Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-30

tons they take out daily IS not
 known, but fifteen miners furnish
 the ore supply, for the mammoth
 reduction plant of the United Verde
 company, the value of the product
 being from SI5,OOO to $200OO per
 day. The ore body in one of the mines of this company on the 800 loot level is 420 feet wide, every foot of which is rich in copper, and car , ries a good percentage of gold and
 silver. We challenge not only the
 territory of Arizona, but the entire r world to record equal to this.
 ' A very satisfactory cleanup was made recently at the mill of the , Gold Note property at Richenbar.
 D. B. Gillette and B. B. Thayer
 were both present to witness the operation, and were highly pleased with the result obtained. In addi- tion to the gold saved on the plates, which Is very satisfactory, and a good percentage of the values of the
 ore, they are making a fine lot of concentrates and furnish enough of them to keep one team busy freight> ing them to the railroad. They are at present stoping in a body of ore twenty-two feet wide. During the
 visit of Messrs. Thsyer and Gillette
 to the property, they made some changes to the mill which improves
 its working. These gentlemen have
 expended a good many thousand , dollsrs-what to newspaper man
 would seem fabulous fortune-in
 the development of this property
 and have now reached point where
 handsome dividends on their invest
 ment can be obtained, and have
 added another dividend-payer to
 Arizona's list of mining properties.
 Copper is in great demand to-
 day" said L. N. Trimble, of New
 York, at the Miners Bureau, iu
 Denver, to a Republican reporter,
 ''than it has ever been. There is not
 in the country a sixty days supply
 of all kinds of copper, and of that
 particular quality used for electrical
 engineering, I do not think there is
 a thirty days supply. Copper can
 not be bought today for ninety days
 delivery for less than 121 cents
 pound, and as the demand is con-
 stantly increasing, the price will
 undoubtedly go still higher. The
 great danger to the copper industry l
 from this condition of affairs is that l
 the price will go so high before new
 sources of supply are discovered |
 ands opened up that a substitute |
 will be discovered. in which event l
 the vested interests in copper mines
 and manufacturing enterprises will |
 be in danger of serious loss. As a |
 result, there is feverish anxiety on |
 the part of all who are interested in
 copper in any form to find new cop
 per deposits. Phelps, Dodge & Co,
 who practically control the copper
 trade of the country, have an agent
 in the field all the time looking up
 alleged copper finds, with a view to
 the opening of the properties in case
 they are promising. There IS noth-
 ing Tn the way of business that
 promises more constant and profit able returns. A mine with a vien2of copper ore yielding from 10 to 30 per cent copper in sufficient quanti-
 ties Is much better than a gold
 mine, as I believe such ore will bring in the open market not less than 10 cents per pound for the copper contained, in a very short time, and any man who has vein of this kind of ore will not have to look far for customer if he desires to sell"
 Captain A. F. Brown, of the Cali tornia Powder Works, who travels all over Arizona, gave the Globe Silver Belt some of his impressions of our mining industry recently, in which he stated that the develop ment of the terFitory's mineral resources during the past eight years { has been remarkable. "When I first , came to Arizona there were but two great copper producers. They were ' the Clifton and Morenci properties. Now there IS the United Verde, the ' Bisbee copper mines and the big 1 producers at Globe, and hundreds { of other mines which have come into I existence since then. This territory q IS bound to become the greatest copper mining district in the world. The Michigan and Lake Superior mines will have to take back seat when the Arizona copper mines are thoroughly developed. When think of the number of mines in the territory eight years ago and com I pare them with those operating to- c day, the growth is simply astonish ( ing, and these mines which have been opened are just at the begin | hing of their growth and develop a ment. At Bisbee, few days ago, I t was Tn the Copper Queen mine with one of the owners of the property. c We came to an immense body of ore t blocked out and my companion asked the foreman why this ore was J not taken out. The foreman replied that he would not be able to touch p that portion of the mine for five a years unless the company added to it's facilities for treating and hand n ing the ore from the mine. This 'hows the kind of copper mines u Arizona has. And the output of the et Copper Queen is almost as great as n my mine in the territory with their present. smelling capacity. Over at D Clifton they are treating the low yrade ore by a teaching process. n 'recipitating scraps of iron and tin D the treatment of the ore. and ci hey are enabled to work ore running hree and four per cent copper with M profit. It is my belief that Arizona tc will soon become the great copper p ountry of the entire world. The la old mines of the territory are be- oming better each year. Congress b' B a richer mine every year, and the re ate strike of exceedingly rich ore in ia he mine, has placed it among the ichest gold mines in the world. SI Lrizona is new country, and its ca mineral development has but fairly b, egun: Wherever mining has been oi arried on extensively in this terri ory, there are good producers to G how what can be done in other sec 10 ions of the territory with like te nergy and the same good manage VI lent. 1 do not know of a mining UT ection that has made greater strides ko A.