Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-04

auce in the person of Frenehnan. who applied the same treatment to copper which had previously been applied in the making of steel, and that solved the question.
 Apparent Waste Not Waste
 We hear tremendous lot of talk nowadays about wasting the national resources. When we commenced min ing copper in Arizona, if We had had sulphur in deposit, it wouldn't have paid at all and we would nave been forced to abandon it, even if the ore had been as mixed as our oxidized ores, because in those days it took three to four months before you could get the copper up and the expense was immense. and therefore, of course. 1t was wasted. but since the advent of the new treatment we are re-smelting the old slag dumps that were thrown away in those days. and if We hadn't used up those oxidized ores we never would have found the sulphide, aud in the meantime this better method Of treating sulphide ores was discoy- cred and worked out, and by the time we mad worked 1t out We were able
 
 Was waste in one sense. but IL cer- tainly was good judgment and tno waste in another, and the same Is true of a great deal of stuff that is talked about the wasting of national re sources. If people don't get some exuerieuce in matters which appear to certain extent wasteful, they never would be able to treat things even economically.
 Silver is Saved.
 In 1899 we began handling mixed ores, sulphide ore and oxidized ore in 1 the first converter, which some of you may recollect, and of course open up large tracts of territory and large areas of our ore-bearing ground which we had been prohibited from touch ! ing previously by the inability to han die suiphide From that time tae production of the Copper Queen mine weat on from two thousand to two | and three millions pounds per month, and even in the old works ran up to nearly three million and a half pounds. There was also little silver in the ore: some of our ores were found to be richer in silver flan others and therefore when a Bessancr treat \ mgnt was iuauguratcd we turned cue furnace and one converter to that iuse. and ore which contained q small iaruount of silver went to the refinery at that time It cost over a cent q pound to refine copper elcctrilyticaliyi land therefore, of course. our copper had to carry pretty nearly twenty ounces in order to pay the increased cost Of the elecrolytic treatment Today it pays anybody to treat elcy- trolytically and 10 recover all tae gold land silver which the copper contains, ICycn if not over eight or ten dollars iworth, because eiectrolytic copper car ries 6 little more yalue and that, ad-
 ded to the amount of gold aud silve,, enables il 10 be treated electrOlytical Y. This, however. is not true of the Clifton district. where the copper only
 carries about four to five dOila-s
 worta-
 Hai to Move smeiters.
 | All these things. in the process of development rom small days to days of large events and larger qualities compelled Us to move out of Bisbee with our works, because it. became Impossible to extend the work n
 proportion to the expansion of the mines and the mines had expanded by
 the absorption of other property.
 Same Copper, Different Prices
 I was telling you about the hard times in the Queens history. During
 hat period they offered for sale two lclaims called the Holbrook and the Cave. They were owned by ar.
 Garnett. who at one time intended to
 work, but decided to sell them for what he thought the property was l worth. so Mir. James and Mir. Dodge 1 bought them. So we worked tho Hoi-
 rook and the Cave for quite a mum | yaT of years as independent opera
 ions in fact. until the year 1892. They used to make about sixteen to seven
 teen million pounds. The ore was
 lined separately. but 1t was srneited
 n the Copper Qneen furnace. The ores came out of exactly tae saile group of mines; they were mixed into
 4e same bin: they went through ex- ely the same furnace and through he same process of smelting: the l Copper Queen owned SO many bars or copper per month. and the ficibrool<