New-York tribune., 1900-11-25
VISIT JERSEY COPPER MINES.
GUESTS ENTERTAINED BY ARLINGTON COM
PANY AND PLANT INsPECTED-IN-
TERESTING HISTORICAL DATA.

large number of bankers. brokers and business
men OF this city went TO Arlington. N j., yester-
day to inspect the copper mines Of the Arlington
Copper Company and were well pleased with the
trip. although the weather anything but asree-
able for such undertaking. They went as tne
guests of the con.1any. which desired them to see
personally the extent OF the work already accom-
pished and to Judge somewhat for themselves the
possibilities of the mines a paying investment.
The companys excursion train left the Er1e KALI
road station at 1:So p. m. and In snort run OF
twenty minutes Arlington was reached From there
trolley cars took the party to the Mines about a
mile ard a half away.
Guides then took charge Of the visitors ana
piloted them through tunnels in the mines aug
away in search OF the much desired copper IL
was L new experience TO many of the visitors' am
they constantly piled the guides with questions as
to the methods of working the steam drills ana
other paraphernaa of the miners craft
The land in which the mines are located Is OF
sandstone formation, and in 1t found broad blue
veins, almost black at times. These, the experts
declared, most valuable deposits or copper
At a depth OF about 100 feet these veins were
probably 40 feet in width. The tunnels which nave
been dug by the company lead into large chambers
where the copper Gre was extracted early as the
seventeenth century and shipped abroad Tunnels
and drifts radiate from these chambers comprising
some 5000 feet Of underground development all
complete
The company's experts declare that this copper
deposit in the nature OF blanket formation aver
ages Al feet in thickness and underlies all of the
companys property, comprising hundred ana
fifty After the visitors had descended into
mother earth until they hungry and tired.
some of the more venturesome even climbing down
the vertical ladders to depth of 100 IN OF
the old shafts. they were served with luncheon at
the company's laboratory.
In the laboratory. which is under the personal
charge of Charles L. Dgnowity. the general man
ager of the company. the newly discovered process
OF extracting the copper from the practf-
miniature mn machinery The ore is first reduced to
The tne Consistency ISIS OF sand by means OF crus!ers.
ward placed in vas Containing IS md saon ahH Of
eulphuric acid which dissolves the copper This
the copper e deposited means Of an eectrio cur
& dTn1 on lea iead plates Several of these plates were
which came OF in perfect sheets. These sheets can
cally pure copper is Immediately ready for market
Ihis process, only on much larger scale than that
when the big plant which is now being erected BY
the the, company is completed The reduction works
iron buildings and the crushing plant. is said.
The d. sSoW ha these mines SS ara
ing been discovered about i7io They We're worked
In desrltory way. the ore heing shipped 70 Wales
where it was. smelted
ore to Europe was so expensive that only the pIr-
est est ore was taken out. Some of the drifts In the
old shafts show that the ancient miners must have
worked on their hands and knees. According to
nHng g geC2go91 oe9 al rsS95d @ 5000 tons Of ore
shipped from these mines 10 I:ngtand
top OF the hills the worknrs OF the mines
did, the present company has begun operations by
meadows, where all the buildings are Being con-
structed The plant will be close to the Hacken-
The company bases its hopes on realizing big
professor of mining aad meargy In n the si1
Of Technology, Boston; DR. H G. Torrey, Caleb G.
William G. Eakins. secretary of the company
said yesterday that the directors believed that the
part o; laGI '''e'''9 'Op''' /" INC early