The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-15
Chicago People to Put in a Mating Furnace
MAY BUILD A SHELTER
Expert Leaves This Wook to Report on the Most Economical Point for tho Larger Concern = Liklihood skagway VIII Got 1t.

The first copper working plant of the north is to be in at White Horse at the opening of navigation by Fraser & Chalmers, the big Chicago mining and manufacturing firm. They will put in mating furnace there with acapacity of ten tons day.
 The company has 30 notified A. De Roux, the mining engineer of Skag- way, and asked him to make prelimin- ary investigations with regard to the establishment of big copper shelter J at the most economical point In this district for the working of the pro- ducts of tho White Horse mines.
 Mir. De Roux will leave Skagway next week to look over the interior field. The machinery for the mating furnace Is expected to be in here July 1.
 "The copper of the Fraser & Chal- mers company at White Horse" says Mir. De Roux, ''assays from 52 to 72 per cent, and also runs as high as s25 to the ton in gold. The company hopes to prove with the mating furnace the virtue of the field at large, and is so well pleased already that it has in- structed me to make investigations to ascertain the most economical point for the establishment of shelter. The matter of transportation. the nearest point at which coal and Huxes can be had the cheapest, and the most advant- ageous location in other regards is to be considered. shall go to White Horse next week to look into the mat ter.
 "Yes, 1t appears that Skagway is the natural point for the shelter, but l shall make q thorough investigation before reporting. Then, no doubt all indications being favorable, after my report has been submitted the company will send out one of it's regular employ. ed home experts to go oyer the ground. We cannot expect to see smelter es- abolished in a day. They are costly institutions and the original expenses of their construction run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 'lt seems that from what have learned Aux and coal cannot be had in the interior. and 1t will be more econ omical to have a shelter at this point where such material can be brought in by sea, end the ore can be brought in by cars. The mines of the company are but few miles from the northern or White Horse terminus of the White Pass & Yukon railroad.
 "The mating furnace which the company is going to put in this sum mer will cost probably 5000 laid down at White Horse. This furnace is in tended only to reduce the ore to mat, in which form 1t will be shipped to San Francisco for refinement. However, the mating furnace is a shelter on a small scale. The shelter at Tacoma, one of the biggest and most costly on the coast, will not refine ore. It simply produces the mat which has to go else where for refinement.
 "The mating furnace at White Horse will employ only eight or ten men. but the shelter that is In pros pect will, if established, give work to small army of men.
 Eraser & Chalmers, should they put in shelter, will not do outside work. They will confine themselves strictly to the working of the output of their own copper properties.
 "The firm of Fraser & Chalmers is the largest in the manufacture of min ing machinery in the world. The members of the firm are also heavy mine operators In various parts of the the world, among their interests being