Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-05
Concerning Ore
 Calumet & Arizona
MORE LEAN ORE IS BEING TAKEN
 OUT THAN RICH.
Eastern Journals, especially a prom inent one in Boston. Would Have Public Believe that C. 6 A. Compa- ay Is Selecting it's Richest Ore for inc Shelters.

We read in an eastern journal ha
 Calumet & Arizona copper mine mus
 be drawing from it's richest ore bodie!
 so obtain present results in its smei'
 CTS. these exceeding in richness any
 other treated in this country"
 The writer of the above isn't th'
 Jnly one who has talked this, It Delns saard to believe that the average O
 She mine is represented by smeltei performances. It is so much better
 Ehan results achieved elsewhere tha
 yhis conclusion is reached. At the
 same time Calumet & AriZona's smelt
 CT returns are not being secured al She expense of the mine or the share SolGers. The ore is taken out jus
 as it occurs, lean and fat, with al
 Que lean that shows. The discrimina
 GOn is against the smelter, as all oi she lowgrade material is mined while much of the high grade is drawn upon but sparingly. Every lean streak is consistently followed and the ore re sulting sent to surface, for il must be remembered the company is develop ng its lands, and these low grade quality. It must not be forgotten that Calumet & Arizona has much virgin ground in which no prospecting Gr development work has yet been done. Every low grade piece of ore Is taken and goes to the smelters. for t has been ctten proved that it is
 the forerunner of better grades. says tron Ore.
 For the first week in the new year the Calumet & Arizona company treat d oxide ores that gave 11.70 per cent copper and sulphides that gave 7.S4 ger cent, the alter being a consider ible greater quantity than the for mer. And there are stopes in the mine bat will yield an average of 50 per cent copper. We saw these while eX- amining the mine. In each of these ftcpes one man was working using a tmehand drill. And often he wheeled dpt his own dirt, at that On the ore treated the first week this year an Average copper output of 1O4. .79o pounds was made each day, which would give 3,143,700 pounds per month
 f 37,724, 400 pounds per year. And Ye can assure our readers that far more of the leaner than the richer fTf cd mould be remembered, tco, that only swo smelers are in operation. A 3ird is ready and may soon be blown ih. The smelters are doing fine work ns shown by the tonnage daily treated e<.sd the assays of the slag.
 1t would be an easy matter, where coey so disposed, for the management 0 feed the smelters ore that would give an average of 25 per cent copper. Were it the object to deceive and to unload their stock on the public there is the ore underground to make won tterful records, and to keep it up many months, but Calumet & Arizona is in tae business to remain. It will show e3e present fine copper yield per ton H ore hoisted for many years. Its work astonishes those unfamiliar with fts ores. The latter are the exception Q the product of other mines. The ground yielding 200 pounds of copper per ten cubic feet is something new in the history of copper mines, and it Vtll take little time for the copper world to get accustomed to it. Not only is the ore wonderfully prolific d copper, but the pound of metal is made at small cost.
 There must be some extraordinary advantage that makes it: possible to tsay shareholders $400 ,000 for the first years operation and to leave twice this amount in the treasury; that pays Cor all new work on a second shaft and for the much that a new enter prise of this character demands. It is found in the richness of the ore, in t.ae ease with which it is reduced in tue smelter and in the able directing ef mine and smelters. No money is wasted. There is a splendid manage Eent. and this is one of the things vital to success in any enterprise
 Calumet & Arizona is steadily plan ming and equipping for greater things.
 A second shaft will soon be to the ore, when great addition to already developed bodies should be realized, and when the present volume of pro- dyction should be increased A third sznelter is ready at their plant in Douglas and with this in blast the copper output should gain one-third, CT aggregate 4s.000.O0G pounds yearly. q is not absolutely known that the O. iver shaft now sinking on Senator No I claim, will find ore, but the man. xzement is putting it down with the idea that it will. It is certainly a promising location, and developments just east on the Copper Queen con-
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