The copper era., 1902-12-25
A VERITABLE BOOM.
The Term Not a Metaphor, as Ap-
 piled to Cochise Co.
Phoenix Republican.

It is but frankness to confess that the old timers of COchise county, af- ter witnessing the wonderful progress Of the past, contemplate with abso- lute astonishment the unprece dented activity Of the present. This extra ordinary impulse is largely attributable to the fact that the Calumet people of Michigan have seen fit to enter the field Of Arizona copper producers.
 The majestic Copper Queen, with and tunnels, is the wonder of the min ing world. Her operations have been quiet, careful and conservative, gradu- ally expanding until as an illustration Of their magnitude, during the year 1901, eleven million feet of timber was buried in her bosom, and yet she is only beginning her magnificent reign. As an indication of her resources, I state facts when I assert that she has now in the course of construction at Douglas the largest copper reduction plant ever contemplated on the coast, with q main shelter building 396 feet long by 294 feet wide, s furnaces with cOnverterS to corr espond, 20O-foot smoke stack, power house of 500 horse power, immense machine shops, 2 mixers, each being 70 feet in length, 30 feet wide and 12 feet deep, with tracks, tramways and every other incidental appliance to correspond-in short a mammoth plant with an approximate capacity of 2O00 tons every twenty four hours. The only conclusion which can be drawn from these facts is that large bodies of ore are blocked out in the old Bisbee properties, upon which she depends to supply the mammoth plant. When it is completed the company will doubt less dump the old shelter at Bisbee into the scrap pile, which will be the best thing for Bisbee, as most of the labor employed in it is not American, while the blowing in Of the new smell ter will necessitate the putting on of large additional force of American miners in the mines of Bisbee.
 But the Copper Queen smiIingly shares the scepter with another gra- cious and beni6cent industrial power. The Calumet people discovered that this district is the coming theatre of the greatest mining operations ever yet contemplated on the slope. They acquired ample properties and went to work at once in their peculiarly wig orous and thorough style. Their first scene of operations is known as the Calumet and Arizona. At 1900 feet they struck 1t squarely-the same class and the same body as the Queen. Now they have a 475-h.p. hoist, a 1l4-foot ore bin, railroad spur, 300-ton smell l ter at Douglas in full operation and every improvement and convenience which money can command. Their smelter, with only one furnace and two conyerters is turning out over 50, 900 pounds of bullion every twenty four hours. Besides this they have three other shafts going down, each ono mile apart, looking for tho grand old mother lode of tke Warren dis trict.
 The belt of mining activity extends from the Modern through Bisbee to the national boundary, a distance Of twenty miles, and it is conservatively estimated that three hundred men are engaged in that territory in discovery and assessment work alone. Within ! five miles of Bisbee running parallel with the El Paso and Southwestern railroad are ten active hoists located respectively on the Car, Holbrook, Spray, Calumet and Arizona, Gardner, Lowell, Calumet and Pittsburg, South Bisbee No. l, No. and Bisbee West. All these hoists are working like go- phers, and are away down deep for Arizona, all have touched the top of the big mineral deposit, but none have gone through it. The motto here is Don't be afraid to dig" The Modern is also in large body of magnificent ore, while the Copper Glance ou the extreme south is 525 feet deep and strong indications are coming in with every shift. FRANK ALLY.