Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26
MOCTEzUMACO.
 CONCENTRATOR
 READY IN APRIL
New Mill Will Have Capacity of Two Hundred Tons Daily Construction Work Is Max ing Excellent Progress.

The very latest Jews from Sonor;
 IS to the effect that the new 2,000 toI 1 concentration, along with the powei
 house in course of construction ir
 connection with the big reduction 1 plant of the Moctezuma Copper com | pany will be complsted and ready ! for business some time in the montl l of April. The new concentrator anC the power house, will constitute the finest reductich system in tne
 southwest. The plans have been ad
 mired by every judge of such matters
 under whose observation they have [ ever come. The concentrator has 1 been constructed on mora compact systematic and approved lines than
 any other plant of its character in the field. Col. Burch, in charge ur this work has demonstrated his abil- ity as master of construction. Tae concentrator is entirely en- closed, the building and all auxiliary improvements are ready for the ma chinery which is being put in place every day. There seems to be no further difficulty in getting material. supplies and machinery, practically everything being on the ground.
 At the power house the big 196 foot reinforced concrete stack is completed, the battery of sterling boilers are in place, the structural steel is ready for the corrugated iron, coal bins and spur leading to the same completed and the engines go- ing rapidly to their respective places.
 On the high line the old steel has been removed, and picked up and the new 80 ID. steel q in place, all bridges strengthened, the track heav- fly ballasted with slag, four track yard is completed with this steel at the juncton of the old high line and the new brancl leading around to the new concentrator.
 New rolling stock, including sixty ton engines and 25-ton steel ore cars are on hand, and everything in readi- ness for the increased capacity of the road.
 The poles are up to carry the big copper conductor, over which the power will pass from the new power from there to the mine at PilaTes, six miles away.
 There seems to be a species ot en- thusiasm observable among the little army of intelligent workers as the completion of this splendid work ap- breaches, and Manager Douglas has right to view the progress of tho enterprise with pride and satisfac tion.
 The whole district shares in this impulse of improvement and en- thusiastic . confidence. The San Pedro, belonging to this company, is down with it's incline shaft 3S7 feet, and though battling with water and bad machinery, is in the course of development bringing up ore from a twelve inch pay streak running 5Ho copper, 12.000 gold and 565 ounces silver. George Reid in charge of this work. one of the oldest and most successful mining men in the district, considers the San Pedro inexhGusTill-. in the matter of depth and values,
 The Nacorazi Consolidated Copper Company with John G. Alexander on the ground has begun besides his main tunnel, which is expected to reach ore in 20 feet more, a tunnel under thc King shaft, which at 2S feet is in solid tale and slate literally sprinklsd with brilliant sulphides, leading to the hope that he will catch the Fiiares ore body in fifty feet more.
 The Churumababi alone, among the s.sterhood of mining propositions 1as been abandoned for the present, the expense of handling water making its $1200 ore unavailable under present condition, and it's hoist is now at the San Pedro.
 Everything considered, conditions were never more propitious in and about Naeozari than they are on the threshold q the approaching spring