The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-09
ARIZONA HAS COPPER CRAZE.
TEE PEOPLE OUT THERE TALK OF
NOTHING ELSE.

dred thousand Dollars Two Years
Ago Are Now NiiIionaires-FuIIy
Six thousand Men Have Been EN-
p1oyed at Good Wages for "a Year
and Half.
From the san Francisco Chronicle.
/ The boom in the copper markets of the
world is working wonders down in the ter
r.tory Of Arizona. Wherever one may 80
IN the territory these days he quickly OBJ
serves what changes he demand for cop
per is creating there-the marvellous
/ growth of a huddie Of tents and shanties
into d prosperous copper camp in few
weeks. he leaps Of copper miners Of small
means into large wealth. and the develop
ment Of old-due copper camps into austy,
progressive young Clues within a year.
| ooh, copper is surely king in Arizona now
adays The wealth of The territory has
! been increased at least twenty million dol
lars by the rise in the copper markets"
said Edith Randolph, of the PhoeniX Re
| publican, The other day.
The people an Arizona who know any
thing about mining, and whose livelihood
is at ali dependent upon the operation OF
| the mines in the territory have. indeed,
gone we1l-nish daft on copper, One can
not g.. on the railroad cars in the territory
without hearing tales of how sO-and-so or
somebody has just sold for thousands of
dollars a copper prospect which was val
| ued at a few hundred dollars three or four
| years ago. Sample chunks of copper OK
| des and sulphides are shown in nearly
every barroom and hotel office in the ter
ritory Wherever a knot Of men are gath
! cred in Arizona nowadays one may safely
| conclude that It's copper they're talking
| about. If one sees a prOspector loahnS in
! any Arizona town nowadays, it Is a safe
wager that the prospector either has
copper deal on hand or he is physically
unable to climb over mountains, skirmish
! through canyons and gulches and other
| wise endure the hardships of prospecting
for copper deposits. Then men who sold
copper claims five and six years ago for
mere songs, because they saw no hope of
| the value of copper ever increasing are
| disconsOlate. Everyone has some bit of in
l-formaton about copper mines and the
| prospective con tinuance Of the present high
| market for copper The porter at the hotel
talks copper as he carries your gripsacks
in; the waiter girl asks, "How's copper to-
day" while She awaits your order. The
barber tells how a friend of his d.sdain-
luily passed over copper EeISto III 1870 VI
1894. and how the same property sold last
week for $4,000. The livery stable boy
longs to get away and go prospecting for
a copper mine The brakeman on the train
will produce sample bits of copper ore and
talk eXcitedly about his prospect between
stations.
MilIiOnaires by the Dozen.
Nearly every copper mine and smelter
in Arizona is being worked TO it's fun ex-
| tent, and the railroads are hauling seven
| and eight times more ore than they did
in 1896 and 1897 A dozen men in Ari-
ozna who were worth probably 100000 in
| copper mining properties two years ago.
are millonaires now, while every one who
! had any sort Of a workable copper claim
year or two ago is worth thousands of
dollars more now than before the copper
boom set in. The copper mining camps
| in the territory are the busiest spots in
the Southwest and fully 1900 men have
| been constantly employed at good wages
| in Arizona copper mines and shelters for
year and a half If the present de-
mand for copper continues-and there
! seems to be no reason why it should not
| the copper industry of the territory will
be productive of over $S0000,000 annually
There has never been anything like the
| Incorporation of so many and such large
! copper companies for the development of
| copper deposits in the territory of Art
! IONA. One can scarcely look over the
| financial page of newspaper in any of
| the large Eastern cities these days with
! out observing a half dozen prominent
| prospectuses of copper companies formed
! for operation in Arizona. Three Boston
| companies, each with a paid-up capital
! of $3.50 900, are now opening newly-found
copper lodes in the Pinal and Huachuca
mountains. Two San Francisco compa-
| MES, one Detroit and two New
York copper companies are spend
| ing capital with. generosity
that surprises even the old-time
| ee-and-easy-going Arizonians.
/ Jerome has grown from a population of
S9 people two years ago to over 4,00O
/ to-day, and 1t is growing every week
Globe has trebled its population in sew
enteen months, and Bisbee has doubled in
year, while Clifton and Morenci have
advanced from mere huddles of adobe
houses and three or four stores into up
to-date towns Of 1900 and 1900 population
each A score Of copper camps of 100 and
250 people each have suddenly come into
existence throughout the Colorado and
/ Grand Canyon regions of the territory
AT the present time copper mining and
smelling machinery to the value of many
thousands Of dollars is being brought into
Arizona, every one of the old-titne con-
per plants are being enlarged, and Gov
Murphy reckons that the value of all the
engines the machinery, the smelling ap-
paratus and all appliances used in devel-
oping copper lodges which have been
brought into the territory for use at the
mines during the past year, is upward of
50 100000. The United Verde mines. at
Jerome, have alone been newly equipped
with machinery worth $500 900.
The copper resources of Arizona have
been but partially developed, and the
prediction of Maj. J. w. Powell, Of the
| United States geological survey, ten years
ago. that some day the territory would
supply over half the copper produced in
the United states ~ill, no doubt. be real
lied in the near future, while in another
decade even that prophecy may be full
filled twice over. The rapid discovery Of
unusually rich copper ore in the Grand
Canyon country, the finding Of enormous
lodges OF the ore in rWions where no ONE
ever believed there was copper-along the
Lower Verde river-lead one to believe
that Arizona is going to be the most
wonderful copper-producing region in the
world.
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