The copper era., 1902-12-04
ARIZONA WEEK BY WEEK.

callv all taken at the Lake, Duluth and in Pittsburg. The company has developed its property to dePIh oi about I. 200 feet aud it is claimed that
 the shafts have been sunk through
 some of the richest ground ever
 opened in Arizona. The company ls
 alleged to have over 800, 900 tons oi
 orc in sight aGgregatlng per cent
 copper and S1 50 per ton fu 5oia --'--a
 silver. A shelter has been erecleu Ill
 Douglas, about twenty-elght mIIes tE9ff tff Iise ths V9Mio V9iHos turnaces with capacity of 2jO tons each and conyr-.~-, -.I-'. .1-A' -,,.s... so convert the product oi the
 furnaces into 90 per cent. copper. The
 stock is closely held. Pittsburg peo-
 ple identified with the United States Steel corporation have been the re- cent buyers. Saturday the stock sold
 at 90, yesterday at 100, and 2CO Is talked
 as prospective fgure.-Boston News Bureau.
 There never was camp in the his tory of this country that has brighter
 prospects than Bisbee. All oyer this
 section mineral in paying qualities Is
 to be found, and capital is finding this out and knocking at our door 10 get In. They have faith in the Bisbee mines
 and have unlimited capital to back up that faith with and are investing just
 as fast as they can find property that has any merit and whose owners will part with it at anything like a reason-
 able price. All this activity on the
 part of capitalists, who are trying to get in here is an indication of how
 great and large camp Bisbee is to be- come. In less than year the pay roll
 in this camp will not be less than | three-quarters of a million dollars.
 Greater Bisbee is now au assured fact. | With this large pay roll will come the population that will make this q camp
 of not less than 25,O00 souls.-Bisbee Miner.
 William Lord George claims to have invented roasting furnace which he claims will be great boon to the own CTS of low grade mines .'-a.I-' . say three quarter inch mesh ,ahu Ill 'lie
 furnace it is brought to red heat TOT
 o ehort time by use of wood, coke, coal
 or charcoal. The first object oi the booting is attained when the volatile
 oonnonents. carbonic acid, sulphur,
 arsenic, and amonia, have practlcaliy
 ovre1Ied with the reduction of the
 metals, as gold, silver amt copper to
 notaIIic state in small grains or glob-
 ules This is to be accomplished in
 about thirty minutes atten-'tfe ore is put in the turned it is prepared u G'I }oT ,y wet conoaching or cvaDidf MT s of or". aov,Sd SC, this ta Copper 'ccns com pany at Win. ,-nS, Ariz., and one is be- ing bu;I. at Denver.
 On Wednesday of last week, Presi lent Garrett E. Lamb, Secretary Frank ". Ellis, both of Clinton, Iowa, and ieneral Manager George R. Upton. of , he Gro Grande company, arrived in :, flcken burg, Arizona, for the purpose looking over the ground for the pro. osed mill. A representative of the u company was to be ', 1ere this week for the purpose of con- lltlng with them on the ground about uttlng in the plant. Plans are al- !" 'ady made for substantial buildinos |, 1u everything now points to the put :, n% Tn ot the plant at an early date. > ne Oro Grande is undoubtedly a won- sriul mine with vast deposit of low 'ade ore with pockets that are very N oh. A large plant will make it one M
 the greatest producers F. E. Far +,, }, well known expert of Arizona. ID 10 was in Fl Paso last week. said if of mliis S4 per ton it is a wonderful Ii, ne From all accounts it will do at is easily enough. On Thursday, NovemberI3th, Fred of a mining engineer of De- at Ut and D. D. Jayne, editor and 'prietor of the Authors Magazine of troit, arrived in the valley for the rpose of examining some mining ,ap r1i' 'perty owned by the Colvin boys at CT, en, and which is being handled by ant ot. Thomas McEniry. They spent a no sk examining this property and the iay mv mmoth tunnel. They were so well sv1 aSed with the property that deal Dr made and as soon as they arrive tnl ne they will organize a company cnr italized for sl,OOO. GOO, and a small gis np mill will be erected for tho n,r ties