Bisbee daily review., 1919-05-18
SACRAMENTO MINE 5-CONPARTMENT SHAFT, ONE OF BEST APPOINTED IN
 WORLD, ENGAGED IN GIGANTIC WORK
Concrete Consucton Modern Repair Shops Change Rooms Electric Haulage, Pure Air in Remotest Corners, Some of Mines Features; Tunnellng Through
 800 Feet to Connect With Dallas Shaft

and 1 had lived among them ana had the bigness of their hearts. But the men who mined for the bronzed metal were to me an unknown quantity.
 Arriving at the bead of the Sacra- mento shaft that lies on the south eastern slope of Sacramento Hill I stopped and l gazed. It was a silent look into an immense working that bewildered. It was quite different from the coal fields of the anthracite region. There was an absence of the dirt that stiles, but there was an abundance of the type of men that make up the great melting pot in the industrial world. They were con- moners- broad type of democracy that makes breathing in America not as difficult as in other countries I have been in. felt perfectly at home. My ignorance of the copper industry was readily appreciated. and Jack Radcliffe, the congenial English fore man, made me feel as though would like live among men of his type.
 Mule Is Index to Efficiency
 As I stood at the head of the five compartment shaft that leads down into the secrets that are hidden in the intestines of the earth my eyes could not help but fall upon a small sized mule that was towing some iron cars laden with waste to the eastern slope of hn h ha off t1of mule exhibited as he sidestepned to let the cars coast by was truly ad- mirable. The way that animal handled his job would have made a stacker fill out a questionnaire.
 Some mule,' I informed the Mexi- can that was handling him. "Yes," he retorted, "Charlies' a pretty good sort of an animal He's been with the company 15 years"
 Fifteen years with the company I wondered how Charlie managed to keep up with his work and still retain his robust appearance. soon found out. It was the pleasant surroundings and the excellent working facilities An efficiency system that would be hard to duplicate is found in the Sac ramento shaft and surface workings. Eight hours is the working shift, but an, allowance is made for going into the shaft and returning and as a re- suit only seven hours constitute days work with scale of wages that are in accord with the fluctuating price of copper. Complete harmony reigns even to the innermost and diff ficult workings Of the underground. The men are contented. l got it from the lips of many of them. Even the mules that make their home in a stable where daynight never pene- trates are satisfied. If they weren't they wouldn't maintain the wonderful broadened shoulders and plump hips. A finer set of animals one could find nowhere. And some of them have been below the surface for years. If they could speak they would utter only words of praise for the treatment they get.
 Is FiVe-Compartment Shaft
 The Sacramento shafts has the most elaborate and ingenious system for mixing and loading ore to be found at any copper mine in the country. It is of five compartments. The ore is hoisted from the levels in 31k-ton skips and then dumped automatically into a hopper and conveyed to the foot of the hill about 150 feet away on Stephens-Adamson belt conveyer. This belt carries the ore to the railroad cars switched into a loading shed 42 xSO0 feet. The big belt keeps revolv- ing and travels at rate of 210 feet a minute. The skips arrive at the hop per about ever other minute and as the ore passes through the hopper every s1S feet of belt is registered as it passes over an ingenious scale It Is a marvellous piece of machinery.
 Herbert Kinney, who has charge of the conveyer has been with the com- pany for nearly 30 years and is soon to be retired and will reap the bene- fits of the Phelps-Dodge liberal pen. sion system.
 Load Several Cars at Once
 The belts run lengthwise after they reach the loading shed and approxl. nately 20 cars can be loaded at 6 time. Last week 4S6 skips were hauled to the surface in a single day, a total of 17O6 tons handled b ythe conveyer. The record with 8
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