Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-15

,, storage for the development of tn , adjacent agricultural re;outces |, Phoenix people allow themselves | neglect another most imp) rant thin! -the mineral resources that surrour' ! the city in every direciio1. Auentio: was forcibly called to ttls faer yester day by Mining Engineer E. ]. B7nsail who is not given to much talking bu who was persuaded to make som comments on the situation.
 The outlook for mining in this par of Arizona" he said. ''is better Tigh
 now than 1t has ever been before, bu the people of Phoenix do not take thu
 interest they should in mining enter
 prises The fact is the city should
 be a mining. as well as an agricui
 tural center. Within radius of 50 tS
 75 miles there are meritorious prop
 er.tes. that with comparatively little
 money spent in development should
 be producing and supporting thriving
 communities For instance: The
 White Tank and Eagle Tail noun
 tains to the west: Wickenburg 10 the
 north with it's O'Brien. White, Powell
 Electra. Gr.jalva and other proper
 ties: Morristown with her adjacent
 mines: the Relief, and the Union dis
 trict. almost within a stones throw of the city: to the east the Superstition
 mountains and the Superior county ] (watch the Superior. she will produce
 more money in copper than the famous Silver King did in si,verl; to the south the Salt river range that
 will become a producing dist .t and still further south, the old Vekol that has given up several millions and las only been scratched, being ca)able tf
 producing ten field more. Geog: lphi- cally. this country is all triou,e.y 10 Phoenix which should be Us headquar- ters and commercial center.
 "The valley towns have just voted some sixty or seventy thou~anl dol lars to build road to the Ionto cam site which is very credita0le to them. but why not do something for ,te mines as well? MT. Maxwell who is l considered an authority on irrigation. says that the valley under favorable | conditions can produce three mil dollars worth of farm pro hc-s each year. while there are a dozen or more l mines in the territory that each pro duce that much or more each year. This surrounding country. of which speak. would be developed. produce dollars where the valley will produce dimes"
 The conversation led 10 a mention of specinc instances of mineral pro ductlon in this vicinity and later to the Vulture mine in particular, when MT. Bonsall was asked what he knew If anything, about the recent jumping of that property. He replied that he knew nothing about the property but be thought the jumping would prove to be good thing for the country as u would ultimately lead to the work ing Of the mine again. He said:
 '1t is not reasonable to suppose that the mine the Vulture has been. with her yariously estimated output of from ten 10 twenty millions, with proDable 300 feet of vertical depth should not be a nine below the oxidized zone. I understand Mir. Wm. A. Parish is on the ground and has been for some time making an exami- nation Of the property. A man with the well earned, world wide reputation mat NIT. Parish has would not spend much of his time unless he was req. sonably sure that it was a mine of great magnitude. I was talking with MT Hubbard of Harqua Hala fame a snort time ago while he was in Phce- nix buying business block. He saw the Vulture property could have made money by building a stone wall arourd the mine and having it paced by sen. tries to guard the ore. There is no doubt but there was millions of lol. lars of ore stolen during it's palmy Vays I have had arastras I1inted out 10 me 25O miles in the inte-ior of Mexico as being built to wsrk. a,.d they did work. Vulture ores that had been stolen from the mines. There are at present two Germans working al the east end of Superstition rncun- tains in the mud tufa on what is S-pposed to be a cache of the yulture ores"
 D-SdAA was dShGu what ne would suggest to further the mining interest locally when he said: "Phoe- nix should have mining exchange, similar in formation to the board of trade, not to deai in mining stocks. put to further the interest in nin'Lg. by having some place to exhIbi- Ihe ores, the plans and the prospective futures of different mines and a board 70 pass on the merits of the mines mat are offered to the public. This board could employ competent mining engineers to examine the properties offered to the public. The passing of favorable opinion by the board. re- soecting both the claim and the man. asement, would be sufficient to recon. mend a property to a prospective buyer and possibly do away with many of the wildcat schemes that are being offered throughout the country. l Will venture to say that at least goo. oo0 goes out of Phoenix every year 10 do assessemnt work on hundreds of prospects in the surrounding hills If tnls money was put into one or two