The Calumet news., 1912-02-01
c. & Il. TO ENLARGE
ELECTRIC PLANT
WILL ADD 10000 HORSE POWER
AT LAKE LINDEN TO BRING
ABOUT ADDITIONAL
ECONOMIES.

SAYS the Native Copper Times.
The Calumet q Hecla is preparing
for the enlargement of its electric
power plant; 10 add about 10000 n. p.
to its capacity 4 turbine is to be
installed TO furnish this additional
power and the steam required. or
over one-half of il. viii come from
the waste steam from the heads-and
this win effect quite an economy; a
big saving that will help towards a
collar ton rock; towards the bring
ing about something SO desirable in
the interest OF the future expansion
OF the whole Lake district
The building OF this addition to the
power plant and the beginning of the
work of construction OF the second re-
grinding plant will help Lake Linden
during the present year and oomplet-
cd viii be of material benefit 10 the
town. Then the power plant has only
begun 10 grow. and all our people wish
"more power TO it," at short intervals.
as i'm the extension OF electrical pow
or. the Calumet & Hccla viii find one
OF their greatest ccunomics-and the
good OF IL may be so great that on'.
or more subsidiary companies may
provide this essential to economy in|
operation.
Tho Calumet & Hccla people know
where they are at i'm the way of in
PRODUCING economies; they spend the
time and money 10 prove the value of
thing: Rnd out just what il viii do
and NJ results are satisfactory, the
change is made. There is no guessing,
fact which has been emphasized inl
the past only a few years ago. the
rcmodelliug of the heads i'm the twol
biz mills. at an estimated cost Of over
81 900. .O00. was undertaken. The mill
was changed over or rather rebuilt i'm \
sections and four or five years were
consumed I'm The work Tho changes /
were made Co obtain a higher per-
ccntaga of the copper contents Of the
rock. and results have been more than
satisfactory. The work cost less than
$500. 900. and this amount was return
cd to the treasury. as the result of
earnings from the additional copper
recovered per ton of rock, during the
changing period and with tl'el
whole rtmodcllcd mill in operation for /
less than six months, so that every
thing after that was velvet. The re-
grinding process was tried out. and
proven. then plant No. I was erected
to handle about 1900 tons of coarse I
sands daily. and this is making cop
per for the company at around five
c,nts Tie pound. Now. 1912 will see
work started on rcgrinding plant No. I
which will be much more elaborate
than No. I as il viii handle a large |
tonnage OF the old sands daily. and
prove a valuable auxiliary I'm rounding |
out the product of the big company
and the copper i'm this plant will be l
made at a very low cost, about six
cents the pound.
These arc few of the greater econ
omics that have been and are To go In
at tho mill and power end of the big
company: but what has been accom-
plishei at the mine end Is answered
most omphatically I'm the fact that the
and handling two tons Of rock today
FOR less money than ono ton cost ten
or eleven short years ago. And the
end is not yet. as each year notes a
marking down OF the cost of mining
and handling "A ton of rock, and we
miss our guess If 1911 proves any
exception.
The calumet & Hccla management
continues progressive, always reach
ing ou; for greater accomplishments
iu the mining and making of a pound
or copper. and IL win not bc long be-
fore the dollar ton rock viii he al
reality. and then doubling Thomases
viii doubt no longer. The district
wants dollar ton rock, ms many of
its properties must have 81 90 be al
success General Manager MacNaugh-
ton wants dollar "a ton rock; has prom
ised IT. and is working for it, and in
dications are now that his efforts are
soon 20 be crowned with success,