Mohave County miner., 1893-07-01
copper IA Arisona.


to be stained with copper: ,hrouxhou,
the southern hall tn. lrdges OF green
carbonate and brown oxid. ar. Ia ~,
counted by the h1ndreds. In the oor,h.
ern hall the ores are usually sulphur.,ic.
irom The grass roots down, and eonss.
q'en'ly rc6elllous, but in th. main CON.
Per regions Of the Globe. Bisbee and
Clifton. The ledge INA ter is u,llv ro,,
through the furnace almost straight. ANY
lime needed for fiux Is found on ,b..
hanging wall and more than sntiicien,
iron Is borne by the ore itself.
The pioneer copper camp ot the South.
ss-' Is Gio's. IA Gila county. Here are
hundreds oi copper claims aud dozens of
grad aoppeI mines, The toxn fairly
hu,pmcd dozen years ago. when IN.
price o' metal ranged up 10 Is cents, sno
n-sior- that French syndicate had b-yun
10 iooi With copper To The producers'
deinneni. Bat II seems extremely un.
likely that that price will ever again be
STAINED, and 50 owners ARE beginning 10
stndy Improved methods oi production.
The main COMPANY operating near
Globe Is the Old Dominion. '.oi Bal,i
more" which is 10 possession Of ten
claims Tue mines are opened by seven
levels snd by many miles Oi tunnels,
dnits, cro,s-:uts, shafts. etc The ore
body, which 10 perhaps iiily feet In
asefAse width, Is stopped mp from th.
lowest level, from ssll TO wall, the refuse
being thrown under foot, BY means ol
cbutes the ore is delivered 10 the ears
below and conveyed To she surface AT
a minimum OF expense The or. near
the surface il fsIruyinous 10 character,
and At u depth VI several hundred lee,
~ qusTztose and on the lowest level
aoonnds IN native copper. This las,
grade runs about IL per cent average H.
metal, which mus, ne considered very
good indeed Tor 80 large body. have
known smel,er runs from IN. second
level, however, that did not fall below
70 per cent. Tor weeks at time.
A. l. Walker, the superintendent, is a
careful and intelligent man aud has
made OF late many valuable improve
inents l.. the Operating plant. The ORES
and huxes are taksn from the breaker,
at the shaft month. by means oi a
Bleichert system tramway. 10 the smell
ter $50 ieet distant. Here are three
iity-,on Fraser & Chalmers water jacket
furnaces, two Of which are IN CONSTANT
operation. Only Ibe best of coke (Con-
nellsvilIe) can be profitably used, owing
10 the cost Of wagon transportation from
the Southern Pacific at Wilcox, a DIS
lance Of l40 miles. IL costs, laid down,
Deariy $45 per ton. With this expense,
Il is scarcely necessary to state that
eight per cent. ore is suoui the lowest
large bodies Of about this grade left open
IN the mines for future extraction, 10 be
sorked upon the advent OF railroad.
Considering size and permanence OF
ore body, percentage Of black copper,
ease N extraction and reduction of ores,
1 am impeled TO the belief that this
company's main mines are the best cop.
per mines Of the west.
But these Old Dominion mines are not
by any means the only well-developed
copper properties. The canny Scotch
men composing the firm VI Phelps,
Dodge 4 Co. have been exploring by
themselves in this district for year or
go, and have purchased about twenty.
seven claims. Among them the Buffalo
and Hoosier group are especially excel
lent, in the possession Of large ore bodies
ard high grade rock. They hsve been
worked extensively and have upon them
three water. jacket furnaces. Phelps,
Dodge Il Co. have expressed their in
tention OF doing no smelling until they
have secured rail transportation for coke
and bullion, and will build their own
line In from Bowie station. The surveys
are now fnished. and work 10 soon to
Begin on the grade. Upon the roads
completion. . dozen new furnaces viii
ne .'blown in" and Globe will send forth
ten times her present annual production
of 1900 600 pounds of black copper. Her
hills are fall OF the metal and IL will be
centuries before the visible supply Of
copper-bearng ore will be exhausted.
Conner with aluminium, will soon pass
iyon In the pojnt of usefulness, as applied