Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-08
COPPER QUEEN SMEL 1ERIBONDED DtBl CANCtltU
New Converter Blast Main Completed Last Week and
 Connections Made.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC MAKES
 FAVORABLE RATES.

At the Copper Queen shelter the work of enlarging the plant Is being pushed ahead. No. 3 furnace has been completed in its overhauling and is back in commission. The five origi- nal furnaces were rated at 250 tons per day capacity. They are being torn down and made very nearly as large as the three new furnaces erected last gear, which were of 400 tons capacity. The original building will not allow the making of the old furnaces quite as large as those last built.
 No. 4 furnace will be torn down and rebuilt during the present month, and its capacity will thus be enlarged. No. g furnace is being built in the smell ter machine shops of the Fl Paso Foundry company. It is expected that this furnace will be ready for opera tion probably by the first of the year.
 The most important event of the past week at the Queen shelter was the completion of a new converter blast main. This immense main, which is connected with six blowing engines, will carry sufficient air to supply twelve converters. The six blowing engines connected with this main will supply 50,000 cubic feet of air each minute.
 Work has begun on a reyerberatory furnace which Is to be built as an ex- pertinent. This furnace will be To- cated in the slag yard south of Nos. 6 and ' furnaces. A similar furnace was recently completed at Morenci by the Detroit Copper company and the results are reported to be entirely satisfactory, sufficiently so to warrant the construction of one here. While the managers at the smelter say this is an experiment, there is no doubt of it's feasibility. Some weeks ago 1t was reported that the Copper Queen would put in three of these reverber- atory furnaces and that each of these would have capacity of 100 tons. It is expected in future that ir addition to handling the slag in these reverSer- atory furnaces much of the fuel dust also will be treated in them.
 During the week there was received and put up for use a complete set of weather bureau instruments which were sent to the shelter by Professor Douglas from New York. These in- struments are said to be the finest in the West They will record the temperature, rainfall and the velocity of the wind The apparatus has been placed in the assay o1ice-
 Coke has been arriving in satisfac- tory quantities during the week, al though it is not now coming much in excess required for the daily supply, and the surplus pile amounts to about what would be used by the plant in sixty days. Much of the coke is now coming in the new ore and coke cars which were ordered built by the Et Paso & Southwestern after the pur- chase Of the eastern system and the Dawson coal fields. These cars dump their load from the bottom in the same manner as the ore cars which were put in use early last year. These new coal and coke cars will result in much economy in the fuel expense. as heretofore the coke has been re- ceived in all kinds of freight cars and unloaded by Mexicans at so much per ton. This unloading expense is saved by the new cars.
 The amount Of custom ore received at the Queen is increasing every week. Besides the converter lining ore that has been coming from Globe there is now coming from that district much good copper. It is expected that there will be more of the custom ore from various points tributary to the Southern Pacific in the future, as that railroad has just issued a favorable tariff on ores to Douglas from all points on it's line. Ore continues to come from Imperial and several other districts in Pima county. Consider able ore has been received from New Mexico. It is the intention of the Copper Queen company to go vigor- ously into the market for custom ores now that the Southern Pacific has published its new rates to Douglas.