Arizona republican., 1911-08-12
PROGRESS OF SHELTER
WORK At DOUGLAS
Five Hundred Yards of Concrete Will
Complete Work on Copper
Queen SmIeter.


the additional features being built al
the copper Queen Shelter at Douglas
is about completed. says the Douglas
Daily International, and it was estimat-
ed last Wednesday that probably SOC
yards would complete the work.
This construction work was begun
about the first of the year, and since
| then hundreds of cars of sand and &C.
ment have been received and with
crushed Stag ground into concrete in a
mill provided for that purpose. How
many yards of concrete have been put
into foundations is not known but il
reaches a very large figure, including
foundations for buildings, retaining
walls and for the big stack, which took
a solid block sixty feet in diameter.
octagonal in shape. twelve feet thick.
An idea of the scope of the concrete
work required in connection with the
addition of reverbertory furnaces and
roasters to the Copper Queen may be
had by stating that this concrete was
drawn automatically from the cement
mill and hauled to the place required
and dumped into the excavations where
ii was required. The finishing of the
concrete work will complete a vast pre-
liminary undertaking and will dispense
with large amount of common labor
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The work on the big brick stack
which is to accommodate the reverber-
atory furnaces, taking the fumes from
great dust chambers similar to those
the blast furnace building, has been
delayed several times because of the
non arrival of material when il was
needed to continue the work. The stack
which is to be three hundred feet high,
has now reached a height of 215 feet
and, of course, as ii gets higher pro-
groess will be slower.
For the power house which belongs
to this new addition one boiler has been
received and will be promptly placed in
position, the foundations for the boilers.
of which there will be four, being all
ready
The rooster building has been prac-
tically completed. only a small amount
of work being to do yet.
Nothing has been done on the high
line which is to come in over the rever-
beratory furnaces since the grade was
completed to where the steel trestles
will carry the track in a circle to the
reverberatories. This high line road
comes from the north where ii con-
meets with the tracks which serve all
departments of the smelter
According to P. ]. McCabe. foreman
of the construction work there yet re-
mains a vast amount of work to be
done and he can give no idea as to
when completion may be expected, as
that must necessarily depend on the
promptness which features the delivery
of required material
When this work was begun II was
estimated by the management. that it
might be possible 10 complete ii dur
ing the present year, but since then
there have been unexpected delays in
the arrival of machinery, so that it may
be possible that the job will not reach
completion as soon as was originally
expected or hoped for.
At the c. G. A.
A great deal of work has been done
at the c. & A. smelter in the way of
preparation for the work of construct
ing the new smelter plant to be con-
structed by that company. A great deal
of grading has been done in bringing
the surface to a proper level. A vast
space to the southeast of the present
works is being filled in with Stag from
the furnaces. New railroad tracks have |
.t,n al ul,
over which the ore is hauled to the feed |
floor OF the furnaces several culverts |
have been cut in and bridged TO allow |
any flood waters TO pass without being |
carried into the works. With the eX
ception of the engines in the power |
house, there VIII be little of the pres |
ent works left in the new plant. The |
plans and location of the new plant are |
such as to allow the continuance of the |
for operation. An eastern mining jour
nalnal has estimated that it would |
probably require two years to complete
the new smelter planned by the Calu-
met & Arizona at Douglas and that 1t
would cost between one and one and
quarter million dollars. Andy Scott. of /
this city, had a number of teams work.
ing on grades and excavations at the |
c. & A. for several months, but this
work is now all about done.
In connection with the new c. & A.
smelter a stack will be built of steel to
a height of 32O feet which will be TWEEN
ty feet higher than the new brick stack i
now under construction at the Queen
Engineer Reppeth. who is planning
this new smelter, has maintained an
office and corps of engineers in this
city since last winter and ii is under
stood that MANY of the detailed plans 4