Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-31
COPPER PURS
 OUT OF CLIFTON
THRIVING CITY WILL RID ITSELF
 OF BAD CLASS
Talk About County Division Of Ora ham County Not Meeting With FavoT-Disfa~cr Eisht-hour La"
 (By GEO. II. KELLYD

(By GEO. Il. hELLfJ ,
 C,ifton Ariz., Jan. 2S.-The usual stream of copper continues to pour in- to the lap Of commerce from Clltoh: The Arizora Copper company one ol the largest copper producers ln lhe west, keept its great plant ID opera ton day and night, the output oelhs now at about the same faIlo as l39e wear. when the annual production was stated at % coo ,0e0 pounds. me hrss coppe rever produced in Arlzoha was smeited from ore taken lrom ,aao Iongfellow mine. That was Ill loS-'' @ TTba .on gfel!ow and other claims were ,.,,ad hI- -be I,eszynsky Bros. The 6rs+ one was smelted in small aoope stact inc blast being furnished by CoToroon blacksmith bellows, the rue. hei-,~ charcoal burned from the mes ouiTe timber which was then plentlIui along the valleys of the Giia. and FITS co rivers The furnace was led oy 77aans of ladder up which MeN- c,n olinnbed with a leather bucket on his head. filled alternately with ore and charcoal. When there was ..freeza I'D" this tack was abandoneo and a new one erected.
 Froro such a beginning has grown
 
 the present great industry ID C-liIon. The Arizona Copper company, lnil- cd a Scotch company, purchased tAe mines in 1882 and has owned them since. The plant today is the largest in the west. consisting Of a mooel smeIter with three furnaces of -9V tons. capacity, five concentrating mills, a large converter plant, l0O-Ooh teacher. a sulphuric acid plant ma chine shop. foundries, etc.
 The Shannon Copper company dur ing the last year built modern smelter plant here and was a pro ducer for a short time, but it was found that to save al the ore values a concentrating plant was necessary and this is now being erected with all possible speed. As soon as 1t IS completed production of copper will be be resumed by that company During the shut down the usual force has been maintained in the mines and ore has been taken out and developments continued This company has some excellent properties and hteir enter prise gives every promise of a good success.
 There are a number of other com panies engaged in developing prop critics in the Clifton-M -Morenci district The New England company and hte Consolidated mining company are opening copper mines a few miles aboTe Clifton on the Frisco river. Both companies are working about fifty men and are employing, the most modern methods in carrying on de ye:opment work. The New England company owns what was known form
 a iS said that some splendid bodies of de sirable copper ores have been uncoV cred in these properties. Up Chase creek are the Stevens Copper com pany. the Standard Copper Co, the Coronado Copper company, the Santa Rosa company and the Chase Greek company. all Of whim are doing de yelopment work on claims of undoubt ed value. There is noticeable here revival of mining activity after g. some what dull period which followed thf rapid decline in the price of copper more than a year ago. This is per haps not attributable to any hope o a material advance in hte price O Copper, but is based on the knowledge that copper can be produced cheaper in Arizona than anywhere else in tht United States. Certain it is that st long as the price of copper remains d 12 cents or over the blue smoke vii continue to ascend from the smoke stacks of the copper plants now oper ating iA Arizona.
 Clifton has had a wonderful growtl during the last three years. New buildings have been erected for busi ness in every part of the town whicl covers three prongs, known as Nortt Clifton. Chase Creek and South Cliff on. Substantial and handsome res dences have been erected. EBecialf is this noticeable in South ClHtor Like all other mining camps the hul rah days are rapidly passing away the gambler. the prostitute and tn rounder are belpg showed more an more to the back ground and respec able citizenship is asserting itsel However. it must be said that Clifto is yet the most wide-open town Arizona, where vice and fmmoralit are yet Haunted to public view wit bo!dness which would not be permit ed elsewhere in the territory. A sligh curb has recently been apiied by th local officers on the unrestraine presence Of lewd women on the strec at ali hours; they are now permitte