Bisbee daily review., 1903-05-28
CLIFTON OUTPUT
 A BIG MERGER
WILL BE THE SAME FOR 1908 SAYS SUP. JAMES coLoUHouN
]. s. Hopkins, Former Secretary and
 Company Now Visiting the Camp
(speeial Correnpondence.l ]


 Clifton, Ariz., May 27.-There is nothing of special importance in thIs tiourishing camp to include in a newspaper article The Arizona Copper company, the pioneer produc. CT in Arizona continues to add its full quota to the coper supply of the world. Yesterday the product of the converter plant was seventy tons but this was considerably more than the average daily output. The output of this company, as l am informed Dy Superintendent Colquhoun will De about the same for 1903 as it was for 1902. During the last ten years this company has completely revolution ized its plant and now has the larg- est and most complete smelling plant in the west. The plant consists of | furnaces, concentrators, converters, teaching plant, a sulphuric acid plant, machine shops, foundry, and owns its own raih.oads for hand ling the product. There is no fur ther important plans of improvement for the future, contemplated now by the A C. company, and indeed none are required. A new office building is to be constructed during the sum- mer and 6 new store building is 10 be built at Metcaf.
 The Shannon Company.
 The Shannon Copper company is now e regular producer of copper s- 1r of copper per day. It has one of the most complete reduction plants in | in the west, consisting of two fur naces of 225 tons capacity each. A new concentrating plant has just been put in operation about six weeks ago. The product of the Shannon plant is matte which is put through the 4. C. company con yerter plant Mir. Anderson, the superintendent of the Shannon, ex- presses the greatest satisfaction with the operation Of his new plant. This which was owned by Hon. Chas. NJ. Shannon for twenty years and which he sold to the company three years ago for something like s200,0G0. Other claims were purchased by the company and altogether more than one million dollars have been ex- pended in the enterprise. The To- cation of the reduction plant is one of the prettiest in the west. It is on a bench-like mesa right on the bank of the Frisco river and is reached by a railroad two miles long, which delivers the ore into bins from which it is drawn into the con centrator and to the smelter feed foot. The concentrator is located immediately above the furnaces and there is no further handling Of the ore after it is unloaded from the cars. The whole works are of the very best quality and most conveniently ar ranged.
 | 4 CONSOLIDATION.
 It is generally accepted as . fact that the New England and the Con- solidated Copper companies are to be merged and hereafter be under one management. Both of these compa- nies have been carrying on extensive development work for more than two years and both are said to have met with gratifying success in uncover ing good bodies of copper ore. Els pecially is this true as to the New England company. It is believed here generally that the consolidation is no joke, or less than the purchase outright of the New England com pany's properties by the Consolidated company. It is understood that Mir. Durham, the superintendent of the Consolidated company, will continue as general manager of the merged company This property, it is be- lieved will in few years become an important producers. The miners are located up the Frisco river some three miles above Clifton. The re duction works would of course be built on the river and the ore brought down from the mines by some sys- tenn of tram transportation. The properties owned by the New Eng Hand company were once known as Ithe Copper King mines. small smelling plant was erected about lIS9I and a bucket tramway was built to bring the ore down from the mines but which could not be sue cessfully worked from some cause and the ore which was smelted in the lsmelter on the river was packed Idown the mountain by burros. Dave lGoff was the superintendent at that ltime. He gave up the job as a bad one and nothing more was done with lthe properties until it passed into the hands Of the New England company