Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-04
UNITED VERDE LAYS
 PLANS FOR MUCH FUTURE WORK

with Assistant General Manager Rob- ert E. Tally tentative plans for the United Verde program of the next few months, General Manager Charles w. Clark is preparing to conclude his visit to the district and expects to leave for his home in San Francisco soon. \ Summoned up briefly, the plans provided for an almost immediate beginning of work on the new crush ing plant, continuation of work on the Cottrell plant at the smelter and a continuation of the underground work that is now being done at the mine. There appears to be every pos sibility that the work of grading the site for the crushing plant, which will be in charge of Steam Shovel Superin- tendeut E. T. Vanderhoef, will be fol- lowed by a resumption of active steam shovel work at the time.
 "I do not believe that the people of the district realize the number ot men that are actually on the pay rolls at this time," said Assistant General Manager Tally this morning. we have about 275 men working in the mine and on surface construction and tclose to 200 at the shelter. The grad ing of the crushing and storage plant will not be heavy job, but it will put a number of additional men at work and the building of the plant will commence at the very earliest mo- ,ment. I hope that this part of our program will be we'll under way inside of three weeks.
 "The building of the new plant will require at least two years and wlll involve an expenditure of over 0OO,- 900, In addition to the crushing plant proper, the new structure will be equipped with more storage capa- city than we have used heretofore. Work on the Cottrell plant is pro- -ceeding steadily and excellent pro- ,rress is being made. The shelter splant has been completely overhauled by Superintendent Taylor and his as- .sistants and it is not far from the truth to say that it could be put in active operation on twenty-four hours notice. "T . "s.a * .
 "We are doing great amount of underground work at the mine, some of it work that ordinarily would have been postponed for considerable time, but we are doing it now in or der to keep as many of our old men on the payroll as possible and to fur nish as much employment as we can.
 q am not in position to state posi- lively that the steam shovel work will commence at any certain date' hut I can say with every assurance that it is the second item on our pro, gram, as approved by the general manager of the company. :. "These various activities will natur- ally make large increases in the num- her of men to be employed and they should 20 long way towards bring ing the camp to a condition at ieaS' approaching normal. .s ." Regrets Shutdown
 "No one regrets more than does the management of the United Verde that st became necessary to close the mne and smelter for so long tme' Du' we are in no better position tnan are the other copper companies o1 the southwest; we have not sold pouno of copper for almost a year ana :,,;S w. now have sixty or eighty million wounds on hand and unsold. It does not require much mathematics 10 1lg' ure that the carrying charges on s' yreat an amount of metal are exces s;velv heavy. At the same tlme' "' are doing everything possible to pro vide work for our men and the lac shat we now have close to 50O on t,i' pavroll with the expectation ot max max, inc considerable additions Tn the nea f,,ture should be ample evidence Una we are all of the opinion expresse, Inv Senator Clark in his interview wl.' the Verde Copper News that this .,. ooinp to be the greatest camp Tn eh southwest when once it shall oecoii nossible to resume operations oh
 iorge scale. The very magnitude Q our preparations is evidence o' 'ah
 
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 'I wish most sincerely that coui cot some date for resumptlon complete activity and hope s that Una Ina date is not too far in the future' D. there are many items, such as tram nortation charges and taxation tns must be adjusted before any or tn t.ss .,, hone to recommence heav ,nnoduct;on and before the existin Surplus of metal can be sold. ..,
 "In the meantime, our program briefly outlined above, provides TOT or, . steady increase in the number or m, n, employed and must certainly ma for better times during the comm months than the district has expef .enced in the past year.
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