Bisbee daily review., 1909-09-30
OLD DOMINION E REGISTERING
 GREATLY


 plant of the company IS singlng song of energy and thrift that is music to the ear of the local business man who has pinned his faith to the future of Globe district and of the old Dominion. the districts greatest producing mine and shelter, WhaI- ever the future has is store it is prac tically certain that the increase or shrinkage of the Old Dominion's busi ness will continue to make itself felt keenly in Globes eomercial circles.
 Superintendent H. B. Hegardt is giving his attention to the conduct ing of the affairs of the mine and smelter. and everything about the plant has the apeareance of animated industry. Four furnaces are running in the smeiter and the daily outpu .of fine copper is about 9O,00O pounds of which fully nine-tenths comes from the company's mines. Pust at prestn there is no great amount of custom ore being received. owing largely toi the fact that few of Globes great mines have reached the prodreeing stage and to the additional reason that some which have produced in thnI past have ceased producing temporar fly, partly because of the low price of copper and partly on account of thr
 necessity of doing extessiye deyelop
 ment work preparatory to shipping
 ore on a large scale. The supply O. coke that is always kept on hand at | the smelter is now being cleared out | of the bins and used. as coke de terioriates after being kept on hand i for a certain period. As soon a.,
 the bins are emptied sew supply
 which is now on the way to the plant
 is being laid in. At the power plaat
 of the shelter several car loads of
 economizers have been received and
 are now being put in. When this
 work is finished it will result in 2
 considerable saving of expense in the running of the power plant.
 Ir the Old Dominion mine a force
 of between 709 and 800 men are em
 ployed underground and large quan.
 titles of ore are beisg taken out. This ore is coming from the different lev
 els from the second to the sixteenth.
 but more than half of it is beils
 taken from the levels below the ninth
 as the workings at greater depth are
 most productive of copper.
 The system of mining by driftine
 along the foot wall and filling up th.
 cross-cuts with vast after the ore has been taken out is proving = be remarkably successful at the Old Dominion mine, and since this methc; of mining was begun by Dr. Rickett: about five years ago. it has resulted | in material cutting down in rus r hing expenses. Still further savir: : of expenses has been effected, a.s 7 by the present method of remoYln; : lthe water from the lower levels O n the rine. A shoIt time ago the tuu . nel which intersects the vertical shaI 2 on the fifth level resulted is the elln . nation of a 200 foot lift to the s'Il : face. At present about 3,50O,OOO ga Ions of water is being pumped out c : the mine daily. and of this amour : part is being raised for use in u : colcentrator and the rest is alloWe Y 10 flow out through the tunnel, at tn
 mouth of which it is received by
 nume and carried to Pinal creek. F. A force of men is now at work pr ' IpaIing a station for four powerfu / bumps which are soon to be installei Y Tfese pumps are of Nordberg mak ,I and their combined capacity VIII ! IC ,, 500, 900 gallons of water day. ID ;7 station is being cut in the shape r a large .recumbent cross and in eac Q arm of the cross pump will be erec l2 led. When completed, about Jan 
 DC ary 1. the pumping plant at the O l0 Dominion mine will probably be |! l2 largest and most efficient of any B Arizona.
 i3 At the present time more than 13 9S men are employed at the Old Domi O. ion mine and smelter and with ra' T5 lin tha price of copper, and increa 3, in the number of workmen win'
 course, follow The prospect I
 such a raise in copper price do 70 not seem to be bright just now. ho i2 ever. as the figures show that | % mines of the country last month, col stead O. cutting down their prod' C: ton turned out greattr quantit 1: than they ever did before in simi 25 period. The predictions of some .z5 inc prominent financial men of E5 country. however. point to, at Tea .5o a slight inceease in the price Of c 50 per about January 1st. The res .2i of such a rise on Globe and the minl .62 district in which the city is local .0C can hardly be overestimated' as Q, would result in a grtater amount .25 business at practically all the mn .5t capabIe of producing and consequ
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