The copper era., 1903-05-14


dent Roosevelt told the people that
when they had little more irrigation
they would be ready for statehood.
The president, like many others, evil
IDENTIFY does not consider mines as
permanent, and in this be is eminentIy
correct. with the notable exception of
copper mines. The great bonanzas OF
/ high grade gold and silver ores, are
usually of short life, and soon ex-
/ haustcd This is as nature intended
it. for were it otherwise, gold and
silver would soon be as cheap as cop
per. But with copper it is different.
AS the ERA has before stated, copper
! has been taken from the same mines
! in Spain since the dawn of the Chris
! tan era, and the mines are now pro-
/ ducing better than at any time dur
| ing their history. This certainly
shows permanency. In Michigan the
mining of copper was commenced III
/ the COS. and the output has steadily
/ increased ever since. If man i'll
Michigan should intimate that coPR,@1.
mining was not permanent a.. MINING
would he questioned; ,,i.t.io4 -, ,-l
! IN The - --~Iencl district was he
Gun aDSdtt thirty years ago, and dur
ing almost every year since that time
there has been a steady increase in
the output. And so it has been at
Butte Bisbee, Jerome, and all other
copper camps of merit. The Bisbee
Review speaks inteIligently on this
subject as follows:
Take the Copper Queen mine in
this district which has been one of the
heaviest producers of copper in the
west for fifteen years. The owners of
this property, during the last two
years have expended an amount of
money in providing facilities for its
more economical operation equal to
what would be required to build the
TOntO Basin reservoir which would
supply water, according to govern
mcnt estimation, sufficient to irrigate
200, 600 acres of agricultural land.
The Copper Queen has only recently
completed the construction of nearly
three hundred miles of railway for
the express purpose of hauling coke
and copper 10 and from the Copper
Queen mines. At Douglas work has
been pushed for over year on the
erection of a reduction plant that will
be the largest and most complete to
be found in the west, with IA capacity
of 1900 tons daily. This large ex-
penditure is guarantee of the con-
tinuance of copper production for two
generations.
AT Clifton the same evidence of |
stability Of mines is found in great
improvements made by. the . 8.Eil82a !
IS4SlsaAn ff5ftfthtty during the last two
years. The former company changed 1
its seventy miles Of narrow gauge [
railroad to standard gauge and built /
forty miles of new road. from Lords /
burg to Hachita, New Mexico, besides |
building narrow gauge railroad sew
en- miles up Chase creek to take the
place of the baby gauge road |
which formerly transported the ores
from the mines to the reduction works
at Clifton. The Detroit Copper COM
pany built twenty-five miles of rail
road to connect their great copper
camp with the railroad to Clifton.
Are not these great improvements
at tho big Arizona copper camps
that have already been producers of
copper continually for quarter of a
sufficient to refute any init
nation that the mining industry of
this territory is uncertain At Jerome
the same evidences of prosperity are
to be found"
1t can truthfully be said that min
ing in both the Clifton-Morenci and
HIshee districts has only fairly COM
menced. The attention of the anti
statehood element should be called to
his fact. Perhaps they are not aware
hat copper mining can be considered
ls permanent.