Mohave County miner., 1915-02-27
Big Companies
 Slow to Increase
Making Necessary Improve ments, But no Increase
 in Production.

in local mining circles, has been the auietness with which all of the com panies working here have maintained their gains. There is no rapid and up- ward movement in the direction of in- crease in either production or develop ment in the Warren district. There are no assurances that the management here, will make any large increases as yet-but this action has, to the con- servative observer, a guarantee of per manency which hastily considered in- crease might not hold.
 Apparently the local companies are not, as yet, satisfied that the demand for copper is substantial enough to in- crease their production to any great degree. The homogeneous of the three big copper producers of the Warren district may be counted upon to be the last to increase and, as consequence, be the last to decrease. In situations which demand the keenest of business acumen the management, referred to, have always found themselves on safe ground when any stringent periods sud- denly confront the industry in the country. This would be the guarantee to Bisbee and the Warren District that the welfare of the community is in the hands of the safest people in the coun- try.
 No heavy increase in the working force of either the Copper Queen or the Calumet and Arizona has been noted during the past week. Some men have been taken onr In the majority of cases, however, they are old men who have stayed in Bisbee awaiting that time when the mines should resume their normal productions. The labor market of the District, in every other line as well as that of mining, is better than taken care of. In fact there are still men in the district, who worked here last year and it is evident that it is the intention of the companies to take care of them before any transient labor is put to work.
 Now that the dump, immediately north of the Czar hoist house is about filled the Copper Queen is completing tramway across the canyon to the old slag dump, and will as soon as the structure is completed, start to dump ing the waste which comes out of the mine into the big hole in the old dump for use as ballasting on it's main line. The foot bridge across the canyon will be kept for the accommodation of those who worked the Czar and wish to strike Naco road without coming around by the Southwestern depot. The span over the railroad track, of the new tram, is constructed of steel and the laying of the span has attracted no little attention during the past few days.
 A good sign of efficiency work, noted in the Copper Queens week, was the commencement of the construction of a tunnel from point, near the Czar to the two hundred level of the Southwest. A gang of men has also been started from the Southwest end of the tunnel and work will be rushed on this new work.
 The object of the tunnel, which will be about 1700 feet long, extending to the two hundred level of the Southwest. At the present time the timbers are taken into the Czar, from there are taken over to the Six-Hundred level of the Southwest. Nearly all of the work in the Southwest is above this level and the timbers have to be raised several hundred feet. By the construction of the tunnel the supplies can be handled from the surface directly into the center of the workings of the South west and thus effect great saving for the money.
 A real good sign in local mining circles is the start of the Irish Man lease, at the famous old property of the c. X A. Company. The lease work is in charge of Tom Stafford, and Dick Whiteside will act in an advisory ca- pacity. The Mag is perhaps one of the best known shafts in the State of Ari- zona: It has been in operation for