Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-02

It will need fifty years to tell the com plete story of the ore bodies of this camp. probably twice fifty and it will make good reading.
 Getting Better ucarters.
 So impressed is its management with the future of Calumet & Arizona now completing commodious new office located in the new town of Warren, several miles distant, and in which direction it's ores are heading. An electric street railway gives ex- cellent service between the mines and office. The office is of cement and brick. modern in every way, neat in appearance and is an improvement that should have been had long ago, the old quarters being almost worth less. The location is threatened with collapse, too, the ground in that yicin- ity gradually settling due to the min ing that has been done in that imme- aiate vicinity Drawing ground is noticeable throughout the older DOT tion of the camp. in the vicinity of the mine hospital and other places where large cracks and Impressions upon sur face are prominent.
 Equipment Is Ample.
 At all the shafts of these companies there Is ecient and modern type of hoisting engines, compressors and pumping engines. Good roads connect the several shafts. the mine build ings are substantial At the Copper Queens Sacramento shaft is an ad- mirale ore handling device.
 The Labor of the Camp.
 Labor conditions are satisfactory. We saw many men from outside places seeking work at every active shaft in Bisbee. and it is a poor point for men seeking employment to go at this time. The days work is eight hours. the pay good. The camp is morgan ized the Western Federation having made many unsuccessful attempts to .estalish a branch here, the men inyar- iably voting 1t down. It is one camp where the walking delegate doesn't [ catch many easy dollars.
 At the Shelters.
 There are many changes at the Cal umet & Arizona smelting plant since our last visit. One new furnace of $50 tons daily capacity has been added and one old one rebuilt adding to it's capacity nearly 100 per cent, the new treating nearly $50 tons of ore daily. The material is all on the ground for the enlarging of third stack when ever it is demanded. Two large and two small furnaces are in blast with two idle awaiting a better market.
 An Engine With Record
 Master mechanic. Mir. w. F.. Mckee. is proud of a run a new 300 k. W. tur- bine engine has made. Since Apri, 22, 1908, it has not missed pulsation and is probably a worlds record for continuous performance for an engine Of this type.
 Figuring Upon ReverDeratory.
 Mir. Powell and MT. Jas. Wood, smeltermen of the c. & A., are looking carefully into the matter of a reyer, beratory furnace for the treatment of flue dust and fines. About 75 tons of flue dust accumulate daily. They have an idea that a reverberatory could be employed with very fine results here. At Greene Cananea, ill the new and greatly improved order of things of which Iron Ore will treat later, they have a 119-foot reyerberatory working on flue dust and fines, the waste gases from which supply fuel generating 1000 engine power under the boilers and dispensing with eight boilers out of eleven in the old plant. This is an enormous saving as can readily be seen. It is probable that a requisition for a furnace of this type will soon be coming from Mir. Powell, who has the matter well in hand Its importance can be seen from the results achieved at the new furnace plant at Cananea. There is in the Bisbee camp large bod ies of unaltered ores of the pyritic class that might be so treated at the mines and fuel from the waste gases used for pumping water or for other purposes where a large amount of pow CT is needed. It is a subject deserving close analyses and MT. Powell, with Mir. Wood, is thoroughly investigating it. Every possible economy is to be applied to all departments of this in dUstTy by the C. & A. interests
 There has been a general improve. ment of the Calumet & Arizona smelt. ing plant and the work is not yet con. sidered finished Improvements are to be made and additional capacity will be provided as the mines increase | their outputs.
 I SSP~St SedINH A surprising statement made to us l by Mir. Walter Douglas was that con siderable copper was daily dissipateC | through the Copper Queens smeltel stack in the form of impalpabie dust | Hundreds of thousands of steel tape: 1 suspended in the stack to arrest these fine particles, so fine they would read | fly pass through an 150-mesh screen | .F S,, rsssN ping these minute particles, but fleecy woolen blankets would catch some O. | them, mechanical tappers being em these being fixed to strike the blanket at regular intervals.
 The Queens smelting plant is ar | elaborate and complete one presided over by the most competent men. Al ideal practice was feeding a thir stream of dust to low grade slag iT about the proportions of one to two ol three. as We recall it. The Copper Queen is after those many tons it ha. been losing each day and Mir. Dougla' and his lieutenants will get the mos of them before they cease their ex perimenting. lt took them some time to locate the discrepancy by thei lchemists but exhaustive tests n1alA disclosed where it actually was, anC now they will decide the best cours, 10 effrc. the recoytIy.
 The Smelting Conditions.
 | Sulphur Springs valley in which th' Calumet X Arizora smelling planti are located Is prolific in watc". whicl lis readily secured by botiug wells the flow rising to surface in never failing stream. From the Bi2be mines the haul Is sfdown gradc over ;