Bisbee daily review., 1903-05-19

District.
 Bisbee. May IS, 19o3. Editor Bisbee Review.
 Dear Sir-I would beg the favor Of some space in your paper to reply 10 the vicious attack upon Bisbee as a mining center made by MT. Geo. A. Newett of the Iron Ore" of Ish- peming, Michigan.
 He says there are only two mines in Bisbee. or in the Warren mining dis trict, i e. the Copper Queen and the Calumet & Arizona. This statement is misleading to the people outside of the district, because it gives no idea of the area covered by the holdings of these two companies. It would leave the uninitiatet to believe they were only two single claims. when in fact the Copper Queen group includes over one hundred claims, and the Calumet & Arizona controls more than siXcy, which, if the claims were all of the statutory area. would make over five square miles of land. With the South Bisbee group of over forty claims. the Twilight group of ten claims, adjOin- ing the Copper Queen on the west, and the numerous other groups in the dis trict adjoining the Calumet 6 Arizona and the Copper Queen, there is an area of over twenty square miles of prom ising country touching on these pro- ducing mines.
 That there is ore of value found in other mines besides those mentioned by the editor of Iron Ore, I know of my own personal knowledge. I took ore out of the Copper Glance, one of the South Bisbee group, that assayed P per cent in copper and 2S ounces in silver. Out of the Contentment. of the same group. I took ore going 10 per cent in copper and 57 ounces in silver The White Tail Deer, of the Copper Queen group, about four miles from Bisbee by wagon road, produced some very high-grade ore, as cau be proved by J. c. White and Charles Hauchan. who held a lease on the same. I have also taken out some very fine ore from the Wade Hampton, of the Copper Queen group. MT. Hig- gins. who sold the Twilight group re- gently, has taken very good ore from his claims. To my own knowledge, Mir. NeTett's statement is utterly un- true as to all these claims I have named
 In the year 1900 two samples of eighty tons each from the South Bis bee group gave the following returns f Shaft No. 3-49A per cent copper; 92 ounces silver: $500 gold.
 Shaft No. 2-2S& per cent copper; 92 ounces silver; s10.OO gold INpny,, .r1a 4F from the South Bisbee, after paying all expense, the owners neossd 8 1000. S3 900.
 I am not a geologist, but from my experience as a miner and pTospector in many states and territories. and af- ter a residence of about twenty years in the Warren district I think know as much about mineral form atiOa as does the dealer in false statements and printers ink; and I am free t1 state that the Warren district gives splendid gological promise, and bids fair to soon become the greatest cop per producer in the world. l am con i firmed in this belief 5y the rush of Michigan mining experts and others TO | this district, to secure claims ana groups of claims.
 We have no local developm ant com panies. All the operating companies are foreign to the territory. and mostly from Michigan; and are consequently composed of mining men who know a good thing when they see it. So far there has been no deep mining done in Bisbee. In Michigan, or on the Com stock lode, or in California, our devel- opment would be called superficial Yet this district has been and is a great producer Since the surface has produced so much, who should we not look forward for much greater pro duction when greater deptl shall have been attained. I also desire to state that this district produces largely in gold and silver, as well as copper.
 And now, MT. Editor, after thirty eight years experience as a miner and prospector in this western mining country, I think I am entitled to ex press an opinion; and it is this. that Bisbee will be the greatest copper pro ducer in the world when fl attains it's fullest development.
 Yours respectfully.
 MARTIN O'HARE. ]