Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-25
, SHELTERS AND MINES
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 A Sunday afternoons stroll around the mammoth reduction works of the Copper Queen shelter is all that is { needed to convince the most skeptical 1 Douglas citizen that big things are 7 in store for this town. The work of ! improvement, extensions of plant and general betterments costing hundreds | of thousands of dollars. which has | been in progress since early in the spring. is now assuming form and shape end one can the more clearly sec what an immense addition to their plant the Copper Queen has been mak- ing. While the work is not yet finish
 ed by any manner of means. enough has been accomplished to show that the plant when all is done will be in
 deed a mammoth institution.
 Ore Beds, New and Old.
 Heretofore the Copper Queen has
 had three ore beds or pits where the ore from the Bisbee mines Is dumped
 from the ore trains and mixed with | commercial or custom ores and the concentrates from Nacozarl. These
 ore beds are forty feet wide. almost a !
 deep. When filled to their capacity
 they hold a vast amount of the rich
 ore from which the wealth of the Cop per Queen is produced. Adjoining and parallel with the three beds now in daily use another bed of equal length and size Is being constructed For more than two months a steam shovel
 and a crew of some twenty-five Mex ] 1aN. have been at work excavating for the fourth ore bed. The bed will be fin ished as far as the excavation is con cerned within the next four or five weeks. The formation of the ground is very hard and 1t is all that the steam shovel can do to cut and lift the earth and clay formation from the eN-
 cavation Co tho cars which carry it Co the railroad tracks where the dirt Is used for raising the track beds and ] filling up low places When the ex- lcavatlon of the bed Is completed it will
 be walled with stone as arc the other
 beds and will then be used for the daily consumption of the furnaces.
 ore from 5lsbee.
 Every day two train loads of ore come down from Bisbee and are dump ! cd into these ore beds. One train load
 makes but little impression in the big | ihoie. Dozens of cars of custom ores | from all over southern Arizona and Sonora are brought in every day and dumped in with the Bisbee ores and | from five to ten car loads of concen- ttrstes from the Nacozari mines are | piled into the same ditch. It takes hundreds of car loads to fill up one ! ore bed. When the bed is about half ] full of ore a steam shovel is put to work and the ore is thoroughly mixed. | When tho orc bed is filled tO it's limits it is capped with a four foot layer of lime stone and it Is then ready for the shelter 4 steam shovel is put to work on it snd ore is loaded into the ittls ore cars which haul it on to the feed i.Oof of the smeiteT One shovel i iuli of ore weighing ton goes to each car and iH a shift of eight hours some s.g hundred ore cars are loaded and hauled 70 the smelter tO satisfy the never ccasing appetite cf the roaring innsccs. This ia part of the vast plant which the ordinary visitor tO tbe shelter does not see unless nc is hunt ing fcT specimens.
 The Reserve Ore 6sdy.
 IR addition tO the four ore beds. two nf wAich ars kept iull al the time, the shelter has enlarged ifs reserve ore bed unlii it Is a monster to size. This is tha mn bed but has never | been used and wiil not be unless some accident should happen and the sup | ply ln The other beds be exhausted, thea fha reserve body could be drawn lupan This reserve bed is double the alzn oi either pf the other beds and is auilt up with orc nntil it stands more
 fhaa tweaiY feet ahaye the ground
 la top af the ore there b a railroad track running its eAtlrs length and eY- sry day hall 2 dozen to dozen cars lf ora lrom the Aushea mines are
 shpnlad upon t and their epntents ad- ded % the great body al reserve ore Toe orc pifs ara one 0l the most ln- | 'erestlng places about the big nlanl- Every carload % ore qF concentrates | Ia weighed Ehen brought ln and close tah is kept pu every ear that goes from the piti Co the smeiter Five steam alqYels are located ln the pits two of them are kept at WQrk loading pF mlxlag ore, one ia digging the new pll pne constantly under course of re-
 pairs and one reserve shovel always
 ready for use in case ol a break dOWn Eama five hundred pa0pla ara emDiug-