Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-15
NORMAL. OUTPUT .|S UNDERGROUND .LAYOFF MD TIVE
l20 Affected By End Of Month; No Further Re
 duction Contemplated

That the recent reduction in the underground force, of the Copper Queen company is simply for the pur- pose Of bringing -the total output of inc company to JaA basis of normal. about eight ,mifllon pounds d month. when the cOncentrator now under construction is in operation. was the gist of talk made last night by Ar thur. Notman. superintendent of the Copper Queen, before meeting of the Warren District Business Men Association.
 Notman expressed his embarrass- ment at talking. in the absence of G. H. Dowell general manager. on mat ters pertaining to company policy, rather than to operation. and said that Dowell is absent from the dis 1 trict on account of the necessity of ! taking T rest.
 The speaker said that when the l concentratOr is in operation it will 1 produce about four million pounds of ! copper month. anl that the manage i ment was under tie necessity of rs- | ducing underground operations to a roint where the ioutput from that l i pounds. which will make the com ! bined output about eight million | pounds. or normal.
 Few Married Men Laid Off | About 12O men will have been af 1 footed by the end of this month iby | he reduction of the underground ! force Few married men have been | laid off. Some foremen and shift ! hr.4 INx- do ! motion rather than by being laid off. ! No further reduction than that men i toned is contemplated and this will
 have been effected by the end of the month.
 Nntman smoke of the appreciation ! of the cOmp2ny for it's underground ] organization, and of the regret felt ! by all at the necessity for the action ] taken. put explained that it is abso- 1 lutelv impossible for the company to ] continue to carry double the over
 head expense that is necessary. II
 is matter, he said. of getting down
 to brass tacks. and of keeping the
 costs down to a point where the com pany can still operate and keep it's
 head above water.
 The speaker pointed out that the
 company is spending a lot Of none!
 at the new mill and in the construc
 tion Of the power plant. This will 6t
 continued untii the project is com pleted. 1t will take about six months
 to complete the power plant. and the
 date scheduled for the mil to be IS
 oparation is January 1. 1922. Opera
 tions on Sacramento Hill are beins
 continued, but on reduced scale. st
 as to be ready for production at the
 same time as the concentrator.
 Hoping Against Hope
 1 Notman said that the company ha
 not been making any money since i the signing of the armistice, and ha'
 besn stalling along. hoping agains , hope. that no reduction would be ne
 cessary. Items over which the com
 panv has no control. he said, stat ' and county taxes. and railroad rates ' constantly go higher and hiSheI
 State and county taxes for the Cop rpr Queen. on basis Of per pount , of come. have more than doubles . since 1917. Railroad rates aIe an m TOT, ant item in the incrcas3 or opeI atiop costs,
 | Speaking uf these items that tE
 Comnany is able to control NOtma
 said that the men are showing al | earnest desire to Aelp matters by b' jag on the job and that no one cal t 1 charge that all employees of the con 2 pany are not striving to do their bes ' to help The company has cut som $ of it's own costs 10 a minimum an 9 has succceled in reducing tn t amount of timber and explosive
 used to the smallest amount possibl' D. That it is hard situation Notma n admitted tut declared that all s needs k q little elbow grease am o courage The copper industry la e been through three such crises b' r fore and has always recovered. an e Notman expressed his conuden6 n that if will recover this time < Ben Frapkonb,v'C of the Fair Stol m i offered few suggestions. He a' f vised focal merchants 10 follow tf
 lead of larger merchants o> he cou ,r try and cut overhead to a minimum a Buying. he declared. must be on u f smallest scale possible in orter keep up with price reductions an Io acknoWIedge>. hereby release ar
 and all claims that | have or ms
 have against Jake l.. Hamon and th
 is in settlement in full mad for rel