Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-29
MINES AND MINING
 AROUND PRESCOTT
4 TRIBUTE TO yAVAPAI.
What an Observer Has to Say About the
 Possibilities of This Section.

The following appears in the West
 ern Mining World, and is evidently
 inspired by full and fair realization
 of the actual condition of mining in
 Yavapai:
 If man wants to engage in orange tgrowing he doesn't go to Alaska; if he
 seeks investments in coal he doesn't
 come to Southern California; or in
 copper he doesn't go to Pennsylvania.
 Here on the Pacific Coast, this won
 derfully favored land, the rarest and
 most valuable minerals are found, and
 there seems to be land under the sun
 so favored as Arizona. She produces
 gold, silver, copper, lead, onyx, mar
 ble, lithographic stone, petrified for ests of solid silica, turquolse, graphite and many rare kinds of stone.
 It is not many years since none of
 these were thought to be worth seek
 ing for, except gold and silver, but some baser metals, particularly cop per. have proved the greatest fortune builders. The figures are interes ing and instructive, as well as surprising. For the past thirty years the increase has been very rapid, and in that time the production of copper has more than quadrupled, and it now bids fair to keep up the pace. For the decade ending with the year 1900, the produc- tion was over 3,600,000 tons.
 The United Verde at Jerome, Ari- zona, one of the most phenominal cop per mines in the world, was started as silver mine, and if the prospectors had gone on the principle of the "coon" who was fishing for suckers, as many miners have done both before and since, the great Verde never would have been. J. J. Fisher, United States deputy surveyor of Arizona, re- gently said of the Jerome district:
 'This section has only been known through the fact that Senator Clark's United Verde mines were located there, but it is no longer a one-mine district. The vast amount of work | done on other properties during the last two years notably by the Black Hills Copper company and the Min gus Mining Copper company, has shown that there are other properties in the district that are likely to prove just as valuable as those of the United Verde.
 A statement of this kind, coming from so responsible a source, is of | great interest to the owners of copper at Jerome, and of much to those persons who are seeking investments. The United Verde has for so long a time been looked upon as the only copper mine in the Jerome district, and as one rich, that any investor would be only too glad to get into the close corporation of Senator Clark, but that being impossible, it loses much of its importance in view of the statement made by so eminent au- ihority as United States Surveyor Fisher, that there are other properties n the Jerome district which are likely .o prove just as valuable.
 Its value can only be computed by millions of dollars, and the Mingus, Black Hills and other mines ad join ng, are pushing their developments with greater interest. and will in time encounter the same great body of ,re, if they have not already done so.
 All indications, therefore, unques- ( point to Arizona as the { yreatest copper producing country in he world, and in coming time, all : apital seeking investment in that inc, will just as naturally turn to- yard Arizona as it now turns toward Southern California for investment in range groves.