Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-10

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 mixture and deliver it to a conveyor
 belt, which will carry it to the steel
 bins directly above the different fur
 naces, from which it will be deliver
 ed to the furnaces as required This
 system will save approximately four l teen men a shift to each furnace
 The six old converters have been relagated to the scrap heap. These
 were propelled hydraufcally, and their places have been taken by five
 electrically driven machines of the latest pattern, being the frs: electric l conVerters to be installed in trS I southwest. These machines have al ready been installed or the new 1 foundations prepared for them, and provisions have been made for the ! air supply, which will be double 1 that previously used. The system of handling the sus i has been greatly enlarged upon from i an economical standpoint, the same i lines of economy predominating in i this division as in the rest of the smelter. Previously it required four train crews to handle the slag from 50,000 tons of ore handled, and when the plant resumes in full force, with consumption oF 100000 tons month l ly, 1t will require the services of only two train crews, a saving of 400 per cent. This system is being construct ed at the present time and will soon be completed ready for use.
 1 The same system of economy is 1 displayed in the new system of hand 1 ling the fiue dust. Heretofore the dust was gathered from four different levels of the dust chambers, but in the future all the dust will be taken from one level, the lower floor. l The Power House.
 | A six-foot blast pipe has been in stalled in the power house which will enable the plant to save 160 h. D. in. | the friction which occurred in the smaller pipes formerly in use before | the shutdown. A huge condenser is at present being installed in an addi- tion to the power house. The engines and alr compressors, also the cleo tric generators, have been complete ly overhauled and rebuilt and the | plant is virtually a new one
 Receiving Ore Bins.
 The receiving ore bins have been enlarged to such an extent that the present capacity is 5000 tons. com pared with the former capacity of | 1000. All the old wooden bins have | been torn down.
 Shorter Haul to Shelter.
 l Previous to the shutdown the ore l from the Veta Grande ore bins was first hauled to the concentrator tor treatment, and after being run through and reduced to concentrates | 1t had to be hauled back past the I bins to the smeler. Work has been commenced on a trestle which VIII lessen the haul by good two miles, 1 which connects the railroads on eiLn- ! sr side of the canyon. The trestle will be completed in about a montl. l Several other long hauls will be dis continued by use of the new trestle. Plans of Resumption.
 When the time arrives to begin op- erations at the smelter, which will propably be in about five or six weeks, only two furnaces will be placed in commission. The force of men employed on these furnaces will be over double the necessary number owing to the new character of the equipment, and to allow the men an opportunity to become familiar with their mechanism. In about 6 month or so afterwards, number of these men will be placed at work at t3e third furnace, and after this on the others. giving the help good oppor- tunity to become familiar with every branch in the method of operation. It is stated by several of the officiais of the company that it will be some time before the smelter will resume in full force, probably six or eight months after the first two furnaces are placed in commission.
 The extensive alterations and re pairs which have been under Way for some months are now about com pleted, about one and a half months more being necessary to bring the plant up to the highest standard of perfection. Too much credit connot be given the officials of the company located at Cananea, and their per sistent efforts to bring the imm7nse plant to completeness in every de tail cannot receive too much praise from the stockholders. These men are: L. D. Ricketts, general T1an- ager; ). Cole, his assistant: ;. Fl. Kirk, superintendent of mines; C. A Shelby, superintendent of reelection division; V. R. Walling, superintenu- ent oS railways; George Young, Sec. retary and superintendent Of mercan tile department; J. A. Campbell, treasurer and superintendent of pub lie service department, and T. Evans, purchasing tagent and traffic manager.
 The Mines. ..
 At the mines of the company, or in fact, in the mines of the entire dis trict, no ore is being raised to the surface except what is made neces- sary in development work, the unuI- vided attention of the management being directed towards development and exploration work. The number of men employed includes about 20 per cent Americans. All the prop critics are being improved to such an i extent that when the camp resumes the ere can be mined at a cost con siderably less than before. 1t the Democrats another compartment has been added to it's main shaft and a new hoist is to be installed. TAis company will resume when the prics of copper warrants it
 That Cananea, the biggest copper camp in the world, Ylll be greater than ever before when operations re