Show ROSE SENDS GREETING FROM ARIZONA C W rose the well known en engineer ginee iwho left utah in february to take a position d n with the copper queen con mining company a altin in arizona f writes the mining review from 4 douglas stating that he is well pleased with ems chis new situation and he asks that he be ia remembered to old friends and acquaint jances ances in this section of the great west in aaa this letter he says tb 11 1 I arrived at bisbee all 0 K and was iriven j given the promised position with the com ipaty I 1 remained there for two weeks and awas t then transferred to douglas where I 1 ef eibi ani holding S down the job of engineer I 1 am well pleased with the plant here and sue u with the officers ers especially our plant consists fists of t of thirteen steam engines four C G ica icooper carliss ss engines direct connected okeith with port fort wayne generators of volts V E capacity the engines are cross compound of horsepower each five B V nordburg tandem compound corliss direct connected with no 8 blowers for furnaces each of horsepower four B V nordburg cross compound blowing engines for converter service of horsepower each the boiler room consists of six 00 horsepower hors e sterling water tube boilers the fuel used is oil the plant is not running to half its capacity as yet but every effort is being made to push the work of construction so that the full plant may be in commission as soon as possible the smelter department consists of five furnaces with a capacity of tons each twenty four hours two of which are running at full capacity and the third one wll will be blown in on april ath the plant has five converter stands each having a capacity equal to the individual furnaces I 1 the company has the largest and most complete store in the territory at douglas and charges its employees reasonable prices for supplies the company owns its own railroad from el paso texas to benson with branches running to all its mines I 1 have been so nicely treated here that I 1 am pleased to give you the names of my associates viz B adamson consulting engineer R J dounson To unson machinist foreman A K adamson master mechanic and J 0 perry chief engineer As for myself I 1 am first in charge of the power plant the men all work eight hours with the exception of the machinists and boiler makers who work ten hours this is a great company and its properties and plants are heavy producers |