Bisbee daily review., 1902-08-05
DOUGLAS
 ITS GROWTH THE GREAT REDUCTION WORKS WILL EMPLOY AN A MY
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ABOUT THEIR CAPACITY
Forty-eisht Buildings Now Being Built The Company Store - Two Banks Doing 6usiness-other Business Enterprises

Business Enterprises
 A stranger when he alights from the train at Douglas into one of the nnest depot buildings in Arizona, and fs told that two years ago Douglas had not been sur. veyed or stAked out and that the first buildings erected there are hardly eighteen months old. he invar- iably wipes his eyes and takes another glance at the place. The buildings are scattered over townsite cover. ing a section of land. though at many places the houses are getting real thick. About the depot the principal business is now carried on. but i'm portant new buildings are going up further out from the depot east on Tenth street It Is probable that the business center of the place will be as far east as c street and perhaps still further east. The regularity of Douglas In the arrangement of the streets and its evenness is a contrast to the rugged, crooked streets and trails of Bisbee. which is very pleas ant to behold. The streets are wide and already the principal ones have been graded.
 Reduction Works
 The coming of Douglas as an inn portant town was the decision of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company to build a large reduction plant at that point-larger than any plant ever before erected in the Southwest This plant, it is said. will have processes for the treatment of all kinds of copper ore mined by Phelps. Dodge & Co, at their various mines in Arizona and Mexico, and it is expected to have @ capacity of 1,500 tons daily when completed. Douglas will also be the location of the larg- est machine shops in the southwest These shops are expected to do the work required by more than four hun dred miles of railroad owned by the big mining firm, besides the great ma chine repair and building work for the various reduction plants in Ari- | zona and Mexico. The machine shops i will be larger than any in the west | outside of San Francisco, perhaps | there may be larger in the state of Montana. It is understood that the | smelting of ore will be discontinued | at Bisbee when the big Douglas re- | duction plant is ready to operate; | whether this is true or not, certainly | the plant at Douglas will be smelting | ore to the amount of its capacity and | whether this ore comes from Bisbee | or elsewhere will make no difference l % far as the prosperity of Douglas is concerned.
 Calumet and Arizona
 Besides what is being done by the | Phelps. Dodge people for Douglas, the Calumet and Arizona company is erecting large reduction plant here. It is for the purpose of smelting the ores from the big copper mines re- gently acquired by the Calumet and Arisona in the Bisbee district This company has purchased . large num- Der of valuable properties in this vi- cinity and is opening them up in a systematic manner. Their reduction plant at Douglas is being pushed, but to install such a vast plant of machin- cry requires time and many unex- pected and unavoidable delays are en- This plant, however, will be the first to smelt copper in Doug las. The work when inaugurated was for a 300-ton smelter. but recently 1t was decided to double it's capacity and now additional machinery will be uuired It will be a 6O0-ton plant. The two smelling plants, already as- sured for Douglas will have a capac- ity of over 2.00O tons of ore per day. To operate these plants will require 3 small army of laborers, besides the great machine shops will employ al good sized brigade of high priced and skilled mechanics.
 Other Enterprises
 The business basis for Douglas rests on the proposed big reduction plants Since their coming was as- sured there has been, a rush of both { energy and capital to take advantage and the result has been that within a year a city has been mapped out and partly built. The Copper Queen peo- ole are building a store that will cost not less than one hundred thousand dollars. They are operating store here now, temporarily. in a large The new store will be bout 125 feet square, two stories high Eith full basement It will be steel ,uildine and the structural frame for he first story is now being set in position.
 The Ord hotel, owned by Ord & Mu- ,eim, is on the corner south of the Jig company store and may now be .aIled the central corner Of the place. |, Besides the Ord there are half dozen vther hotels and lodging houses, the ones being the International. F yolonial and Savoy. D
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