Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-02

 this Henry Leszynsky. who had stakel Metcalf for his prospecting trip ap- peared on the scene. becoming a half owner in the Longfellow mine and the claims located on Metcalf Hill. After ward Leszynsky and Metcalf had some serious disagreement. which came nea- ending in a killing. and Metcalf sold Metcalf mines and the LongfelloN claim for s5000. Some years after wards Metcalf. through a failure Of Leszynsky to do the annual work. re- located the Metcalf mines. finally sell ing them to the Arizona Copper com chased the Longfellow and other mines from the Leszynsky brothers.
 The ore encountered in the Iongfei- lows first workings was of a very high Leszynsky and his brother were pos sessed of true western pluck and determination. and with an ordinary blacksmith's bellows 10 furnish the blast. and a very small adobe stack furnace. smelted the first copDer in the Clifton-Morenci district. the first oDar- tons heinz carried on at the foot of Longfellow hill on Chase creek. The heat was furnished from charcoei burned from mesquite timber which was then plentiful along the river and in the surrounding valleys. Chase creek not supplying abundance Of water. the Leszvnskvs moved thei- smelter to the river at the mouth of Chase creek. the present location af the great reduction plant of the Ali zona Conner comnanv. The conrar ore being free smelling re"nired roth ing but fuel and blast. The cooper was hauled bv hull teams to a Jurts siv hundred miles away. the Santa Fa railroad having at that time reachei a Iunta on It's way west.
 After the crude sneltins nlant had been moved from it's original location to the mouth Of Chase creek the bahv- gsh'ge railroad was built from tho works" to Longfellow. The rails and engine for this railroad. the first of any kird ever operated in Arizona. we've hauled bv waenns from La Junta. Col orado. The rails were laid twenty inches anart. The cars first used we-o hauled bv mules from the smelter to the mine and load of ore and tho mules wa-e returned on the down oraSa with a man n reenla.e iho snaad with brake. When the erpina arrived from T 2 Jurta it was hailed hv all as an evidencve of the progress sive snirit of Arizona. The eneire was sat m by Henry Arhuckle.- who "hahv"esuee until it was succeedei nv the nrasAn+ standard narrow-oange railroad which runs between Clifton and Morenci MT. Arhuckle now has ss,rre valuable r-onorties which he is engaged in developins.
 Tr 1890 the eszvnskvs sold their ea- t'-a n-nnartv 10 the nrasant cnrnnsnv who nn assuming noSsaseion hegan tha cn~strnctinr of a railwav to connec- with tAa So-.ha-n PariT" at o-is- hrre New Mexico. This railroad -urS worth f-n-n ordshuro. et-itiu z the Cila river at D1lncan and crosei,r .'t at Cu+hr'n ff-v-nire miles from H-dshnre. Frorn this noint # aecande Q ra- cent grada for distance ot fo-r nniIas. c-oSsirp tho hroban font- h'l1s of the GiIa and San Francisco riva-s fnr the ertire dis+onca .>f +us,un
 miles making the total length of tho rood seve,tv-ona miles.
 Up to this time. and for some years afterwards, only frst-class ores were treated. and these were converted into black copper at one smelting by the water-jacketed furnaces. which he'd shortly before been perfected and iu- troduced bv the Messrs. Williams of Bisbee. The smelting works were built for the treatment of such ores. and no provision was made for the milling of the lower grade ores which in after years. when all seemed lost. proved to he the salvation of the com pany Up 10 1891 the company relied almost wholly upon the rich self fluving ores found on the limestone contacts of the Dongfellow and Detroit mines then on the point of apDarent exhaustion. The conditions were ex- -renelv discouraging The company had heen in existence for nine years. no dividends had been paid. and it's has' mines were sns-entlv exhaustel. !. Of low-grade ores there was an ahunl- arre hut these ores were different from all other ores. and before they could he treated successfully new prn- cesses had to he invented and applied on large scale.
 Scotch pluck had held the company tceether SO far. and the same spirit did not forsake them in this their hour | of trouble. It was apparent that if the corlpanv was to succeed its success mus come from it's low-graie ores Tn 1894 it erected it's teaching plant. which was desiened esnecially for the treat ment of it's ores bv a process invented and perfected by the manager of the company.
 The process was brilliant success. and it put a new heart and new life into the company. and encouraged