Milwaukee, will be capable of sinking 2000 feet, and will be one of the finest hoists in the South west.
 The remodeled ore house furnished with a new powerful crusher and an old crusher thoroughly repaired, meets the The crusbers are run by l4x32 Nordberg- Corlis engine, in- stalled last fall. The large machine shop, carpenter shop and blacksmith shop, all under one roof, are equipped " th modern machinery and tools to do almost every kind of work likely to be required about mine. Adjoining the carpenter shop are the framing saws, and large saw for general purposes.
 A building that was much needed at he nine Is the new warehouse md aL- lexes storeroon and supply clerks Ifiice, iron and steel room, and oil and | paint shop. The dimensions of the main building are 40x60 feet.
 At the smelter one large rectangular furnace has been running continuously | or some time and with seldom hitch. | The nominal capacity of the furnace is 10 indication of its actual performance, IS the smelling record has been broken 'epestedly in the past six weeks. w. [. Myers, the capable smelter boss, ,iyes the smeitiug operations his close tteniion. The slag from the furnace asses thorugh huge brick settler, and 5 hauled by horse power over an end ss track to the dump. A trick stack, 5 being built over the second furnace sh!ch will not be used for some time ct, except in case of m accident to he other furnace.
 The engine room at the smelter has cen remodeled, and Q new 22x30 ,ordberg- Corlis engine and No. z blower received ten days go, will soon be installed. The foun. ation for the engine, and piers for the were built by H. F. San CTS, and he has done fine work.
 Thirty-fve cars of coal for the com. any have arrived iD the past two weeks, ' nd will he unloaded within few days. ( he stock of coke is being rapidly de- Ieted, but supply is expected to ar ye within 2 week.