Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-10


 over the Nacozari railroad. The in- terested passenger leaves the city of Douglas about o'clock in the after noon and rides till 6:15 p. m., when he arrives at Nacozari, usually sur prised and delighted.
 The town contains about 2000 in- habitants, of which, perhaps, 500 are "gringoes," as the Mexicans call Americans. It is situated on rolling mesa about a half mile in diameter and is substantially built with neat tidy appearing cottages and houses, the homes of the married population. The home of MT. J. s. Douglas, the power that moves all things in this section. is a broad, low, imposing building, overlooking the city. It Is surrounde with yerandas and looks cool and comfortable. There are sey eral other fine buildings including the Nacozari hotel, the Moctezuma Cop per company's store, the hospital and the unmarried mems rooming apart ments. All of these buildings are sub stantiaIly built with lumber, brick, adobe and stone. The lumber comes from the United States.
 The mountains about the city give to it romantic and picturesque ap- pearance not unlike many places in the old world. The mountains are not far away and loom up grandly in the rays of the morning sun. Mount Nacozari, a trifle southwest of the town, Is the highest peak between the city and the United. States boundary, excepting Parico mountain near Cos. The city is absolutely owned and controlled, body, soul, and brooches, by "the company" as most of the 'gringoes" familiarly call the Mocte- zIma Copper company. This concern is owned by the Phelps Dodge com pany of New York. Mir J. s. Douglas is the general manager for this com pany, and in Nacozari is an absolute monarch. His word is law and none dispute it. But like his namesake, the old Scottish earl he Is just. His brain works when others sleep, and 1 he has made Nacozari the cleanest and most sanitary of the large mining camps in the Mexican republic. He has written success" on the opera | tions of the great concentrating cop per plant there. 1t was his genius | that made the NacozaTi railroad 8 ] safe and paying proposition; he is universally respected by every man.
 woman and child in Nacozari and VI, cinity-
 Not a foot of land can be bought by anyone in Nacozari. It all belongs I to the Moctezuma Copper company. Every building was erected by 1t and they are rented to employees at very reasonable price There Is no skin
 game played and there is no gougeing i It is always a square deal and the peo- pie seem to be satisfied and content ed. The hotel, store, rooming house and hospital are all under the con. trol of the company Through the town flows the MocteZuma river, a bablfng, meagerly-watered stream in summer time, on it's way to join the 1 YaQui river away to the south. It is l spanned by a long iron rail bridge i Across this stream a few minutes walk from the hotel is the great re duction plant of the Moctezuma Cop per company Day and night for 365 days in 8 year this plant is in opera l ton and employs, with the mines six miles away, more than one thous
 and men. Ten mammoth engines ir the Dig structural steel powerhouse 1 furnish the power that crushes to 8 I fiour-Iilae paste seven hundred tons o1 copper ore every twenty-four hours The gang ur waste is dumped into the MocteZu ma river and carried away by the water when the stream is aflood The concentrates (the part of the | crushed ore containing yalues) art all saved by machinery and sent tC the great smelter at Douglas. Thi: mighty mass of ore, reaching the enoT nous amount of 255, 800 tons annually is brought from the mines of the com pany, six miles away, over narrow I guage steam railroad in dump cars 4 These cars move in a winding route down the mountain and crawl out or an elevated tTamway over great bini
 capable of holding 5000 tons each
 here they are dumped and the trair
 returns to the big, black tunnel in tht
 hills for another gTist of the red met
 al rock.
 I From the great ore bins the roci l-goes into giant-lfke crushers and il ground to pieces and made smaller. l again drops down into another crush
 CT and made still smaller; then dowI again it goes only to meet the might.
 iron teeth of another machine; ant
 go it keeps moving downward througl Icrushers until is becomes as fine ai
 flour. Somewhere the near the tol
 of the plant a stream of water i
 turned into the crushers and sweep the pulyerized rock down througl many artificial channels to the van ners where the last act of concentrat ling Is done. There are forty-eight o
 these Yanners. each about six fee
 wide and made of rubber-coated can
 vas. They are ali in a line, nearl.
 fiat and constantly shaking like a mal
 with the Michigan ague. The heav, metallic parts of the ore, fine as flour go over the end of a vanner and set tie in prepared receptac1es and th' lighter parts. called gang, float on il the thin stream of water that carrie them. One hundred and twenty-fy' | tons of concentrates are saved dail, and sent to Douglas to be smelted The building that contains the ma chinery to run this plant is nearly ont hundred feet high from top to base three hundred feet long and twenty five feet wide. More than one hun dred and ninety tons of belting ar'
 used on the thousand and one wheel great and small The concentratini plant is under the able direction O
 Mir. A. L. Berner.
 But the management and direction
 of the entire business of the plan from end to end is under the charg
 of Mir. J. s. Williams, Jr., a compara
 lively young man. He stands next il
 power to MT. Douglas and is a quie bright-eyed man and a great genera in his business. He is ever alert i, prompt and decisive.
 The mines, six miles distant, ar under the direction of Mir. Georg Kingdom, an expert mining engineer