Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-11
NO CUSTOM
BUSINESS At
THE SHELTERS
Output of Copper Queen Last
Month Was About 8,000,-
600 Pounds for the Month.
Work Of EngIarging C. & A.

DOUGLAS, Aug Special =
Conditions at the local smelters re-
main practically as they have been for
several months past, both are running
and reducing the ore from their own
mines at Risbee, but neither is getting
enough custom business to mention.
The output of the Copper Queen
smelter was about eight million pounds
for the month of July, as against eight
and a half millions for the same month
in 1897. These figures apply only to
the Copper Queen ore, for year age
the company had built up large Gus
tom business, while at present little
or nothing is left OF that business. Su-
pe1inteldent Lee says that the output
from Inc company ore for 1908 viii
be lille, il any, less than ia 1907
in bullion, though much less ore viii
have been reduced owing to the fact
that wnen copper was high lower
grade of ore was being reduced, not
a little coming from the Bisbee Stag
heap which with copper at the tnen
prevailing prices produced a good prof
IL
As to the number Of employees and
their nationality, Mr.. Lee states that
today larger proportion Of their en-
ployes IRE Americans than was the
case q rear ago. Whsntver a furnace
was shut down, he says, TIE proper
tiOn would be me same and more Mex
leans tnan Americans would be let out.
The labor saving devices. he states,
are designed 20 do away with unskill-
ed labor ard thus oft5n require the
employment OF new skiiled mechanics
80 ran them while tie several Next
cans formerly employ ed are not need
ed The red ction in skilled labor came
mostly in The sampling and assay de-
pa-tments, Which ran full when Gus
toms ore WAS coming III and are now
running at the lightest With higher
price for The metal say over Is cents,
undoubtedly the smaller producers and
more remote mines viii again enter
the production game and the customs
department of the Copper Queen will
once more cut a considerable figure
and require a fun force ia sampling
and asEay departments.
The force at the lime quarry, too,
has been reduced as much less lime
is now needed for consumption because
of the character of ore which is at
present being reduced. At present
about $50 tons are being used as
against 500 at the same time last year.
With the resumption of custom bust
ness viii also come an increased de-
mand for lime There are seven fur
nacss now in operation and the force
employed is not far from thTee-fourths
of what it was when the smelter was
running TO its limit
At the c. &. A.
Here the work of enlargement and
Improvement goes on and will continue
steadily. A force is engaged on the
putting in of sixth furnace and this
work is being pushed. Here, too, there
has been an almost complete loss of
customs business, but the c. & A.
never had so much of this as had its
neighDor. The construction work has
kept as large a force if not a larger
force at work than ever before in the
history of this smelter. The many i'm,
proyements still planned by the c. &
A. indicate that the same or larger
force may be expected to be employed
for many months to come. With the
completion of the improvements now
planed the C. & A viii have a max
imum capacity of about 5000 ton.
daily.