The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-26
QUINCY IS IN
GOOD CONDITION
Annual Report Should Be Pleasing
to Stockholders


company has been issued to the share
holders. II shows that product Of tn
mine was 3O.VlO36O pounds OF min,
craI which yielded 2O63i,SOO pound.
Of refined copper from which was real
lied s3,35L35s5O. The profit from sill
Yer was $50, s275O making the total
profit S3.3Sl,5S7. The mining prof;
was Sl0S9,673.6S and net business pro-
iii for Tho year was $780, Aver
age price received for copper was
1924 cents per pound.
The report OF the general manager.
Charles l.. Lawton. says in part.
The operations OF tho quincy mine.
railroad stamp mills. and smelter for
tho year 1872. have included more de-
yelopmcnt ana construction that Tor
several preceding years. This feature
of the work however. has been met
10 considerable degree by the in
creased price OF copper, which has al
So permitted the wider distribution
Of efficiency installation. Notwith-
standing the shortage of labor and the
more pcroeptible decrease IN the out
put of 80. shaft. the tonnage of rock
sent 10 tho stamp mills was l,3Oq.-5I
tons. This means consequent lessen
ink OF the total production OF copper
tor the year which. together with the
increased cost 81 labor entails hi-h-
or cost
so material change has been noted
i'm the copper contents 81 the rock in
tho new lower. OF bottom. openings OF
tho mino-this. of course. as compared
witt, recent vcars-though the good
showing Of copper in the new openings
of the bottom Of the mine north Of No.
shaft, is worthy OF mention
The openings for The year have boon
greater by s,G2j fcct than during the
previous year. this was attained In
spite OF the fact that 40. shaft op-
cniuEs were necessarily less by 1851
linoal feet than the year before. Tho Z
total now openings made during tho
year were a14o5 feet. and 2.75i feet ~
diamond drilling, - combined total of
nearly six aud ouo-balf miles All /.
the shafts arc in good physical COM f.
dirIou.
~ so SHAFT tho available stopu.,
GROUND is being steadily mined out .
The loss no tonnage from this shaft (
amounted 90 a million pounds Of cop- F.
per during the year
The Isl feet OF drifting in this /
shgft was almost exclusively on one .
OF the east branches, averaging about I
seven feet vide. IL is rich stamp rock /
and carries much small and heavy /
mass copper. The shaft produced go
tons Of mass copper. There is no ac-
tive work OLA the west branches In this
shaft
At 80. hosting engine house.
Now steam power plant. known as "No.
80" is under construction, 20 replace
the old 40 Z boiler plant. and 20 sup
plant tar 1000 feet OF fourteen inch
steam main with It's excessive loss
from condensation and radiation. -
concrete stack. oighty-four inches in
diameter. aud IA foot high. has been
completed. trr railroad trostlo built,
the boiler house. pump house. and
coal hin. erected. the foundations fgr
tho boiler finished. and the boilers az"
now being Installed \ laundcr has
also been buu for flushing the ashes.
Am tho steel work al 80 and Nu
z shaft .rork-houses has been thor
uughly s,raped and painted
Eumnor . shaft. which has been in
rreasIur us ur'pm pf copper rock for
several wears fell oft slightly during
tH, past va4r. Tho rock secured from
iHi. shaft seas FuI-tad from AN aver
axe incline depth OF 1850 feet Tho
member 60 Irr..fI Zoe, Of work accom-
f.r..rr5 fa this shaft during tbc wear
.a, JON. #r.r.Dp.ng copper ground
~ sI Grade Tho tonnage gf cope
1.r f.,x produced from the hanging
vaI ...... .n fHc UPPER Jewels vaa
NOT aa .srr. aa ..s, Faar
Much Mass Copper
TH. ys., arrurtcr puis ~ ms
sb.r, .r-r Hntn, mined gu t4r upper
levels vrrrr iar. arc narrow aud very
IRREGULAR .r .a'H and copper con
font. from tho eleventh 10 tho thir-
fv.rmIfta levels tEsg produce q low
grade of stamp rock. but consider.
alb. mass popprr Below the thirty