Mohave County miner., 1900-01-13


work at present. The members of the
Congress Gold company are said to be
back of the undertaking, which is GER
tainly very considerable one, and one
OF the first of the kind we have heard
OF in Arizona, although the location
of tunnel sites and the driving of tun.
nels is quite common in Colorado
Prescott Courier.
The Newport and Arizona Copper
and Gold Mining Company, of 60
State street, Boston, Mass, which re-
Gently bought the Piety group of min
ing claims from Cochran, Meesom and
Harris, have evidently struck bigger
bonanza in the way of a mining prop
erty than they had any idea of. The
Ray company, which is capitalized in
London for fifteen million dollars, is
building town, putting up works, and
making headquarters generally on
property across the Gila, almost OPP
posite the Boston company's property.
The Southern Pacific Railroad mag
mates, II. E. Huntington, Chief Engin-
eer Hood and Superintendent Randolph
were here since j. r. Mclean left for
Boston. Mr.. Hill, General Manager of
the Ray company, got the right of way
from Mr.. Mclean for the railroad
through the Piety group. In addition
to this, great ledges of copper show up
and are being opened up all over the
property. Mr.. Mclean has made a
very favorable impression here for his
honesty and fair dealing, and is to be
congratulated for having secured just
in the nick of time property that
could not be bought now for ten times
what it cost the Boston company. The
Ray company have given out one con-
tract alone for gasoline engines and
machinery connected Herewith, to
cost 5O,OOOS and aggregating in all 25O
horse power, and to be completed by
April lst. Another Boston company,
of which Mr.. Cutting of Boston, is
manager, is opening up rich mines at
Troy, only eight miles from the Ray
mines and the Piety group. The three
properties mentioned are certainly in
the very heart of one of the richest
copper regions in the world, all of
which means much for Florence and
Pinal county. Numerous camps are
springing up and great copper deposits
are being opened all around us in
every direction. The year 1900 prom
ises to he the banner year In all our
history.-Tribune.
The fairest and most correct sum
ming up of the mineral situation in
Arizona by an outside paper is found
in the following, from the Denver
Daily Mining Record: The overshad
owing industry is the production OF
copper. The output for the year 1885
was ll0,823,964 pounds. For the year
closing, Arizona is estimated to have
produced 100000 pounds of copper,
valued at 25,O00,O0)s, being an increase
of about 100000 pounds. The in
crease was due largely to an increase
in the capacity of the reduction plants
and the output at the established
mines. Part Of the increase has been
from numerous new properties and
prospects which are being rapidly de-
veloped under the stimulus of the pre-
vailing high price of copper. 1t is pre-
dicted that Arizona, within the next
five years, will take first place in the
production of copper in this country.
In comparison with Arizona, the cop
per producing ground of either Michi-
gan or Montana is circumscribed.
There are already five points of activ
ity, from 200 to 800 miles apart. These
are, according to Importance of pro-
duction: Jerome, in Yavapai county;
Bisbee, in Cochise county; Clifton and
Morenci, in Graham county; and the
Globe district of Gila county. There
is no doubt that the output will exceed
2OO,OO0,000 pounds in 1900. The copper
mines carry more or less gold and sill
yer. If an adequate supply of water
could be obtained, Arizona's produc.
tion of gold would cause her to rank
with the first gold producing countries
OF the world. The territory's gold
product for 1899 is placed at 4,50O, ,OOOs
It is estimated that the silver output
has been 100000 ounces. The time is