Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-05
In a Letter Written to Boston Commercial He Gives the Property a High Value and Predicts Great Future.
New Reduction Plant of the Old Dominion Company Is UaQuestionably One of the Best in the World.

George l.. Walker. who was recent ly in Globe. deyotes large space in the last number of the Boston Commer- cial to the Old Dominion mine. Fol lowing Is an excerpt from his article:
 "The new reduction plant of the Old Dominion company is unquestionably one of the very best of its size in the world. Although it Is said to have been brought to its present stage of completion by total expenditure Of $1 ,500. GOO. it looks like a $2,0O0, 900 plant, and I do not believe 1t could be duplicated for any less than the last named sum. It is 2O0O to 22OO-ton plant, but the large amount of con- centrates and other fine material it is smelting are cutting it's capacity down temporarily.
 Handling ordinary run-of-mine and custom ores, each of the Old Domin- ions four furnaces will smelt 425 to 450 tons daily. and its mill will reduce 325 tons daily of low grade ore into 100 tons of concentrates. An addi- ton to the mill, which will increase its daily capacity from 325 to 800 tons, is nearly completed. Its converter capacity is more than sufficient to take care of the output of the furna- ces, and the equipment of all depart ments of its works is admirably bal anced.
 The plant is served by three or four miles of standard and narrow gauge railroad, which, with its locomotives and cars, is owned by the Old Domin- ion company The furnaces are charged by an electric trolley rail way, the ore, coke, limestone, etc, being weighed and dropped automat- ically into the cars, which are in turn dumped directly into the furnaces Every approved mechanical contriv- ane known seems to have, been secur- ed and made part of this gigantic machine, which is now sending l5O,- 900 pounds of copper into the worlds markets daily. There is a massive ness about the plant which makes it clear to the obseryer Iha every plan was dictated by an an unqualified confidence in the resources and per manency of the Globe copper district which it was designed to serve.
 The custom smelling business of the Old Dominion, already large, is growing rapidly. Over 800 tons Of custom ores came to the smelter last month from the small shipping mines of the Globe district alone. In addi- tion to this, nearly 1000 tons was re- ceived from the company's Continen- ta, mine. which was purchased. open ed and then abandoned by the Bige- low-Hyams management. A good vein, or pocket, of excellent high grade ore is being opened up in the Conu- mental. and though the ore has to be hauled fifteen miles by wagon, the operations are yielding the company a fair net profit. understand that the monthly shipments of ore from the United Globe mines yield about 6oO, ,0Oe pounds of copper, and they are being increased. The develop ments in the west ore body, previously referred to, have been responsible for the greatly improved buying demand for Old Dominion stock. It is already practically demonstrated that 4lis body of ore Is fully 200 feet long, 100 feet wide and 200 feet deep, and it carries from 10 to 20 per cent. copper. I understand that the extraction of a portion of Its tonnage from this ore body had brought the average yield of all the smelting ores from the Old Dominion mine up to 10 per cent previous to the fire. though the pres ent average of the ores from the east