Bisbee daily review., 1903-09-12

Following is the initial letter of the second Series of articles by Horace J. Stevens. of Houghton, author Of the Copper Handbook, covering the mines and pro spects of the southwest.
 The opening of an important new copper field. or the development Of an old field beyond it's formerly accepted limits. are matters ot importance. TOT copper mining is at cree the costllest and the most profitable form of mln- ing known-the costliest. where work is done upon large scale. and the most profitable when really frst' class mines are opened. During the past two years more new mining ven lures of importance have been under taken in and near Bisbee than in any other cupriferous field of the world. Preceding detailed description of mines and prospects. an outline or the history. geography and geology Of the district will enable the reader to form a better understanding of the va ricus properties. their location and the'r chances or success.
 The Warren mining district takes it's name from the discoverer. An occasional prospector wandered into the Mule mountains then in Pima. but now in Cochise county, in the early and middle seventies. and it is not certain that all of them got out again. as the Apaches were vigilant. When Schieffelin told the soldiers in Fort Huachuca. about 1877. that he pro- posed exploring the hills to the east ward. he was told to take his tomb stone along and Tombstone was the name he gave the camp that sprung up around the mines he found in the
 0~e northern foothills of the MnIe mcl..s. mcil.a,al-. an eeessiohal prospector from Tombstone ehanced a day or two in the mountains to the southward. but the country was rough and the Indians activ~ .der the leadership of old -s. who was a better general thai his successor. Geronimo, the ApaC-cs 1 -rt the would-be prosnectors pre,-.- close to t+'~ SU NdIHDS- " VI ', yves done up in the Wa >,s rict ia the late seventies. in a pr--l' D os pecting way. bu; gold a. ,ilv CT seemed lacking. and the pr -ctors seemed the green copper ains Eventually a considerable or -.1 ci copper ore was located and i4iAils begun. This was the begiDi i~- z ot the great Copper Queen mine. s-s oi a99 .s9 six largest copper produ ,- ot the world. Real mining may be -ait to date frcm about 1881, thout < property was small and its futu IT certain for some years. This sea concern was the only mine ir 1l' camp urtil two years ago. A L prospecting was tried from time U tim,"' but 1t wes not until Lake Sul~ rior pec'-le begun work in 1899 tha any mining work of real importan < was accomplished, outside or th' Queen lands. The district now ha two producing mines. both of the frs magnitude, with third property near ly ready to erect a shelter, severa others of great promise, few prop critics with fair prospects and dozer or more wildcats, which may or ma, not make mines.
 The Mule Pass mountains have generally northwesterly and soutr easterly trend. with a gulch, known Tombstone canyon. running approx mately throU/ the axis of the range with numerous smaller and confluer gulches leading from the parent sorg into the hills in various direction: The town of Bisbee is in the mai canyon and on several adjacent hill the main street being a part of tt narrow gulch. The town lies at elevation of almost exactly one mil and the hills in the vicinity range 5 to 600 feet higher, but short distant west and north become much highe reaching an extreme elevation of nea 1y HOO feet above sea level. IT hills are steep and in many places accessible on their escarpments, b any point can be reached by trai on the back of COW ponies or the I tient burro-even Shanks' mare.
 those who do not mind physical { ercise of a strenuous sort.
 The geology of the district has ceived much study of late. and is ia ly well established. Locally the m CTS and townspeople divide the roc into two classes-porphyry for the
 neous rocks, and limestone for
 sedimentary forms. The word p
 phyry. as used in the western mini
 states, is like charity, in that it c
 CTS. a multitude of sins. The in
 neous rocks of the Warren distr
 called porphyry include a conside
 ble variety of rock forms, includ
 fine grained schists. supposed to
 the oldest rock formation of the !
 trict; Quartzite, running 400 10
 feet in thickness. granite and grar
 porphyrys shales and even congl
 crate. the latter made up mainly
 the igneous clocks, but includ
 limestone ard a little of everyth
 else in the neighborhood in it's ms
 up. The limestone, in which