El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-24
By L. H DAVIS


ores were encountered at a depth of
/ 900 feet below the $40 foot level of
! the mine Now the development work
totals 5000 feet per month
The Old Dominion Smelter at Globe
produced in June 2,112,790 pounds of
/ lopper with an average of only two
The July output was 2.212, 900 pounds
of copper with the three furnaces run
ming. and 1900 men are now employed
The July production was 1106 short
tons Of blister copper.
MOrenei-CIiftOn District.
In the CIifton-Morenci district. Arr
zona- the three large producing COM
panies, viz: the Arizona Copper com
pany, the Shannon Copper company,
both of Clifton, produced 52574 pounds
Of copper, and the Detroit Copper com
pany, of Morenci. a Phelps-Dodge hold
ing, totaled p, 704,S9S pounds of COP
per. The total output from the Shan
non mines and furnaces is now 2,S49, 900
pounds per month
The report of Phelps. Dodge & Co.
shows a total production for the past
by its smelteries, OF which 1855, 97S
pounds was from its own ores. The
Copper Queen works at Douglas pro-
duced III, AS, 229 pounds of copper and
their Detroit Copper Mining company's
smeltery at Morenci produced 22,704,-
39S pounds. The Copper Queen plant,
at Douglas, also produced 1,794,S95
ounces of silver and 21,154 ounces gold
The total ore extracted from Phelps
Dodge mines for the years was l.
S41,2 tons, etc The above reported
production from the most prominent
producing Arizona mines will show the
wonderful increase in copper produc-
ton
and rapid in the future when the great
concentrating plants to treat the ores
of the vast porphyry copperS and the
big smelteries under construction are
completed, a brief description OF which
will be given below
New 100000 Smeltery.
One of the largest construction en-
, terprises now being carried on in the
state of Arizona is the erection of the
new Smelter of the Arizona Copper
company. The smelter site is situated
about two miles south Of Clifton on the
line of the A & n. NJ railroad. The
construction of this plant will entail
the expenditure of more than S2,0O0,OOO,
and its completion is expected about
the middle of next October. This Is an
immense undertaking, and being stu
ated in the heart of the mountains with
hills TO be leveled and deep gulches
to be filled, the magnitude of the task
can only be cOnjectured by one VINO
has not visited the place. At present
there are about 500 men employed It
''Smelter,% the name Of the new smell
ter town.
The structural steel work for sew
eraI of the largest buildings is COM
pleted. Rapid work will now go on
Every freight train coming to GLITCH
c
and machinery. Work has commenced
on the large smelter stack, which will
be built of brick and viii be 500 Feet
high and so feet in diameter, the larg-
est stack of its kind in the southwest
The machinery TO be installed in the
new plant will be Of the latest lal =
saving kind and most uptodate pat
tern
Meanwhile, as the big Smelter Is r1s-
ing steadily, building operations are
also under way upon the addition TO
the Arizona Copper company cOncen-
traitor at Morenci, which when complet-
ed will double its present capacity OF
100 tons daily.
Surveyors are now busy at work be-
tween the new smelter site and Mo-
renci and Metcalf, for the purpose of
transmitting power from the new pow
er plant at Shelter, thus to the reduc-
ton plants at those mining camps.
To facilitate the rapid movement OF
ore from the mines to these plants the
mountains of Colorado, which will be
5000 feet long, 1000 feet of which is
already completed
The same company is increasing the
capacity of the pOWerplant equipment
for its mines by the addition of new
machinery, including three 25OC-kVa-
turbo-generators and nine 417-kva-
transformers from the General Electric
company.
shannon Copper Improvements.
In the same district, the Shannon
Copper company, with headquarters at
Clifton and operating both at Clifton
and MOrenci, has spent a large sum OF
money during the year in the cOnstruc-
ton of a new 5000 ton concentration at
Morenci in order TO more economically
treat its ores, and is figuring on the
erection of a new smelter to take the
place of the present plant, which is
in the heart of the town of Clifton,
where it has been in operation for
number of years
year completed the construction of a
narrow gage railroad from Clifton ITO
Metcalf, a distance of 10 miles, to haul
its ores TO Clifton smelter. The COM
pany's production shows a constant in
crease.
10000 Ton Concentrates.
During the past year the 10y Con-
solidated Mining company has COM
pleted one OF the largest concentrating
mills in the United States at Hayden,
Ariz. The plant consists of eight
units, which are all operating and have
a total capacity of 10000 tons per day.
The building is steel frame, 37S feet by
400 feet The power plant is one of
the finest in the country. Its normal
capacity is 1000 XIV. The mill treats
unit the extraction being about 20 per-
cent The concentration is about 20
to one.
The Ray Consolidated is making
greater production" says the Ell Paso
mining Journal. than even manager
lacking contemplated. The big con-
centrator is now working its eight