The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1908-02-13
NEW COECENTRAHOR- At
! NACOzARl SOON OPENS
Big Plant Will Have Capacity of Two
SHundred Tons Daily.

us AaAtt hAuNS O0FNSaey
HUNDRED Tons Daily.
The very latest news from Sonora
is to the5effect that the new 1000 ton
concentration, along with the power
house in course of construction with
the big reduction plant of the Moe
tezuma Copper company will be COM
pleted and ready for business some
time in the month of April. The new
concentration and the powerhouse
will constitute the finest reduction
system in the southwest. The plans
have been admired by every judge of
such matters under whose observation
they have ever come. The concen-
TRAITOR has been constructed on more
compact, systematic and approved
lines than any other plant of its
character in the field. Colonel
Burch, in charge of this work, has
demonstrated his ability as master
of construction,
The concentration is entirely en-
closed, the building and all auxiliary
improvements are ready for the ma
cLinery 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 powerhouse the big l96-foot
reinforced concrete stack is COM
, pleted, the battery of Sterling boil
ers is in place, the structural steel is
ready for the corrugated iron, coal
bins and spur leading to the same
completed and the engines going
rapidly to their respective places.
On the high line the old steel has
been removed and picked up and the
new s0-pound steel in place, all of the
bridges strengthened, the track
heavily ballasted with Stag, a four
track yard is completed with this
steel at the junction of the old high
line and the new branch leading
around to the new concentration.
New rolling stock, including Cotton
engines and 25-ton steel ore cars are
b on hand and everything in readiness
for the increased capacity of the
road.
80 The poles are up to carry the big
copper conductor, over which the
power will pass from the new power
house to the new concentration an6
from there to the mine at Pilares
SIX miles away.
There seems to be species of en-
thusiasm observable among the little
army of intelligent workers as the
completion of this splendid work ap
proaches, and Manager Douglas has {
right to view the progress of the en-
terprise with pride and satisfaction
The whole district shares in THU
impulse of improvements and en-
thusiastic confidence. The Sar
Pedro, belonging to this company, il
down with it's incline shaft 1857 feet
and though battling with water anC
bad machinery, is in the course o.
development bringing I'D ore from {
Pinch pay streak running per cent
copper, 1900 gold and 565 ounces Of
silver. George Reid, in charge o.
this work, one of the oldest and NOS
successful mining men in the district
considers the San Pedro inexhaust
BILE in the matter of depths ant
values.
The .Nacozari Consolidated Copper
company, with John G. Alexander OF
the ground, has begun besides THU
main tunnel, which is expected t.
reach ore in twenty feet more, a tun
mel under the King shaft, which Al
twenty-eight feet is in solid tale ant
slate literally sprinkled with brilliant
sulphides, leading to the hope thai
he will catch the Pilares ore body il
fifty feet more.
The Chrumbabi alone, among the
sisterhood of mining propositions
has been abandoned for the present
the expense of handling the wateI
making its S12 ore unavailable under
present conditions, and its hoist il
now at the San Pedro.
Everything considered, condition
were never more propitious in ant
about Nacozari than they are on tn,
threshold of the approaching spring