The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-02-09
WORK BEING RUSHED AT
 NEW SITE
One Hundred and Sevety-five Men Employed on Work of Preparing Site for New
 Arizona Copper Co.
 Reduction Plant
CONTRACT FOR STEEL WORK LET
Steel Shipments Will Begin to Arrive About the First of May When
 Erection Will Begin.

Work at the new site for the Ari- zona Copper Company Reduction plant is under way in earnest and from now until the new shelter is ready to be blown in there will be no cessation in the activity manifested and the force will be added to from week to week. In the erection of the new reduction plant the Arizona Copper Company proposes to set a new mark in Arizona for rapid construction and it is esti- mated now that the latter part of the year 1913, will see everything complet- ed..
 During the past week approximately one hundred and seventy-five men have been employed on the new work Of this number 75 have been grading on the new site, erecting tenn porary quarters etc., while one hun dred men under Contractor Cotey, have been changing the main line of the A.. & N. M. a distance of thirty feet to the north, preparatory to en- larging the railroad yards at Shelter.
 The contract for the steel work to be use in the erection of the new re- duction plant has been let to the Kansas City Structural Steel Go. and the first deliveries are promised dur ing the month of May.
 Contract for the Roasters for the new plant, of the Herreschoff Air Cooled type, has also been let, like wise an order for temporary power plant has been placed which will be installed during the next few weeks and will furnish power for the rock crushers and hammer drills.
 The smelter stack at the new reduc- tion plant will be, a land mark for miles around. It is to be twenty-two feet in diameter and stand 300 feet in the air. An extra, heighth of 50 feet was ordered added to the stack to insure the carrying off of the fumes over the town
 The complete plans for the entire plant are now being completed in the office of c. H. Repath, at Douglas. A birds eye view of the plant when com pleted has been sketched and will ap- pear in the Copper Era at an early date,
 This week a telephone line is being strung from Clifton to Shelter for use and the stub train is loaded morning and evening carrying the workmen to and from their work.
 With the new plant completed the -1 Company twill probably reach 45,O00,- 900 pounds of copper per anhum as with s6,0OO,OO0 at the pres ent time.
 The production for 1912 by the A. c. Co. will probably be about. the same as that for 1911 In January the com pany produced 3,200,000 pounds.
 The mines of the A. c. Go. were ne yer in better condition. A great amount of development work was done during 1911, more work being done than in any two previous years and after a careful inspection of the Dr. L. D. Ricketts reported to the directors that the ore reserves more than justified the erection of the new reduction plant.
 Work of driving the tunnel from the No. mill at Morenci to connect with the Coronado incline, near Metcalf, is. expected to be completed this sum- mer and at the same time the capacity of the mill is to be increased from l ,500 tons daily capacity to 2500.