Bisbee daily review., 1902-11-18
EVENTFUl DAY
 FOR DOUGLAS
BLOWING IN OF THE CALUMET
 AND ARIZONA SHELTERS
The Start Made Late Saturday Night The Irst Bullion Produced By Calumet and Arizona Company

The Irst Bullion Produced By
 Calumet and Ar,zona Company
 All day Saturday the stack at the boiler house belched forth great vol tunes of black smoke, while a small charge of coke was gently warming up the Calumet furnace. Superin- tendent Merrill and party of the Calu- met officials were expected il Douglas but failed to materialize. Sunday morning the pale blue smoke was drifting from the 160-foot stack that will stand for years as a sentinel Of progress and a monument of prosper ity. The sulphur smoke rose up ma jestically and Heated rapidly away in the direction of Bisbee. The smelte- was blown il at II o'clock Saturday night. "MescaI' was blown in some two hours earlier. Your correspond snt and a Boston man walked over from Douglas to the smelter Saturday afternoon. The Boston man allow ed" it was about half mile. It turn ed out to be all of that. After drill ing about two miles and a quarter. the Boston man lowed it was pow erful ways off. l told him that when the big stack began to grow about six feet a minute we would be getting there. We finally walked into the wei come shade of the main building where the engineer on the little elec- tric locomotive was chasing the ma chine up and down the track just for exercise. The locomotive looks like a big terrapin on wheels and pulls the slag out in the country. A Mex ican got his thumb on the copper con- ductor above the track day before | there had been a full current on he would doubtless have been electrified into eternity.
 The charges are carried from the ground to the feed floor on incline platform elevators. Last Saturday night just as the big furnace was starting off beautifully, these elevat- ors bucked and the job was .'froze up before the coke and Aux was forthcoming The difficulty was soon remedied. however. The elevators were forgiven their first transgression and business proceeded smoothly. The big 400-horse power engine regulated by the revolutions of a 40,000-pould fly wheel is where the principal power is produced in the plant The crane en- gineer is in his little hanging nest,
 
 the molten matte out of the great iron teapot into the gleaming red throat Of the converter The great pots go rolling away under their weight of blazing slag. and the newly made grades, and the virgin soil of the des- ert seemed to shrink and shudder as the burning mass streamed over them. Everything is or cla erything about the plant indicates thorough business plans carefully car ried out. The occasion was not at tended by a rush of visitors as might have been expected, but all day Sun day there was stream of cyclists and pedestrians out to see the good work in the wee hours of it's infancy, and to see the first eight bars of red bullion of which the boys were so proud Sunday morning The bars weighed about 300 pounds each and were the center of considerable in terest.
 This event is of immense import ance to Douglas, especially when we consider that the plan of this work is such that the capacity of, the plant can be increased without limit, at a OuNios III ply short period. As rapidly as the Calumet's great property in Bisbee is explored. developed and blocked out, as rapidly as the big body of ore is brought to sight we may expect the reduction works of the company at Douglas to expand to meet the condi- tions by which the company is con- fronted. This propitious event along with the vigorous effort now being made by the Copper Queen shelter at Douglas forever settle the future of Douglas, and settle it in her favor.
 The wonderful progress now being made by the Copper Queen people on their new shelter demands conspicu- ous and complimentary mention. As intimated by Superintendent Adam son 10 a Review man some three weeks ago, the work has reached stage where it shows up bigger to the ordinary observer. When the frame work is in sight and the 1 400 foot steel trestle begins to ornament the landscape We will imagine the good work under proper headway. The cfteler one visits this stupendous work the more he is impressed with its magnitude. Visitors to Douglas should not fail to visit the new Queen smelter. We all wish the newly com pleted Calumet smelter, infinite good fortune. ard profits that will justify its linitlc-s extension and gilt edge