Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-15
FRED MARSD0N TELLS OF SUCCESS MADE
 BY FORMER MANAGER OF A. C. CO.,, THE
 ARIZ0NANS WITH HIM LIKE THE COUNTRY
HIGH WAGES AMERICANS; LAND OF LARGE IN TEREsT ON THE BALTIC; INTERVIEW IN CLIFTON COP.
 IS VERY HIGHLY ENTERTAINING

fIPV MarSton, Tor twelve years d resident of Clifton and this section. whore he was engaged in concentra- tior of copper, returned last week ts Clifton after having spent five years in the copper mining regions of Asi- attic Russia, on the shores of the Black Sea. the mining properties be. ing those under the management of Jas Colquhoun. formerly general man. ager of the Arizona Copper company. says the Clifton Copper Era.
 Marston in 1909 went to the mines in Russia having been summoned by Jas. Colquhoun. who then for several years had been in management of the properties of the Caucasus Copper company. Upon reaching the mines which are located about forty miles from Batoun. large seaport of the Black sea. Marston erected and has since been manager of a one-thou- sand-ton capacity concentrator for the company.
 The Caucasus Copper company had been founded about six years at the time of assumption of management by Colduhoun who became connec.ed with the properties upon the request of a number of English friends who were stockholders of the company For the first few years of operation this being before Colquhoun was placed in charge, the properties were operated at a great loss. this being largely caused by the lack of eXperi ence of the original managers, they having erected equipment that was not suitable for the character or the ores encountered During the sn years before Colquhoun took charge the company had lost nearly the en tire capital stock of a million pounds which is the present capital stocA but which is now yielding satisfactory dividends under the present manage ment More than sixteen millions O tons of copper ore are now Tn sishl and the owners are justified in then belief that greater penetration VII uncover fields of still greater rlch ness.
 Marston tells entertainingly of th' manner of operation of the mines The concentrator and smelting worK are about forty miles from the sea mort of Batoun, and all copper mad' "a, inc works is carried to this port p' wagons over a splendid military hlgn way. where the bars are carried D. steamers and rail to all points Il Russia. all the copper being produce at these mines, as well as the mlhe in Siberia. far to the north, belng sol only in Russia, as it amounts to onl about 70 per cent of the nome coi .,mntion. and because of the hu' sian law which imposes duty six cent per pound on all copper III ported. This great military roa huut by Russia in it's plans or SUI duine the states of the Caucasu mountains. leads from Batoun to th mines which are located at the oas of the Caucasus mountains ana lroi there over the high ranges or tn mountains into the country or the h tive tribes of Georgians, the olde' and most primitive of the Aryan ruronean races. The distance or tn roaa hetween the mines and Batou ia forty miles, and maintains throus ont this distance uniform grau and at A hundred feet, the eleVauo of the reduction works on us 10 to inc Black sea. It is macadamlAe throughout, and has parap throughout, its whole length, tlis U ing to prevent the possible iaiiihe
 travellers into the great canyon ractlv beneath. It is so admirable construction that the copper COT many finds no necessity of building railway to transport the copper to u sea. the method of wagon trahspoi ation being very economical
 The law of Russia demanding import duty of six cents per poui Ia considered by all copper mihli men of Russia as being largely sponsible for the highly suceess, sn, development of the industry III tariff results in all Russian copp commanding six cents more per poui than the metal commands in any o' or country of the world, and thls ira price is clearly profit, thus ma oning mining development througho inc vast empire. The Caucasus mn are the only properties at present veloped in this section of Russia
 though in Northern Siberia ma mines are now in operation
 The reduction works or the Coi houn company are at an altitude
 one thousand two hundred ie inc altitude of the mines about ! miles distant, in straight line IS
 thousand five hundred feet. All O
 brought from the mines are sent
 inc reduction works by means or
 aerial cable which is operated
 tirely by the force of gravity T
 cable is controlled by fan govern
 Large metal baskets are loaded W
 the ores, and sent hurting to the (
 centrator beneath.
 The mines are worked by driftin
 tunnel directly into the side or
 mountain, and from the tunnel, e'
 vation is directly upward, the n
 ner of operation being what is kn'