Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-20
DOUGLAS SHELTERS TAKE
 STAND IN FRONT RANK

STAND IN FRONT RANK l DOUGLAS, Jan. According Co
 the best obtainabe figures at this time, Douglas and Cochise county had. during the year 1908, the second and
 third largest producing smelters in the United States. and there is every
 reason to believe that the Copper Queen and Calumet X Arizona smelt
 positions in the future. because of the many improvements and additions which have been made by both com
 panies and which are now contemplat ed.
 | The approximate output of the Cop per Queens Douglas reduction works for the last year was lO0,0OO,000 pounds of blister copper, of which over 75,O00,000 pounds came from ores from the company's Bsbcc mines. While the figures in detail of the production al the Calumet Arizona smelter have not been compiled the total out put for the year 1908 was more than 50,000.000 pounds, the record annual output for that shelter. It is not as yet known just what percentage of this output was from C.. & A. ores and what from Superior & Pittsburg ores, but the output of the latter company was very large during the last few months of the year.
 The total output for the two smelt. CTS. including only Warren district ores for the year was approximately l25,000,OO0 pounds, or an increase of about l5.000,O00 pounds over the out. put of the district for the year 1907. The year that has just begun will undoubtedly break all records for pro duction of both the smelters and the Warren district. as the output has been considerably increased during the last few months.
 Douglas is out and in the field for the next American Mining Congress, which IS to be neld either next fall or in the early winter, out in earnest with the avowcd intention of bringing the ! ,5O0 or more who will attend the con. gress ,o the Shelter City and into the great mineral districts of Warren, Nacozari, Cumpas and Moctezuma. This was determined upon yesterday at a meeting of the committee on min. ing of the Chamber of Commerce and Mines and the preliiuary steps were at once taken.
 lt will he remembered that in the fall of 1907 the Douglas and Arizona delegates made fight at the mining congress which nearly brought the 1908 congress here and which attracted so much attention that if was then said that Douglas could have the 1909 con. gross for the asking. Last fall Comm. bus was unable to carry out the plan of having the congress held there and It was passed along to Pittsburg, but at the sessions neld there no city was decided upon for the 1908 session, it | being decided. to the genera, surprise, to settle this question later by a mail vote. Since that time the matter has | been under consideration of the Cham. l ber of Commerce and Mines and at the last meeting of the board it was | stated that the matter would be taken | up after the return of E. A. Packard, | who was then in Bisbee upon that very matter.
 It now develops that Mir. Packard had the matter under consideration | and thought if best to see the heads of the mining interests in the Warren | district before the matter should be taken up by the Chamber of Com. merce here. Hence the journey to Bis bee and conference with General Man. ager Walter Douglas of the Copper Queen company and General Managr l.. w. Powell of the Calumet & Arizo. ma Company They gave him promises of hearty support and cooperation, be- lieved that Douglas ought to have the congress and should get busy in the matter and suggested that it would be we'll to take the matter up with the railroad at once.