Bisbee daily review., 1902-09-05
LA CANANEA
 IS WONDERFUL
WITHOUT DOUBT THE WONDER
 OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Story of How American Capital and Enterprise Has Crossed the Ma tonal Boundary and Welded Ma ture's Resources

lures Resources.
 Pluck is a purely American term.
 For a century standard dictionaries refused it shelter between their lids. but at last. the expression found recog- milton. and today it is the most poten- tial word in the English language. Pluck, pure 24-karat pluck led w. C.. Greene and the promoters of the great Cananea district to cross the line. brave all the perils to which the "gringo" is exposed and bring the fabulous re- sources of Northern Sonora to the front. A little less than two years ago. after infinite perseverance. Mir Greene succeeded in enlisting capital in the stupendous project of opening up. perhaps the mightest mineral store house ever discovered.
 Two years ago there was not enough development work in Cananea district to hide a mule and not enough of ma chinery to grind coffee for breakfast. Now. a mining field, approximately. four by seven miles in extent, owned by the Cananea Consolidated Copper company, is teeming with human ac- tivity.
 Niles of development exists. forest of smoke stacks. wheels and belts tes- tify to the resistless conquest of Amer ican enterprise. and the shriek of the iron horse announces the invasion of American capital over the verdan' plains of Sonora
 Luck was not an element in this phenominal transformation. where men suddenly sprang from the quarter deck of a burro to the luxurious cush- ions of palace car. it was simply the outcome of pluck and perseverance,. When you enter Cananea you find the residence part of the camp. known as New Town, or the Mesa, delightfully."- situated on low-rolling verdant ridges, supplied with the best of water and free from smoke and dust. Travelling west along the principal street half a mile, you suddenly pitch down into Ronquillo, or the Old Town, which runs up to and includes the great smell ter. Even then. the ground is not pre- cipitous. as in Bisbee and Jerome, and the sanitary conditions are not so bad as might be expected in dense mining camp. A mile further west is the rust ling camp of Cbevatera, and another mill west is the great producer. Ca pote No. 1. On the Capote group numbering from l to 10 the company has done most of their work. Ordi- nary ore bins are totally inadequate to hold and handle the ore which comes rolling out of the Capote through a score of tunnels, and the rich grey sulphurets are piled up in colossal dumps. the extent of which even an experienced eye cannot ap- proximate. I had occasion to ask a miner from what property an immense waste dump some distance away be- longed, to which ne promptly and correctly replied Why that Is one of the Capote ore dumps, and the whole shooting match will average IS per cent" The extent of the ore deposit cannot be estimated. On several prop critics in that immediate locality, road grades or other improvements which invade the surface of the ground, lay bare immense bodies of high grade copper ore, and all developments up to the present day combine to i'm. press one that it is the most colossal copper proposition ever discovered The Greene company own the surface throughout the district. The Indiana the Democrata, and other companies owning underground rights of limited haracter. The last named properties however, carry the same wonderful measure of ore deposits. character istic of the whole district.
 The celebrated Cobre Grande, which was in litigation for years, now be longs to the Greene people and is chiefly valuable for it's water sup ply. Less than a thousand feet Of de velopment justified the company iI the erection of their magnificent re duction system Their concentratol includes A tables, P of which were in operation when l visited the works Their narrow guage road which con meets all mines with the reduction works, runs over the immense concen trator, which is one-fourth of mile west of the shelter in the direction of the mines. The smelter with al it's appurtenances. is perhaps the fin est on the slope. Entering the works from the west, you are in the, powe house. where five ponderous dynamol account for the lighting of the caml and miTes, besides the electric sla, engines and many other sources O electric utility. Then the great dou ble. compound 750 horse power en zine looms up, which is simply kep in reserve in case of a break dowl among the other engines. Then fou engines of 800 horse power each ar putting in twenty-four hour shift side by side, which a dozen smalle ones and are chuffing away incessant ly adding to the blory and the outpu of the Cananea Consolidated.
 Fifty feet below. at the foot of tn 160 foot smoke stack, Major Wilson is in charge of several small engine and several blowers, whose duty it i to regulate the blast system. Thel we enter the great smelter wher' the ore is reduced to matte, convey