Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-09
NEW SHELTER IS BLOWN IN
 BY IMPERIAL
Imperial Copper Company Puts $50 Ton Furnace Into Com
 misSion-HiStory of Prop
 erty and Work Being Done.

At the new town of Sasco the I'm perial Copper company started up the new smelting plant on Saturday last. Concerning the history of the property for which this shelter has been pro vided and description of mine and ra- duction plant the Arizona Republican says:
 The Imperial mine is situated twen- ty miles south Of Red Rock which is on the Southern Pacific railroad about thirty miles west of Tucson. The property is one of the copper deposits discovered in an early day and was for many years known as the Old Boot mine. Some ore was worked by means of an old smelter employing crude methods, plant that sank into decay and uselassness long before the present owners were attracted to the property. It was really before the copper era" in Arizona. for though the territory is scanned and Assured with copper veins, until the day of railroads and the modern copper de- mand. only those properties n=ost favorably located were deemed yalu- able. Nothing pertaining to the Old Boot mine was of value to operators of the present day, except the known existence of a large body of copper ore. Even the old workings We're of little use except in demonstrating the existence of the ore, for modern methods demand development on plans suited to modern operations.
 For all practical purposes it was therefore virgin field when the pres ent owners acquired the property in March, 1903. organizing for that pur- pose the Imperial Copper company Of which the following named are the officers at this time: E. B. Gage, president; W. F. Staunton, vice presi- dent and general manager; A. x. Gage secretary and treasurer; V. l.. Mason, assistant secretary secretary and treasurer; and c. ". Dietz. aud iter.
 It was the purpose of the company to make a copper mine, not merely to play at mining. Large operations were contemplated from the begin ming for in copper mining more than almost any other enterprise, profits depend on a large volume of business on which a small percentage of profit may make a large aggregate. A rail road to the property from Red Rock was therefore planned at once and the Arizona Southern railroad com pany was organized, the following named being the present officers; E | B. Gage, president; H. M. Robinson, vice president, W. F. Staunton, gen eral manager; Henry Kinsley, secre' tary; A. N Gage, treasurer; F. F. Friant, superintendent. This road is known locally as the Imperial rail. road, merely as a briefer and more suggestive term.
 The railroad was completed in the summer of 1904 less than year and a half after the mining property was acquired. September ', 1904 ship ments of ore began to the Copper | Queen smelter in Douglas and from | that date until the Sth ot January | 1908, the shipments of ore averaged over 100 tons per day. Since January | 8 all the ore removed from the mine has gone to the company's smelter bins.
 The building of snelter was atsc a primary conception the project tr be carried out as soon as practicable l after the mine was sufficiently deyel oped and the railroad was in commis ! sion, for the smelter would necessa rily be some distance from Red Rocl if not at the mine and could neither be constructed nor operated witf | economy except by rail connection An ideal site for smelter was fount eight mflea from Red Rock ant twelve miles from the mine at tht foothills of the mountain chain, st the haul from the mine to the smelte is all down grade and the haul fo l smeIter fuel from Red Rock is a yer, slight up grade. A good water sup ply and town site and all things need
 ful in natural prerequisites are a hand. The Southern Arizona Smelt ing company was organized Angus | 14. 1906, and the present officers o
 the corporation are: E. B. Gage, pres | ident; W. F. Stauton, vice presiden
 and general manager; A. N Gage, sec
 retary and treasurer; M. Goodloe, su
 perintendent.
 Near the Imperial mine is the oil
 time camp of Silver Bell the center o
 interest in the Silver Bell district il
 whica the Imperial property is sit
 uated. With the beginning 0 tn
 events here related Silver Bell be
 came a Tive camp, increased in poI
 Hlation by the employees of the min
 and those who congregate in minin camps to cater to the necessities an
 pleasures of a mining population. A
 the smelter site a new town has als of necessity sprung into existence, peC pied mainly by the employees of tn
 smelter company. This town na
 been most uniquely and appropriated named Sasco by assembling the lnIus
 letters of each word comprising tn name of the smelter company. B the increase of business at the junt ton point, Red Rock, there has bee
 a small addition to the population also, so that the operations of tn men behind the Imperial concern , have developed a zone of bushes prosperity twenty miles long, iroI Red Rock to Silver Bell, aside froI
 the benefits -accruing to the variou stockholders and to the world by th [ increased production of valuabl , metal. A feature of the company r business also Is merehandism- e f tablishment with good stock and 3 volume of business that is remuner;
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