Arizona republican., 1899-06-08
THE TIMING BOOM
Attractive Pen Picture of Arizona's
 Big Mineral Movement.

The mining activity Gl sCuth1rn Ar;-
 zona is a good deal like the real estate
 movement n Tucsor-it IS not con-
 fined to any one section. Reports are
 received from every county an1 every
 mineral district Of the sales Of copper,
 gold and silver mines; of new strikes,
 new finds; Of vast improvements iD
 machinery. n mining and smelling
 capacity-of move, in fact. that is So
 general, widespread and substartial
 that Ar:Zon3 must become the cyn0-
 sure that will turn capital and capital
 ists tffs way from every quarter or
 the globe. The mineral resources Of
 Arizona have scarcely reached their
 C. b. C. develccment and yes WE are ali
 ready in the front ranks as precious
 metal producers. The unprecedented
 commercial activity Of the world today
 demands in incalculable increasing ra-
 tio the hidden metals of finance and
 trade The hunt and hunger for gold.
 for coPpsr, for silver for iron-for
 what Arizo1a's mountains contain in
 du3ntihes that will eventually affect
 the values of the w0rId-gr0ws epace.
 This hunt and hunger is the magnet
 that will locate and p1oclaim Ari-
 zona as ea9uh's mecca of wealth We
 are nearing that epoch now. l. $ iu
 sight Today Arizona has within her
 boundaries. in perTOn or n interest.
 most of the leading mining men of tho
 continent: men with years of cxper- ience and training: men who are mi
 drawn by those fitful levers of mineral
 excitement but who know what they
 are after, where it is and how to get
 t. Therefore Arizona is closing her first chapter of slsasmOdic spe.rts: gi.
 G21tlc failures from mis3ppled knowl.
 edge; the holding in idlenes5 of legiti-
 mate prospects from lack Of influence
 to properly submit to capitalists: cf
 selling Takes" and 'bTicks" to east
 ern sharks who were experts in dang
 ng mining stock tIefore that neyer ending crop of suckers We have crossed the slubble fields of ni1:1g
 and are now in the green pastures that reach beyond the vision and tho prophecy of man. We are reminded of this vastly significant and momentors change by the interesting accounts of the big deals, big transfers big i'm proVemelts, big operations. daily tfanspIrinS-so numerous in fact that
 It IS now impossible to keep them all in view or grasp thsfr particular i'm Portance or size. Special reporters arc constantly being sent into Arizona to write up this big mine and that tig mine. Amusing accounts are heard of now hard it is to guess which section IS now the most important to direef public attention: which mine is. CT may be, the worlds wonder: which company leads n modern machinery equipment, output and dividends. We become bewildered in the maze of to- days mining activity While madi- f2ffae of the fact that it now requires thrce trains daily from Lordsburg 10 Clifton to supply 5he Clifton Copper | company with material and stores anG That nearly one thousand freight cars 1l! tho sido-tlacks waiting t1eir turn to move q wheel. we are d.s-urbei tp'easantly,) with the 1cws that the Copper Queen people are soon 10 buno 1 q railroad from Moreaci to Stafford and l that telephone system already con meets these two points Looking over | at Globe we find the Old Dominion l Copper company erecting horst ! which IS said to be the largest ever built in Arizona. but necessary to sup | ply sufficient quantity of ere Q keep |