Bisbee daily review., 1902-09-04
THE MINING FIELD
OIL BURNING SHELTER.

OIL BURNING SHELTER.
 At Mayer, or rather, nearly a mile to the southeast, on spur of the P. & E. R. R., NJ. T. Boss is overseeing the erection of one of his newly in- vented oil buring smelters for the George A. Treadwell Mining company. says the Prescott Prospect. This will be the first oil burning smelter ever erected, and MT. E. D. Treadwell and many other miners and smelting men are awaiting anxiously for its first test An upright smelter, as explained by Mir. Boss, cannot be used for oil, be- cause without coke to keep the ore from clogging it, would naturally set tie down so closely as to shut of the hot air blast entirely. To avoid this MT. Boss has invented an almost hori- 1onta1 furnace, into which the ores en- ter from above by self-feeder, thus leaving air passages for the draft. If it proves success it will greatly fa- cilitate smelting operations, and will also prove a great saving in expense.
 The substantial buildings to protect the works are already about finished, and they are as complete and commo- dious as any buildings for the purpose need to be. The Pelton water wheel is still to be installed, and the furnace itself is not yet completed. There will be no steam used for the power, but instead water will be piped from Wolf creek with fall of 1900 feet, which will give more power than can be util- ized. The pipe line has been compile ted to within three miles.
 A spur from the P. & s. R. R. rises the hill behind the shelter building which will deliver ore to the bins whence it will pass successively to rock breaker and so on until it glides into the furnace.
 MT Boss expects to have the smell ter completed and ready to blow in in about six weeks. Meanwhile Mir. Treadwell has just finished building a large warehouse directly alongside of the track of the main line of the railroad. Its dimensions are 20x60 feet with a neat and handy business flee 12X20 feet at the south end, and a wide platform extending in front along the track and running the length of the building.
 Mayer has become quite an import ant freighung center, and those who visit here, after a few weeks absence. will easily notice that business is growing. I noted this morning two heavy freight teams on the street bound for one or the other of the sur rounding mining camps, and one Of them was loaded with the machinery of a gasoline hoist which I learned was bound for Douglas, Lacy & Co.'S Fl Capitan mine. Long pack trains were also to be seen, coming and go ing, and during the evening the busi- nes place of Joe Mayer were crowded with customers.-Republican.
 
 White Tanks District
 Bert Ford is in from the. White Tank mountains and says that heavy rains have fallen there recently-in fact the heaviest rains that have been seen there for the last fifteen years. The summer was an exceptionally dry one, water being so scarce that most of the prospectors had to leave their claims, and as a consequence but lit tie work has been done in that dis trict for some time past He thinks, though, that from now on there will be lots of prospecting and develop ment work done.
 M. D. Latin of the Printers Syndi- cate has just returned to the White IankS ITOUl ITccCOlt anu VIII oC'OeS his energies to the development Of the syndicate and another claim which he and Mir Ford recently located This is an asbestos claim, and present appearances are very promising, though just what the enterprise will amount to cannot yet be predicted
 Mir. Ford has with him some fine samples of asbestos, the fibre being about six inches long. If he can get enough of that kind of goods he has A fortune He says that only surface work has been done yet. and he does not know how deep the deposit will 20. The ledge is about thirty feet wide, and the asbestos lies in small veins or stringers running through the ledge. The value of the mineral depends very largely on the length or the fibre. If 1t is long 1t can be work ed up into cloth for various purposes and if short it has to be ground up and worked over by various processes. There have been many discoveries Of asbestos in his part of Arizona, but thus far they have all been small de posits or of low grade and short hbre