Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-27
A Great Growth
 Assured for Douglas
Many Things New Certain Which Will
 Advance This City Rapidly and Insure Prosperity.

The telegram published in yester- days Standardization announc- ing that the board of directors of the Calumet & Arizona Mining company had decided 10 proceed at once to 6cuble the capacity of the smelter now in operation here. was most welcome news for Douglas.
 While this announcement wGs not a great surprise CT a promise Of some thing unexpected, still it was of great importance to all who are interested in the prosperity of the city. The Cal umet & Arizona made the greatest sue cess of its mining operations ever 1e- corded in Arizona II is not the larg- est producer and may never become the largest. but no ether company in Arizona has equalled its production in so short a time. At present the smelting plant here consists of two 250-ton furnaces and on the pay roll of the smelter is something like four hundred men. The announcement yesterday means that probably three more furnaces will be erected and this will mean, when the enlarged plant Is in operation. a c. {, A. pay roll in Douglas of. at least seven hundred men. and perhaps eight hundred I; is safe to say that the enlargement of the Calumet & Arizona shelter means that three hundred and fifty more wage earners will be empioyed by that company before the end of the present year.
 It is now known that the time is near at hand when the Copper Queen reduction works will be ready for re- ducirg ore; it perhaps will be three CT four months before it will be run ming to its full capacity: this plant is the largest in the southwest: in the power house are ten monster engines and the acres Of various kinds Of ma. chinery win be put in motion gradu- ally. But it Is safe 10 say. that all these great wheels of industry will be going on by the middle of the year The force requir-d at the Copper Queen smelter has been estimated at from TOO to 1900 men. Most people believe the larger number will be em- ployed. Say that eight hundred men will be required in the various de partments of the Copper Queen smelt- CTS; here We have an addition of wage earners of probably six hundred men assured for Douglas between now and ha st-t ie ~,-rlx ;,, operation.
 With the doubling Of the Calumet smelter it is safe to estimate that by the end of 1904 there will be no less than eighteen hundred men employed at the smelters in this city.
 Add to this the large number oi men employed here in the rail road shops and we believe TO other city or camp in the territory can show as many wage earners as can Douglas at the beginning of 1905.
 Besides the number Of men em pfoyed here, the mining camps in So nora tributary to this city. are in creasing in number and importance daily. The development in the Sono "a mines scattered from here to ana | including the Moctezuma district i: opening some excellent bodies of cop per, gold and silver ores. IL is mor' than likely that much of this Sonors ore will be reduced in Douglas. a: many of the properties are not favora ply located to have their reduction works located on them. and then agair many small properties which vii wield large total output. could no singly afford to build smelters.
 The -Nacozari railroad will now sooI be completed 10 Nacozari and th' opinion is that it will not stop there