Arizona republican., 1899-03-31
THE GLOBE DISTRICT
By Joseph II. IIamilI

Globe mining district, since it's or
 SaniZation in 1875, has had it's periods
 of prosperity and years of depression
 like many other of the old camps in Arizona, but owing to the varied min eral resources it has better survived the
 death of silver mining than almost
 any other district, and has overcome hindrances to development which
 would have proved fatal to a district of less merit.
 It is not possible within thc compass of this article to mere than briefly ai- Jude to the main facts in the early his tory of Globe and the develoDment and growth of mining in this section, reseIving space for the more compre- hensive review of the operations of the important mines and reference to some of the promising prospects of today.
 THE SILVER ERA.
 It is fortunate for Globe that the change from silver mining to copper mining was a gradual one, the value of the copper deposits in the district hav- ing been recognized before silver min ing ceased to be remunerative. A lingering hope that silver would be re- habilitated and that mining for the white metal would again flourish hero, 14O OOuUI, ndIu SCGlEtHIL5 u hO N1LiA holding together a community of hardy and resOurceful men whose con- fidence in the ultimate development of Globes mineral wealth never Wavered.
 The first mining locations in this dis trict were the Globe and Globe Ledge made in 1873, and which claims are now the producing mines of the Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelling company.
 Nearly ali the great silver discoveries were made in 1876. The Mack MOTr'S, Nugget and other mines at Richmond Basin, the Stonewall Jackson at McMiI- len, the Pioneer mines and others, which contributed their quotas to swell the aggregate of silver produced to up- wards of S2, ,000, ,000.
 DEVELOPMENT OF COPPER MIN
 ING.
 The copper industry in Globe district developed slowly, retarded by the long wagon haul of 40 miles from Willcox, and the consequent high cost of fuel and supplies, which would have been prOhibitive had it not been for the eX- tremely rich ores and the simple pro cess of smelling which sufficed to con- vert the raw ores into pig copper, 98 to 90 per cent fine.
 The first copper smelted in the Gis- trict was in 1877, by Venarsdell and Garrish, in an adobe furnace at Wheat fields, twelve miles north of the town of Globe, the ore having been taken from the HoOsier mine, then owned ny Bud WCOdson, Hampton Ellis and Me. Dowell. The result was an output of about forty tons of copper.
 The HCOsier was the first mine sold for copper in the district, in 1881, to John R. Salsman of Erie, Pa, and ai- though a large chamber of high grade ore was quarried out near the surface, no actual development in depth was at tained until after the mine was puC- chased by Phelps, Dodge & Go. in 1891. The HoOsier is now the principal mine of the United Globe Mines. on which the main working shaft of the Hoosier group is located.
 THE OLD DOMINION.
 The Globe and Globe Ledge claims were purchased in 1882 by NJ. H. Simp- son Of Boston, who had previous tn that time organized the Old Dominion | Copper company, which took it's name l from the claim first purchased, and which proved to be of little value. The 1 Old Dominion company operated a small furnace in 1881, located at Bloody i Tanks, seven miles west of Globe, but | the venture was practically a failure, 1 which inducedf the purchase of the | Globe Ledge claims and the removal of ! the Smelter to Pinal creek, a few hun l 6red feet north of the present works
 It is fact worthy of record that the . p,d Dominion company started its fur mace III 1882 on ore from the Globe mine, when there was no development . other than a tWenty-fOOt hole aid q tunnel in barren ground. and yet the 0J l., -I,, a day for want of ore, and the property now is a far better mine than at any former stage in it's development.
 The property was transferred in June 1895, to the Bigelow, Lewisohn syndicate, and the new management began at once the proper development of the mine. Under the direction of Mr. s. A. Parnall, the shaft has been enlarged from two compartments to three, and carried down from the eighth level (43O~feet deep) to the twelfth level, $50 feet below the su-- face. New and important discoveries of ore were made in all the old levels, in ground supposed to have been worked cut, and the eighth level. which was only partially opened, has been very fairly developed, and in which there are important occurrences of ore. An excess Of water has impsded work below the eighth level, but new compound c0rdensing pump, of capacity of 800 gallons per minute raised 1000 feet, has recently been installed, and with the ground be- low the tenth level drained, the man agement will be enabled to open up the levels tributary to the shaft below the eighth level, and to sink the shafy deeper. The shaft and every portion of the mine opened under the present denotes engineering abiI- ity and mechanical skill.
 A new Nordberg rapid hoist, capable of sinking 2OOO feet, is soon to be in stalled. Nearly all the buildings around the mine are new. These comprise: X machine shop, blacksmith shop and "a rnenfnr shnn all nndPr one rnuf. l