Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-11
FUTURE OF ARIZONA.
ns Territory is Coming to the Front by leaps
 and Bounds as a Mineral Producer.

M and Bounds as Mineral Producer. n Under the title "The Future of Ari- nna," the san Francisco Chronicle makes the following truthful editorial < omment on the treasure territory: x Although the territory of the last N 9ctiOn of the western part of the x United States to be pIcitied through 4 the Suhjugaiion of it's bluodthirSN $i native inhabitants, it Is now coming % the front by leaps and bounds as q f mineral producer. A little more than ! decade since pr SpectrrS were unable t u safely explore it's momtain ranges. f An arid climate aud the lack ut hcin- \ ties for communication added to the d6iculties of the miner. But no part of the Pacific coast today, Alaska per hapS excepted, is So promising as a future mineral producer. Until the last two or three years all the mining drne in the territory was practically k SUI face scratching. The famous Vul- wre mine near Wickenberg, whose 1, tulngS are now being worked over for 3 the fourth time, and which is aboul f tD be re-Opened after long peroid of & MleueSS, has only been mined to d depth of about 300 feet. But it iS \ e,Dmated 10 have yielded to its owners polwithstandiug their wasleful meth dds of mining, from Sl6,0OO, GOO to BPS. coo OO0 in gold, silver and lead. Inali pr, bdbillty fabulous amount oI ;. wealth will be extracted from it with modern methods and appliances by ' ue time it's lower levels have reached the depths attained in California X mines.
 One peculiarity about all of the mineral deposits in Arizona, is thai \ the m neral barring material occurs in enurmOuS bodies. The ore in these massive veins of ten reach, loo feet mWidth, contains good values thruugl- . oIt, and is in spots and streaks i'm mel Ssly rich, running often into the
  X tens ul thousands of dollars to the tor The recently discovered gnld-bearirp
 sdge few miles from Wickenberg k Ii this order. Mining operations are, therefore, conducted necessarily on the most gigantic scale. The number of men to be employed is much larger ,lan in the average gold mine in Cali mrna, and the big SmelterS and reduc, ion works attached to most of the Irger properties operated require an equally large number of skilled work tN.
 The chief mineral products of Ari- Dna are gold, silver and copper. As producer of copper Arizona is fast ap- preaching Montana. A few years hence !, is likely to excel that state as a red metal producer, for while the latteris iepOsitS are confined chiefly to a smail Tea. ArizOnaS copper lUdes crop out n almost every mountain range cover ns hundreds of square miles. Yaya- Pucuunty alone has produced minerals V0rth slT0,O00,0OO Since 1883 the terri nry as a whole has turned out about l0o,0O0,OO0 pounds of copper. It is ldoubtedly richer in silver than any other section of the Pacific coast, and dong the banks of the Colorado river 'a guld-bearing quartz belt which is ilDulJuNly rich. Railroads are opel iug up the country. Capital Is being ryrNted without stint Water is b. ] Z systematically ,nserved. Mining
 prnliuns of the biggest kind are .elng started and ten years hence Arzuna yIli probably lead the Pacific s,dles in metal production.