Bisbee daily review., 1902-09-17
WILL MINE FOR BiSMUTH.
Boston Capitalists Interested In tn,
 Superstition Mountains.

Before the end of the year it is probable that one of the biggest bis muth properties on the continent will be opened up in the Expectations mountains, in this territory. The prop erty has been sold to a party of veal thy Boston men who intend to begin extensive development work at once
 The property on which a small amount of development work has been done. shows up on the surface to be extensive enough to almost glut the bismuth market, which at this time is very limited. The operators not only intend to mine the bismuth but will make an effort to increase the amount that can be marketed annually.
 The consideration paid by the Bos- ton capitalists has not been given out, though it is reported to be well up in the thousands. They sent an expert here expressly for the purpose of look ing into the property and he has satis- fled them that it is a good buy.
 As soon as arrangements can be made the new owners will send an or der to a large eastern factory which makes a speciality of mining machin- cry, and order plant similar to those in use at this time at Joplin, Mo-, where large amount of bismuth is taken out of the ground.
 Recently one hundred pounds of the bismuth from the property in this ter ritory was sent to a school of tech nology, where a careful test will be made. Chemists who have already tested the bismuth, state that it is of a very high quality, and will easily find a market along with the product of other bismuth mines of this conti- nent.
 Just when the work will begin on the property is not known, and will not be until after the purchasers have thoroughly tested the product. If they find it to be equal in quality to that of other mines, they will at once pre- pare to place it on the market.
 A short time ago a small amount of development work was done by Fred erick W. Webb and Professor Rand on the property, but they deided that it would be better to sell out to those who had enough means to go ahead and install expensive machinery, with pay the expense that would follow.
 
 is small" said Webb yesterday, "and if I had the means to work l would have been against selling out to any one. have examined the entire prop erty and found it to be quite extensive as well as easy to work. l under stand that the buyers intend to work on a large scale. They have plenty of means to go ahead with any plan they may map out"
 Bismuth has hitherto been one of the minerals that are not included among Arizona's products, but it is more than likely that inside of one year things will be different in this line-Arizona Democrat.
 THE COPPER SUPPLY.
 Some questions having risen to the effects of the closing down of the United Verde mine on the copper sup ply, the red metal statisticians have set themselves figuring. The conclu- sions of the Engineering and Mining Journal, of New York. pretty good authority on the subject, as embodied in the following. are probably about as close to the line of accuracy as it is practicable to get:
 That the suspension of mining in the United Verde Copper Co.'S mine at Jerome, Ariz-, is merely an incident of our copper market is shown by the large figures of individual mine pro- ductrn in the United States. The copper production of the world in 1900 was 1,093. .104 1920 pounds. of which the United States, exclusive of copper sulphate derived from ores amounted