Bisbee daily review., 1903-04-01
THE COPPER QUEEN SHELTER
 BIGGEST THING ON THE MAP

This is an instance in which very little can 5e said ih regard t9 a very big thiaG. The trouble is. tha- the Queen peorle have been systemat icai,y disappointed in getting material for the completion of their mammoth smelting pant The date recently set for blowing in, viz, July, will certainly have to be postponed form the above mentioned cause. One gathers the impression after visiting the old smell ter at Bisbee and the new works at Douglas. that the Queen people are just working along Ieisurely, ca cu- Iatins to get the new plant in shape about the time it is necessary to dump the old one into the scrap pile. Of course that event can be indefinitely postponed by systematic repairing. but there Will come 8 point beyond which they can not proftably proceed. At the great plant in Douglas. all out side incidental and auXi Iiary Improvements are more nearly completed than the main features The machine and blacksmith shops are practical Y com pleted and in operation: the carpenter shops. electric power house and al incidental features Of the plant are partially installed. The cranes are in operation at the machine and black smith shops. and several old iron horses were being shod and otherwise worked over while I was there.
 Tn the main building. work is pro gressing slowly. Four converter
 stands are ready to be put in shape ii few hours notice, but no shells are yet in sight. There are five furnace foundations ompIeted with bases in
 place. while two furnaces are being put up. Most of the roofing is on. When We come to consider a roof covering a building 396 feet long by 294 feet wide. 1t is something of a 1 job to cover it.
 ~ Over at the power house they have
 most of the steel frame up. They work a little dinky hoist which swings
 the big steel girders into space. so of monkeys. The floor of the power house is simply Q field of great bolts and rods arising from the foundation for the engines. The frame is also ] up on the boiler house. and some sol i i'd progress has been made in that part
 of the field. The steel trestle con
 meeting the feed floor with the tufa
 abutment. 2 distance Of some hundred | feet is nearing completion.
 The Copper Queen sme'ter is 2 work Of wonderful magnitude. The ! extent of the works when completed
 is absolutely amazing to people accus i toned to circulate around rusty old thirty ton jacket As the work pro ! gresses new ideas are adopted and tht plans. in many details, are changed tt
 meet the conditions arising from new |. developments. and the probabilitie! | are that when completed. its capacit! will be much larger than was contem plated in the original plan.
 The Queen people are to be congrat ulated on the bold enterprise the! . have shown in launching this wonder ful work, which is calculated to dis tinguish the district, pay good in l terest on the outlay and stand for century as a monument to the enter prise of it's promoters. Parties visit l ing Douglas should not fail to visit thu Itnew Copper Queen smelter, if the! , do. they are overlooking one of thu
 rocks upon which Douglas stands t The colossal smelter has not ye reached that stage where they put ul positively no admittance except ol
 business" cards, and the visitor cal r roam at his own free will so long a 7 he keeps out of the way. They ar' - not afraid of him carrying of ten toi ) slab of structural steel or block o ! tufa for a souvenir. and he Is at lib | erty to rubber to his heart content ? DOUGLAS DOTS.
 ] Away last summer when l was here - lonA .ba facfiva war cry was on thl