Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-20
ARIZONA MINES ID PLANTS
 BY WAR
Smelter Builder and Concen- trator Contractor Examines
 Properties; Plans Are An nounced for Big Extensions

Important mining district construc- tion work, which has been in abey- ance to major extent in all of the Ari- zona districts since 1916, is indicated as about to be resumed on extensive scale.
 It is learned that plans calling for the expenditure of several million dol lars are complete and that only the de- livery of materials and the assembling of the necessary skilled construction
 beginning of work.
 During the last week both A. G. Me Gregor, foremost among shelter build CTS in the country and responsible for the designing and construction of all the big plants put up in Arizona in the last several years, and David Cole, responsible for a great deal in concen- tratOr construction, have been through
 the city on their separate ways to diff
 ferent mining camps.
 1 McGregor was en route to Jerome, | where he is outlining improvements which will carry increased capacity as
 well as higher efficiency for the new l United Verde Extension smelter. Cole
 came here from Globe, en route to Prescott. At Globe he had submitted
 final plans for the construction of a
 new mill for the Iron Cap. At Pres | colt he was to take up Arizona Bing- namton plans for a mill and a tram way involving several hundred thou
 sand dollars new investment.
 The Iron Cap mill is the first large
 new coneentrator construction to de-
 velOp since 1916, when the Shattuck
 mill at Bisbee for the handling of 1 lead-silVer ores was put underway. Iron Cap was at that time compara- ! lively in the prospect stage. Since l them it has developed as one of the
 most attractive mines in the state and 1 is looked to with continuance of it's de- : velopment program to make a large
 and very rich mine. In 1918 under the
 call of the government for all the cop
 per that might possibly be produced. 1 Iron Cap went at it's ore with colors
 flying and jumped its production from
 around 100000 pounds per month to i 100000 pounds. Since then it has
 had considerable recuperating to do
 along the line of reaching into new
 ore, but it has made fine headway
 with this.
 The mill now planned for Iron Cap and which will be equal to putting
 through 500 tons of ore daily, will very
 much assist the property to higher
 output of metal and higher economic
 operation. In the mine there is much are standing of an excellent concen- ! trating character and grade which w.i. | be made use of to much advantage along with the direct smeIting ore
 which the Iron Gap has thus far con fined itself to in great measure. The mill and other incidental work in con nection herewith will mean expendi- | ture before through of something like
 million dollars. Above that will be
 larger employment, bith on the surface
 and underground, which will be made | way for over period of many years. | At Jerome there is like picking up to
 be done on the extensive work associ- ith preparations for steam show cling of a considerable United Verde
 a4ce, and wnIcn will get. fully under way just as soon as the readjustments are worked out that the uncalled for
 strike of last month precipitated In all there is probably five million dol lars worth of construction in sight at this time in the mining districts-that is. that much work for completion the