Bisbee daily review., 1903-03-12
COPPER QUEEN
 DOUGLAS SHELTER
REVIEW CORRESPONDENT SEES
 THE BIG PLANT
Every Department is Filled with Best
 Machinery, Which Will Turn Out the Material For the Company

the Material For the Compan, Special to Review) Douglas, Mar 1.-The Review cor
 respondent paid a visit to the new smelting plant being constructed jus, west of our city and was shown over the premises by General Foreman l Gould. But about seven weeks work remain to be done on the structural work before all the buildings will be completed.
 The machine shops, boiler shop. foundry and blacksmith shops are al ready turning out a great deal of work and the temporary power plant furnishes electrical power for the ma chinery at present installed When the mechanical department is com pleted aud full force of men at work, thes hops will be ready to handle any and all work which can possibly be needed in the southwest.
 At present two locomotives. are un. dergoing a thorough overhauling. one of them, engine 53. being the engine of the Fl Paso and Southwestern which was terribly disabled in the re cent wreck at Forest siding. While the mechanical department has but fifteen skilled artisans at pres ent this number will overreach th' hundred mark when the buildings arr in readiness to turn out their full ca pscity of work
 | The machine shop and foundry have floor space of about POO by 50 feet while the blacksmith and boiler shops in the adjoining building cover a sur face of IA by 75 feet
 1 The variety and size of the machin ! cry throughout is amazing. In the
 machine shop are two pipe threading ! machines. one to handle and thread pipe of from four to twelve inches in diameter, the other being used on pipe varying iu size from three-eights of al inch to four inches. 4 radial 72-inch i drill is a curiosity in itself This 1 piece of apparatus is capable, under | the touch of skilled hands of drilling holes in or through any meta not over | six feet in diameter and drills them al
 every conceivable angle. A bolt cut 1 ter. an S+iuch wheel lathe. a 72-inct boring mill. two huge planers. one
 ? by 27. the other 4S by AS; an IS | inch slotter. 30-inch engine lathe. 8 1 24-inch by 24-foot shafting lathe, 16
 inch engine lathe, a 12-inch turret
 'athe -(for truss fnishing). 14-inct
 Challenge tool lathe. a 2S-inch drill
 press and 20-inch drill press together with a double end axle lathe (for cal
 lxle work), constitute the equipment l of this modern machine shop. ! Eight forgers with automatic aiI blowers. will serve to heat the great 1 chunks of iron before the powerful
 steam hammer pounds and beats i crushes CT caresses them into the de 1 sired shape. A bolt machine is a feat
 ure of this department, where bolts oi 1 all sizes csn be turned out with as lit
 tie expense as eastern shops can dc ] the work
 1 The boiler shop is fitted with rolls punches and shears of the latest pat | tern and will be able to handle the 1 sheet metal from the lightest iron tC
 the great boiler p'ates, an inch and 8
 quarter thick and twelve feet long.
 A wood blaming mill will also be as | thoroughly equipped for doing al l kinds of wood work as the machine
 and blacksmith shops are for iron ! and steel.
 Nine monster engines will grace the great power house. the pulsating heart
 of the entire system, and together
 with the immense air compressors wit furnish the breath and blood for thi; l entire system.