, 1902-11-06
AMERICAN COPPER co.
A Great Enterprise That Controls Ten
Other corporations-The smelter, the
Ferris Hagga-ty Copper Mine, the
Tramway. the Electric Light, the
Power Company and the Grand En-
eampment Townsits Company.

FROM non. Wills george EN-
erson, who was a city visitor "a
short time last Monday, we gath
cred some valuable information
concerning the great enterprise
which he has been instrumental in
combining. Among other things
he said:
"The Smelter will be enlarged
TO a capacity of 500 tons per day.
There will also be a Concentrator,
or Converter, of a capacity of 500
tons per day. All of the machin-
cry, of every kind, character and
description, will be run by cleo
tricity generated by the power
plant which will have a tremend-
u capacity. We expect to have
the power plant completed by the
first of February. The pipe is
four feet in diameter and gives a
fall of 16l feet, which will gene
rate 1900 horse power. We have
one entire foundery in Denver en-
ployed in casting the water wheels
that are to generate the power.
"The electricity will operate the
tramway and will be carried over
the Divide to the Ferris aggar-
ty mine and every drill and every
bit of machinery at the mine will
be operated by electricity. AT
each of the power stations along
the line of the tramway we have
large engines and boilers, which
are simply to be held there in re-
serve, to be used in case of acct
dent TO the electric power.
"We intend to employ $50 h. p.
of electricity in the manufacture
of what is called blister copper
Blister Copper is simply copper
with every particle of foreign sub
stance literally blown out of it by
a powerful blast of air, which
renders it 50 or 80 per cent. pure
copper, We expect, when we get
in operation, to be sending twenty
tons of pure copper down through
the valley to the railroad every
day.
"The North American Copper
Company is organized under the
laws Of New Jersey. 1t has moth
ing whatever to do with mining,
or any other enterprise in this
state. 1t simply holds nineteen
this of the bonds of the ten other
companies that are operating here.
Each of the ten companies is or
ganized and will be run under a
separate management. For ex-
ample: the smelter will be run
under a superintendent, but he
will have nothing to do with the
Tramway. The same with the
Tramway, the Electric Power
works, the Ferris Haggarty mine,
etc. Each superintendent will
look after his own department
and make his daily reports to the
superintendent of the North Amer
lean Copper Company, who will
merge all the reports into one for
the use of the officers of the latter
company.
The Ferris-H aggarty Copper
Company has been recognized
aud will hereafter be known as
the 'Haggarty Copper Mining
Company
81 hear a rumor, now and then,
to the effect hat l have sold out
my interests in the Grand En-
campment country. That is not
true. l am, if any difference, more
interested in that country than
ever. L wish you would give
that story a vigorous denial,
for l never expect to lose my in
terest in this county,
Mr. Emerson says he has six
weeks more of steady work before
him before his great concentra-
ton of interests is completed in
every detail. He has great faith
in the of the enterprise
and says Encampment will be All
other Cripple Creek and Sareto-
ga another Colorado Springs in
a few years. He is also engaged