The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-12
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CAMPS LYING EAST OF PHOENIX

plant which furnishes electricity for
the camps of Ray and Hayden, for
the Ray Consolidated mill and mine,
for the smelter, for the Christmas
mine, and for the water pumping
plant at Hayden The capacity of the
plant is now 10000 horsepower, but
this is being increased 1900 horse
power by the installation of new
steam turbine. Coal and oil are used
as fuel
The Smelter
The American Smelling & Refining
company built it's Hayden smelter, just
east of the mill and power plant,
primarily for the purpose of handling
the Ray Consolidated concentrates.
It's present capacity. with two rever-
beratory furnaces. is $4,000 tons of ore
and concentrates month; from this
tonnage it is extracting 5000, 900
pounds of copper. Capacity and pro-
duction are to be increased fifty per
cent this summer by the addition of
a third reverberatory, excavation for
which is now being made Nearly
500 men are employed.
On April the smelters sampling
mill was burned down ard since then
it's operations have been somewhat
handicapped. Reconstruction of the
sampling mill, larger and more mod
ern than before, is now being rushed
and it may be finished by May 90.
But for the burning OF the sampling
mill the smelter would now be re-
ceiving $50 tons of high grade cop
per ore a day from the Christmas
nine which is also owned by the A.
S. & R. Two hundred men are en-
ployed at Christmas. The ore is con-
veyed by aerial train a mile and a
half to the terminus of the Phoenix
& Eastern. and is shipped by rail to
the smelter.
WeifdFe WORK
Life is worth living in Ray and
Hayden, largely because of the well
directed, intelligent efforts of the
Ray Consolidated and A. s. & R.
companies.
First, there's baseball The Ray
mine the concentrator and smelter
each has team, the three organiza-
tions making up the Tri-Copper
League. Mr.. Gates. general manager
of the Ray Con-. is president of the
league and gives much of his time
to the direction of its affairs.
The three teams include many
players who could be holding down
good positions in regularly organized
minor leagues If they chose. but they
prefer to play in Hayden and Ray,
partly because they like the country
and partly because the pay is at
tractive. Many of them receive as
much as $500 month. All except
the managers hold regular positions
in the mine mill and smelter. Though
their main business is baseball and
they know it. they have become
capable hands; they are learning
trades that will come in handy when
their playing days are ended.
The baseball season is now in full
swing and will not terminate till
October. There is game every
Sunday and Wednesday. Special
trains are run from Ray to Hayden
and from Hayden to Ray. Intense
rivalry prevails between the sup
porters of the team and hundreds of
dollars change hands at every game.
There never was such a bunch of
fans as can be found in Ray. Hayden
and nearby camps. They wave pen
nants, they ring cowbells. they shout
themselves hoarse and enjoy their
own noise no less than the diamond
contests.
Nobody has to kill his grandmother
in order to get to Tri-Copper
League game. A mere desire to see
a game beats deceased female rela-
tiv all hollow when one Is applying to
his boss for temporary surcease from
toll. Not only the companies. but
the business houses throughout the
district are extremely liberal with
their employees in this respect. Mine,
mill and smelter work three shifts
a day, but whenever there is a game
on, everybody who can be spared is
told to hustle out and root for the
home team.
1t is said that $4,000 has been
spent on the baseball grounds at Ray,
and those at Hayden must have cost
fully as much. Considering the cost
Of maintaining these grounds, and
the high salaries paid players. it Is
easy to credit the story in general
REGULATION that the Tri-Copper League
cost $4,000 last season.
At Ray the mining company has
built and furnished for its employees