Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-05
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B. B. Thayer of the Amalgamatet Conner Company says:

B. B. Thayer of the Amalgamated Copper Company says:
 Never has the physical condition lof the Amalgamated properties been so good as 1t is at present. The yari- ous groups of mines and smelters are hcertainly amalgamated in name, oper- ation and management for the first time in their history.
 Great changes have been worked in welding the varioss companies into one organization and the economies taat have been affected are most grat- flying. Costs or production have been greatly reduced, and by the use of scientific methods applied to blast fur naees, reverberators. concentrators and compressoTs the output has not orly been increased, but the cost of the work has decreased.
 While much has been accomplished in economical operation we are plan ming still further economies and larger output. The management is applying electricity wherever practi- cable and by the use of electrical pow CT We have shown that it has cut our power cost in two. Electrical pow CT will be used entirely at the great Washoe concentrator; the compress ors at Anaconda will also be driven by electrical energy.
 "The Amalgsmated Company has decided to increase the output of the Washoe smelter from $500 tons of ore a day to 10000 tons. Similarly. the Great Falls smelter's capacity is to be increased from 3700 tons day to 400 tons. Our total daily capacity for treating ore will therefore be about 15.000 tons a day. The Great Falls plant will smelt the output of the Bos- ton & Montana mines and the Washoe, the largest in the country will treat the ore of the following: Anaconda, Butte & Boston, Trenton Development Company, Washoe, Parrot, the North Butte, and eventually it is expected that the output of the Butte Coalition Company viii be treated by the big Washoe smelter. Its output is now treated by the old Heinze smelter,"
 When asked regarding the finds of copper at lower levels of the Anacon- da. MT. Thayer said; Our develop Ment work las been encouraging, and Sood veins of copper have been found in the Anaconda at the 2o00, 2200 and 2400-foot levels. We have tapped fine bodies of high grade ores at these levels. Preparations are now being made to put in air connections at these levels and when completed stoping will be started"
 MT. Thayer also said the engineers appointed iDy the Butte Coalition Co. anA 3ho k,osioap,atad Conpar Tn ta erbitrate the differences between those companies have completed their work and approved plan which will be submitted to the airectorates of the companies.
 After six weeks consultation" he continued, "the body of engineers for mulated a plan of settlement which we feel confident will meet the approval of all concerned. These papers are to be presented at an early date to the boards of directors of the two companies, and later special meet ings of the stockholders of the two companies will be called to obtain ap- provaI of the stockholders. Properties will be sold and exchanged, and the enlargement of stockholders will be obtained to a plan whereby the two companies will work vein that was formerly in dispute. Recent devel opment work on the Butte Coalition has shown much new ore.
 Butte is prosperous. The miners have steady work and there is no longer the old fear of shutdowns at the mines for indefinite periods through injunctions. Bank deposits are at record figures, and more build ing is in progress now than at any time during the last five years"