Bisbee daily review., 1902-12-14
SENATOR BARD IN ERROR


 Senator Bard of California has slan- dered Arizona by misrepresenting the conditions existing in this territory. Senator Bard was designated as a member of the subcommittee on ter ritories to vist Oklahoma, New Mex ico and Arizona and gather informa- hood. The California senator did not come to Arizona and this fact will af- ford a reason for his friends, if he has any in Arizona, to attribute his pres ent attitude towards this territory to ignorance rather than malice. He is credited with making the statement that Arizona has reached the maxi mum of development-at least for a long period
 Is it possible for any man living so near Arizona to be so densely ignor- ant of the favorable conditions for our future industrial growth. There never was a time when there was greater activity in our mineral indus try; hundreds of mines are being opened up and prepared for produc ton while the old properties appar- ently grow in permanency. The cop per industry has net been in the least slackened by the fall in the price of that metal during the past year. on the other hand, plants have been en- 'larged in almost every camp and pro- duction materially increased. Take the Copper Queen at Bisbee. for an example, if you please. During the past year the owners of the Copper Queen mines have constructed three hundred miles of railroad to haul freight to and from this one mining camp. It is now engaged in building reduction work at Douglas which will be the largest in the southwest Thesf af o1tlays have been made "a oasis what is expected in the in the Bisoee n6sy of to ore TeasonaSIe paaSaGt mind these greacS exb. .nditures would be convincing that the ore supply in the Bisbee mines had been demor- strated as sufficient for twenty-five to fifty years operation.
 Not only this, but just across the Arizona line in Sonora, during the past three years, have been opened cnnnpr Doin0c fbp Of tIo bee mines or any other copper mines in the world; we refer to the Greene mines at Cananea. Does any one doubt that other big copper properties will be developed Tn Arizona next year and the year after and for years to come. We take the following from an article in, the Arizona Republican, written in contravention of the state ments attributed to Senator Bard:
 Every gold mine in. operation is showing better values and more ex- tensive ore bodies as lower depths are reached. John Hays Hammond and other competent engineers have estimated that the mines of the Rand can be operated to a depth of 6,0O0 to 5000 feet, and their judgment has been accepted as so conclusive that the great financiers of the world are preparing to make a stupeldous loan to Great Britain, taking the taxes from the Rand mines as security. It hac hoor doronncfrofaI havopd oil doubt that the gold and copper mines of Arizona, like those of the Rand, go down and that they also improve with depth-that, in effect, they are practically irexhaustible. The Con- gross, the Pearce, the Fortuna the King of Arizona, the Tombstone and the other gold mines which are now operated at moderate depths. will, thirty years from now, be yielding still their precious treasures from depths a mile and more beneath the surface. Long before that time shall have arrived hundreds of other gold mines, now in their infancy. will be in active production, and will have be fore them a lease of life equal to the mines we have named. Years aftea Thomas Robert Bard has been forget ten in Hueneme, California, where ht has lived for thirty years, the United Verde and other Cooper mines al Jerome. in Yavapai county. the Olt
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