Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-02


Especial Correspondence 10 lrcrald. J
silver City. n. ~. April 30.~-The
immense plant OF the chino "copper"
company OF Grant county New Mex
lco, one OF the biggest and most val-
liable copper propositions In the
united States Is fully described IN the
last number Of the Mining ana
Scientific Preas.' hy J. NJ. sully. gem
eral superintendent Of the property.
The article viii be Of great interest
not only 10 persons interested in min
ing but 60 the public generally as Civ
Ing an intelligent idea 81 the ex-
tenslyeneas OF the plant and Of the In
dustry. Il IL AZ foilows:
Water supply. Water Is obtained
from four pumping stations: one at
Apache lTejo, ave miles south Of Hur-
ley; "a second az b ranch, one mile
northeast OF the mill, a third as Whls-
key creek. five miles west OF the mill.
and the fourth on Cameron creek,
one mile east Of Whlskey creek. The
Whiskey creek and Cameron creek
supplies the same pipe line. The
Apache Teio pumping station b.
equipped with one Aldrich quintuple
geared electric driven pump. a sec
ond pump being on the ground for
installation as q reserve. The Is
ranch, Whiskey creek. and Cameron
creek stations are equipped with AL
drich trlpiex-geared pumps, motor
driven, The power Is transmitted 10
each sub-statlon az 24.0O0 volts, and
transformed to fS0 volts. The water
from these stations Is pumped 20 a
100000 gallon storage reservoir AZ
Hurley.
Plant Building and Concentration
The site selected Tor the min of the
Chino Copper company az Hurley, . y
miles from the mine al santa Rita, is
on the edge o. the mesa on the south
bank Of Whitewater creek az a point
t,ree-quarters OF a mile distant from
the santa Fr railroad. ana where fa-
vorable erades and ample room for
yarda could be found between the
santa re ana the unl proplr The
slope OF lhc ground waa such that a
minimum amount ~ excavation was
necessary TO give the right slope
through the mill building. Tile power
plant u south and west Of the mill,
the coal bunkers being set on a line
with the tracks over tho crudc-crc
bins. permitting the placing Of tho
cars over the buukers Of the power
house.
Power Piant-Tho power plant
building ia ia feet 8 inches wide by
$50 feet long. The boiler room oc-
cuples as feet inches Of the width,
and the engine room sc feet. The
floor or the boiler room 81 iG feet
below the engine room floor. a sult-
aole material for the engine bases
was found within a foot or two Of the
surface Of tho ground. and the foun-
dations OF the engines were brought
up 70 such height as 10 leave am-
pie room under the engine room floor
for an the auxillaries without the
necessity for excavation. A switch
board bay lB provided on the east
side OF the building 50 feet long by
10 feet inches wide. A bay has
also been provided Tor the porman-
ems oliing system.
The building Is a steel structure,
covered with galvanized iron. Tho
structure iu tho engine room portion
has been designed for and provided
with a travelling crane Of 10000
bounds capacity Tho boiler room D.
arranged with coal hunkors, sato
which the coniers can pr directly
dumped and the coal fed without re-
handling. 10 the Green stokcra.
The steam generating plant con-
slsts of clEht 445-horse power (nOm-
inai ratlns) Hoine water tube boilers
sot IA batteries of two boilers carry
ing iI5 pound steam pressure ~ q
.,..rLlua load ono nHffaFU 1.-TWO
hOlers) To- equipped with 1roen, char
crate stokcrs. A second battery OF
boilers b. now being equipped with
siokefa. and the remaining batterics
win be equipped before July q, 1912.
THESE atbkers have shown great e.
Icioncy in the burning u ihe cheapest