Bisbee daily review., 1902-11-30
CANANEA FACTS
 AND FIGURES
AN AUTHENTIC STATEMENT OF THE WORKINGS OF THIS BIG
 COMPANY.

For Thirty Days-A Remarkable
 Showing.
 In our mention of this phenomenal facts and figures. Statistics, ord 'nar;- ly, are dreary; in this instance they are eloquent Where a few years ago the slopes of the Puertocitas were the wild mysterious goal of the ven- turesome prospector, now most extra ordinary scene of industrial activity exists. In this brief period a reduc- tion plant capable of producing 6.000.- 900 pounds of copper per month has been installed, and few can compre- bend. the power, the vast forest of machinery, and the multitude of appli- ances which this involves.
 The development and equipment of the mines up to July 31st, 1902 fn- volved an expenditure of $3,6S2.O72.67 and the area of the mineral lands of the company amounts to 10.40S and 5S-100 acres.
 Six furnaces were in operation up to Nov. 10, at which time the company expected to install the seventh and along with their converter system, the company expected to be able to pro  month.
 The company produces copper at an expense of 61 cents per pound. Upon the former basis Of the production of 100000 pounds of copper per month, the estimated net profit of operation at the present selling price of copper would be s250, 900 per month.
 As an indication of the magnitude of the operations of this company the following figures which are authentic may be quoted:
 For the month of August, the sale of products amounted to $36S.559.80. The receipts from other sources were 25,31445; cost of production. $217,- 874.75. Other expenses, $3I913.32. Net profit for the month $144.086.1S.
 These figures sound more like the transactions of a government than of a private enterprise. When one at tempts to read and comprehend the figures involved in the cost of the equipment of the big reduction plant at Cananea he find it bewildering.
 A review of the progress and inn prcyement made in Cananea since work began in earnest, sounds more like fiction than fact.
 Practically in the brief space of two years, since w. c. Green succeeded in organizing the Cananea Consolidated Copper company, the ground upon which the big camp now stands has undergone the most remarkable trans formation in the history of mining camps. Others have risen up phenom- enally, with a forest of tents and cheap wooden buildings with stamp mills and hoists and power houses lightly sheltered by galvanized iron; not so with Cananea- Before the rail- road was built, the largest and finest smelling plant was constructed on the most substantial and enduring plan The boiler house is 45x216 feet, The engine room 65x245 feet, being steel frame structure with iron sidings and fire proof roof Coal bunkers with capacity of $500 tons. Boiler plant including five elephant type duplex boilers rated at 300 horse pow CT each; two Babcock and Wilcox water tube boilers rated at 250 horse power each, aggregating in all 5000 horse power. The engine power in cludes one 225 horse power Nordburg, one 380 horse power Corless engine. one 121 horse power Murray -Corliss, one 375 horse power Allis-C Corliss en- zine, one 525 horse power blower en- zine, One $50 horse power engine built by the Rand drill company, and num- erous other engines aggregating about 5000 hourse power. The total capaci- ty of the Glowing engine plant is 92,500 cubic feet of free air per minute at a blast pressure of 21z pounds per square inch, requiring 1 100 horse pow CT of engine capacity. The electric system is most admirable, the total generating capacity of the electric ma chinery amounts to 500 kilowatts. equivalent to 500 horse power.
 The furnace building is 33x296 feet, steel frame, covered with corrugated iron. It is installed with eight Mitchell! hot blast furnaces of which six are in operation and two in process of con- struction. The dust fue is 400 feet long and discharges in a brick dust chamber 50 by 75 feet by 28 feet, thence the smoke enters the big stack Is feet inches in diameter and 190 feet high. The converter building which is along side the furnace build ing is 60x326 feet and will soon be ex tended in length There is one 40 ton and one 50 ton Morgan electric crane to convey matte from furnaces to con verters.
 There are five converter stands with hydraulic operating mechanism The equipment including 22 converter shells, il feet in diameter by 13 feel long. The plant includes "A bullion cars and 25O moulds. The mud mil for preparing converter lining includes one z0x10 inch Blake crusher. two 261