Arizona republican., 1899-05-25
COPPER MINES OF ARIZONA.

sentative of the Mining Reporter or
 Denver has written for his journal
 two-page article Cn the copper mines
 and districts of Arizona. There is an
 accompanying map of the famous Sil-
 yer Bell district in Pima county. In
 introducing his subject MT. Judson
 says:
 Arizona is a territory of mining
 wonders. Her great copper, gold ana
 silver mines have demonstrated that
 she possesses unlimited mineral re- sources and yet the prospector's pick has scarcely begun it's discovery work. Indian raids, scarcity of water and want of transportation facilities to many Of her mineraliZed mountain ranges, have greatly retarded the opening and development of several of her most promising and richest min ing districts. The first of these, how ever. has been effectually settled, the second largely overcome, and the third undergoing a rapid transformation by the building of local branch railroads to her most productive mining camps, and today Arizona is entering an era of mining activity and substantial growth never before known in her his tory The handspring of this energy is largely centered in the fact that the
 
 a greater demand for copper, requiring increased production and stimulating prices, both of which will bring Ari- zona to the front and build for her copper producing record that very soon will be unsurpassed by any state CT country.
 DEEP MINING.
 An occasional mining sale in this
  ment and is a cause of personal rejoic- ing to those whom it affects, and in bread sense is a creditahle reflection upon him who has probably spent the greater portion of his life waiting for the return of the tide. But in the sense of the general progress of the country it's development and it's con in legitimate operations, the former should not be weighed in the same balance with the latter. In early mining in this section the methods pursued were tinged with a disregard of industrial elevation CT personal con sideration, and so long as both were permitted tC ride unchecked, just so long would that section carry a black eye The usual result followed and with it's life ot that era there faced this section in it's appeals for capital | With the legitimate, however, there i has come change in the scene and the i old has been pushed aside fer the new, the outcome of (which is today attested to in the vicinity in the number of men on the ground and the manner in which they are operating. It is such a change over the played out past, and the country is now so firmly and legiti- ! mately being handled in practical and l energetic work that goes with deep i mining as to give us today a greater | regard probably than any ether sec tion of the southwest enjoys. The pas. | five years has seemingly solved the flu ] ture of this section for years to come, | and if only cle-half Of that to be seer today around us proves successful, | county will be the most ener- getic field of mining prosperity of any | of the Union. Although | the oldest section in mining in Arizona ] 1t is nevertheless in a practical sense I the newest, and no better argument i can be placed before the late investor than the fact of being here today and i as rule the character of his work as | he expends his capital so willingly | certainly gives to him the belief that | the country simply has been run over. |
 Ten years ago we venture the state ] ment there were not a half dczen gold | claims in this section that had a 25O | foot shaft, and in silver mines not | many more. Today in any district the | opposite prevails, and when we look around and "size up" the miles Of un- caverns of the United Verde, the 2,000 foot hole of the Con gross, the thousands of feet of the King, the McCabe, the Jessie the Empire, the Senator, the Poland Del Pasco, the Jerome Cop per company, the Gladiator, the Fa- Vorfte. tha Peery, the Henrietta, the Accident, the Buster and especially the that has struck it at 900 feet richer than ever, and besides many others-the country answers in sach and only asks to be showed up.'' The country is today going ahead and $ pushing itself forward so steadily and practically that even if a hurrah loes net follCw its progress the in Aucements are here for men and mon sy to work with, and we are pleased .o state that as a general rule both gre operating legitimately for once - 
 MINING NOTES.
 On the 12th of last month s. NJ Waterman discovered and located the Bird mine, Walnut Grove mining district. He has done just fif- enN feet of development work on the .Iaim and the work is all in ore. He brought into Prescott. 800 sounds of the ore which gives an as say value of 5.38 ounces gold per ton. the Hunming Bird is the Olive claim, also owned by MT. Water nan, which has thirty feet of develop nent work and a vein four feet wide, ,re from which carries from II to 19 yer cent copper and seven to eight ,unces gold per tOn.-Courier.
 The turquoise mines of Cochisa cu1:ty have been placed under option or sale to New York parties who have xamined the property and declare the turquoise to be the superior of any tone of it's kind in the world, much uperior to the best of the turquoise of he orient This will prove to be an ther Arizona industry.-Tucson Star.
 The Pride of the West mine that was