Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-06
ENERGETIC WORK OF TWO TIRELESS HFNING HEN WHO WERE TIE FIRST TO APPRECIATE AID BE- COME ASSOCIATED TO THE FAMOUS COBRE GRANDE


 when the pioneer Comstock on grub stake as his only capital, gave to the world a chain of claims that cemented the career of the west in magnificent mining possibilities for all time, there has followed at regular intervals in every sphere an unbroken chain of discoveries that IS simply bewildering. The frantic rush to White Pine, the Deadwood fever, Leadville, Bodie, the Occur De Alenes, Tombstone, the Klondike, Nome, the Northwest territory, and others in their order, have intensified interest in mining, and made it a feasible avenue for all to enter, whether poor or rich. It is a calling that has made everything out Of ap- parently not hing among men in the past. But today inthe strife of com petition that is associated with the staid and steady pursuit of ordinary commercial life, there has drifted to the channels of mining the many to avail themselves of the opportunities that go only with stumbling on to it." But in mining as in everything else ultimately, it Is the survival of the fittest." In this connection it may not be improper at this time and place to mention in that strain the arrival in Prescott a few days ago from New York city of Mes SITS. James Shirley and W. W. Vanderbilt, and also their association to copper mining enterprise on the coa st of Alaska at Valdez. Knowing that their many friends here will ap- preciate anything good that may be said to follow their energetic and honest representations on mining propositions especially, We are per mitted to give our readers today somewhat of a substantial, but never theless accurate statement of mIn- ing enterprise they have become associated with, that without doubt Is unquestionably in copper mining the m ost gigantic in its character cf any in the known world. To succinciIy state 1t, and to take the rating oi men of experience and integrity, together with the press dispatches, the com bined copper mines of Arizona, Mon tana, Utah and Lake Superior IL their production today are unequal to the Copper river mines in surface showing alone. It seems unreason- onable to make such an assertion, but the vastness of the copper beds as yet but scratched on, together with the fabulous per centage in value of the ore, warrants this belief, and which the reader will find substantl- ated by a perusal of the voluntary endorsements below given.
 In the sense of giving a property a merited regard no matter whether it may seem fancy in figure or poor in reality. how many are there today in Arizona who will recall what Mr. ] Shirley said nearly seven years ago of the then Cobre Grande in Mexico now known as the Greene Consoli- dated? He was the first man to be- come actively identified with its lie. and it may be but just to him and his ability as practical mining man. to state that he was also the first one to give his time and his money to promote its sale and place if where today it heads the list of copper pro ducers in the world If Mr. Shirley had the foresight nearly decade ago to accurately portray that which the Cobre Grande Is indisputabiy tC- day in its mineral rating. a bonanza. why is not his judgment equally as good and positive in estimation ol the Copper River fields. which he is so zealousIy and consistently now supporting! Linked as Air. Shirley was in the beginning with this now famous producer, Uui0rtuH- ately for him and his friends, the customary litigation that seems to entangle particularly mining ground of vast wealth, has Overtakau him also, and his allied interests. With MT Vanderbilt, he has just con cluded q legal hearing of his case and while the public may feel at all times an interest in not only men. but may also desire to be better informed on their affairs in litigation, aad es- pecialiy 50 in a mining controversy ot the prominence that goes with the Cobre Grande, we submit for candid consideration his statements given below and which the court has now under advisement. Mir Shirley said