Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-20

the population of Csnanea at cor responding date.
 Resources.
 The resources of the Nacozari field are. primarily, constitutionally and ev- .erlastingly of vast importance to the city of Douglas, meaning a greater port for the smelter city, revenues and perhaps metropolitanism. The big Pilares mine has proven itself the greatest single, continuous, compact orebody in the southwest, not except ing Cananea or the United Verde. This one mine, constituting as it does practically one ore body, is, with its present system of development, capa- ble of producing approximately five thousand tons of ore every twenty-four hours
 As a whole it will average about 2 per cent. beautifully adapted to con centrating as demonstrated from the fact that the old, or present concen- trator with a normal capacity Of 4oO tons per day is just handling 700 tons without the slightest difficulty. Be sides this, the mine boasts a high grade body of shipping ore, about for ty feet in thickness and Of undeter- mined depth and linear extent. Alter long years Of mining and development since the days when the Guggenheim management was in the saddle, the magnitude of this ore body and US mighty extent is as bewildering as ever.
 Other properties in the district have in the aggregate developed resources approaching this wonderful showing while to the southeast the district has shown a remarkable tendency toward expansion in the matter of surface extent. As a general proposition, the district is as yet in its babyhood, wlth future pregnant with inconcelVable possibilities.
 The New Concentra:or. The new concentratOr, half mile below the old one on the same side of the river, is slowly taking form. the foundation work being practically completed. The plan of the work sug' gests solidity, it's scale ana scope, I'm mensity. In the selection of the site, most admirable judgment and discern ment have been exercised, broad, bold, regular hillside providing ade' auate and uniform fali and room for infinite extensions. Regularity, stabli' iity and permarence are marked con spicuously on every feature or the work. The progress of this enterprise \ has been seriously retarded by reas' on of a material and skilled labor Ia mine which has obtained to certain extent ever since the great work be gan.
 l It is calculated that it will be about eighteen months before the stupen dous work can be completed. When tin operation it will represent a ca
 pacity of 1500 tons per day, while the 1 old concentrator will be remodeleC and brought up to a normal capacity of 750 tons, making the total capacity 2250 tons, with plans already under
 consideration for further extensions This of course involves the erection of a new powerhouse. The founda tions for this house are already near ing completion and include immens'
 coal bins, the management conclud ing to abandon the gas system ant adopting the steam turbine plan. Th' main stack will be 160 feet in neigh
 and the whole plant strictly moderl
 in every detail. The powerhouse IS ol the right side of the road going int INacoZari and close into the town. Tn
 turbines will generate electricity which will be transmitted to the con ceatrators less than a mile away. In the old concentratOr a loss i Isustained of from 15-100 to 60-1O0 pc cent, some of the obstinate shines car rying away one per cent, while unde the new system this loss will be re
 duced to trace.
 The scale and magnitude of the nc7
 works suggests cutting out whOleSal
 business for future generations. Thi
 great enterprise, perfect in every plal and detail, commands the admiration
 of all visitors, while the Pilares higI Iline carried in on an increased eleva
 ton has been cut around the crest O
 the mountain at Q tremedOus expens
 to facilitate the feeding of the yora
 cious plant below.
 Down in the camp a solid city i in evidence. No tents, no shacks. n , tin mansions nor lumber firetraps-al is brick and stone and concrete an structural steel.
 , The new gymnasium is as handsom ; and commodious as if it had bee , planned by a multi-millionaire. A large school building is in cours . of construction, which, from its d ; mensions, is calculated to anticipat
 the inevitable and rapid increase i | the population of the camp in the in mediate future.
 It is overpoweringly evident tha } Nacozari is preparing to don her Ion } dresses between now and the lou l when the blue birds depart for tn
 southland.