Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-16
AUTHORITY SAYS SHANNON IS
 SUPERB
Plenty of Ore, Low Costs and Ample Shelter Facilities Make It One of Best Prop critics in Arizona

BOSTON, June l5.-There has been some-recent excellent buying of Shan non stock based on the company's i'm proved position among the copper pro- ducers and the result of recent nego- tiations with the Arizona Copper Co. whereby the shannon will not have to build high line railroad, says the News Bureau.
 While President Amster was at Cliff. ton, Arizona, he was in conference with Hon. John Gill and J. G. Hopkins, of the Arzona Copper Co.,, at which meetings it was decided that the Ari. zona Copper Co. would build the new high line railroad connecting the mines with the smelters which would obviate any further damage, and in. terruption to copper production, by the annual floods The Arizona Co.,, in re- turn for the Shannon retiring from the railroad field, will give that con- pany material reduction in freight rates on both the Coronado Railroad, the Arizona & New Mexican Railrod and on the proposed new road when built. It will also reduce the cost of limestone to the shannon Co.,, all of which will effect a direct saving to 1 the shannon of about $100,O00 per an. mum. The building of the high line road will obviate interruptions to smelting operations by the floods, and i this should save the shannon Co. sev, ! eral hundred thousand dollars per an 1 mum. and save the Arizona Co., very much more.
 MT. Gill has been in Boston within the last few days closing the trans action between the two companies. He has sailed for Scotland
 1 One of the editors of the Boston | News Bureau recently visited the 1 shannon property at Clifton. This company is under the efficient man l agement of J. W. Bennie, who has haG long experience in his chosen pro | fession at the Rio Tinto, Mountain Copper and Greene, Consolidated com l panies.
 MT Bennie has had difficult proT osition to handle in the shannon, bu he>now has a complete reduction plan in every detail, concentrator, smelte and converter plant, and the mine in position to not only supply flo many years the present needs of 70
 tons of ore per day, but an increas
 in the output to 1000 tons per da. 1 posed to handle, will meet the il 1 creased smelting capacity when tn , new 1O00-ton furnace is placed in COT mission within a few weeks.
 This new furnace is the largest
 Arizona. The two present furnace
 have been put in thorough order. The are each of $50 tons capacity. Thes
 two furnaces have produced as hig
 as 40 tons of blister copper per day
 The regular output, however, runs b.
 tween 29 and 30 tons per day, an had not the cOncentrator lost severs
 days in May by reason of Hghtnin
 striking the plant, the Shannon Coz per output for May would have bee in excess of 100000 pounds. Wit the new furnace the shannon Co keeping one furnace as a spare, shoul produce regularly from 1,S00,000 t Z. 900, 900 pounds of copper per montf
 Of the present output of 700 ton of ore per day from the mines, 50 pc cent is concentrating and 40 per cen smelting ore.
 The company has been sufferini from lack of mining timbers due t an embargo by the railroads. Thi has necessitated the working over O SOTiS OIu uuLup5 lEOu "ulCu IAC SOAL pany has recovered S65, 900 in ne profits; also it has precented the com pany from getting at its best stope and during the last month it has beel taking more ore from open cuts ant upper levels. This trouble, however has now been overcome.
 It is estimated that the shannon Co has reserves of 600, 900 tons or ore On the Harrison level, the Shannon Co. has an ore body 800 feet long, Il
 to 40 feet wide, averaging 4 per cen copper, comparatively little of whicl has been extracted. Fifty per cent o this ore is smelting ore and 50 pc cent concentrating
 | There is no longer any question about the mine end of the Shannon
 proposition. It is steadily opening u
 more ore than it is extracting. Tn
 ore recovery from the shannon range
 between 45 and 50 pounds per JOE
 whereas the average ore recovery th
 past year, of its neighbor, tbe Ar1zon
 Copper Co, amounted to Ss pouno
 per ton.
 shannon mining costs are the loves
 in Arizona. ranging from $2.5O t'
 Q 75 per ton. Its ore bodies occur Il ienticuiar masses, measuring in place
 from POO to 300 feet, in width slnnlia
 to the ore bodies in Bisbee, Ely Can fornia. Bingham and other camps.