Arizona republican., 1901-02-09
A SATISFACTORY SHOWING
Test Run of the First Shelter Erect
 ed in Phoenix.

The one unusual event in Phoenix yesterday was the trial run of the Lime Creek Copper company's smelter, the first shelter to be erected in Phoe- nix. There has been considerable talk about this enterprise, in the newspap- CTS and on the street for the last month or so and so much interest was created that several weeks ago a morning newspaper, unable to restrain itself, blew in the new smelter and gave it trial run. The only unfortunate thing about that was that matte cannot be produced from a newspaper run. But yesterday the trial run actually took place and the result of it was entirely satisfactory to all immediately inter- ested and % a large number of specta- tors who are interest in a general way in anything that goes to give the min ing interest push forward.
 The shelter is an ordinary water jacket furnace of about thirty tons daily capacity and the importance of this enterprise lies in what 1t dependent upon it's success. The Lime Creek com- pany has a promising mine on Lime creek and the smelter enterprise has the two-fold purpose of testing its machinery and the skill of it's operators in the event of the company wanting to erect a large smeltr at the mine, and in demonstrating the probable sue cess of a larger smelter to be put up in the valley for the working of cus- tom ores.
 The test shelter has been ready for operation for several days but the trial run was delayed by acE of ore. There is without doubt an ample supply of ore on the dumps of the many little prospects in this county but until a run was made the smslter people did not feel like buying everything in sight to practice on and the prospectors were most of them unwilling to furnish ore for toy shelter to play with. But several tons of good ore were final ly secured from different sources and yesterdays result indicates that there is no longer good excuse for pros pectors to stand on the sidewalk and talk about their big ore bodies that they cannot afford to work.
 The smelter was started yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock and every thing worked perfectly satisfactory. The very first tapping gave pot half full of the red metal and 1t is now on exhibition at the sheriif's office. Tn re were probably fifty men at the Will iscroft foundry where the smalter is erected in the course of the afternoon and every visitor grew enthusiastic at the prospective impetus to the mining industry heerabouts.
 The plans of the company have not been made public other than a location has been secured adjacent to the city for the erection of a larger plant when ihe present furnace has been fully tested. IL Is not expected that any great quantity of ore will be worked at the present location for a number of reasons. Among them may be men toned that ground in that locality is too valuable. there is little room and the public at large would object to the sulphur fumes within the city. But there are many and better places for a big smelter when they are ready to erect it.
 Now that it has been demonstrated that the ore can, be handled the only thing ahout which there is any doubt is the available quantity. That there is plenty of it nearly everybody ad- mits. It is only a question of whether