Arizona republican., 1918-09-30
NOW Y LARGE
 COPPER MINES
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Ray nrTcylIes. With Output Of Half Mif1on Pounds Is Added to List In State: Jerome Again Shipping

RAY. Ariz.-With Ray Hercules now definitely in steady production, Ari- zona gains another producer with a copper output of more than 500.000 pounds for war usage each month. The total of the large producers in the state is raised tO seventeen.
 Ray Hercules mill is operating very satisfactorily. less readjustment than usually attends the starting up of a new plant having been necessary. The smoothncss with which operations are going on in both mine and mill prom lscs Co overcome losses which may have been felt to have attended delays experienced over a period of a year in getting materials and in other ways that caused completion of the plant to ho held mp.
 Output Fast Growing.
 Hercules mill is now equal to 1.5OO tons of ore the day By the end of thc war it will doubtless have been raised Co 5000 tons. The larger ac- uNitics assist materially with increased hic in the district. which during the present year has been held to be in the best shape and the most attractive ln many ways of any in the state.
 MIAMI Ariz.-It seems probable That the copper output of the state will show some decline in September as compared with August, This will be tcspiic the fact that Ray Hercules will 1dd new tonnage and that Jerome Verde and some of the other smaller mines in the state have resumed the shlpmcnt of custom ore. Jerome Ncrde's resumption is to make way for development, but in most of the other instances of resumption the explana- ton attends that it is a step taken in order to prepare against possible gov ernmcnt order that all non producers close down until after the war. Some ot those resuming output will do so at 1n actual loss on the present price CT -s cents, due Co increased costs of ali kinds
 Many Men Withdraw.
 Cause of the decline in the months output as indicated by reports from Inc various districts is shortage of labor. created in its present aggregated form by the withdrawal of in the ncighborhood of 1000 men from the different districts in the last several weeks under federal employment serv- Ice registration for work in West Vir- ginia and at Pacific coast shipyards. Mechanics, carpenters and mine train men were lost from the mines, mills and smelters in large numbers. crip- bling some of the organizations se- NcrelN The situation appears to be one that can only be corrected by the income Of new labor. The purpose of thc employment service to cut down ahor turnover and travel from one travel from one part of the country to mother, thus tails in this instance.
 Work at Cross Purposes.
 Illustrative of the cross purposes sometimes developed under the system s Inc fact that while carpenters were being registered at Jerome for West Virginia work carpenters were being Hrought tn under federal orders from los Angeles to supply the needs of a contractor engaged in the construction ui apartment and dwelling house which The government holds to be essential to Inc same time was instructed that all ot his needs would be promptly sup piled by the government from the Hoast where the Arizona Service this week shipped several hundred men.