Arizona republican., 1904-02-16
STUDENTS AT DOUGLAS
An Elaborate Description of the New
 Copper Queen Shelter.

pany have made Douglas what 1t is today. Douglas is town of 40OO in- | habitants on the American side of the | line and about 800 in Mexico. The place | has had a rapid growth in the last two | years and has a fair start towards be- | ing a large city. in the near future. It
 now boasts of a good school system, for which much credit should be given Professor Thomas Grindell who has 800
 pupils in his charge and eight teachers.
 The Copper Queen store is one of the
 finest in the territory. The town is
 well laid out and building is advancing
 with rapid progress. A motor car car
 ries passengers all over town and out
 to the smelters. The F. P. & s. w. runs | two daily trains from Risbee aside from the regular service through to Fl Paso from Benson.
 The grade from Bisbee is down all the
 way. This fact. and also the fact that
 the town is an intermediate shipping 2oint. caused .he selection of Douglas
 for the location for the srnelters. Sew
 eral important mining companies make Douglas their headquarters. Fl Tlgre
 mine, only a few miles south. is among the fabulously rich mines of the south west while dozens of smaller proper ties are being opened up with encour-
 aging results.
 | The boom in real estate is about over
 and prices remain steady. AS soon as
 artesian water is found in large enough Il streams. irrigation will help develop the
 surrounding country. which is like all
 Arizona soil. very prolific. Prices are very reasonable and altogether barring
 the dust, Douglas is a good town,
 oI+ II.
 doubt the latest and most approved
 plant in the country. The result of two
 years travel inspection and careful
 study by MT. Langdon and the entire
 management of the Phelps Dodge com pany. with their vast eXpesience in the
 reduction of copper. Not a point has
 been overlooked and cost has never
 stood in the way of procuring the best
 obtainable. There are many new fea-
 lures about this plant that stand out
 prominently in keeping with other mod
 ern methods. The work is almost en-
 tirely done by machinery. mostly run
 by electricity. The ore is brought from
 Bishee, Globe and Morenci in patent ore
 cars, and dumped in long trenches 1000
 by 40 feet and 15 feet deep. These pits
 are three in number and serve a double
 purpose-as a storage reservoir and a mixing tank. A large sampling plant Is
 being built alongside and every car is
 sampled and dumped at a certain place in the pit By using the oxide and sulphide ores against each other, along . with the gangue of the different ores, , a proper charge can be supplied. The l, | immense storage pits will be drawn on , daily and will enable the smelter to run | Independent of the irregularities in transportation and other unavoidable delays. A steam shovel will reload this ore into small motor cars and these will be run down to the furnaces and dump !. ed automatically by electric power ! The furnaces will be fed from the side s ? entirely by motor power. the doors of
 the furnace being moved by hydraulic l power. These furnaces are considered the most modern designed. There are five of them fl feet high, 62 inches wide ? at the top of the jacket. The tops of the furnaces about the jackets are l lined with fire brick the first twenty [ five feet on four sides. The jackets ? are made of three eiehts inch boiler ? plate in three sections. The whole is set on ten feet of solid ma sorry. Room Is left on the south end of the building to increase the furnace capacity later. Five converter stands will be enough
 for the present. Two large cranes, for ty feet above the converter floor, with
 a lifting capacity of eighty tons, will , handle all the matte and other material below. These cranes are the larges {
 fin the country. having span of sixty
 feet. All except the power house is
 under one roof. The slag pots are very : much larger than any heretofore used
 in and will hold about ten tons The set , tiers are very large and oval shaped. , seventeen feet by eight feet across. The
 dust chamber is an important feature n and has small rods hung all through it
 in such manner as to produce eddies in the flying flue dust and by this , method the dust IS collected at certain , tap holes and retained. The big stack V stands 204 feet above the ground and
 it twenty-five feet in diameter.
 V The power house is designed to de- 9 velop 4500 horse power, besides the gen. = orator. A machine shop and every oth- = CT necessary department, is nearing r completion. This plant will probably e handle custom ores and do considerable | smelling of ores from properties other 8 than the Copper Queen, which be,ong to s the Phelps-Dodge company. The com- 2 pany owns large tracts of land in and e around Douglas and is making this the q central plant.
 Just a short distance from the new
 smelter Of the Queen Is the Calumet and
 Arizona company, close second to it;
 rival in many respects. At the present " 1t is turning out from forty-five to fiji ty tons of almost pure copper agains1 = the Queens fifty to fifty-five tons. O1 course. when the new srnelter is run y ming, in about a month, these figures . will be duplicated by the Copper Queer 'l company. The Calumet and Arizona '. smelter has been running a litte more than year and is a very economical
 plant. MT. James Woods is superintend
 ent.
 NO HELP FOR NAGGING WIFE.