Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-30
SHELTER WORK GOES ON RAPIDLY AND
 ASSUMES FORM
Structural Steel Workers Nov Engaged at the Copper
 Queen Plant
, & A PLANS PROGRESSING
lDourlas International

Douglas lntenational)
 Good progress has been made on tbe construction work at the Copper Queen shelter during the month Of March and a layman can now be- gin to get an impression of what has been done during the past tnre months, and what may be expected before the addition Of the reverba- tory furnaces and the McDougai reasters are ready to go into com mission. During the month of Jan uary there was a large force cf h. borers employed 52 eXcavauns fer foundations and po-ring the concrete foundations into for set for them Now the foundations have been prac- tucally completed for everything ez- ' ceDr the two reverbatory furnaces and this work is in progress and making good headway The reverbs- tory furnaces viii each be one hun dred feet in length and will lay north from the original shelter building
 The tunnel in which the electric slag cars will run to the north end of the furnace has been completed and the concrete lining is in place On the top of this tunnel will be set the boiler plant for the addition Structural steel workers are now making music on the building for i five McDougal rOasters which are to be installed This building will ac- , #commodate six r0asters, though only ! five are to be installed at the pres ! ent time
 ! All the concrete lines pitts in which will run the conveyor belts which will carry the concentrates for roast ing to the top of the tall roaster build | ing into bins for their reception have been completed.
 i The material for the steel trestle over which ore trains will be brought to the roasters has not ar rived The grade for the track which will connect with the steel trestle on the west side of the plant has been completed since January. The grade ends with a concrete abut- ment which is nineteen feet high. { The concrete foundation for the great stack which is to be erected for the accommodation of the roast CTS and reverbatories is compieee. Inls roundatfon consists of a sciis pfece or reinTorced concrete sixr- rect in diamersr and eleven and oas nan feet tnicK. in this piece oT COZ for reinforcement. In the center C the top or this foundation is les receptacle aDout two feet sqnAT ara one foot deep into which wIli b placed the history of the Coppea Queen smleter, with the names O those responsible for its creation ard operation 10 the present time, a description of it's various depart lments, etc.
 The tile for this stack, which will be 900 feet high, are now being re- ceiyed. the first car arriving yester- day morning. This tiling comes from New Mexico. where it is specially manufactured for the stack. con- tract for the erection of the stack has been let to a New York com pany and the workmen are expected to arrive within the next two weeks. 1t is estimated that it will require eight men for ten weeks to com plete the stack after it is started.
 The new dust chamber has been completed, as also has the new dust fue, which is carrying the fumes from all the converters into the chamber
 The two new turbine engines have been put into place on their founda- tions in the power house, to be used for generating the electricity which has been contracted to the Fl Tigre company, to be transmitted by the mining company to their property at Fl Tigre, Sonora, a distance of sev- enty-two miles. Each of these en- zines will provide one thousand horse power, and will be run by the steam exhaust from the blowing en zines in the same building The electricity will be carried by an i'm mense underground wire, two inches ln diameter for a distance of three hundred yards to what is called a transformer building being erected hy the Fl Tigre company This building is being bull urder contract by D. \. Darl- iug, the Douglas contractor, who al- SO laid the tiling in the new dust chamber building for the Copper Queen Co. The transformer build ing is 2Sx4S feet and is of the most substantial character. From this building the electricity for the El Tigre power house. seventy-two miles away will be transmitted. The transmisson fine is now nearing com pietion for handling this electricity The poles have about all been set and the stringing of the wire which was started at the mine in Sonora is now within a few miles of Doug las.
 On the Copper Queen construction work there is now employed nearly one hundred men. When the worF g as started most of the force con
 is.ed Of common laborers. but now tfcse are being supplante1 by high 1 --teea mechanics