The copper era., 1901-10-31
PHELP 5, DODGE & co.
What One Firm is Doing for the
 Development of Arizona.

] Dlsuce, Wllu dll tue luclllulIOus tildl give life in Bisbec its distinctive flavor, ! the Phelps-Dodge spirit being well supported by the local subdivision of the corporation, the Detroit Copper company.
 At Globe is Phelps-Dodge corpora 1 tion-the United Globe Mines Con- ] pany-operating tie Buffalo and Long Island groups Of mines. At Morenci and at Globe are ecopper-smelting plants, that at Morenci being notable for its progress toward perfection in methods for the economical and thorough re- ductiou of copper-bearing rock.
 : In Big Bug district of Yavapai county, the Commercial Mining com- pany, another appendant corporation, has worked, in two-stack shelter, the refractory gold and silver ores of the Boggs and Blackberry mines. At Senator, eight miles south of Prescott, the same corporation has fine stamp mill. on gold mine of long-esta blished lame, and at Copper Basin, ten miles
 
 great copper deposit of Copper Basin.
 Near Yucca. in northwestern Ari- zona, the parent corporation owns an- other copper property. A late pur- chase is the Hanover group of mines near Silver City, in southwestern New Mexico, whereby is secured an inn mense body of free-smelting oxide and carbonate copper ore.
 In northern Sonora are being devel- oped what may prove the most import ant Of all the mines. They are at Nacosari, seventy-five miles southeast of Bisbee. They are equipped at the present time with an S00-ton concen- trator, a smelling plant of about half capacity and couple of converters.
 Just the product of all these mines, figured in pounds Of copper or in dol lars of worth, matters little. At Bisbee and Morenci are plants capable each of handling 1000 tons of ore day and the Bisbee works are to be enlarged when- ever the yexatious question of proper water supply shall have been solved. But, of yerity, there are few mines on earth that can compare in produc- tion with any one of the compauy's great trio.
 It has become necessary for the Phelps Dodge company to provide its own railway transportation to con- siderable degree, to avoid the excessive local freight charges of the western railroads. For years the company has had its own railway, the Arizona and Southeastern, running from Bisbee at first 50 kairbank and later to Benson. Then cLme branch to Naco, where from at first it was designed to reach Nacosari. Latterly the company has gone into railroad building extensive ly, with the anticipation of running trains over its lines, 100 miles long, be- fore next summer. The railroad has been newly named the Fl Paso and Southwestern. In Sonora it is the Ferrocarril de Nacosari. Its main line will be between Benson and Fl Paso, Douglass, with spurs, of greater or less length, to Naco, Bsbee. Tombstone, Nacosari, Lordsburg and Deming. Nol longer is the road d mere appcndage to the Copper Queen-it has become a separate institution under the general management of w. G. Choate. Its equipment is Of the finest, including rails Of the heaviest weight, l00-ton locomotives, the best of general rolling stock and handsome stations, house. ard depots.
 All things have come to pass through the energy and liberality of single 1 and in every move the com munity and the workingmen have | profited. '' Corporations have no souls," is an ancient adage, but one | that has no application to the district wherein the firm of Phelps-Dodge X | Co. does business.