Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-19
Another Boost
 FOR THE
 Warren District
HARDLY POSSIBLE TO ExAGeER ATE THE POSSIBILITIES OF
 OUR GREAT FIELD.
Destined to Rank Amoung the Great Copper Producing fields of the Glo5e-ShouId Only a Few of the Companies Strike it Rich, it Would Mean the Payment Of Many Mil lions ir Dividends.

It is; hard for Lake Superior min Eng men returning from inspection Of Arizona. where millions of dollars of Michigan and Wisconsin money have been invested during the past two or three years.to describe the Btsbee copper properties without be fns3 accused byl people, who have nevel' visited the camp, of a tendency ito kxaggerate the richness and ex- tent of the mineral deposits within However, the best of expert opinion is unanimlous that it is hardly pos ysiblete 5o exageerate in this case and that the Warren district is des- tined to rank among the greates, copper-producing fields of the globe.
 The Copper Queen people were the first to develop claims in the Bisbee basin, and for years they were the only operators, there What the com pany has done seems astonishing It has six stores, all large ones, tha, aA Douglas being of a magnitude that would do credit to a city of 100000 The stores, in the aggre- gate do a business which brings in several million dollars per year The company owns 500 miles of standard gauge railroad in the southwestern rniyinc Sf--sn l. L,,; It has fine hotels. and has ouly re- gently completed a smelter at Doug las at 6 cost of s3,000,000. All of these investments have come out of the ground in the Bisbee field Be sides this, the company pays regular dividends, and has a large surplus. It is a close corporationp controlled by Phelps, Dodge & Co, of Mex York.
 The Calumet & Arizona and its afi- Hated companies, also with claims within the bonanza circle" are sink ing seven shafts on the various prop critics, some of them over 1000 feet in depth The Calumet & Pittsburg shaft is 32x6 feet inside of timbers, and is nearing the 1.000-foot mark in depth. These dimensions are signifi- cant Of the character of the property in which large bodies of ore are charac- teristic of the Bisbee camp have been opened More than a dozen diamond drills, both within and without the Bis bee basin. are in operation, in search Of new ore bodies. and the number is gradually being increased; drill run uers are paid four dollars per day. The scene of activity extends from Bisbee to the Mexican line, more than dozen miles distant. This strip is three miles wide, along the supposed trend of the ore bodies, and where claims are not now being exploited they are being held at high figures. No deposits like the bonanza circle" have yet been encountered at any of the outside properties, for one reason because the various companies were organized and began operations more recently, but the prospects are en- couraging. At all of them mineral bearing rock outcrops of the surface, and at some diamond drills or shafts have penetrated peacock copper or other ground indicative of wealth in the red metal at a greater depth. Ore of these outside" companies having recently 40 feet of quartz carrying better than s3.50 per ton in gold, at a depth of 1000 feet, and at last ad- vices the drill was in the same ma terial. This deposit should it prove extensive, would yield a profit if mined, but the company is in search of copper, and for some time to come, at least will pay no attention to this gold-bearing quartz. Should only a few of these companies strike it rich it would mean the payment of many million dollars in dividends, exclusive of the returns from the bonanza cir cle" properties, the value of practi caliy all of which is already proved, and for that reason all news from the Warren mining ristrict of Arizona is awaited with eager anticipation by Lake Superior people.-Mining World.