Arizona republican., 1901-02-22
PLANS FOR CANANEA MINES
Greatest Smelling Plant - Broad Gauge
 From Naco to Mines.

Geo. Mitchell. who with other officers the Green Cons lidated Copper com pany. have assembled in Phoenix. Spok of the plans of the company to a Republican reporter yesterday. There are some problems to solve be- furt tn, litigation which has occupied tn. attention of the courts of this country and of MeXicO for two. years. comes ta q close, but the end is in sight and wheE development begins 0u the Cananca holdings. .familiarly known us the C1bre Grande mines, they will b. converted into one of tn greatest cop per producing groups in the world.
 Mitchell was for several years smoltcr superint ndont of the Unite Verde. but he severed his connection with chat company to g. into the Cobrc Grande Copper company and Was Succeedcd by his brother. He Is now gen gal mana ger If the Green Consolidated Copper company.
 We are arranging for tEe develop mcnt of our Mexican mines n an cN- tvuaiyc scJie," said he. "The long drawA-out litigation is about to come to a close and so far as We are van- corned it is s1 nearly over that w. are paying more atteHtilu tJ contracting for machinery than to litigation.
 The general manager will shortly leave for san Francisco to contract with tn. Union Iron w.rks for a smelter with daily capacity of 200 tons. consisting oi the largest blast furnaces and conycrt,rs in the world. With b,o 2Go-Jon sacks, now at the miuos. the combined capacity of the sm.ltng plant will amount t1 I 100 tons daily gredt,r p,oIuctiou than that of ta- United Verde, and on account of the rrhn-ss of the ores. which aver age at least eight Der cent. copper throughout, and carry enough gold and silver and b!-pr duets tp dtfray sme,t- ing expenses, the value If the proluc. ton also will exceed tha, of Ae United Verde. On account If the large de- posits of iron the company intends to erect an iron furna.o to manuracturp all the iron required fir marhinery \ marrow gulge railroad. six miles in | ngth. will connect the workings with fhe Smcltcr. Work will be com, menced immediately on a d-guagc railroad from Na.o in the southern part of Arizona. running 42 miles tp the mines ana creating sn outlet. A survey on one section h}e begun.
 The Carnegie Iron works of Pannsyl- Vlnia will likely be awarded ,he con- tract for the overhead travelling cranes for the converters and the material for the nvertinE building Edward P Allis. cnEil, builder Of Milwaukee. has becn awarded the contract frr engines to be used on tn broad and narrow gudgc roads.
 The Cobrc Grande mines are located in La Caaanea mountains of Sonora. MoXi,., and are surrounded by an abundan.- of timber and water The massive iron cappiHg is trac q over the mountains far miles. and tn, property known as the Co6re Granle mine. Is seven and onc-half miles in length and from one to thre. miles in width. In this area age many shafts, ranging in depth from 100 ta 25o feet, and almost every hole is in q great deposit of sul- pnide ore which thu, far has been found too extensive 10 outline. Dia- mond drills will be =mployed to deter mine as nearly aS P sSihle the extent oi the great ore bodies.