Bisbee daily review., 1902-11-20
CANANEA
 NEWS NOTES
A BRIEF INSIGHT TO THE WORK
 INGS AT THAT POINT
The Amount of Coal and Coke Used is Enormous-The Immense Con centratcr
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 La Cananea, Nov. r. 1902.
 AS a present source of popular in terest La Cananea probably surpasses any mining district in the broad west. The mining company of which w. C. Greene is the predominant fig ure cantered into the public ken about three years ago in a whirlwind of lawsuits that made the news seek ing pencil pushers of the AriZonan press chuckle with glee. and for the time, relegated to the, dimness of sec ondary intd-esS the usually salient news features of the border. From that legal tempest the burly figure of Bill Greene emerged triumphant. His wits had proven as sound as his huge physique. had evinced a subtle ty and resourcefulness under lcCg stress of trying circumstance and oft threatening disaster that few sup posed to be meL.al attributes of the hustling cattle man. When asked for news by a Review reporter during the days when his chances seemed most dismal he cheerfully informed the in- Quirer that up to that date his com pany had lost six lawsuits and won one.
 If we can continue to win one of every seven" he added. we will be immensely satisfied" That same con fident spirit may yet make Greene the most powerful of mining men.
 La Cananea is one of the marvels of the mining world; its immense ore bodies and its unprecedented growth alike elevate it to an interest-compell- ing eminence. Gold camps often flash into existence with the abruptness of a stereopticon's projection. but the copper camp, though more reliable and stable. has ever grown into its maturity with an oak-like slowness. La Cananea, however, mas combined the characteristic features of both. Within three years there has been created in the Cananea mountains a mining enterprise that has all the solidity and completeness of those that have been building to the same proportions through a decade. Its mines have been opened with view to years of future development, and not to meet the exigencies of a mere ly temporary demand; its smelting and power plants have been built of ponderous steel upon bastions of inn movable rock, and have been outfitted wi.h all the modern wonderful mech anism that the crafty ingenuity of man has devised to harness the tre- mendous forces of nature; and the many other accessories concomitant to an industrial undertaking of this magnitude are as substantial as exist
 anywhere.
 The mines include about a dozen hoists, besides the mines that are worked only through tunnels from the surface. The immense concentrator handles 600 tons of ore every twenty four hours. The smelter contains six Mitchell furnaces, and by the 20:h of this month another will be completed. The new power plant, exclusive of the oder one, generates 5000 horse power. The narrow guage track over which many locomotives haul the ore from the mines has a total length of twelve miles or more. The water sup ply mus be enormous. The smelter and boilers alone drink up a half mill ion gallons per day; Fut the Cobre Grande mine. and two pipe lines reaching miles awsJ to mountain springs. seem fully Able to cope with the thirst of this copper producing monster. That the completion of this stupendous work will mark the be- ginning of an out put of bullion fully equal to the expf citations of its pro- iectors, is assured by the production last month of 5,000,000 pounds of cop per. This month especially has the smeIter been retarded by the lack of fuel. The steam generating boilers require eighty tons of coal daily and the smelter furnaces can get away with a small mountain of coke any old day, so that any hitch in transporta- ton makes the plant temporarily in operative. But this is a temporary setback only. In the natural sequence of things. Cananea will soon be pay ing a handsome dividend on the mill icns and enterprise that have made it.
 And yet Greene is still reaching out into the southland. He is interested in more than ore gold mine; he Is probably the heaviest stockholder in the copper property on the Rio Yaqui that many believe will rival this in the Cananeas; he owns thousands of acres and cattle along the line, and the Reviews columns recently con tained a press dispatch from the City of Mexico by which we learn that w. c. Greene and three other Americans have purchased a small slab of the map of Sonora, trifie larger in area that some of our smaller states.