Bisbee daily review., 1904-12-04
WILL BE NEXT T0.'[ARCESlI ]
 SHELTER er
COPPER QUEEN COMPANY iN- CREASING SHELTER
 OUTPUT.
PRICE oFECOPPER
 BIG INCENTIVE
Eight Furnaces Will Soon Be in Op- eration-Sanne Action Being Taken at c. & H. Shelters, and Surplus crowding s2,co0, 900.

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 The miAng companies operating in the Warren district and who may be clai,sed as producers intend to make hay while the sun shines, the sun in this instance being the present high price Of copper. Two of the fur naces which d.d duty at the Bisbee smelter have been transported to Doug las where the foundations were al- ready to receive them and big force of nen are hurrying them into place.
 There is much activity generally around the Copper Queen Shelters at Douglas. Dwight E. Woodbridge, who recently spent several days in this vicinity, writes as follows:
 The company has found it necessa- ry to use all its five stacks. and is crowded with work; it does not intend 10 maintain it's full plant Tn operation; and needs more smelting capacity: hence the decision to increase to eight This win make it the second largest copper smelling plant in the United States, At present the plant is turn ing out 6.000.00O pounds of blister tcopper monthly and is treating all the ores brought to it from Elsbee. the ep- tire output of Nacozari concentrates. and some other ores that run through the sampling works.
 At the Calumet & Arizona smelter they have No furnace well along, and No , started. with the machin- | cry plant for the additional capacity sure to be in early next year. Proba- bly four furnaces Wtll be maintained in operation, swing about 1900 tons daily capacity. The two now in use are making about 2.65000O pounds monthly, and this should be doubled when the addition is running. It Is understood that the product of the Calumet 6 Arizona mine VII not be increased, but that the new capacity Vtll be devoted to ores expected in a short tine rom the Pittsburg (, Du-
 luth, Che Lake Superior & Pittsbure
 and the Cafunsat & Pittsburg mines. all of which are nearer to the produe-
 ing stage than the general public re-
 alisjes. Cokt sheets for Calumet & Ailzona show that large number of m2n are employed in development. WEich is now proceeding far more rapidly than stoDing The additional developme1t underground incluGes not only the sinking and equipment of the Oliver shaft, now 1000 feet deep. but connecting drifts for ventilation all through the mine, and a search for ores upon several levels. This work s all charged against current output and amounts to nearly a cent per pound on the product Shelter con struction is also charged to current expenses.
 In statements published by Boston brokers il IS estimated that the two shafts of this nine would be making GO,000,000 pounds of copper annually In years or so. This is probably too high, for although the Oliver shaft is soon 10 be placed on a producing stage it is hardly liable to mine heavily for some time A fine double-d-um hoist ing plant is now being put up at this new shaft
 The Calumet & Arizona will close he present calender year with a sur plus of about $500. GOO. largely in cop per and supplies. l. is carrying about 100000 pouncs of copper regularly. and this amount has been increased Of late, as the directors have expected a hegher price for metal. By the close Of this year the mine will have paid in dividends $1,700,OOO. It is just two years since the first smelter was blown in, and this surplus and dEy;- GSnd payment has been earned ia that period, as well as enough to pay off debt of S400,000 incurred in smei- ter and mine construction prior to earnings. h the mine there are many places in drifts where indications present most favorable promise of ore with proper explorations. Ore is be- ing found above levels where it was looked for, and the height of the mine is much increased. Rich stopes of glance and other rich sulphides are being cut on various levels.
 Practically all the work that has been done on the va-ionu properties of this group in the way of under ground development has been con meeting them for passage and venti- lation: that is, actual exploration foe ore has been subordinate so far. This work of connecting up is now far along. SO far as the present openings are concerned, and the many string CTS and leads cut during it's progress