Show THE RAY consolidated being equipped to produce pounds of copper yearly A phoenix arizona correspondent of the los angeles herald says that the mines of the ray consolidated copper company will in less than eighteen months be producing copper at the rate of pounds a year thereby nearly equaling the production of the famous ca calumet amet and hecla mine which for years stood as the largest single producing mine in the world was the announcement of daniel C jackling vice president and general manager ol of I 1 the he ray consolidated copper company upon the occasion occa soA of his visit to phoenix and the ray properties all this contingent upon the completion of the gigantic smelter and concentrator now under course of construction st at hayden upon the arizona and eastern railroad sixteen miles from ray the scene of the present mining operations and that there is no doubt that the plant at hayden will be in full operation long before the eighteen months limit set by mr jackling is shown by the report of progress upon the construction of the buildings the great reservoir and the pumping p ant already the power plant is complete or nearly so the structural iron work of the smelter is up trestles have been completed and to an outsider it would appear that there really was not much more to do except to install the machinery and put the finishing touches to the buildings over men are engaged at present in the work at hayden and more will be added as they can be worked advantageously the reservoir under construction is designed to have a capacity of gallons derived from the hills and from the gia gi a river which will be tapped by pumps having a capacity of gallons a minute the concentrator the largest building in the group being erected covers acres and is built of solid steel and concrete A spur has been constructed from the main line of the arizona and eastern railroad running three miles or more up the side of a mountain to the scene of the present activity and encounter eing a three and one half per cent grade over practically the entire route at the mine located at ray the thousand or more men now engaged in tunneling tun neIng are pushing into the hills at the rate of about three fourths of a mile each month and are taking out ore that gives promise of being of more than ordinary high grade in some instances great nuggets of practically solid copper have been taken out according to mr jackling superintendent C lu scott of the arizona and eastern railroad says in this connection that his road is preparing in every way possible to be ready to give the best of service in the hauling of this ore the sixteen miles between ray and hayden no finer example of railroad construction Is to be found in the southwest than that found upon the new spur to hayden over at bingham canyon where is located the mine of the utah copper company over which mr jackling exercises the same general management as he does over the ray mine there are now employed men mein mr jackling says that this mine today ranks as the greatest sing e producing mine in the world having passed the calumet and hecla sometime ago this mine he says is producing pounds of copper each month or a total of pounds a year some idea of the enormous extent of these operations may be gained from the statement that the 1909 edition of the steven copper hand books gives the production of the calumet and hecla at pounds annually in comparing the operations at the utah mine with the work upon the panama canal mr jackling said yards of earth are being moved each month one half of which is solid ore which is hauled twenty seven miles to a smelter in leaving phoenix in his special private car the cyprus mr jack ing proceeded to another holding of his companies the chino copper mine located at santa rita N M there has been erected at this place a ton plant which ranks among the largest in the united states it is claimed the spanish worked this mine as far back as in 1804 taking out great nuggets of copper and packing the ore on mules down to the city of mexico where it was made into coins it is what is known as straight metallic copper there are families at work in the mine today who trace their ancestry straight back to those who worked there in the early years of the eighteenth century the company is now entered upon an era of development which gives promise of the mine soon being operated upon a large scale it is said that the ore is of as high grade as has been encountered in the united states asked why he had selected cyprus as the name for his private car mr jackling said the name was taken from the island of cyprus in the mediterranean on which copper was first discovered by the phoenicians Phoenicia ns over years ago |