Arizona republican., 1903-09-19

Deer mine of the Copper Queen render
it reasonably certain that the Wolyer-
inc and Arizona is also located within
the charmed circle. The mining prop
critics adjoining the properties named
are all believed by their promoters to
be within the oval and the Higgins and
the Calumet and CCChise can make out
pretty strong cases in support of this
Cs,2tcntion.
ARIzONAS GREATEST COPPER
NINE.
Although Senator Clark's United
Verde mine a jerome is the most talk
ed-of and written-about copper mine in
the territory OF Arizona. the Copper
Queen mine. at Bisbee is the largest
producer ard will soon be making
much more copper than ever before, as
the new smelter will enable the mine
to produce To- something like its actual
capacity. For several years the Queen
has held fourth place in the United
States and sixth among the mines of
the world, as producer, and last yea.
made nearly 40.CO0,C0 pounds of refined
copper With the aid of the new smell
ter the Queen will easily pass the Mems
field, Germany's great mine, in output,
Montana also, ranking in production
Immediately after the Anaconda, Cal
umet & Hecla and Rio Tinto, in the or
der named.
The Copper Queen Consolidated Mi
ing company. which operates this mine,
is a Phelps-Dodge corpora ton. practi-
cally the same owners operating the
Detroit mine in Graham county and the
United Globe mine in ella county, Ari-
iona, also the Nacos2ri mines in north
ern Sonora, while new mine, the Ser
"a de Cobre, is being opened at Can
auea. Sonora, next to the mines of the
/ Greene Consolidated Prof. James
| Douglas. the eminent metallurgist and
authority upon copper production, is
president of the company, and keeps
in close touch With the mine by fire.
quent visits from New York. The
Phelps-D Dodge mines are all operated as
close corporations, but the profits Of
the Copper Queen are known to have
! been very great, for many years past
THE ORIGINAL DISCOVERY.
| Until 1880. Bisbee was scarcely a
] camp al all. though d, little lead ore
was mined on the Hendricks claim, ly-
/ ng between the first workings of the
!
the Higgins Development company.
The Queens original discovery was a
! pocket of carbonate copper ore out
cropping at surface, and the artificial
cave remaining after the ore was mined
is {. no:iceab BILE feature Of the rugged
scenery Of the town. The ere was free
smelling and averaged returns OF %
per cent metal. being reduced in small
furnaces burning juniper and pin-oak
cut from the adjacent gulches and
slopes. The original ore body was work
/ ed out in three or four years, but per-
! siStence in following seams of ore re-
Vealed ether and yet larger bodies of
high-grade ore. Since then the history
of the mine has been one CT gradual
expansion and the finding of numerous
pockets of ore, some of enormous size.
1t is the history of the mine that ore
seams. if followed. lead into paying
bodies, in practically every direction.
Until 1898 only the rich oxide and car
Donate ores were worked. but the lower
levels showing large sulphide ore bodies
! in several shafts, cOnverters were added
and for the past 10 years the smelter
has run on mixed charges of sulphide
and o2sdiZed ores. Until November.
1902 when the Calumet & Arizona. smell
ter was blown in, the Queen was the
sole producer in the Warren district.
having enjoyed that distinction for 81
years. To date the production CT the
Copper Queen is a few million pounds
more than 100000 net tons of ingot
copper. the market value of which, as
produced. was not less than $50,000,0G0.
7 COPPER QUEEN WORKINGS.
iii
stretched along the southwestern or
from the center of Bisbee down the
gulch for nearly mile the Oldest
| workings being to the north, starting
with the cave" from which the first
ore was taken. This part of the mine
was long supposed to be exhausted, but
the active work of the Higgins COM
pany. just to the northward. has led the
Queen management to make further
examination of the old cave workings,
/ and il is likely that mining viii be re-
sumed at this point. Next in order is
the Car shaft, at which point the
| smelter and main shops are located
Following the Car is the Holbrook and
last among the main shafts is the Sill
Yer Spray. usually called the Spray
the Irish May shaft of the Calumet &
Arizona is the Lowell shaft. started by
an Independent company from Lowell
| Mass. but bought about two years age
by the Queen. This shaft is developing
magnifcently. Still beyond is he Gard
ner shaft, which is still something OF
an experiment. On the opposite side
of the hills. next to the property of the
Wolverine & Arizona, is the Whitehall
Deer mine. This was bought for s25, 00f
some u years ago. and paid for itself
| in so days, but as all the ore was haul
cd to the smelter by wagons, and later
by traction engines, over rough and
devious roads. work was suspended I'M
| til the ore could be worked to better
| advantage. The Whitehall Deer is g
property of excellent promise, and will
be developed when the ore is needed
which is not the case now, as the mines
I too big- for he lraSpOt smelling GA