Arizona silver belt., 1901-11-14
GLOBE MINING DISTRICT.
A Denver Mining Mans High Opinion of This
 District

Globe, Arizona, in answer to questions relative to Arizona, and more cape cial!y the Globe mining district, said to Ores and Metals
 'I spent about one month recently examining mining claims in that dis trict and was greatly surprised at the natural wealth there. The district is rapidly coming to the front as one of the great mining districts of Arizona. Few people even in the district know or realize that there are from sixty to seventy five carloads of copper ore and from fifteen to twenty carloads of cop per bullion leaving Globe every month, but such is the fact, and it will be only few months before the output will be nearly doubled, as there are many mines and prospects in the district which will soon be producing ore for shipment and treatment on the ground. The statement is fully warranted that every shaft which has been sunk in the Globe district to any considerable depth, without a single exception, has encountered large bodies of rich cop per ore. The deepest shaft in the dis tri ct is one on the Old Dominion com papy s property, and that shaft is not down quite 1,00o feet, yet in the lower levels there is now a large body of sul' phde ore, which is as good, if not richer, than any heretofore taken out of the upper levels, and thousand tons of that ore is now stored away on the mine dump, which has been taken out in doing development work Ouly. It is too high grade to be treated to the best advantage in the company's shelter on the ground. l will add, however, that the Old Dominion com pany's smelter is daily treating several hundred tons of rich copper ore, and tSa shelter is right at the company's ,niaes
 Many will remember that 1t has been stated by mining experts of na- tional reputation, that no sulphide ore would be found in the Globe district after getting through the csrbonates and oxides, and yet the contrary has been absoutely shown. The improve ment at depth that has been made m mines in the district during the sum mer of 1901, has given great encour- agement to mine owners and operators and many mines in the district are pre- pairing to sink extensively this winter | will further say that the Globe dis trict was originally silver camp, dat ing back to 1873, when rich silver ore was discovered and several million dol lars worth of silver was shipped out of the camp. A number of the copper producing mines oi today, in this dis trict, were the silver mines of that day, and had it not been for the cop per-produciug mines in the district in 1898, Globe would today be as dead as any other silver camp. Bnt, forth nately, the demand for copper, and tue increased facilities for transportation, by the advent of the Gila Valley, Globe X Northern railroad into the district has doubled the population of Globe in less than three years. Globe has two banks, an electric plant, a broad gauge railroad, several churches and several public school buiIdngs one of which is a large, handsome brick structure and substantial court house, water works, several big business firms, and the little city Is growing Several new business blocks were building when l left {; two good newspapers there dispense the news |; re fined society is found, as are able lawyers and skilled physicians, and l was exceptionally pleased with the people of Globe.
 The Territory of Arizona ia des- tined to advance and take front rauk in the list of mining states and territo- ries in the United States. Gila county, of which Globe is the county seat, has within it's borders the most extensive, continuous and massive mineral belt in Arizona. This belt extends the en tire width of the county and into ad joining counties, and at no distant day this entire county will be one of the greatest wealth producing areas in the mining world. Native copper has been struck in new shaft which is being sunk by the United Globe company. In short. the Globe mining district has awakened the keenest interests of cap italists and it will be but a short time when the great deposits of copper there will he reflected in a tone of ab- solute confidence not only that, but mining there, in my opinion, is abso- lutely safe. But while copper is the supreme factor, gold, silver, lead, iron aud turquoise greatly add to the rich ness of the district, and eastern capi- ttlsts are becoming active in seeking investments there, and western cspi' tai is also in evidence in Globe, which IS certainly safe district in which to invest money in mines"