Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-10

 camp. just at the present time, taken from information furnished by the If ferent mining companies is certainly roseate and incidentally it may be aD- prOpriate to state that within two months the Copper Queen mine will jump from fourth to first place in the list of the largest copper producing mines in the world, while as a whole the mines Of the camp will be prodUc- ing more than all of the Anlalgama5el company's mines.
 Upon the completion of the addition al furnaces 70 the smelter at Douglas. which vii be accomplished about De-i cember l, the amount of ore produced will place the Copper Queen far ahead Cf any other mine in the world.
 At the present time the sme.ter is turning out about S,000,O00 pounds Of copper per month, last month being an exception. due to installing new fur naces. The new furnaces that are now going ln have capacity to eX- actly double the output. SO the shelter OF the first of December. when every thing is expected to be in running or der, will be producing 16.00O.p00 pounds of copper every month. or 192,- 100000 pounds of copper per annum. As all of this will come. with the eX- ception of about 7.O00,00G pounds, from the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. it can fairly be claimed that she is Queen of the world.
 In 1904 the Copper Queen produced 5S,605, 900 pounds of copper and at the end of this year the output can be es- timated to reach about 9O,0oo.00p pounds The output this year might have and may yet go over 100.000,000, but that remains to be seen. The smelte- will have one month with a double capacity in the year to help out the figures.
 The output of the five largest pro ducers in the world in 1904 was as follows:
 Pounds. AnacOnda ....... .95,OOO.OVO Boston 6 Montana .... ... .94.000,00 Calumet & Fecla ....: .....Se,0c0.0 .0"0 Rio Tinto ..... ...Il5zo .OUV It will therefore be seen that already the Copper Queen is about even on production, and as the capacity vii l'e doubled, all competitors for first place will be left far behind next year.
 The Calumet & Arizona is likewise doubling the capacity of it's smelteT and bringing shafts into operation which will double the output Of ore Last year the mine produced 5l ,G34 ,S99 pounds of copper, so that by the doub pounds of copper, so that by the doub ling of it's capacity the output can be placed for next year at approximate!y G0,O0O 900 pounds. The total pro duct of the camp. therefore, to look forward to would be 252. 900 900 pounds annually. which is 120,000.00 pound; over and above what all the mines ot the Amalgamated company produced in 1904.
 To provide for this increased pro duction it will be necessary to double the force oi -employes, man for man and likewise largely increase the slz' of the transportation service betweeI Bishee and the smelters.
 As the Copper Queen now emplOyi about 2500 men, the increase in pro auction means the cOmpany's pay rol will be increased to 5000, not inc!ud ing the railroad force.
 The Calumet & Arizona employs 75 men, so their force will reach, at Ch least. 1500 men.
 The Bonanza properties at the pres ent time are employing about GOO mel in all capacities, and as two of thei mines will shortly begin shipping, an others are being rapidly developed, th force will probably reach 1000 men b the first of the year.
 The Shattuck & Arizona mine ha now also reached the stage when it entering it's production career, an preparations are now underway to el tend development work that will n' cessitate the doubling of it's force b the first of November, and other mine as work progresses, will have to follO' suit. The Wolverine carries abou thirty men.
 Several new properties are about begin work, and one or two old one will shortly resume operations.
 At conservative figures, then, th force of men employed in the Bisbe mines will be approximately abor 5000 at the first of the year. It he been erroneously thought that ther were about 4,00O already at work the two companies, but such is not u case. as about 2,000 are employed ; the smelters in Douglas, the division employees between the mines and sms ters being about equal.
 To house and feed all of these adf tional men will give employment hundreds of other people and will CT ate a demand for many new house