Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-16
OUTLOOK Is VERY PROMISING;
 JACKLING
Managing Director of Many Large Copper Producing Companies In West Adds
 That Cost Is Being Reduced

That Cost Is Being Reduced
 In an interview just given out in Boston D. C. Jschmg. managing dI- rector of a number of the .argesj cog per zine and gold mining companies in Arizona. declared ;rat the out look was never so promising as at present He said.
 Never was the outlook at all of our mines more promising We are preparing for even greater achieve ments il 1916 than any yet recorded. Co-5er. it seems to me. is certain to be maintained at a price to show all 6f our producers splendid profits whether or not the war is to continue.
 "The most gratifying achievement at our properties during inc past year was the demonstration that We were able to cut down our -peraCons Co 90 per cent of normal without any perceptible increase In costs per unit ol output At Utah Copper our cost during the second quarter of the year working full time, was 71a cents per pound of copper, for the rouTth quar- ter working halt time eos, was 7.7 cents per pound At Chino our cost for the second quarter was 7.7 cents and for the fourth quarter uucer son- adverse conditions it had increased only Co cents Al Ray Consolidated our cost during the fourth quarter was 91 cents, the lowest figure the mine has ever made.
 "The secret of it all is unit opera tiou Our operations are SO divided into units of reasonable size as 10 produce maximum heXibihty
 "Our aim at all of our properties has been to secure the best talent available, and We are willing to pay well for 1t. This also was factor. Utah Copper.
 "We reduced our stripping eNpendi- lures somewhat last year at Utah Cop per. as We were well ahead of im- mediate requirements. This stripping will proceed this year and next at about the same rate as last but we are approachine the peak of this par ticular expense, and after 1916 this should be a gradually decreasing item Of cost
 We are making important metal lurgical Improvements 8. ear Utah mill which will enable us oa the same tonnage of ore to extract rom l5 per cent to 20 per cent more copper, and the additional recovery will be ob- tained at normal cost.
 Alaska Gold.
 At the Alaska Gold property we are running one section of a piaut of four sections originally designed for a ca pacity of 5000 tols of ore per day. In the one section we are treating about 1900 tons per day. We are increasing this right along and have at certain times treated as high as 2,50o tons.
 "We know that our plant will have a capacity one and half times great CT than it was designec 70 treat Tn other words, instead of milling 6.0oO tons per day. we shall treat between 10000 and l20OO tons in these four units
 During the month Of March we treated about f2 GOO tons and we dem- onstrated that our milling cost will be considerably below original esti- mates. In fact. our mining cost for that month was only "A cents per ton.
 We have proceeded far enough Co make it clear that we shall be able to mine and min our ore al cost 20 per cent lower than we had originally figured
 Ray Consolidated.
 At Ray Consolidated last year just before curtailinP operations, we re- duced our cost to below 8ia cents per pound, and ] am willing to make the prediction that this year our cost will be lower than ever before. We are treating $500 tons of ore per day and our mining construction expense is decreasing very rapidly.
 Last year our output of copper was 5s.OO0,000 pounds. against 53,OOO,OOO bounds the year before Barring the unforeseen we shall this year pro duce % per cent more than last at cost of not over 8 cents. In every respect 1916 should be the banner veal in the history of the Ray property There is not single out in tho whole proposition. and we have important eeonbmies under way wnsea will ne