The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-04
SHATTUCK PEOPLE WILL NOT BUILD
 SHELTER
Long Talked of Building Fails to Ma teriaIize-WiiI Ship Ores to the C. & A. Shelters at Douglas
 Warren District.

That Shattuck will not build a smell ter at Douglas for the time being at least but will ship it's ores to the Calu- met and Arizona shelter at Douglas and will at once start upon active pro- duction was the chief news of import ance to develop during the past week. This was the decision reached at the directors meeting at Chicago and tha. it was considered as highly favorable was shown by the immediate an l rapid advance in the value of it's shares in ready response, something that did not occur at the time of the announcement of the company's in- tention to construct plant for the reduction of it's ores in Douglas, says
 the Review.
 Tn this city it had generally been
 believed that the company would con
 tinue it's policy of development work, only shipping the ore that was taken out in this way, would build the coa- temp1ated smelter and would not large
 ly increase it's force until such new
 smelter was completed and for this
 reason the announcement of change of plans came in the nature of sur
 prise although there were some who
 have always professed to believe that
 there would be no shelter building,
 despite the former announcement by | the directors. But commonly it was
 thought that Shattuck could not be
 looked to largely increase it's work
 ing force at the present time. The fact that a large operating force must be put to work at once to meet the contract that has been entered upon therefore came as pleasant surprise to the business men of the city, mean ing as it does employment for some 200 more miners in this district than would otherwise be required. Doug las will be disappointed at the failure of plans for a shelter building there for that city had been counting on force of mechanics and carpenters be- T ing given employment during construc tion works and an added office and Ia boring population from the installa ton of third smelter. On the con srary, Bisbee had not expected bene fit until a later day but gets the add
 ed prosperity at once-
 That the c. & A. company had tn ,
 new contract was the occasion oi some surprise for the Copper Queen lhad been handling such output of tte mine as was created by tn. develci' ment work and the c. and A. had no. : been reaching out for cuStoms w"ck The explanation, however is cas- and is found in the character of the ore which the Shattuck produces ano l the neei of ore of that kind by th- and A. while the Queen heed O
 such ore was not early so '--. .:-.st:'e
 Shatt, .ck's ore i. high sac an , largely txide. E..n of tic Sthel l compan:as have hal .u s,'ess 't s"i phide ores. To rae f. tss II hlie , and b.: -.use of t>e :.ange in the ; charac CT of the .'s .'-. t~.'' co:npan Douglas The Cj':s' Qsess com
 pleted ts work and .s in q position
 now to handle eX.-ss of s",ph'de' over oxides whi :t :i -sa ::-.cI.: "n able to do. Not so with the C. ant A. It required more oxides to forn the Aux and could not increase It I smelter output materially otherwise It obtains these from the Shattuc' and is therefore able to make an o1 fer better than any of the larger con panies and one so good as to make needless for the Shattuck to build
 plant of it's own, one equally benef
 cial to ho t contractin parties. Here Is the explanation fo
 the change of policy by the director of the Shattuck company.