The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-08-22
NEW SHELTER NOW READyF0R COPPER
 PRODUCTION
Roasters and Reverbatory Furnace Put Into Commission This Week
 and Entire Plant Being Tested.
Only One Furnace Continues In Op-
 eration At Old Plant and Last Cop
 per Poured From converters On Old Site.

After thirty years operation by the Arizona Copper Co. Ltd, the old plant of the Arizona Copper Go. at the conjunction of the San Francisco River and Chase Creek is fast passing into oblivion. Last week the last pound of copper was poured from the converters on the old site. General Manager Carmichael and other off, cials of the company were present and the last few pounds now adorn the general managers desk in the general office. This week only one furnace has been in operation and will be continued cleaning up the scraps about the old plant. The old converter plant is idle, likewise the gas engines.
 At the new smeIter all is activity The roasters and one reverbatory furnace is in operation and the blue smoke is to be seen issuing from the big brick stack. Next week should of copper at the new plant, pronounc- ed by experts to have no superior in the United States in point of eff ciency and economy.
 Messrs Repath and McGreggor, who designed the plant under the di- rection of Dr. l.. D. Ricketts, Con- sulting Engineer, arrived in Clifton Thursday evening and spent Friday in viewing their handiwork now al most completed Dr. Richetts is ex- pected here on Saturday for a visit of a few days. It is expected that several weeks, possibly three months, will be required before the plant is thoroughly tested and running smoothly. During this period eX- perts under the direction of Dr. Ricketts will conduct experiments in order to obtain the very best results from the plant which has cost approx imately $2,OOO,OOO and which has re- quired about two years to build.
 From Such Small Beginnings.
 The final suspension of the Arizona Copper Companys old smelter, which has been yielding copper for 30 years, and the starting of operations this week at the magnificent new smelter of the company, brings to mind the steady progress of the development of Arizona's mines. No better illus tration of this steady development can be found than the successive stages of copper smelling, that for the past forty-two years have been that has just been abandoned. The history of Clifton, to a great degree, is the history of the Arizona Copper Company's smelter at Clifton:..
 Could the great new smelter just completed by this company be placed side by side with the first smelter ever constructed in Clifton, the com pali ison would be as distinct as that offered by the first locomotive engine ever constructed, placed by the side of the giant locomotive that now carries a nations traffic from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is diff cult to realize that such progress has been consummeted. To the old-tim- CT in the copper hills of Arizona is the change a source of marvel. In conversation with Mr. Jacob Abra- ham, who has lately returned from Silver City, here to again reside, were the meaning of these changes vivid ly presented In the year 1873 MT. Abraham first pitched his tent in Clifton, coming from Silver City, where his father was a merchant, with great load of four, which he sold to the Longfellow Mining Com pany, this being in the days before