Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

was maintained and the burden wa borne by all equally
 During the year the company treated 455.365 tons of concentrating | ore, 4892 tons of concentrating ore, ! S.903 of old slag and tailings, 8,241| , ,siliclous ore. The concentrating ore assayed 279 per cent and the smelt- ihg ore 1123. The average per cent of the ore treated 292 per cent and the yield in fine copper amounted Co 20, ,272,607 pounds The average grade of all ore mined was practically the same as in the preceding year
 During 1914 the concentrator was remodeled the work being completed during the present year and its results ] felt when production was resumed in full force following a stability in the copper market The average assay of the concentrates produced during 1914 was 15,729 per cent.
 Mine development work continued during the year 1914 amounting to 25.- 375 feet of which 127G6 was in tbe mines. The major part of this was in the Ryerson and the Yankie, the two together amounting to upwards of H.. 1000 feet Outside the mines the total was 13609, the Esperanza leading with 5,260 feet
 The average number of men empIov. ed by the company for the year was l43S, of whom 96O were engaged in the mining operations, 140 concentrat- ling, 93 mechanical, 12S smelting and l 72 in miscellaneous occupations.
 Better Times Come.
 Conditions early in 1915 continued about as they were in the closing months of 1914. As the copper mar ! ket became steadied and then ad- vanced and increased output was made possible and the company re- stunned operations in normal volume thus restoring full working hours to it's employees. At the same time a new wage scale, based on the ure- yailing price of copper for the pre- |ceedlng month, was put in operation This resulted in material wage in- creases for the operatives and wages were at the highest ever known. Pro auction for the year would have baen largely Increased over that of 1914 when outside apitators. connected with the Western Federation of Minors entered the camp with organizers and preclpitated a strike, although m grievances had been presented to company officials. The inevitable re. suit was the determination on the part or the company to cease all operations until the disturbing influences sbould leave the camp, and this was the course pursued about the middle of September
 morenePs Odd Location.
 Mention has been made earlier in this article of the rough country. tbe rugged mountains in which minins operations were undertaken by tbe De lroit Company which essentially add. ed to the difficulties of their opera. tions and offered almost insurmoupt. able obstacles 10 the installation of the q plants that were necessary to the handling of their mining and ore treat. ment operations. Further descrip. II ton of the typographical and other conditions that had to be met may moi be out of place.
 MorenCi is situateI in a bowl like amphiteatre in the mountains. the Il floor or bottom of the bowl or amphi. De theatre being so limited in area that f. aS of it is required to accommodate 5 the yards and tracks of the Morenci }. Southern Railroad To secure even f this limited space large additions had II to be gained by blasting out the side n walls. It thus came about that a city n grew up without a street. without an ,- alley, even without a sidewalk. The ]. mountain sides afford no opportunity Q for street or road making unless they ,. be blasted and hewn out of these rocky % sides at enormous expense, sidewalks would be useless, SO precipitous would they be, unless constructed in steps built in flights of stairs Thus it was that all travel through the city was over trails. Automobiles and horse and wagon transportation were i'm practicable. Delivery service was ac complished with burros.
 To secure a level site for the splen. did store of the Phelps-Dodge Mercan.
  tile company extensive blasting was required to give sufficient level space The same was true when a site was prepared for the hotel These two spots and the railroad yards constitute the only level spots in the city Houses are built one above the other in tiers or flights one above the other up the mountain sides
 Building Under Difficulties.
 It was in this rough and an but inn possible location that the Detroit com, pany had to select locations and pre-. pare sites for smelter. concentrator machine shops, power house and all other plants connected with its ope rations Every addition 10 and en largement of each of these plants pre- sentcd a similar difficulty Over such a surface the way had to be blasted out for the trackage to the various parts of its property of the marrow gauge road over which steam loco motives and electric motors must pull lhe cars or ore from the mines around devious courses. beset with the sharp