Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-15

successive stages and accessions all
 the ores extracted are landed at the
 bottom of the tunnel without having
 been carried by any power other than
 their gravity each blasting of the ore
 bodies resulting in the falling of the
 ores into the successive chambers un-
 til they finally come to rest upon the
 floor of the tunnel From here they
 are sent over the areial cable into
 the reduction works far beneath. The
 depth of the secondary enrichment of
 the copper. bearing ores. this enrich
 ment being at present the source Of
 all copper Is about two hundred and
 feet in depth, and composed of clay
 and boulders. Is usually not of suffi
 cient richness to make reduction prof
 itable. and this covering is removed from the richer ores by means of hy- draulic giants. Judging from the fact
 that the secondary ore bearing body SO rapidly increases in richness with depth, the owners of the mines are | convinced that below the present place of extraction there are other Successive enrichment than being | developed. The fact that SO great quan- tity of ores are yet tc be extracted
 from the present levels. about sixteen millions of tons being now in sight,
 deters exploration of these supposed lower stratas.
 Arriving at the concentrator the ores are there reduced practically by
 the same methods as are followed by
 the mining companies of this sec
 tion of Arizona. The process of re-
 duction of the concentrates Includes
 roasting, smelting in furnaces of the
 Cananea type of reverberatories, con
 verting the resultant matte and re- | fining the blister copper in small re
 verberatory furnaces with the green pole method.
 About twenty.eight English. this in cluding also a number of Scotchmen and seventeen Americans are em rloyed at the properties. They are known as the staff of the general man l ager. whose name is w. R. Van Liew and who is a native of America. Van
 Liew is resident manager of the prop | critics and is under the authority of Colquhoun. the latter being the chair man of the board of directors, and
 visiting al the mines with regular in
 tervals from his homb at London England. These members of the gen eral managers staff are all placed 5 in position of responsibility at th' mines. offices and reduction works ' All occupy position corresponding t' p those of the foremen and superintend - ent of similar properties here. or th' | seventeen Americans, eight are for - mer Arizona boys, having gone al , rectly from Clifton and Morenci L - The mines in the Caucasus. They ar B s. R. Swain of Morenci and who re e lieved Marstcn, who has severed hi Q connection with the company, Dol n and Jno. McLaughlin, brothers, an Q who are we'll remembered by many c l. the Clifton section; Harry Marstor t brother of Fred Marston; Wm. Mol r gan; Miller a brother of Morgan an e Thos. and Kennett Williams. Thes n are satisfied with conditions as the l. find them in the far away country. '' The location of the Colquhou D mines is at the dividing point, phys y cally, between Europe and Asia, thi d land being the scene of the hirthplac Il of the Aryan. or European races. Tn 3 ancient Georgians. admitted by a T ethnologists as being the primitiy l. Arayans. are still existant in thei n native land, many of them being en | ployed in the reduction works of tn a Caucasus Mining company. They ar e described by Marston as the ham l. somest race known. both men an
 women. For centuriet the wome n of the Georgians have been the sourt a of great slave trade with the pc s ple of Turkey the wealthy Turks re- e. ularly entering the Georgian cities f' al the purpose of buying these wome is About half million of the natiN pr Georgians, synonomous with the Ci "a cassians, are now existing. They al h. of the Christian religion, and are sa K to be more devout in their observan' it of tenets of the religion than al nt many of their brothers of the cou es tries to the West.
 e' All worers in the mines are Turk al' Poles, from far to the West in Rr ny sia, are employed in many position
 recurring technical knowledge. Al Iu- many of the Poles are employed or foremen of minor departments. et' furnace men, as at the smelters, ct NO are Persians, who by their long we lief in the religion of fire worsh es thus seem to be peculiarly fitted to this labor. In the concentrator, n an chine shops, foundries. etc, are Q sn' puoyed Russians. Poles. Armenial lis Georgians, and Tartars. besides or. sDrlnkling of few other minor rae lth The least wages paid, to the empl on- es of any race is forty cents per d
 this being equivalent to American c , rency. Many of the natives rece Inc more pay depending, of course, UT ca their skill. All foreigners. who an' English, Scotch and American. e wn mand splendid salaries, especially