Arizona republican., 1908-02-02

propriately named Sasco by assem-
 bling the initial letters of each word
 comprising the name of the smelteT company. By the increase of business
 at the junction point. Red Rock. there
 has been small addition to the pop
 ulation also. so that the operations of
 the men behind the Imperial concerns
 have developed gone of business
 prosperity twenty miles long, from Red 1 Rock to Silver Bell. aside from the
 benefits accruing to the various stock
 holders and tO the world by the in
 creased production of valuable met al A feature of the company'S busi-
 ness also is q merchandising estab-
 lishment with d good stock and vol
 ume of business that is remunerative.
 Though the mine. the shelter and
 the railroad are each operated by a
 separate company. final ownership vests in the same stockholders for the most part. The separate companies were created as a policy of better or ganiZation. that each branch of the
 business might show its own merits,
 and if any should fail of profitable re- turn the cause might more easily be determined. Moreover. there are many
 other properties in the same section under development and likely to be developed. The railroad will and does do a considerable volume of business independent of company haulage and the shelter will when the proper time arrives handle custom ores thus ad- ding tO its own profits and incidental ly being of great developing service ! to other companies not yet condition
 ed for handling their own ores This makes separate organizations decided ly advisable.
 The approximate amount of develop
 ment of the mine is eight miles of drifts. tunnels, crosscuts, shafts, etc. d goodly distance for an underground jaunt for one who seeks to promenade in out of the way places. The great
 est depth attained is 500 feet vertical.
 also a goodly distance from sunshine if one is much fond of it. The main shaft has three compartments to the
 6O0-ft. level and three from that point
 to the bottom. The Union shaft has two , compartments to the 3j0-foot level and three from that point to the bottom. ! Most of he ore comes from these shafts 1 but a considerable quantity is being { taken from the tunnels. of which there are ten. each showing a large body. of
 ore The longest of these tunnels is ! 1900 feet.
 1 A vast amount of machinery is in 1 use at the mine. There are three 200- ; horsepower hoiStS and numerous smaller ones Twelve 60-horsepower | boilers comprise the steam equipment. | A Nordberg compound condensing air ! compressor. with a capacity of 5000 { cubic feet per minute. is in commits sion. There is considerable water in 1 the mine. and large. pumps are raising 25O.000 gallons per day. In addition to i this d concentrating mill to be oper- ! ated by electric power transmitted 7 from the smelting plant. is fast near
 ing completion. This plant will have
 d capacity of 300 tons per day. About
 350 men are employed at the mine. 1 The smelting plant has been con- 1 structed with q present capacity of $50 ] tons per day. but the idea of eXpan- sion has been constantly in mind, and
 it is the expectation of the company { in d very few years to be handling 1000 tons of ore per day. The pres ent furnace is 43 inches by 192 inches.
 but space in the building has been left A mace, duplicate of the present one. and 1t has already been ordered, so. that in a short time the plant will i have a capacity of zoo tons.
 Electricity is used in the operation
 of the shelter in all departments
 where it is desirable. The electric plant ! has a capacity of $50 kilowats or S70
 horsepower, but is mentioned above, a
 ffg.,
 used at the mine, or will be. for run
 ming the cOncentratOr and for auxil- | iary purposes. The charge cars and i bullion cars at the shelter are oper-
 ated by electricity as well as the crane ! and converters. In fact all power dis
 tribution is by electricity. Motors of
 40 volt induction are used.
 The ore will be handled from the
 mines in steel bottom dump cars of ] 100000 pounds capacity. which will run directly over the storage bins at
 the shelter. these bins having cap-
 acity of 1000 tons and ample provisioil { for extension. The sampling mill. steel sampiing floors, etc. are on the line of
 the spur track leading to the ore bins. ! The ore bins are provided with weigh hoppers. which empty in the charge : cars, each of d capacity of 3S cubic | feet. These are handled in trains by motor directly to the feed floor of the shelter and dumped directly into the ! furnace.
 1 Elliptical settlers will be provided 1 between furnaces so each furnace will | have an alternate settler in the event
 of difficulty. The slag overfiows from | the settler into ton slag trucks on i standard gauge tracks, the tracks be- ! ing handled to the dump by small locomotive and dumped by compressed i air cylinders. Two stands of S4X126 | inch electrically turned converters,
 with cast steel heads, are provided. the matte being handled from the set 1 tiers to the converters in steel ket-
 ties by a 50-ton crane having a 45- | foot span. The converter hoods have i an independent stack and dust cham { Der and three extra shells are pro-
 vided for each converter stand X
 dust chamber of $50 square feet. cross section by 100 feet length is provided.
 The main stack connecting with the
 dust chamber is F feet in diameter by
 175 feet high. The initial boiler plant consists of four Morrison Internal Cor | rugated furnace boilers of marine type 10 1-2 feet in diameter by 15 feet