Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-30
THE INSPIRATION SHELTER WILL
 TREAT MIAMI ORE--MEANS SAVING

Announcement is officially made that with the completion of the new International Smelling & Refining Company's custom shelter at Miami Arizons-p,anned and erected to treat Inspiration ores-the Miami company's contract with Greene Cananea to smelt Miami concentrates will be trans ferred to the local International plant. Inspiration, International Smelling & Refining and Greene Cananea are ali controlled by the same interests, and no difficulty $ contemplated in the transfer of Miami's present smelting contract with Greene Cananea, or at least the "sub-letting" of the contract to the new plant at Miami.
 Ground is now being broken and
 the site prepared for the big Interna- tional smeltery at Miami. McArthur
 Bros. the contractors who [Ed much
 of the preliminary construction for inspiration. are preparing the ground. Actual construction of the smelteT will begin about Jan. l, 1914, by Re path & McGregor. Tie shelter will
 Ee completed in the fali of 1914, but
 vii probably not go on a permanently pI oducing basis before January 1915. It will handle Inspiration, Miami anl local ores, and will have to import pyrites or sulphide ores for fluxing.
 The smeiting of Miami concentrates at Miami instead of al Cananea, Mex ico. will effect a saving Of S4 per ton in transportation charges, CT be- tween SI75,00O and S2OO,OO0 per an. nun, based on present Miami ship
 ments about 4S,O0O tons per annum) .. With the increase in MiamTs milling capacEy, as announced in the Mining i Age two weeks ago, from 3,OOO to
 4,0OO tons daily. proportionate in | crease in saving would, of course, be ! effected. At present freight charges ! from Naami to Cananea, Mexico, is | S4.5O per ton It is estimated that ! Miami concentrates can be delivered
 to the new shelter at Miami at a
 cost Of 50 cents per ton less.
 | Miami shareholders must not, how ever, jump at the conclusion that the
 saving of $4 per ton will re1ound en- | tirely to Miami As a matter of fact this item of saving has already been discounted, and Miami will have been
 enjoying the fruits of the saving for IS
 months in advance of the actual com ! pletion of the new smelter. When ! Miami and Greene Cananea abrogated | their old smelting contract and enter ed upon an new agreement, beginning ! in July, 1913, and lasting a little over 10 years, it was with the understand i ing that Greene Cananea might uiti-
 mately transfer the contract or at least the actual smelting of the ores'
 to the new International smeltery at | Miami. In fact, the international
 sme,tery was planned and constructed
 not so much for Inspiration ores alone, | but on the understanding that Miami
 ores and other ores of the district i would also be handled. It was only upon such an understanding that the
 profitable construction and operation
 of the new International smelter could ! be at all possible
 When Miami signed it's new smelt' Ing contract with Greene Cananea 1t
 was given reduction. taking effect
 immediately. of one-half cent per
 pound in the smelting transportation
 charges, and as Miami concentrates
 run TOO pounds of copper per ton,
 this amounts to reduction of $3.5o
 per ton from previous prevailing rates.