Arizona republican., 1906-01-11
HUMBOLDT TOWNSHIP
 COVERED WITH ORE
The Arizt nA Smelling Company is
 Now Ready for Business.

c. E. Finney, general manager of the Arizona Smelling company, and E. W. Brooks, the purchasing agent of the company, came down from Pres colt yesterday, accompanied by w. A. Drake, general superintendent. and F. A. Jones, general passenger and freight agent of the s. F. P. & P, and a son of MT. Kinney, who is here dur ing the holiday vacation of the school he is attending in California. The en- tire party will today begin a tour of the principal mines and prospects in the various districts penetrated by the Phoenix & Eastern and the Arizona & California railroads. The purpose is to familiarize themselves with avail able ore supplies and place before owners and possible shippers the in- ducements offered by the new smelter at Humboldt. The party will go to Kelvin on this mornings train, and from there to other nearby districts. Returning, a tour will be made of the desert section west of Wickenburg. MT Kinney and Mir Brooks expect to be back in Phoenix again on the after noon Of the 14tn and can be found then at the Hotel Adams.
 
 would be running, MT. Kinney said it is running now, sc far as the neces- sities of the miner and ore seller are concerned. The small sampler is in operation and the company is buying all the ore it can get hold of at a proper figure. It can't get too much, for it is desired that when reduction once begins there shall be no shutting ! II .l- z n ference with transportation. There is now approximately fourteen CT fif- teen thousand tons on the dump, and, as MT. Drake said, 'it looks like the whole townsite was covered with it." Nevertheless. there is room yet to pile all taat can be bought and MT. Finney said he hoped to double the supply on hand by the time reduction begins. The smelling enterprise is one of great magnitude, and has been planned for enlargement just as soon as the available ore supply warrants it. The grading of the site and the tracks, switches and planning of the buildings has all been done on the scale of 1. 1.5OO-ton daily reducing capacity. Fur naces are in now for only 600 tons of copper ore. which plant it is expected
 
 the 1st of February. But 600 tons daily will soon eat a hole into the re- serve of twenty-fiv or thirty thou sand tons hoped for to start Wlth' so it can hardly be conceived that plant Of that kind will be embarrassed by too much ore being offered. And the installation of additional furnaces is very small matter when the ore is available and the plant has been con- structed with that object in view In addition to the furnaces for the reducing of copper ore, it is designed to have other furnaces for the reduc- ing of lead ore. These furnaces Will be ready in a few months and will have a capacity of 200 tons daily
 There will also be large sampling ia = cilities and everything known to the science of smelling that can effect economy or quantity of product.
 As mentioned above, there need pe no delay in sending ore to the smelt- CT now. for it is bought and paid for at once. so the miner and prospector can get just as quick returns as though the reduction plant were already turn ing out the finished product. This Is !, understood and appreciated in many districts and large quantities Of ore are arriving daily, but there are yet other mine operators who do not seem 10 re- alize the market already provided TOT their ores. All YaVapai is enthuslas- tic over the new enterprise, and al ready there is renewed activity IT. many of the nearby districts, which are taking advantage of the new mar ket.