Show CON TO Eo OUTPUT 75 tES tE Of O COPPER Effi t cn YEAR YR Advice from tom Phoenix are to the effect th that t tho the mines of or tho na Ray flay Consolidated Copper company will in less than eighteen eight eight- I een months be producing copper at nt the rate of oC pounds a a yi lar thereby nearly equaling tho thu production of or the tho famous anions Calumet and mine which totS for years ears stood as the Irr largest est single producing mine minI In the tho world This was the announcement of ot Daniel C. C vice president and general manager er of the TIn Ray Eny Consolidated Copper company upon the tile occasion of ot his recent visit I lt to Phoenix and the tho Un Ray flay properties All 11 this contingent upon the thc completion of ot th the gigantic smelter and concentrator now under course of construction at hayden hay liny- den upon the Arizona Eastern railroad tall rail road rand sixteen miles from tram flay a the tho scene of ot the present mining operations And that there thero is no doubt that the plant at Hayden will b bo be in full Cull operation operation opera opera- tion long before tho the eighteen months' months limit set cot b by Mr lr is shown b by bythe bytho tho the report of oC progress upon the construction con of oC tho the buildings the great rent reservoir and the pumping plant Al Already Already Al- Al read ready the power po plant is completes complete or nearly so the structural Iron work of ot the tho smelter is up trestles have been completed and to an outsider it would appear that th there re reaH really was not much moro more to do except to Install the machinery machinery ma mn- chinery and put the tho finishing finishing- touches to the buildings s. s Over Oyer men are engaged at present In tho the work at Hayden Haden and moro more willbe willbo will willi bo be added as the they can be worked athau The reservoir under construction construe construe- 1 tion Is designed to have a n capacity of or gallons derived from the tho hills hillsand hillsand and from the tho Gila river which will be tapped by pumps having a capacity of oC gallons a minute The concentrator the largest building In the group being covers a aground aground aground ground area aren of ot four and one-half one acres and is Ir built buill of solid steel and concrete A spur has been constructed from the main line Uno of the Arizona Eastern railroad railroad rail rail- road running three miles or more up the side of a mountain to the scene atthe of at the present activity and encountering a n 3 31 per cent grade over practically tho the entire route At the mine located at Ray tho the thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand or more men now cn engaged ed In tunneling tunneling tun tun- aro are pushing into the tho hills at tho the rate of about a mile each month and andare andare andare are taking out ore are that gives promise of being of more than ordinary high grade In Ln some soma Instances great nuggets of practically practically practically solid copper have been taken out according to Mr Jackling Superintendent C. C M. M Scott cott of the tho Anzona Arizona Arizona Ari Ari- zona ft te Eastern railroad says H S 'S in this connection that his road Is preparing in every way pO possible to be bo ready to give the best of service in tho the hauling of ot this ore the sixteen miles between Ray and Hayden Haden No finer example of at railroad construction cOl is to be bo found foun in the tho southwest southwest southwest south south- west than that found upon the new spur pur to Hayden |