Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

case always ln past years. the copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company |. and the Copper Queen Mines of Bis bee, easily hold first place among the ! copper producers of Arizona. And once more, also, the Copper Queen . Company is SO far in advance Of all other producers as to discourage com ! parisons
 During the first months of the pres ent year production in the Copper Queen mines was materially curtailed, i for a part of that time it was only about 50 per cent of the normal. But despite such curtailment their produc- ti0n for the first ten months of the year totaled 666,OOO tons ore and its copper contents amounted to 73.-. OOO,O00 pounds in that same period. Unofficial estimates place the prob able production figures for the year at approximately 9O,OOO,O0O pounds of copper
 If the foregoing estimate is correct, 1915 production of the Bisbee mines of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company will exceed 1914 fig ures by upwards of 5,OOO,OOO pounds, and 1913 figures by about 7,000,O00. During the first six months of 1914, they produced 5O,OO0,000 pounds and it may be conservatively stated that the normal output of these properties is 00O0O.000 pounds per annum, or even in excess of that amount
 Large Shelter Output.
 The shelter of the company at Douglas handles other ores than those from the Copper Qtben mines, Naco zari concentrates and customs ores in-. creasing its product materially For the first ten months of 1915 the month- ly average tons charge smelling has been 10S.250 and the average output has been 1O6S0,00O pounds of fine copper, or a total of 106.So0.000 pounds for the period. It may be expected that shelter production for the year will reach and exceed 130,O00.00O This will be at least II .OOO.O .OO0 pounds in excess of the 1914 output These figures both for the Copper Queen mines and for the Douglas reduction works, mark the greatest output for any year in the history of the com pany
 The year 1914 was expected to mark new era in the affairs of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company SO far as production was concerned. It was anticipated that record of 100000 900 pounds for the year would be achieved and this was indicated in the first eight months of the year. 5OOOO GOO having been the output for the first six months, but then came the European war and heavy curtaH- menJs in production, approximately 90 per cent SO that only little more than half as much copper was out puJted in the last half of the year.
 Century Million Mark
 The year 1915 opened with no ex- pectations of large production. Cur tailment was then in progress and con tinued for the first quarter and into the second Then with a revived market marked increases were made until normal output figures were shown. Such is the condition at the present writing and despite four months of curtailueut records have gone to smash. although the 100000 900 mark is stiIl to be reached from the company mines in the Warren District But if the demand for cop per continues during the coming year in the same volume as the past few months, there is every reason 10 ex- pect that the century million mark will be passed by the Copper Queen mines in the year 1916.
 Regiments Of Employee
 In 1915 the average number of em- ployees in the Copper Queen mines has been 23fo and at the shelter 1905 but these figures do not show the total number ol employed at the pres ent time Largely reduced operating forces were employed for the last five months of 1914 and the first four of 1915 Then steady increases were made in production and consequently larger forces oC miners were worked The number now engaged by the min- ing department is not lar from 5000.
 Payroll Is Large.
 In the same way thc average month ly pay rolls, Sz1S,850 at the mines and S83500 at the smelters, are consider ably lower than present day figures. Not only is the number of employees larger than the average, buf wages are higher than the average of wage scale used in obtaining these heures. When the new scale of wages based on the prevailing price of copper for the proceeding month was introduced and followed by a rapid rise in metal prices, there was produced wage scale that was higher than any ever before enjoyed by workers in the Bic. bee mines. IL Is conservative 10 as- sume that abe present months pay roll is well over $30OO00 probably considerably nearer to $f00,000. The same is true in lesser proportion at fhe reduction works in Douglas 1hc.a the percentage of increase in loiac was not equal percentage of increase in Che p8yroll5 At the smelters, how. ever an estimate of 2l000o0 might hoi be far from the figures But these estimates on payrons are entirely ua. official
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