Arizona citizen., 1877-09-08
Far Ahead in Copper.


 
 Arizona, without doubt, has the larg- est and richest deposits of copper in the United States There is much cop per near the Colorado river on Bill Williams Fork; some forty miles west of Tucson, there is a mountain or more of It; it Is abundant in Globe District; but perhaps the larges- and richest de pOsit in AmerIca is at Clifton. With rail transportation as near as San Si- mon valley, 100000 pounds pig copper daily, are promised by two compani s alone, and enough smelting has been done to warrant that the promise will be fulfilled. Railway men are asked to note this one item from but one of many localities Tn Arizona. In this connection. we copy the following from the Grant County Herald of Au- gust 25:
 l. N. Cohen & O., shipped today by Maxwell's train, 55,OOO pounds pig cop per via Fl Moro to Baltimore and have still Tn ore 47,24O pounds. This proof is as strong as holy writ that Lesinsky's Longfellow mine is banning out.
 Sweeney & Gleason's furnace, also at Clifton, has lately been fired and there is no reason why it should not duplicate the daily yield of the Lesin- sky furnace. The ores of both com panies are smelted m the Bennett fur naces. None other have been found to stand the test
 At Clifton there are eighty recorded mines, all ot which are regarded as exceedingly valuable and the lack of fuel is all that prevents the ores from being worked. The completion of the Texas Pacific or the California South ern Pacific to a point convenient for. the shipment of ores or transmission of fuel 10 the furnaces, will work such a change in favor of the production Of copper as to beggar the belief of the most sanguine. The LOngfellOw and Thompson are the only mines worked at present and the companies working them only run one thirty-inch furnace each and notwithstanding the limited capacity, they will tnrn out 5000 900 pounds pig copper annually.
 When raIl transportation can be had | to a point as near the mines as the San Simon, Mir H. Lesinsky assures us that the yield will be not less than 100000 pounds pig copper daily from the works of these two companies. which is not a tithe of what will be produced by other companies which will then enter into the business of copper Iugots.
 The Clifton ores are infinitely richer than those of Lake Superior and will not be denied when their relative val ues are known. The Clifton ores are free from base metals, no an-. ,imony or arsenic are contained ID them, and as a consequence the copper brings a higher price in copper mar Nets than any other offered for sale The Clifton ores average from twenty to thirty per cent. copper while those of Lake Superior will not go above en per cent. if as high, and yet the Superior deposits are the brag mines lf the country, and perhaps justly so Or the reason that other eastern com 1etitive mines only give from five to. jix per cent But now the Superior deposits must dwarf Tn public estima- ion both as regards quality and quan- i ity of ore for the reason that the val Ie of Clifton ores are becoming better known. In our last reference to this subject, we stated that rail transporta- ' ion would induce H. Lesinsky Co work I ! thousand men in his mines, which , ie can do with profit to himself and if freight of fuel and cop per were cheapened, and what Mr L. i .an and will do, others there owning I hines would find it to thelr interest O also do. and with this knswledge of he prospective industries of Clifton | md other inning regions, and they are lot a few, we impatiently wait the c whistle of the locomotive.
 Shipping north via Fl Moro ceases fter the last of September, for the | eason that owners of trains do no, : hoose to risk the pinching cold that s encountered in that hyperborean {; egi0n after the middle of October, J nd consequently copper accumulates z t the works from that date until i Iarch, unless an outlet can be found T. or it by the Southern route, through = Texas.
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