Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-06

! erection has been most harmonious
1t is a successful job, and the spirit
in which the job has been run is the
whole thing in nut shell. The
/ feeling that you are part and parcel
in the whole job is what makes for
success. the mining and smelling
i business builds up giant business
! in what is more or less of new
country. Here we have something
which is the latest word in coppcr
smelling. Every man has had a
I pride in that particular work.
! when we talk of the Copper Queen
smelter, we are really talking Of the
Copper Queen smelter spirit that is
! made up of the initiative Of every
I man on the job, not only you gen
tlemen here, but those other work
/, men who have so valuably assisted
YOU. You and the other employees
dream big things. Some one once
said dream big things and make
those dreams part of, you and then
turn to and make those dreams come
true That is what you have done
here"
d. ID. Irwin, general superintendent,
+ WAS the HcXC Sped4GIt CeeifSNt upOAs
His address was given. over to high
praise of the Dwight z. Robinson
| Construction company, that has been
in charge of the erection Of the aeW
smelter. "It is not quite year
since we started this mammoth un-
dertaking," he declared. I'VE have
set remarkable record. If you
can't get material, you can't get tho
work done. James l.. Hastings of the
! purchasing department got the stuff
for you and got it delivered to w.
B. Allen down here. All showed a
fine spirit of true co operation. E.
C. Macy and George d Neville of the
Dwight p. Robinson company did
their stuff and great stuff it was
too They have done a remarkably
fine piece of work. With all this
expense of building, our operating
cost this past year has been less
than for the year previous.
Other smelter jobs, six of which
we have absolute records concern
ing-show that. such smelter jobs
have usually required from Is months,
for the shortest time, to three years,
for erection of a smelter. Yet, if we
complete, within the next 80 days, the
final work this smelter job, we
will have erected the plant in less
than ten and a half months, or i'll
one-third shorter time than the best
previous construction record, And
we were building on a job, the like
of which has never before been
attempted. The labor cost has been
lower than on other jobs of which
we have records"
George. d. Neville, superintendent
for the Dwight p. Robinson Con-
struction company, was the next man
called upon by Dowell. Neville had
charge of the actual construction
work, and in his offices, a great
rack which contains. thousands upon
thousands of blue prints of mammoth
proportions show what a task he and
his men had in putting up the plant.
McGregor and Colonel Stout had no
previous like-jobs upon which to
base their estimates, or as Neville
expressed it, ito use as a measuring
stick"
/ This was out first job on smelter
I construction nNeville stated in his
! opening remarks. "We were in a
originally and primarily for power
! plant construction work. The smelter
field appealed as new chance to
expand. The energies and skill of
| our organization was tested, yet we
selected men who could and would
cooperate with the operators.
want to thank you gentlemen for
the Dwight P. Robinson Construction
! company, and I further want to as
sure you gentlemen here and all of
! the workers who have assisted, that
it has been pleasant job
j j. NJ. Samuel was next called upon.
/ "The difficulties" he said, "of super
| imposing of roasters over the rever-
! beratories were many. Yet many
benefits are sure to ensue there
from The construction and success.
full operation of the Queen n:ne3
hearth roaster was step in the
right direction. When it had been
decided to adopt that general plan,
there were, of course many details
20 be settled This new plant relies
entirely upon gravity transmission
and the result is the simplest roaster.
reverberatory yet invented. 1t eli
inmates All mechanical transfer from
/ the roaster to the revcrberatory. II
eliminates temperature loss. The
roasted calcincs reach the rever.
beratories with greater economy.
| both i'll loss of heat and in actual
Eiabor We will gain through the
rew gravity handling, from the COM
pactness of the plant, and the econ
omies in dust losses. 1t is a cheaper
ana easier plant 20 operate and q
more pleasant place in which tt
work.
! Dowell, in introducing ]. o. Am
bier, superintendent of the local
c.. @. smelters, said this new planl
has cost quite a lot of money. We
are now reaching the real test.
want Mr.. Amber to tell us about it,
/ Amber stated: ''We think we
have about the finest operating plant
in the world. The point that I'm
presses me is the fine spirit of co.
operation in the completion of the
plant. You are now in the bottom
part of a stack from which the
smoke is belching forth above you.
For more than two weeks we have
had fres going in reverberatory
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