Arizona republican., 1911-08-21
NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY
1t Is All But Definitely AS
sured NoW-Plant Will
Work Ray Consolidated
and All Other Custom
Ores Offered.

1t is announced with a probability
expected TO mature into full assurance
within a fortnight, that the American
Smelling and Refining company will
enter the Arizona mining field by the
erection of a huge custom smelling
plant at Hayden. The enterprise in
wolves the taking over and completing
after its own ideas, of the smelling
plant the Raw Consolidated Mines COM
pany has been engaged in building I'M
til three months ago. when the work
was suspended pending negotiations to
the end described, following a propos-
ition made to the Ray people by the
American Smelling and Refining COM
pany The largest patron Of the pro-
posed smelter will of course be the
4 Ray Consolidated company but the
plant VIII be a custom smelter and as
/ its business grows its influence and
patronage may become far reaching.
This announcement is Of interest to
the copper operators of the world rath-
er than to the men actually engaged in
the mining fields of Arizona, for so
| far as understood, the plans Of the A.
! s. & r company in the construction
| and operation of the new plant, are
but little different from those here
tofore outlined by the Ray Consolidated
which also planned the building of a
! custom smelter. Both would seek the
] largest possible development Of the
/ field and the widest patronage posi-
/ BILE The only material chang "a the
| situation is respecting the operating in
terest. together with the important fact
that it is the first Arizona enterprise
/ of the American Smelling and Refining
company, one of the largest factors in
the copper world.
! The news above referred to has been
rumored for some time but could not
| be given with authority until last even
| ing when the facts We're verified in an
interview with d. c. Jacklin. president
land manager of the Ray Consolidated
who arrived here from Hayden in his
private car Cyprus, and left two hours
later for the Chino properties at Santa
Rita. n VI. Mr. Jacklin in response
to an inquiry as to the plans of the
two companies, said he could not state
definitely that the American Smelling
and Refining company will undertake
this project as negotiations are not
yet settled finally, but 1t is true that
they have been under way for weeks
with every probability that they will
be satisfactorily arranged, and that the
matter will no doubt be finally deter
mined within n week or ten days. He
/ IL 90 no oil nc CaVinR
thing was done until 1t had been ac-
tually accomplished, but he spoke as
though he had no present doubt that
the matter in question would be dis
posed Of as indicated.
Mr.. Jaklin said that Karl Eilers the
chief field engineer of the a. s. & r
company had recently visited Hayden
and that other engineers of the COM
pany are there now in connection with
the negotiations. He said the Ray Con
solidated had planned its own smelling
plant. indeed had it well under way
and was rushing the work as rapidly as
possible, until three months ago, when
the American Smelling and Refining
company made the Ray people prop
Osition to take the smelling business
off their hands, offering at the same
time satisfactory rates for the reduction
of the Ray ores. The Ray company
took the matter under consideration
and at once stopped smelter construc-
ton pending the outcome of the nego-
tiations.
Asked concerning the probable ca
pacity of the new smelter he said it
| l., no de-
manded. The present output of the
Ray concentrator is about $50 tons of
concentrates per day from approx
jmately 5000 tons of ore and would re-
duire two reverberatory furnaces. But
il Is expected that in the near future
the Ray output will be increased 10
400 or 500 tons of concentrates per day
The new smelter, whoever builds II
will naturally be large enough to care
! for all the ores and concentrates Offer
r ed. The custom work probably would
not be notably large at first, outside
of that furnished by the Ray company
= but the smelling company will TO doubt
care for all that comes and increase
the size of it's plant as fast as needed
!, Mr.. Jacklin said that the Ray concen
traitor produces % per cent concen-
trates and when running to- its capac-
: ity of 500 tons per day the output OF
, copper will be some six or seven million
|, pounds of copper per month.
Three units of the Ray concentratoi
T are now in commission and the fourth
. unit will be ready for work in few
! DAYS but the tonnage win not be great
e Nv increased until September. In tho
= Ineighborhood of 1000 men are now EN-
t ployed by the Ray company in it
e mines, concentration and in construc
ton work which is still going on. II