Bisbee daily review., 1903-05-09
THE isAPEmiNe ~KNockER."

 notice to the world that he alone is possessed of reliable information con corning all the mining properties and companies now known in the Warren district. With this stupendous knowl- edge he ought to be able to attract some attention as the great "Know-It All" of Ishpeming Michigan. He would have people believe that during his brief visit to Bisbee and vicinity he discovered the true value of every mining proposition in this section of Arizona; that experienced mining men, who have lived in this district and studied it's character for years are throwing their money away when they spend it for developing mines not within a stones throw of the Cop per Queen or Calumet & Arizona. It is something new in Arizona, the the cry of this Michigan editor, that it is a bad sign to see men engaged in de veloping mines ten or fifteen miles from some property which has already proved it's richness. On the same theory we presume no confidence is to be put in the opinion of any mining expert further removed from the fountain of wisdom, which spurts week ly through the columns of Iron Ore, than the city limits of Ishpeming.
 This wonderfully wise editor told the people of Bisbee nothing new when he said the Warren district contained developed mines which are of great value That fact had dawned upon the Bisbee mind before the recent food of light came from Ishpeming He thinks the only mines worthy of development are those up very close to the Copper Queen. Of course it is nice to have g claim into which the Copper Queen has already chased important ore bodies. but 10 one should object if there be mining men who are willing to develop mines and seek for treasure vaults miles away from Bisbee. or even across the line in Sonora, if they themselves feel justified in so doing by the lay of the country or it's general formation and
 
 big mines in Arizona were turned down by expert opinion when they were no further developed than most of the new propositions in this district. The Jerome mine was successiyely turned down time and again as not be ing worth even few thousand dol lars. The Copper Queen was not considered to be anything of extreme value" during the first days and years of it's workings At Clifton. after the Arizona Copper company had worked it's mines for ten years with out cents profit, it was advised that all the ore had been put through the furnace and that the enterprise would have to be soon abandoned. But the company stayed with the mines and has since taken out millions in profits from the old claims and are now re- ceiving their supply of eight hundred tons daily mostly from ore bodies that ten years ago had never been discov- cred.
 The Review does not presume to ask investors to purchase stock hi any mining company, here or elsewhere; it has never boosted" any proposition in this district, further than to publish all the information obtainable COZ cerning it, worthy of credence.
 Will the editor of Iron Ore point tc a single instance where the Review published anything concerning any property in the Warren district. which would induce any one to invest in it that was not based OF authentic re ports of the actual conditions.
 Instead of being sore at Iron Or the Warren district mine owners Ishould send that gentleman a chro
 mo. Since his 'knocker" on this dis
 trict money has been coming iron
 Michigan fast and furious and ther'
 is scarcely a week passes that ther is not new company organized il that state forf the development 0 Warren district properties.
 We trust the next time the editor O Iron Ore visits Bisbee he will sta longer and open up a mineralogics night school that the dense ignoranc : now prevailing in Bisbee concernin the mineral industry in the Ware district may be dispeIled