Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-10
CONDITIONS AT CANANEA
 AS THEY REALLY EXIST
Enough People On Pay Rolls At Present to Fill Companys Wants When the Mines Are Started - Resumption
 of Operations Is Not In Sight at Present Time.
(By Joseph l. Conn. )

CANANEA, Sonora, Mexico, May
 9--Inasmuch as the press at large
 has been publishing runners regard
 ing the resumption of operations oI
 the Greene -Cananea company, the
 most important company in the cop per world located in the southwest, it
 is also a fact that much uncertainty prevailed in each article published. The resumption of operations OlI a scale equal to that Of a year ago Is still in the distant future. nothing definite covering this poflt yet being known, even to the directors themselves. Hundreds of miners and skilled mechanics have bee; fockng to this camp for the pact few months, only to return to the states disappointed in their efforts to se- cure employment This i-npetuous arrival of workingmen is of no bene- fit to the camp and also burden uY on themselves. The incoming of la bcrers is responsible for the reports current in the states regarding I1e inanimate conditions here. In truth the conditions here are much better than reported, about 1900 men being employed in the camp, HOO ot whom being engaged by the Greene Cananea company. No more help is needed by the companies at pres ent, and workingmen should keep away from Cananea for some ti-ne, eight or ten months at least.
 At the present time the Greeue- Cananea company has enough men on their pay rolls to fill their wants when they do resume operations. even on the scale as when they closed down some months ago. This Tact is due to the labor-saying de vices installed and the labor-ssYing improvements made in the various departments of the company's plant, including the smelter, mines, conceu- trator, etc. This can also be said of the Democreta Mining company, which is located in the heart Of ure camp, near the Veta Grande mine of the Greene-Cananea. This com pany is at present employing about fifty men, and the company will not resume smelting their product until copper has reached a price wn1cn would warrant the manufacture of the red metal at profit.
 The Democrata nas Gone no ue~ work at their surface equipment, their attention being directed to un- derground development and eXplora- tion work The smefer was installed last year, and had been running bu, a short time when they were forced to discontinue operations on account of the depreciation in the price of copper.
 The Greene-Cananea company has been actively engaged in altering
 ,tT haip ment, although quite a little labor mas been devoed to exploration and development work at the various mines in it's possession. Repair work on an extensive scale has been pursued, and when they do re- suzne, the company will be able to manuf ufacture copper at a price sever al cents cheaper than before the shutdown. This condition is also the result of the installation of much Iabor-saving devices and the complete rebuilding of the ore-hand- ling apparatus and also the smelter equipment.
 At the smelter before the shut down there were eight furnaces, seven Of which were of different patterns, and nearly all of which had been in active service since their installation, varying from one to seven years in time. These have been replaced by eight new fur nances wnich are the outcome of the experimental work done with the old types, and embody all the good points contained in the various diff ferent types in use previously. The new furnaces have been installed 1Jl hlHil 10 structure remains intact, no alterar tions being made whatever. The furnaces are the result of the efforts of the superintendent of the reduc- ton plant, Mir C. A Shelby, and the corps of engineers employed by tBe company, embodying the good points of the various designs of the old fur naces. A careful study was made T the seven different types of furnaces from July, 1906 to the end of that year, and since which time much la bor has been expended in the pIan- ming of the new furnaces.
 The capacity of the reduction plant now doubles that of the former equipment, with the same floor space. The Former capacity was 50,000 tons of ore per month, and the new plant VIII De dDit JO nauOl6 lbO,VUo Nhcu in full force. The economy displayed in the new plant is shown by the fact that the smelter will be able to treat 5000 tons of ore per day with one-haf the number of men it took two years ago when the plant was treating 1,700 tons or 2,2O0 tons at the time of the shutdown. This will save the company in labor alone between $500 and $350 (gold per day, quite an item in the pay roh.
 Bat where the greatest saving will be displayed will be in the system of handling the ore All the ore will be brought by train from the various mines and the concentrator and de Iivered into steel and wooden bins, where it will be segregated and weighed. the >Eeights being made known, as will also be done with the fuxes. From the bottom of these bins the ore will be drawn out onto a belt conveyor and delivered to the mixing bed system, of which there are three beds of from 5000 to 10,- 900 tons capacity each. In each bed !! perfect self-fuxing mixtures will be made, all ready for the furnaces, in charges of the above mentioned weights (s,000 to 10000 tons.) When ona charge ie cornDlpfe inc reclaim