Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-21
Walter Douglas, General Man
ager of c. O., Returns From
a Business Trip to
New York.
PRICE OF c0PPERS
MAY GAIN GRADUALLY
Additional Furnace Was Start
ed at the Copper Queen
Z SmeIter Last Week.

Walter Douglas, general manager of
the Copper Queen interests, and man
aging director of the E. P. & S. w.
railroad, returned yesterday from one
of his regular business trips to New
York, the headquarters of the Copper
Queen Mining company.
In an interview yesterday after
noon, Mr. Douglas, in response TO
query concerning financial conditions
in the east, said:
There is a steady and continued
growth of the feeling of confidence in
the future, and while no rapid change
is to be expected Tor the better, there
seems every reason to believe that
conditions will continue TO steadily
improve.
I'm regard to the copper market,
there has recently been slight i'm
proVement. and can see no reason
for any falling of in the price OF
metal Rather is a gradual increase
to be looked for"
Regarding the local situation Mr..
Douglas stated that work on all the
improvements which had begun was
going steadily forward and that 1t
was expected to have the system OF
hosting the ore taken from the diff
ferent mines, at one shaft, in operat-
ion in about six weeks. When CUES
toned regarding any probable diff
ficuIty in dumping the wet ore OF the
mines automatically from the ore
cars, Mr.. Douglas stated the wet and
dry ore would be mixed in the mines
and that no difficulty was expected
from this source.
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The starting of an additional fur
mace at the Copper Queen smelter
this week was the feature ct Douglas
where the ore of the Warren district
is smelted. This additional furnace
gives the Queen seven Furnaces and
feverberatory furnace In action at the
present time This plant contains ten
5O0ton furnaces, but more than nine
of these were never in commission al
any one time. Judging by the output
at the Queen last month with siS
blast furnaces 1t may be assumed thai
the output for June will be consider
ably increased over the month OF May
bringing it to probably eight million
pounds of copper. As result OF the
starting of the additional furnace
there has been an increase in the
working force both at the smelter and
at the lime quarry east or the city
Early in the week Tumor reached
Douglas from Ell PaSo to the ehecl
that the Copper Queen company had
purchased the Shattuck mine, but i
may be said on the best of authority
that the rumor had no foundation
further than that in the past there
has been ~ome talk OF such a deal
The Queen people. no doubt, woulC
like TO become the owners Of the Shat
tuck. which lies between the Queer
ground and that of the G. and A., bu
it is not likely that they would consfd
er its purchase at the price at which
If is held and the value which is rep
resented by the present quotation o
the stock. There has been nothlni
definite received in Douglas durinl
the week concerning the Shattucl
smefter. The directors left for Duluth
TWO weeks ago with an the plans AM
bids and at that time it was believed
BY the machinery men who had gam
erred at Douglas to submit their bidi
that the contract would be awarde'
soon after the arrival of the directors
at Duluth. Announcement is now du'
. of the awarding of the contract 10
machinery to be placed In the smeiter
AS soon as the contract Is let I'M
work of boring a well at the smelte
site will start and also the work
building a spur of the FL Paso ant
Southwestern railroad to the site. In
Douglas street railway viii also bullt
something like half a mile OF traci
10 carry it to the Shattuck smelte
from the c. and A.
At the C. and A. smelter the wori
of construction on the plans OF en-
iargement goes steadily on. The toun
dations for the conyerters, which ar
tn he moved from their present loca
!. ton, have been completed. Tne con
verters are now being moved and a
soon as this work Is completed con
str1ction win begin on an addiuona
blast furnace which will have ca
pacty OF 500 tons of ore daily.
IN Sonora.
A rumor was current in Dougia
this week to the effect that the =
Tigre mine. seventy-five miles soutl
OF this city, is now the subject of ne
gotiation for sale. This property be
came well known because of the loni
litigation over It by the Kansas Cit.
people, who controlled the majority o
the stock, and the Graham crowd. VIII
sought TO regain It because OF NOT
compliance with the terms OF pay
ment Those who have recently visit
ed the property agree that IL IS look
ing better than ever before. The ac
ditions to the mill during the pas
year have required some alteration
and readjustment, but this work Ia
been about completed. There Is
scarcity of the water supply at the Il
gre camp as Is the case at nearl
every camp in Sonora not located o