Calumet & Arizona Mining Company

Who's Who In Arizona Vol 1. 1913. By Jo Conners. Pages 144-145

Transcribed by Jean Walker, July 2024.

The Calumet & Arizona Mining Company was organized in March, 1901, under the laws of Arizona with a capitalization of $2,500,000, shares $10.00 par, and the capitalization increased February, 1911, to $6,500,000. The Company has paid in dividends to date $16,456,812, and has at present a cash surplus of $4,000,000.

The Company's holdings consist of the original Calumet & Arizona holdings plus the large holdings of the Superior & Pittsburg Copper Company, the merger having been effected in 1911 by exchanging one share of Calumet & Arizona stock for three and a half shares of Superior & Pittsburg stock.

It is now building at Douglas a smelter of 2,600 tons capacity, consisting of two 48x40-foot blast furnaces and five 19x100-foot reverberatory furnaces. The Cananea bedding system is one of the features, and also the most modern sampling and crushing plant for custom work in the southwest. The roasting plant consists of twelve 21-foot Hereshoff roasters.

The production of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company for 1911 was 49,945,905 pounds of refined copper.

Circa 1910 postcard of the Calumet-Arizona Irish Mag Shaft owned by Jean Walker

Circa 1910 postcard of the Calumet-Arizona Oliver Mine Shaft owned by Jean Walker

The labor at the Calumet & Arizona mines is not organized, the Company paying better than union wages. A referendum vote on the Australian plan was held in 1907 and it was decided by a majority of four to one to continue the Bisbee district on the open shop plan. The Calumet & Arizona Mining company was the first mining company in the state to discontinue Sunday work. This decision became effective in August, 1910, and is now extending over the state.

The mines in Bisbee employ about 1,400 men. At the smelter at Douglas about 350 men are employed operating, and at the present time an additional 250 men are employed on the construction of the new smelter.

The Calumet & Arizona Mining company has the reputation of being a fair mining company, and it is the only large mining company in the state that does not own railroads and operate a company store. The management is considered excellent in every respect. A hospital with an efficient staff is maintained by the company for its employees.

The main office of the Company is at Warren, Arizona. The eastern office is at Calumet, Michigan. The officers of the Company are as follows: Charles Briggs, President; James Hoatson, Vice President; Thomas Hoatson, Second Vice President; Gordon R. Campbell, Secretary; Peter Ruppe, Treasurer; John C. Greenway, General Manager; W. B. Gohring, Superintendent of Mines; James Wood, Superintendent of the Smelter; J. E. Cutty, Chief Cleark; Walter B. Congdon, Purchasing Agent.

The Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, In addition to its mines at Bisbee, is operating a producing mine at Courtland, Arizona, employing about 75 mine, and is also conducting extensive exploratory work at Superior, in Pinal County, Arizona and at the Ajo Camp, in Pima County.

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