Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-02
WILL ASSIST
MINERS WITH
IGPETI7ION
REFUSAL OF CHECKS CLOSES
DOWN GIBSON
Copper Queen Keeps Six Furnaces
Going, Calumet and Arizona
Three--Additions Are
Being Made
sr.ciai To rha Herald.

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 1.-Having re-
ceived a promise from Governor Kibbey
that he will assist them in every way
possible, the mining men of Globe have
started movement to petition congress
to suspend assessment work on mining
claims in arizona until January, lsV9.
The condition of the stock and. money
markets and the consequent depression In
mining circles is given as the reason for
this move. The Globe chamber of COM
merce has held a session and is asking
every mining district in tie territory to
Join with 1t. The plan Is to send q
bill to Delegate Mark Smith, asking him
to introduce it at the coming session.
The Gibson mine at Globe is practically
closed down, seventy out of the eighty
men remaining at work at the mine be-
ing discharged. The shutdown, however.
is not the result of the low price of cop
per, as the company was getting fair re-
turns on it's thirty to forty tons shipped
daily to the Old Dominion smelter. The
real cause of the shutdown was, accord
ing to an official of the company, de-
mand made by the men employed at the
mine for currency in exchange for their
labor instead of checks. About ten men
are still employed by the company, and
these will be used in sinking the new
three compartment shaft, which is now
down to the 300 level.
After ten days suspension of opera
tions at the Mallory or obe-Boston
shaft of the Globe Consolidated company.
pending the granting of an extension for
the final payments on the property ac-
quired by the company, work has been
resumed with the same force of men as
employed before the shutdown. The lat
eral work on the $50 level was resumed
and will be vigorously pushed.
The Monica Mines company has pur-
chased a new mill and concentrating
plant, to be installed at it's properties in
| the kirkland district at once. The plant
will consist of ten-stamp mill, concen-
trating and cyanide plant.
| There has been nothing of special in
terest connected with the operation of
| the smelters at Douglas since the cur
| tailment of production two months ago
| The Copper Queen continues to operate
| six furnaces and the Calumet and Ari-
zons three. At the Queen the addition of
| fifty feet to the power house has been
| completed and new blowing engines are
being installed, so that when the time
comes again for maximum operation
everything will be in readiness. There is
nothing being done on the proposed 125
foot addition to The west end of the main
smelter building at the Queen, for which
the foundation work was completed dur
ing the summer. A large amount of ma
terial for this addition is on the ground
and the structure could be erected sim
ultaneously with the building of the new
furnaces to be covered by 1t. The addi-
ton to the power house has been con
structed to accommodate two blower en-
gines, which indicates that two new blast
furnaces are contemplated for the future
At the Calumet and Arizona there has
been no attempt to hurry the new con-
struction work, which, according to
plans, will more than double the capacity
of the plant, but this work is going on
without stop. The new power house is
now nearly completed and much of the
heavy machinery has been placed.
Word has been received in Tucson
that the Arizona-Apache Mining com.
pany, whose operations at its mines
H. the keystone mining district had sus-
pended during the recent slump In cop
per- will resume active operations about
January l.
Mining men from Silver Bell state that
the 150-ton concentrator of the Cleveland
Arizona company is being operated in a
very successful manner and that the
company is going steadily ahead with its
work in the mines, which are located just
adjacent to the town of Silver Bell.
The Cleveland-Arizona concentrator has
been in operation for several weeks and
has been handling only the company ores.
Work is progressing on the big 350-ton
concentrator which the Imperial Copper
company is erecting also at Silver Bell
This concentration will handle low grade
ores from the Silver Bell mines before
they are sent to the Smelter at Sasco.
The smelter at Sasco is rapidly nearing
completion and people who have just
come from there state that there are in
dications that the big plant will be COM
pleted by January l, 1908, which was the
time set originally.