Arizona republican., 1899-05-10

turn to remain longer. He leaves to- | day for Tucson, where he will re Ilsit the Azurite copper mines, a property which he regards as very promising and he will then proceed 10 Phoenix. MT Wallace is thorough student of mines and mineral regions Together with Colonel James A. Fleming we yis- tied the Black Warrior mine and every day MT. Wallace has been in the hills looking at mines.
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 q believe said Mir F. R. Wallace, ''that Globe will some day be a won derful mining camp. What I have seen of your territory impI esses me favcrably. I like the manner in which The Republican writes up mines. Your paper is taking course which the Denver papers adopted and which is in a large measure what made Co1o- rado a great mining country. You are building up your country and all min ing men should take care that you are given the most reliable information they possess. believe in giving the mine owner the benefit of the doubt very time, for the history of mining
  lures keeping. What gives no prom ise of becoming a mine today may re- veal great wealth tomorrow, and na- ture seems to have a way of destroy iEg the theories of men,
 L. A. Snyder has been in Globe sew eral days looking after ore shipments for the Silver City Reduction company MT. Snyder travels all over Arizona and he knows the growth of the terri tory as well as any man. He says he never saw time when more mines were being bonded and bought than now. With this activity" says M~ Snyder, there has naturally core a great increase in the shipping of ore from Arizona to the smelters. Cop per mines which did not pay to work when copper was at nine cents are de- irving a good profit today. I believe that the present price of copper is ab- normal, and I think it wi.l be forced; down by an increased supply when a1i these mines which are being developed become producers. I think the rise in silver is attributable to the activity in copper, for mining men have dropped everything to go into copper mining T up went the price. think -here is danger in such high prices as copper has brought of late, in that some f2l- lows will start in to manufacture substitute for it and there is no doubt but that this can be done"
 At the United Globe mines MT. A. L, Waters the metallurgist and assist. ant superintendent, is experimenting upCn treating the great bodies of ieaci.- ing ores contained in the mines cf his company. If he is successful in this the United Globe mines will take a great step forward in copper produc- tion. Throughout the workings of the mine there are great bodies of tow grade ores Of ] leacEing character in the stOpes which has been left to wait until some process of recovering it's values can be perfected Eminent ex- perts have visited the mines during the past few weeks to aid M- Waters and Captain Cook, the superintendert, in these scientific researches. At Clifton ores of the Arizona Copper company gre being successfully treated by leach ing and ? per cent ores are treated with l profit. At the United Verde even the | water which comes from the mine is robbed Of it's copper va,aes by precipi- | tasion upon iron. But nature has formed the product of all these mines | and each must find it's own 1 for combating this stubborn ness of nature.
 GEORGE H. SMALLEY.