Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1884-11-01
OLD DOMINION MINING CO.


The mine and smelling works belong.
ing to this company have just finished
one of the most remarkable runs ever
recorded. twas expected that the pro-
duction of the two 3O-ton furnaces for
so days, ending this morning, would
be fully $50 tons of nearly pure cop
per, from Is per cent ores-copper
which when refined, at small cost,
stands in quality as high as the Lake
product, and for some purposes is even
preferable. We believe that such a
result has never before been attained:
To produce with single mine, which
though Systematically worked is only
partially opened, about 5000 tons of
Is per cent ores in a month, is GER
tainly no small undertaking, and re-
quires not only good mine, but first
class management.
We understand that the under
ground work is now being done in the
most thorough manner, and that the
development, which until recently was
so far behind, is pushed with energy
and skill, and that the showing in the
mine is excellent. 1t is no less re-
markable that the two furnaces should
each average daily capacity of over
fifty tons of ore. ~. .>s..
We may we'll ask what lArizona's
copper production would be if other
fine copper properties in Globe Dis
trict were developed and made pro-
ductive? With a railroad and conse-
quent cheapening of fuel, this district
would become the greatest copper pro-
Queer in the West. Unlike Montana
copper, the product of our mines and
shelters is almost chemically pure
and adapted to almost every purpose
for which copper is used.
The Old Dominion Company is at
present the only live institution in
this district; it has lived through all
sorts of drawbacks and difficulties and
is to-day more prosperous and prom
ising than at any time in its past his
tory. The company can be congratu-
lated for the manner in which its af-
fairs here are handled, as the present
successful showing is due in a great
to wise and efficient manage
nent of the mine and smelling works.
This company is the life of Globe, but
t should not be alone in the field
when there are so many other good
mines in the district-not only copper
but silver mines also.
Some of our best silver mines have
been abandoned for want of compe-
,ent judgment as to their character
Ind value, while others have been
handled in the most injudicious man
ler, when they could have been made
% produce largely and proftably.
Men have been deputed to manage
promising mines who were either in
or so bearish that they had
10 confidence in the properties fur
her than what accident or Providence
lad revealed, in the shape of Silver or
gold.
Globe is pre-eminently a mineral
district; many and powerful indica-
ions prove this beyond doubt. We
lave gold, silver and copper mines
waiting common sense, judgment and
'apital to develop and make them
productive. We possess every reason
'ble facility for success excepting rail
communication with the great arteries
If commerce. This is our most ur-
rent want, and citizens desiring the
prosperity of our town and county
hould do everything possible to en-
and foster such enterprises,
Ind not handicap them by an illiberal
pirit calculated to cripple their oper-
Itions. There is no reason that the
present stagnation should forever con-
inue. We want a railroad, compe-
ent men, with sufficient capital, to
develop our mines, and financial sue
less is assured.