Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-01-07
A HYDRO CAR
 BON SHELTER
TreadweIl Mining COmpany's New Oil Burning Furnace Makes
 Successful Run.
COmpany's Mining Properties Be- ing Developed With Most
 Satisfactory Results.

The editor of the Journal Miner a
 few days since, visited the mines and
 smelters owned and operated by the
 Geo. A. Treadwell Mining company
 in the Big Bug district, under the
 very efficient management of E. D.
 Treadwell, and found a very busy
 active camp at both mines and
 shelter
 It is only about year and a half
 ago that MT. Treadwell commenced
 work on the Iron Queen mine, which
 is the property of the Geo. A. Tread
 well company. Some development
 work had already been performed on
 the property, but MT. Treadwell
 thought best to ignore it as being of
 no practical value and commenced
 the work of sinking a new shaft.
 This shaft is now down 300 feet and a drift has been run in both directions from it at the 100 foot, 200 foot and 300 foot levels respectively.
 The south drift at each level is in from 90 to 60 feet. At the 100 foot level the north drift has been run 276 feet, at the 200 foot level 300 feet and on the 300 foot level, where work is now being pushed, the drift is in about D feet, with the work still progressing.
 The ore above the 100 foot level is of low grade, containing large amount of iron, but below .that it grows richer, and the ore body also widens out, being from four to ten feet wide, of a good grade of ore. This ore is continuous in all of the north drifts, while lower grade of ore is also found in the south drifts
 The ore is principally copper though it icontains values also in gold, and seems to be growing richer with depth. It is found in the form of sulphides.
 The mine is equipped with good big hoist capable of hoisting from a depth of 1000 feet. Commodious quarters have been provided for the men, there being large commodious boarding house and other buildings. but MT. Treadwell has been increas- ing the force so rapidly of late that he has found it necessary to build a larger and more commodious bunk house which is now nearing compile tion.
 Napoleon Waldemeier, a first class experienced mining man is superin- tendent of the property.
 The company which for some time had lease on the Boggs' shelter, owned by the Commercial Mining company, has recently taken a lease | and bond on the Roggs and Hack berry mines owned by the same com pany. The Boggs adjoi4Is the Iron Queen on the north, and Mir Tread we'll has equipped it with new hoist and has force of men employed in | cleaning out the old workings prepa- ratory to further development of the properties.
 The Commercial company sank | shaft 300 feet deep on the property and also ran a drift 300 feet in southerly direction towards the Iron Queen mine. This drift is in good ore all the way, and Mir TreadweIl says that there is every indication that the ore body extends for the en- tire distance between the two shafts. a distance of little over 1000 feet. It is his purpose to push work on the drifts in both mines until a con nection is formed, when the merits of the properties can be more fully 
 There is also a small force of men at work on the Blackberry mine which is located some distance south of the Iron Queen. The old workings of this mine are being cleaned out and retimbered and when this is com pIeted further exploration of the will be made The Com mercial Mining company built a narrow guage railroad between these mines and their smelter and equipped 1t with a small locomotive and cars { ,or transporting ore to the shelter. ( When they closed the mines and shelter the track of this road was S ,aken up but the grade still remains. while the equipment is also stored i 1t the smelter. It is MF. Treadwell's intention to rebuild this railroad to with the Prescott & Eastern ailroad for the more convenient of the ore to the new melter, which is located about ( nile below Mayer. At the time of the Journal Miner a nan's visit the smelter was in opera ion under the supervision of M. P. l Boss the inventor of the oil burning c melter and it was giving excellent This is the first smelter S f the kind ever built and is today O he only one of its kind in operation. c 70 certain extent it is yet in its xperimental stage, but has been fl perated sufficiently to demonstrate T Is merit in the treatment of copper re at a very small expense. It is alled the Hydro Carbon furnace and he patent is owned and the smelter uilt by the Hydro Carbon Smelling V Ompany of New York, of which M. :. Boss, its inventor, is the president W } we'll as the engineer The furnace n as capacity of from D to 100 tons d. ore per day, depending on the ature of the ore, and while this one tC
 built specially for the treatment pl copper, it can be made to treat N 'ad and iron ores equally we'll by fight notifications. di The main idea of the shelter proper .. continuous reverberatory, flame :: npacting upon the longer side of a Ii He of ore upon the inclined bottom the furnace. The ore is roasted in hearth which 'ceives the heat from the smelting
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