Arizona republican., 1910-08-13
Will Bring Ray Mine Into
 Foremost Rank
75,OOO,OOO POUNDS YEARLY
Output will in Eighteen Months Nearly Equal That of Calumet & Hecla Mine, Once Greatest of All Single Producers.

That the mines of the Ray Con-
 solidated Copper company will, in
 less than eighteen months, be pro-
 ducing fine copper at the rate of
 75,OOOOOO pounds per year. thereby
 nearly equalling the production of
 the famous Calumet and Hecla mine.
 which for years stood as the largest
 single producing mine in the world,
 was the announcement of Daniel c.
 manager of the Ray Consolidated
 Copper company upon the occasion of his visit to Phoenix and the Ray properties this week. All this con- tingent upon the completion of the
 gigantic smelter and concentrator now under course of construction at Hayden, upon the Arizona & East ern railroad. sixteen miles from Ray, the scene of the present mining op- erafions.
 And that there is no doubt but that the plant at Hayden will be in full operation long before the eighteen months limit set by Mir lacking is shown by the report of progress upon the construction of the buildings the geat reservoir and the pumping plant. Already the power plant is complete or nearly so, the structural iron work of the smelter is up, trestles have been completed and, to an outsider it would appear that there really was no much more to do except to install the machinery and put the finishing touches to the buildings.
 Over 450 men are engaged at pres ent in the work at Hayden aad more will be added as they can be work ed advantageously. The reservoir under construction is designed to have a capacity of 4.0O0.000 gallons, derived from the hills and from the Gila river, which will be tapped by pumps having a capacty of 7.OO9 gallons per minute.
 The concentration the largest building in the group being erected covers a ground area of four and one-half acres and is built of solid steel and concrete. A spur has been constructed from the main line of the Arizona 6 Eastern railroad, run ming three miles or more up the side of a mountain to the scene of the present activity and encounter ing a three and one-half per cent grade over practically the entire route.
 At the mine located at Ray the thousand or more men now engageo in tunneling are pushing into the hills at the rate of about three fourths of a mile each month and are taking out ore that gives prom ise of being of more than ordinary high grade In some instances great nuggets of practically solid copper have been taken out, according tol MT. Jackling.
 Superintendent c. M. Scott of the Arizona and Eastern railroad stated in this connection that his road is preparing in every way possible to be ready to give the best of service in the hauling of this ore. the six teen miles between Ray and Hayden. No finer example of railroad con struction is to be found in the Southwest than that found upon the new spur to Hayden.
 over at Bingham Canyon. where is located the mine of the Utah Copper Company, over which MT. Jackling exercises the same general managership as he does over the Ray mine, there are now employed 4 900 men. Mr. Jackling says that this mine today ranks as the great est single producing mine in the world. having passed the Calumet and Hecla sometime ago. This mine, he states. is producing 15.00o,0O0 pounds of copper each month, or a total of 1S0.000,00O pounds per year. Some idea of the enormous extent of these operations may be gained from the statement that the 1909 edition of the Stevens Copper Hand Book gives the production of the Calumet and Hecla at SS,000,o00 pounds annually.
 In comparing the operations at the Utah mine with the work upon the Panama canal, MT. lacking stat ed that 2,5O0, 600 yards of earth are being moved each month, one-half of which is solid ore. which is hauled twenty seven miles to a smelter.
 In leaving Phoenix in his special private car, The Cyprus, NIT. Jack ling proceeded to another holding of his companies, the Chino Copper mine. located at Santa Rita, N. NJ There has been erected at this place a 5000 ton plant. which ranks among the largest in the United States It