Arizona silver belt., 1888-04-07
Mineral Wealth or GiIa County.
Or. Alex Trippel in the Citizen,

y town, IS particularly famous for Il
 unrlyaled copper mines. At presen
 but one of them is wol ked the adver
 of a railroad will start many of then
 When 1t IS stated, that with cok
 costing S52 per ton at Globe, the m
 refined copper is produced there fo
 little above , cents pound, and pu
 into marketable condition at Bait
 more inside of g cents, it goes with
 out saying that cheap coke at Glob
 means a close competition of the Glob
 copper mines with the largest mine
 of Lake Superior and Montana. Sey
 sral good copper mines at Globe, witl
 plants, are at rest, simply because th
 owners do not want to exhaust thel
 mines for the little profit they could
 make at such extremely low prices, 6.
 copper has been selling for quite
 awhile, until recently. It is likely
 however, that some more will start
 work shortly, with the present sneour,
 aging price of copper. It is mistak,
 te believe that the mines at Globe are the only ones in the district as very
 promising copper mines are situated
 within twelve miles around Globe, and some very fine prospects are found north of Salt river m tue Sierra An. cha range of mountains.
 A very remarkable connection be- tween silver and copper ore is ob- served in the Globe mines. Native silver, and in some cases, native gold, is found imbedded in tho midst of OK. ldized copper ores, while on the other hand, most of argentiferous ores carry copper with them. For an industry, which requires so much fuel as copper smelling, the question of cheap fuel is of the utmost importance. This will not only be satisfactorily solved, by cheaper transportation by a railroad, but either railroad new contemplated, but especially the Tucson, Globe & Northern, will cut through tbe Deer Creek coal fields and these lying north of Salt river on Canyon Creek, and ex- tending in northwest direction through part of Yayapai county True, these coal fields are mostly with in the lines of the empire created by our paternal government for a hand ful of sayages and therefore not access sible under the present laws, but these circumstances may certainly they should be-Changed.
 l am not inclined to be selfish or ungenerous, or to pay in kind the practice of our Deigbbors of Pinal county, in not mentioning the merits ol tnsIr ceppsr mines, especially those on the Gila river around Riverside There are number of excellent cop per mines, more or less connected witd silver in some shape CT other, which deserve serious consideration, these having at once the advantage of cheaper coke, against the disadvantage of mostly having refractory ores need ing concentration or uncommon quan- titles of fuxing materials.
 The silver mines of Globe and its vicinity are represented by two fla nous mines, which bid fair to become leading silver producers in Arizona. 1 mean tue Stonewall mine and the Mack Morris mine, the latter having produced within two and half years when worked, somewhere near SS00,- GOO in bullion. That tue mine IS BOW idle is simply duo to misjudgmentand no other cause; it is now under con slderation to reopen this famous mine again, which means the work on three or four more on the same ledge.
 The Stonewal mine is on a ledge, which can be followed for many miles and which has great number of To- cations on it; unfortunately these are within the Indian reservation and no titles can be obtained for these prop ertles. Still, if the Stonewall mine had been owned by inning men and properly, it would have, and can now produce, if worked, very large quantity of silver bullion.
 The vicinity of Globe has a great number of rich and promising silver It has been thought by some that the mines near Globe have no depth, that the ore gives out at a shallow depth. Nothing could De more of a mistake. The fact is, th,st being most all in eruptive or igneous rock the veins are more or less disturbed aud faulted near the surface, and that hardly any have been followed and developed beyond that area of distur- Dance, The hope of future success must be based upon some real mine- work, sopething superior to mere sur face work or coyoting, and the time is It hand, when such work will show 5he great and lasting value of these mines.
 Globe district has, so far. produced