Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-02

swansea and the Atlantic coast At first the freightage to San Franc.s- co cost $60 per ton. The Planet wat taken hold by San Francisco capital in 163 and worked quite wig orously fer the time some thousands of tons of ore reaching the market. The mineral Hill mines were also largely operated by Martin and Green baum. who shipped ores and in 1866 spent enc hundred thousand collars on reduction plant at Aubrey City. nearby. provided with two reverber ator furnaces, producing an eighty per cent matte. Between 1863 and 1867 the mining industry of the Colorado river region provided a very attract i've transportation business in that stream and river. Steamers and sea-going schooners were inadequate for some time. Fifty mines or pros poets that were accounted good ones were opened in the large district and a number of attempts at smelting to matte were made But furnace ma terial was costly. Charcoal from mesquite and cottonwood cost fifty dollars. and copper smelting was found difficult here. as in California In 1867 copper went down. and the Mineral Hill mine and the others clos ed down on failures. Various shipments of ore were made from the Planet in succeeding years. but Ari- zona's first copper mining period had practically closed. During the time various other copper bearing districts were discovered in Mojave county and else where. and the Ajo mines. near the Gila. to the southeast. were work Jed for three years. but Arizona copper was to wait for railroads and the splendid triumph of modern methods. that came in time. The Longfellow was found and developed in the early seventies in the Clifton district, on the eastern side of the territory. and it is now part of the fame Of that great field.
 That Apache period which substan- tially ended by 1875. saw a great deal of intrepid prospecting and wide spread discoveries of gold, silver and copper iodes through central and northern Arizona. but at a frightful ccst of life and suffering. Hundreds of skeletons whitened On the desert hills ,or rested under mounds, often marked Unknown" or al the bottoms of prospect shafts. where oeaIh sud denly came at the hands of painted devils One authority states of a party of twenty who came in the late ffties. all were killed by 1871.
 The most notable feature of gold mining in this period was the career of the yul;ure mine. for years the most famous mine in the territory Discovered in 1863 by Henry Wicken. berg, in Maricopa county, in the cen tTal part of the territory. 1t soon de veloped and revealed an enormous chimney of very rich ere reaching downward from the surface. The New York company which bought it early supplemented an arrastra with a twenty-stamp mill, and within ten years it produced several millions of dollars IL was a great stimulus to prospecting and doubtless has another career ahead Of it. It rested about 1872. mainly from lack of capital for needed water supply and equipment Many promising mines became fail ures through conditions imposing great costs and dangers and ether causes. Tn 1874 there were eigh; quartz mills in Yavapai county, with one in operation, besides twenty ar rastras. Official reports of the early seventies gave long lists of promis- ing mines and prospects.
 The practical enc Of Indian troubles produced a marked revival in 1875. Prospectors flocked back to the old silver districts to the south, out into the great central mineral belt, and elsewhere. and though death and dan ger attended them in many forms widespread discoveries followed, and the future looked bright to Arizona In 1876 in was stated that 1905 mines had been recorded in the ter ritory. of which 7.29s were in Yavapai county. The great feature of this re yived activity was the discovery o | the Tombstone mines. in southwest
 ern Arizona, in 1878 The next few years was the 'great silver-producing period of Arizona. the Ton bstone mines yielding thirty million dol lars in eight years.
 The completion of the Southern Pa cifiic transcontinental line in 1886
 ushered in the period of which tht
 present is part, and marks the be
 ginning of what may be considered
 the familiar modern history of the ter ritory. Copper mining immediately underwent a remarkable expansion
 the territory taking third rank in 1883
 with a production of 10.65S long tons since which time copper has been the OyerShadOWing mineral product Dur