Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-15
COPPER QUEEN BEGINS
WORK ON NEW SHELTER
Improvement Outlined for Coming
Year Will Increase Activity
About Douglas

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov 14.-,At the
Copper Queen smelter construction
work promises to be an important fea-
ture during the coming year, in fact
this work has already started and
force of men is now engaged in clear
ing off the site for the plant of reVer-
batory furnaces and -fcDougal roasters
which will be ided to the smelling
plant during the next year. This addi-
tion will consist of two reverbatory
furnaces and five McDougal roasters,
such as have recently been Installed
at Cananea by DR.. Ricketts,. These
furnaces will be 100 feet In length ana
will be constructed of fire brick.
The structural steol for the required
building to accommodate three McDou-
gal roasters and that many roasters
have been on the ground at the Queen
smelter for nearly year, but 1t mas
now been decided to install five roast
ers and they have been ordered and the
additional building material.
The additional building will extend
north from the west end OF the pres
ent smelter building, forming an l.
$50 feet of building, and this ground
has been cleared and excavation is
now under way for cement founda-
tions required for furnaces and roast
ers. This new feature is for the re-
duction of fine dust, concentrates and
mines at Bisbee. 1t is expected to ma
terially lower the cost of production
from this class of charge which now
goes into the blast furnaces.
OCTOBER OUTPUT
The October output at the Copper
Queen smelter amounted to only g.
800, 900 pounds of copper, which is near
Iy 100000 less than the output Tor
the months of March and August when
about Zoo, 900 pounds was produced
for each There are nine furnaces now
in operation at the Queen.
The number Of furnaces In blast dur
ing the past three months has been
regulated by the quality of ore used
for the charge, as the policy has been
to hold the Queen product at about
the same monthly figure. More or less
depends upon custom ore receipts,
which are not large now, the prfnci-
pal customer in the custom depart
ment being the Shattuck, which is
sending about 100 tons daily. Inc
Queen output also includes the output
from the concentrates sent UP daily
from Nacozari by the Moctezuma Cop
per company.
For the accommodation of the re-
yerbatory furnaces and roasters an
additional stack will be erected. This
stack will be 800 feet high, 40 feet
higher than he present one which ac-
commodities the blast furnaces and
the converters. The new stack will
be IA feet in diameter and will be
built of brick, the work being let at
contract.
Two turbines have been ordered for
the power house, each of about HOO
horse power. These turbines will gen.
crate the electricity contracted to the
El Tigre mine which will be transmit
nv q n -
of 70 miles,
While nothing was given out after
the visit of the controlling directors
and officers of the Calumet & Arizona
company at the smelter last week, 1t
is believed that they are planning ex-
tensive work at their plant during the
coming year. Immediately after the
directors returned home General Man.
ager Greenway of the G. & A, James
wood, smelter superintendent Of the
same company, and DR.. L. D. Ricketts,
of the Greene Cananea, left for an ex-
tended trip which will take them to the
copper camps of Montana, Utah and
Nevada.
The C. &. A. has been gradually en-
larging its original furnaces from 300
ton to 500 ton capacity, until now it
has five of the larger capacity and one
of the smaller capacity. Just what
enlargements are in contemplation by
the c. & A. of its smelter can only
be surmised, but something in that line
is confidently expected. 1t Is known
that the mines of the C. & A. and the
S. & P. at Bisbee could double the
ore output at any time The output of
the C. & A. smelter last month amount
ed to something over 100000, or about
100000 less than the output for the
record month of the year. The present
c. & A. smelter plant could easily pro-
duce 10000 more II such an increase
In output were desired.