Bisbee daily review., 1903-11-11
MINING PERSONALS.

w. R. Laaue. mining man of the Chiricah spent several days wis iting in Wilcox this week.
 s. W. Briggs. manager of the Buck eye Mining company. c. M. Roberts. operating quite extensively on the Ca dy Gold property in the Chiricahuas, and Archie Staueps. manager of the Double Sunset Mining and Milling company. are mining men in the east end of the county who make Wilcox their headquarters.
 for the Chiricanua Development com pany, and who has been sick at Tue son for several weeks with mountain fever. has returned to his stronghold in the Chiricahua's and will once more assume charge of his company's ex- tensive opeI ations.
 COPPER PRODUCTION FOR 1908.
 The New York Commercial of. late date has an exhaustive review of the copper situation, in which the conclu- sion is reached that the production this year will exceed that of last year by sixty-eight million pounds. Ari- zcna is credited with more than one third of this increase. The largest in- crease will come from the Bisbee ols- trict. The eoiction is made that Ari- zona's output of l40.00O,000 pounds for 1903 will be exceeded by 27.Ooo.- OOO pounds. For Arizona to beat -ie record of 1902 1t has required that number of new mines should come into promotion. The, output o1 the great United Verde has fallen of ma terially, pending the installation of new equipment, and the output ot Globe was much less than in 19O2, pending the preparation of the Oo Dominion and the United Globe to start up with modern equipment The new mines in the sou.-.ern part of the territory have taken prominent place ir. the list of steady producers of cop per. Among tne new mines are the shannon at Clifton, the Calumet and Arizona at Bisbee, and the Black Dia- mond in the Dragons. And within another year still another heavy pro queer will be sweL.ng the volume Ot krizona's output-the Imperial Copper company in rima county. Indeed it is now 8 certainty that as soon as the improvements and equipment ai- ready provided for by the Imperial Company are completed, it will be of the larges; and most steaoy produc- CTS in the country. The Commercial articles fix the output of Arizona for 1903 al ls7. 900, 600 pounds. or within 1000 GOO pounds of Michigan's output for 1902
 In few days the final papers for the incorporation of the Michigan ana Arizona Development company Will pe fled and active mining operations started on the property Of the Helve- tia Copper company. This company as its name implies, is organized for he one purpose of developing the Helvetia mines. IL is composed of the large stockholders of the Helve- tia'Copper company prominent among whom are William 4. Paine of Bos- ton; s. L. Smith of Detroit. and James H. Seage- and J. H. Rice of Hough- ion, Michigan, with the addition of a Lew interest composed of the officers Of the Piilsbury- -Wasbburn four mills Of Minneapolis, the largest milling cor poration n the world.
 The company will be organized un- der the laws Of Arizona. with eapi- tai stock of one hundred thousand shares Of the par value of two dollars each. Ii is the plan of the new com pany to continue the development work to1e by the Helvetia Copper company and will sink. the large shaft On the Isle Royale claim to Gepth Of one thousand feet as rapidly as it is possible 10 push this work with power drills. The Isle Royale shaft ic now down four hundred feet and the 400-foot level is partisliy opened UT by drifts. This level is ebowiog up better than any other work on the property. The Belvetia Copper com pany encountered some large bodies Of ore in deep diamond drill explors- tons and drifts will be run from the lower levels of the Isle Rpyale mine to open up these ore chambers.
 The Helvetia ovns over seventeen hundred acres Of land, all of which is patented. and has invested in min ing plants. smelter. narrow gauge railway. building, etc, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. t mas done four and a half miles ot ander-