Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-01
The NaCozari
 CAMP IN Moctezuma District
DESCRIPTION OF THE GROWING CAMP AS SEEN BY REPRE- SENTATIVE OF MINING AND ENGINEERING
 JOURNAL.
Montion Of the Various Properties Aside From the Big Phelps-Doose Go. pian.-New Copper Queen Smell ter at Douglas Responsible for Much of the Activity Throughout the Dis trict

cently been connected with the lalte4 city by railroad. says the Engineer anu Mining Journal. The Nacozari road has been building for three years past and for a year has had it's terminus a' Cos. twenty-two miles north of Naco- zari. necessitating freighting of cop per out and fuel and supplies in, ana the discomforis of stage travel TOT passengers. Phelps Dodge Co own the principal interests at Nacozari, under the name of the Moctezuma Copper O., and it is their capital which has constructed the railroad They have a smelter ana concentrator there for the reduction or ores of their Dos Pilares copper mine, situated six miles southeast of the plant and connected with it by a raf- row gauge railroad. The operation of the mine and works has always been carried on under difficulties due 70 lack of transportation facilities. Fortunate ly the mine required little timber, there being stopes (the largest l5oX I25 and so feet highl without stick of timber in them. Gas engines sup ply the motive power of the plant.
 Simultaneously with the building of the road hes been the erection of tue Copper Queen smelter at Douglas and the constructing Of a mile long tunnel through the mountain connecting with the Pilares shaft at the 600 level. This last piece of work is now almost com pleted and will facilitate the produc- ton and transportation Of ore, for in stead of hoistins by a shaft and drop ping by tramway 70 the railroad lev q, ii will now be dumped down shoots 10 bins in the tunnel and drawn off di rectly into the cars.
 This mile of tunnel cut a total of GOO fee, Of ore in different places which previously had beea unknown and which will now be developed. Tde Dos Flares ore is chalcopyrite, and while of low grade is good concentrat- ing ore. The concentrator has at pres ent a capacity of about 300 tons per day. It is likely that the smelter will be discontinued and the concentrates sent to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas when portations runs smoothly. but this is not likely to be done for six months.
 The comPany has a number of pri- vate houses for its employees. beside a general ooarding-hou and hotel is now being erected.
 The company operates two stores, one at the mine and one a, Nacozari, where i. also has an ice plant and a hospital. Apart from the town on a neighboring slope are the residences of Manager Jas. Douglas. Superin;end- ent Williams and the company physi- clan.
 The greater part of labor employed is Mexican, which is largely depended upon in this country.
 Northeast of NacoZari a distance Of six miles is Huacal gold district. with Fl Globe on the eastern extremity, San Jose midway and Churinbabi on the north. All of these properties, while now idle for various causes. have been extensively developed. Fl Globo is owned by the Romadkas, of Nilwau- kee. the San Jose by a French compa- ny. with NJ. Clere in charge. and Gnu Tinibabi by the Moctezuma Copper Co
 Scattered along this strip are many prospects of more or less merit. Among them is the New York owned by W l. York and Ridgeman. which has been
 
 velopment work. very little stop.ng having been done There are now 500 feet of work done, which is said to have been more than paid for by the ore taken out. IL is a gold and silver ore. The property. consisting Of twenty-six pertenencias, occupies the west spur of Huacal mountain. Fl Globo is on the east Of the same noun tain
 Another property is the Providenc.a, which is developing under the direc- ton of F. P. Thomas.
 Edward E. Miller and Henry Eisen- hart also own property in the neigh borhood, while Spencer Shaw and H. G. McCulioch are doing development work on the Monterey The Sonora Land & Mines Co, F. M Watts, man. ago. owns thousands of acres of land in the vicinity. they. with the Moctezu- ma Copper O., being the most import ant land owners in Moctezuma min. ing district.
 At present it is not proposed to ex tend the railroad to Moctezuma and Cumpas. 40 miles south of Nacozari but when this is eventually done 1t will open up one of the most promising dis tIicts Of Sonora.
 Ysabel station, on the Nacozari road is the shipping point of Fl Tigre mine which has come in;o prominence dur ing the past two years and is now a steady producer of h;gh-grade gold ore It is 3o miles east of the railroad or the Yaqui rive-. At present 1t is ship ping five tons per day, which 1t IS said averages about s250 per ton. The original purchase was 31l acres. which comprises their most important hold ing. though the property has since beer increased 10 e60 acres. The ledge Is from to 20 feet in width. and is cu by canyons in four places. From thest it is worked by tunnel and upraise The pay ore blocked out averages about ten feet wide and 80 per ton Though some bodies of it are of higher grade.
 Present plans of the company. O t,e company. Of which B. F. Graham