Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-04-03
(Frsm Wednesdays Daily.)

Unless unforeseen circumstances arlso to prevent. Prescott. within a year, will have in operation. within it's pre- cincts. a s5OO. 900 shelter, which it is iateudcd Co enlarge within three years isto one of the most modern sm'lting, ro6ning and reduction plants in all the west.
 !. W. uoileau. well known mining man of Detroit, Mich. and inventor ot "A number of pieces of mining machin' cry and appliances, is fathcring the proicct. and has submitted to the city council n proposition whereby hc hopes to secure nincty-ninc year lease upon 80 acres of the Dukc Ranch. on which site it is thc intention to locate thc shelter.
 In accordance with the articles nf agreement submitted to the council, Mr. Boilcau pledges. in return for the lease, to commence the building of the plant within siN months of tho date of acceptance Wl AN' A-i'fNA'hAs hN' 'H' ther binds himself to have the shelter in operation within year pr forfeit tA. icasc and nll machinery and i'm. movements that may hc upon thc ground nt the end of that time.
 Hc stipulatcs that the initial plant will cost nt least sJ0O,000. and adds that he confidently expects to enlarge 1t within three years of the time of its completion into smclting and rchu' ing plant larger and more prctcntious thnn any similar plant in this part of the country.
 In detail. according to Mr. B0ilcau, who discussed his plans quite freely last evening with JournalMincr rep. rcscntativc, the different departments and appliances of the plant will be as varied as the resources of the country tributary to ii. and all the machinery installed will be of the most modern type. Tho plant will bc constructed on the gravity system, and as near au. tomaiic as it is possible for human in gcnuity and modern methods to make it.
 Electrical appliances of the latest design will be installed in the differ. ent departments and the institution when fully equipped. will, according to Mir. lioileau, represent an outlay of between s3,500,000 and sJ,000,00O, and will bc m readiness to treat all char Aetcr of ores found in this seGu.1 Of the country, inc nding h.s. grade lead zine, silicious gold and rcbellious cop. per ores, as well as aluminium. large bodies of which, Mir. Boileau, after an exhaustive two months research hero is sure exist in this district.
 That the shelter will be success from the blowing in of its first furnae. is demonstrated by what Mir. Boilcau terms the natural resources required in the smclting, refining and treating of ores which exist here, with the sole cs' ception of fuel oil. which can be i'm ported from ihc oil fields of California at reasonable rates.
 at reasonable cost.
 ''I have travelled from \. atcs to Mexico, from the Bri,,sa possessions t0 South America. declared Mir Isoileau, "and l can truthfully state that from my observations believe ihe belt of country lying between the Grand Canyon of Arizona ani inc Tc public of Mexico will, in the course of II few years, become the greatest mineral producing stretch of country in all the world.'
 While this assertion is rather broad Mr. Bolaau is by no means alone in his opinion. as many local and Terri torial mining men believe the same, ana that Prescott is in the heart of the mining districts lying adjacent to the northern portion of this great mining belt, and therefore n logical and ideal spot for smelting and refining opera lions, is q self evident fact.
 The building of tho shelter upon th, proposed site, the Duke Ranch, which is but one and onc-half miles from ,hI city limits, would remove 1t far enough from the city so that the noise and smoke would not affect tho nhabitant, in the least, and still leave it within easy walking distance for those cm ploycd at the plant who desired to rc side in Prescott, although it K said that with tho completion of the plan, the Prescott and Mount Union street railway would be extended to inc smeltor.
 The building of such plant, and thc employing of laborers necessary tc