Bisbee daily review., 1903-06-12
IN THE MINING FIELD Operations of Interest Throughout the County of COChiSe, Arizona
 and Sonora
HORACE J. STEVENS
 TALKS OF CANANEA
AN ENORMOUS BODY OF ORE IS
 BLOCKED OUT.
On June Sixth the Company Turned
 Out Eiehty-nine Tons of Copper.
 Fourth Largest Producer in World.

Out Eighty-nine Tons of Copper. |
 Fourth Largest Producer in World.
 Horace J. Stevens, who has been making an examination of the copper deposits of southern Ariona and north ern Mexico, returned from a trip to Cananea yesterday Mir. Stevens, who is authority on copper deposits of the world, talked entertainingly of the Cananea mine and of what he saw He speaks very highly of the courtesy accorded him by w. c. Greene and his officials. In describing that man. moth deposit of the red metal. Mir. Stevens says:
 'I had a delightful trip, and was used most courteously by MT. Greene and the Cananea people in general. I had complete access to the books of the company, and all the information I got was verified.
 The property is simply stupendous. and while I went there to see a big property. I did not expect to see what confronted me. If there is another such body of copper ore blocked out in the United States, do not know where it is
 T saw a body all ready for taking out, which is PIG feet wide, 726 feet long, and S24 feet deep. This is really blocked out. This is not all the body of ore that can be blocked out. as they have not reached either sides of ! the ore body, but this is sufficient. | Let us see how much ore this would make in tons. consider fifteen cubic feet would be a large estimate | for a ton, but even at that multiply the three figures given above and d. vide the total by fifteen. and you will | find that over 7,00O,000 tons are in | sight. To show you what is on the ! the surface. Mir. Greene showed me a strip of land he bought for s36,0G0. | It lies near the Veta Grande. He said | he did not need the land. but thought he would buy it. In grading it down he took s55, 900 out of the ground in i doing the work, thereby showing the | great values right at the grass roots. The company is now about to begin the stripping of large piece of ground which will uncover the body of ore l | have described and S30, 900 cubic yards of dirt will be moved before the work is completed. When you consider the amount of work, to handle this | ground, you may imagine the great expense attached, and yet, the prop erty is practically only two years old | not since it began to work, but since the present company have begun to push the output.
 q saw something in that mine that geologists would call me liar if 1 told it to them. but I saw it, and can prove what I say. It was native copper, copper glance, chalcopyrite and chal- carite, all in one mass, and eighteen inches wide. It is there for invesJi- gation by anyone who goes there.
 ''The bulk of the ore treated is com ing from development and no sSoping to amount to anything is being done, and when I tell you that on June 9th the company turned out eighty-nine itons of copper, you may know that they are working some ore. This would make an output of 55,000,oO0 pounds of copper each year. This output raises the production of the mine to the fourth largest producer of copper in the world.
 Last year the statistics gave the heavy copper mines in the following order: Anaconda first, Calumet X Hecla second. Rio Tinto third. Boston & Montana fourth. Now the Cananea is ahead of the Boston & Montana from its present production.
 'The company is now preparing to quadruple the capacity of their con centrators, and then will be in a better condition to handle the mine product Now the capacity of the concentrators is 200 tons per day. It will soon be 800 tons per day. One of the most phenomenal things about the mine is that of 4.000 men employed for the last two years. not one man has been killed
 in or around the mine. The under
 ground is a model of safety 10 the
 laborers, and careful and competent
 men are in charge. I consider it 2
 wonderful mine, and it surprised me
 very much.
 Another thing I would like to re
 fute/ Eastern people have an ides
 that Mir. Greene is not wealthy. l vii
 say that he brands 40000 head o
 calves this spring. His ranch is 60t
 miles around, and fenced with wire lthe entire distance,
 "One more thing about the output
 of the mine is, that they can turn out
 copper from two to three cents pei
 pound cheaper than any other property
 in the country. It is a simple wonder
 to say the least. I had an enjoyable
 trip. as well as an instructive one"
 MT. Stevens will spend several dayi
 in Bisbee and vicinity before returning to his home at Houghton, Michigan.