Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-08-16
JACKLING PUTS FAITH
IN RAY CONSOLIDATED
Utah Copper Man Says Arizona
Property Will Have Enor-
nous Production

PHOENIX, Aug. 16.-Ihat the mines
of the Ray Consolidated Copper COM
pany WILL in less than eighteen months,
be producing copper at the rate of
75,O0OOO0 pounds a year, thereby nearly
equaling the production of the famous
Calumet and Hecla mine, which for
years stood as the largest single pro-
ducing mine in the world, was the
announcement of Daniel c. Jackling,
vice president and general manager of
the Ray Consolidated Copper company,
upon the occasion of his visit to Phoe-
nix and the Ray properties. All this
contingent upon the completion of the
gigantic smelter and concentration now
under course of construction at Hay
den, upon tho Arizona and Eastern
railroad, sixteen miles from Ray, the
scene of the present mining operations.
And that there Is no doubt that the
plant at Hayden will be In full opera
ton long before the eighteen months
limit set by Mr.. Jackling is shown by
the report of progress upon the con-
struction of the buildings, the great
reservoir and the pumping plant. AL
ready 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 not much
more to do except to install the ma
chinery and put the finishing touches
to the buildings.
Over $50 men are engaged at present
in the work at Hayden and more will
be added as they can be worked adj
vantageously. The reservoir under
construction is designed to have a ca
pacity of 100000 gallons, derived from
the hills and from the ella river, which
will no fannad NV HAVING a
capacity of 1000 gallons minute.
The concentration, the largest build
ing 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 and
Eastern railroad, running three miles
or more up the side OF a mountain to
the scene of the present activity and
encountering a three and one-halp 40
encountering 31h per cent grade over
practically the entire route.
At the mine located at Ray the thou
sand or more men now engaged 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 promise of being of
more than ordinary high grade. In
some instances great nuggets of prac-
tically solid copper have been taken
out, according to Mr.. lacking.
Superintendent c. M. Scott of the
Arizona and Eastern railroad says in
this connection that his road is pre-
pairing in every way possible to be
ready to give the best of service in the
hauling of this ore the sixteen miles
between Ray and Hayden. No finer
example of railroad construction is to
be found in the southwest than that
found upon the new spur to Hayden.
at RinPh1O0 whaFH is
located the mine of the Utah Copper
company, over which Mr.. lacking ex-
ercises the same general managership !
as he does over the Ray mine, there !
are now employed 1000 men. Mr.. Jack |
ling says that this mine today ranks |
as the greatest single producing mine
in the world, having passed the Cal !
umet and Hecla sometime ago. This !
mine, he says, is producing 100000
pounds of copper each month, or a |
total of 1S0,000,000 pounds 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 $4,000, 900 pounds annually.
In comparing the operations at the |
Utah mine with the work upon the |
Panama canal, Mr.. Jackling said $780,
900 yards of earth are being moved |
6acn month, One-ndlI OF WHICH Is SOllu J
ore, which is hauled twenty-seven |
miles to a smelter.
In leaving Phoenix in his special pri-
vate car, The Cyprus, Mr.. lacking |
proceeded to another holding of his |
companies, the Chino copper mine, To-
Gated at Santa Rita, n. NJ. There has |
been erected at this place a 3000-ton !
plant, which ranks among the largest /
in the United States. 1t is claimed the |
Spanish worked this mine as far back
as in 1904, taking out great nuggets of
copper and packing the ore on mules |
down to the City of Mexico, where it |
was made into coins. 1t is what is /
known as straight metallic copper
There are families at work in the mine |
today who trace their ancestry straight |
back to those who worked there in the
early years of the eighteenth century |
The company is now entered upon an /
era of development which gives prom
Use of the mine soon being operated |
upon a large scale. 1t is said that the |
ore is of as high grade as has been |
encountered in the United States.
Asked why he had selected Cyprus"
as the name for his private car, Mr. /
Jackling said the name was taken from
the island of Cyprus in the Mediterran- |
can, on which copper was first discov-
cred by the Phoenicians, over 5000 |
years ago.