Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-03-08
Ore Production Believed To Be
Near the Maximum Spur
Track Completed to the
Sacramento Shaft.
NAc0ZARl CONCENTRATIONS
NEARLY COMPLETED
Hundreds of People Have Visit
ed Hachita District, Drawn
BY Reported Placer
Gold Find.

ANOTHER crop of an eight of a
cent IN the price Of copper during
the week has not been reassuring to
those engaged in the industry and
those depending on it for business
and employment. However. this
slight decline has no more than
brought the price to the minimum
during the last four months and local
ly it is not expected that il or even
a further reduction would have any
effect on the present plans or work
in the mines or smelters. The amount
of ore produced in the Warren dis
trict at the present time is believed to
be very near the maximum production
so far as the two principal compa-
mics are concerned. The G. & A. and
the Superior & Pittsburg, jointly, are
sending more ore to the smelter at
Douglas than ever before and are
working force equal IL not exceed
in the maximum at any time during
the life OF these properties
The Queen production is believed
to be about normal, The Queen
smelter at Douglas has eight furnaces
in commission and besides the con-
centrates from Nacozari the entire
ore feed is from the mines in Bisbee,
as the custom ore now amounts to
very little.
The grade for the spur track which
connects with the Sacramento snaft
has been completed and is now ready
for the ties and rails Contractor Scott
who had the contract for this grade,
taken his teams to Douglas where he
resides. The machinery in the new
power house, near the Sacramento
shaft is now nearly all in position and
much of il has been tried out and
found to work well. The underground
work required for the new system
of handling all the Queen ores
through the one shaft in the future
is progressing and it is expected that
the new system will be ready for
complete operation within the next
three weeks.
At the Shattuck mine only a small
force is kept at work and no ore is
being shipped at the present and no
doubt the policy of this company is
to hold their ore until 1t can be re
ducad in the new smelter which has
been determined upon. 1t Is learned
that those who had submitted bids
for the new smelter last year have
been called on to submit revised bids
for the buildings and machinery, The
plans for an eight hundred ton plant
were completed last July and bids
were submitted on these plans soon
thereafter. Now, however, it Is be
Iieyed that bids will run much lower
than at that time. Then mining com
panies were begging Tor all kinds OF
structural material and the manufac
turers were unable TO fill the orders
as they were received; now the re
verse of that condition prevails and
orders are scarce. The location fol
the Shattuck smelter is one quarter
of a mile south of the c. C A. smeltel
and about the same direction north Of
the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas
an ideal site, easy to reach by boil
the Ell Paso & Southwestern railwa.
and the Douglas electric car line.
In the Sonora Country.
President Sooy, James Seftz and
others prominent in the directorate o
the El Tigre Mining company, arrived
this week from Kansas City and pro
ceeded TO visit the FL Tigre mint
which gained so much notoriety OF
account Of the long litigation follow
ing the attempt OF 3. F. Graham ant
associates to gain possession OF tn
uroperty by force of arms Ate
being put to an expense OF severa
hundred thousand dollars the Kan
sas CITY owners were declared to b
the riehtfuff owners Of the Ell Tigr'
and are now in undisputed posses
sion. The annual meeting of tai
company will be held in Douglas Oh
March 21 and President Sooy AM
o,,,,--1nfoDa will visit at the mine
making observations of the mill re
suits and the recent ore Development
until that time During the last 81,
months the FL Tigre mill has bee
more than doubled in capacity an
those who have recently visited IN
property say that it nas been prove
during the last year to be create
than had ever been calculated tn
prese1t force consists of more tha
three hundred men.
About Nacozari.
At Nacozari the Moctezuma Cor
ner company is making excellen
nrosress with the work on the ne7
concentrator and it is now expecte
that one section of this mill will b
rsadv TO start before April list. Whe
the mill Is completed large nun
her of mechanics who have been eI
gaqed in its construction during IN
1asf four months will have TO see
endowment elsewhere. As esu
Of the recent reduction of the wag
scaIe ST Nacozari a number OF tn
Americans heretofore employed in th
camp are getting ready to lfave tn
enuloynent Of the company and II
avnactad that the per cent of natiy