Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-07

Is extremely doubtful If there would have been a city on the present site had it not been for the Copper Queen company. The shelter was formerly at Bisbee, but after the construction of the E. P. & s. w. railroad 1t was deemed advisable by the directors of the Queen company. to remove Its shelter to another location and Doug las seemed the most advantageous spot for it to come to. At this time not even a townsite had been laid out here, but the far seeing officers of the company were wise in their choice of location and their wisdom has since been repeatedly shown. When 1t was announced that here would be located the great Queen smelter there was an immediate rush of settlers and theI townsite was laid out and the settle | ment commenced to thrive. This was in 1901, and ere the new reduction works were ready to open the little set clement mad important growth. This was hastened by the action of the c. & A. company in deciding to make the same move as the Queen, and while the latter was last to make the decis-
 ion, it was ahead in the completion of
 the works, for it was not until March,
 1904, that the Copper Queen shelter
 was opened up and put in operation.
 But from the inception of the town
 Douglas has had the advantage of the constant care, watchfulness and benfi-
 cence of the company which was re spQnsible for her existence and has had her interests constantly promoted | tty that company.
 When the plant was opened in | March. 1904, there were but five blast
 furnaces, all much smaller than those
 now in use, and a sufficient number
 of converter stands to accommodate
 them, and though this equipment was then considered well in advance of the
 needs it required constant enlarge ments and increase until today there
 are ten furnaces in the plant. The lconstruction of the original plant was
 one fraught with difficulties and re
 quired infinite patience so difficult was
 it to get the needed building materials
 and supplies through as required. Thus
 was the plant two and one-half years
 in course of construction under the df
 rection of our present mayor, w. M
 IAdamson. The ten furnaces are toda!
 installed in a building 160xS00 feet il
 dimensions and it requires a dail!
 charge of from 5000 to S50O tons, or
 monthly charge of upwards of 100,0O'
 tons of ore, coke and limestone t
 keep them going to the full capacity. Il
 addition to the furnaces there are il
 this building eight batteries of boil CTS, each of 800 horse power. No. 1 furnace was completed in the past yea and other and larger furnaces ar now in contemplation which will b dwelt upon later in this article.
 | The power house, including the at l ditions made in the past year, is 40 I feet long with a breadth of 110 fec l and is filled with the most moder \ and improved machinery. In the pas year the additions in this respect col sisted of two new $50 horse powe < blower engines with blowers and th i total capacity of the power house $ $500 horse power.
 ! There are 500 tons of coke and 5C I tons of barren limestone required \ run the shelter every day to it's ma $ imum capacity, exceeding 3500 and a \ preaching 4O0O tons,, and it will read < lily be seen that such an immense inst ! tuition must give employment to | small army of men, which is the cas- $ for when running in full force the T & duction works give employment k about 1900 operatives and the pay rC 8 exceeds the vast sum of a million al & a quarter dollars, year, or is upwar $ of sIOO,000 each month.
 & The side tracking from the railro; S to the smelter and fn and about | E works aggregate upwards of twent E one miles and each day there $ brought in over these tracks over oi S hundred car loads of ore to be treate $ In the sampling works alone 105 m E are employed. an increase of thir E or nearly fifty per cent of the for E which was employed in this depa E ment year ago.
 & Of course, the works were original g built with the primary purpose E treating the ores from the compah! E own mines, but as it will readily E seen from the location chosen, the $ was an important secondary object $ the handling of custom ores and E such an extent has this branch gro' E that in some months of the past ye & the company has treated as much S 40 900 tons of this class of ore and & day the Copper Queen smelter is 1 E second largest in the world.
 E The reduction of operating expen: & to the minimum figure consistent W E the obtaining of the best service a H results is the watchword of succ' N in these early years of the twenti' E century, and, of course, to this ( E the Copper Queen company S worked and here has met with s E cess, and yet to the uniformed
 E absolutely necessary expense of
 $ conducting of such a vast undertak
 & as is here carried on seem appalli