Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-06
WORK PROGRESSES ON W|CKENbURG
 PLANT
Company Promises Juice To Mines at End Of
 Sixty Days
uTrom Tuesdays DaIvl

lthin sixty days the motive pow CT at the Octave mines and mill and several of the mines and plants in the Weaver district will be electricity, furnished by the Central Arizona Flee. tric Company, and the town of Wick. enburg will he lighted by electricity. v
 This is the statement made ncre yes. ,erday by Marvin W. Ditto, consulting engineer of the company and electri. cal expert for C. F.. Micssee and his associates in Arizona and Nevada.
 Engineer Ditto arrived here yester- day from Wickenburg, in company with C. F. Miessec. president of the power company and the Octave Min. ing Company, and W. w. wishon. who recently accepted the positions of gen. eral manager of the power company and of the Octave Mining Company. President Meissee left here for Cbiea. go in the afternoon and Manager Wishon and Engineer Ditto returned to Wickcnburg on last nignt's train.
 "Since assuming charge of the pow CT company's affairs, Manager wishon and l have made some changes with a view of increasing the efficiency of the plant" Engineer Ditto said "With the exception of small part of the electrical equipment, all the necessary machinery is now on thc ground. The plant will develop l,200 horse power. All of the power that will not be consumed at the Octave mines and mill and lighting the town of Wickenburg has been purchased by mining companies operating in the Weaver distfiet at the rate of $50 a horsepower per annum for five years.
 Within six months an additional unit of 300 horsepower will be added to the plant to supply the demands of consumers which cannot he supplied with the plant now under construction.
 Wickenburg k an exceptionally good location for an electric plant. It IS the center of very promising min. ing section. Within a radius of twen. ty miles of the place power plants de. veloping between 10000 and l5,Ocs horsepower are now in daily usS, which will be replaced with electrical equip. ment as soon as electric power is available.
 "The low rate at which the power will be furnished means saving of from twenty to forty per cent in the present cost of generating power with fuel oil. It will also enable mining companies to use the water now used in generating steam power for reduc. lion purposes, allowing an increase in the capacity of the plants. This will make possible the treatment of low grade ores at n profit that now lie on the dumps of many of the properties. being too lean to pay under present conditions. An example is the Octave mill, that will he started with double its former capacity, enabling the treatment of 50 and $6 ores at as large . profit as made from the treatment of $7, $s and s0 ores under former conditions.
 "The transmission line is finished From the plant to Octave, a distance pr eleven miles. It passes through | he camp of the Gro Grande Mining Company and will be built immediate. l y through stanton to the Rincon nine.
 'Provision has been made in the construction of the transmission line 10 carry 22,000 volts, SO that the eff. ieieney of the electrical machinery will be very high. The necessary 'nange in machinery to its operation 'y electrical power will be compara. lively small After the change con. tuners will not be compelled to carry eserve power now compulsory.
 "The great demand for the power low shows that the proposition will ertainly develop into large one and indicates that it will grow into one of he greatest factors in the develop ient of that section of the territory ributary to Wickenburg ever intro uced.
 "The Octave Mining Company is ow erecting new electric hoists. The ages used in the shafts will be re. laced with skips, permitting the andling of the output automatically. dominating much manual labor used ! the past" Engineer Ditto has been engaged in { rection and management of mining nd electrical machinery several ears His experience covers Monta. f ., Nevada, Northern Arizona and f ritish Columbia. General Manager wishon came here (