Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-26
OF WORK
 ON [. 2. SHELTER
A Description of the Structure As It Viii Then
 Be

lures being added to the Copper Queen shelter in this city is mak. ing good headway now, says the Douglas International, and vast ground for it's continuance to com. ! pletion some six or eight months ahead. The new stack which is three hundred feet high has been practically completed. This stack is brick at the base and tiling above, all lined with layer of three-inch fire brick. Two openings are pro- yided at the base and these win serve both the reverberatory fur naces and the roasters. A petition of tiling is now being built from the base of the stack upward between the openings.
 The MacDougaI roaster building has been completed and the Eoast. CTS placed in position, five of them. though the building will accommo. date six roasters.
 The bins for the original recep- ton of the concentrates and flue dust have been completed. These bins are below the surface and the material will be dumped in from the cars which will bring them from Nacozari and other places. From the bins the concentrates and other ores will be taken by conveyor belts to bins which are above each roast CT tank, from which it will be dropped into the roasting furnaces automatically, as desired.
 The foundations for the reverber- atory furnaces, two, one hundred feet in length, are completed and their construction of fire brick is ready to proceed. The structural steel is on the ground for the cree. ton Of the building that will shelter these furnaces and also the boiler plant which is now well along to- wards completion. the boilers. econo. mixers and flues being in place. ..
 Great piles of tiling are on the ground for the erection of the dust chambers which are included in the addition and which will cover the space between the reverberatories and the roaster building. Founda- tions for these dust chamber build ings have already been provided and only a small amount of concrete work now remains to be done in connection with the construction work.
 There are now employed on con structiQn work at the Queen smel. ter from fifty to sixty men, but this number will be materially increased in the near future.
 The railroad steel trestle which will bring the material for the re Iverberatory furnaces from the rail road yards connected with the smell ter is nearing it's terminal, which IS above the mouth of the furnaces.
 This work is expected to be all complete, ready for starting the ad. ditional plant in from six to eight months, according to estimation, in the receipt of material the new furnaces and roasters may be ax- pected to be in operation by April | first of next year.
 Everything is moving along in perfect order in every department of the new work, as well as in the old shelter proper where last week all of the ten blast furnaces were in operation. The number of blast furnaces in operation varies from time to time with the grade and quality of the ore to be smelted, though there is little variance in the output, that remaining about the same for the past year.
 A visit to the Copper Queen smel- ter and into it's various departments impresses one with the fact that it is kept clean and orderly. In the shops, in the power house, in the furnace building and so on over the vast req covered by the enterprise everything is kept in its place and good force is continually employ ed in keeping the entire works in perfect condition.
 A vast amount of the iron and steel work is provided in the shops connected with the smelter and also many of the castings are products of the foundry.
 A visit to the Copper Queen smell ter is sufficient to dispel any feel ing of pessimism regarding the f'I- ture of Douglas. Here is the evi- dence of the stability of this city and of the fact that Douglas is 10 become the great smelting center of the Southwest