Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-07-27
MINING INTELLIGENCE
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 mine in this primitive and expensive way. The new corporation has a capital stock of $500, 900, and there are but three incorporators, T. J.. Sparks, R. E. dc Gex and A. E.. Wills. The property is we'll develop ed and much ore is blocked out ready for transfer to the surface. The main opening IS vertical shaft about 25C feet deep and there are ID the neigh
 borhood of 2,000 feet of cross cuts, drifts and levels. In addition there are the numerous surface openings and shallow shafts to be found on every old property, made for the pur- pose of defining locations and size of lodges, etc. Until Mir. Sparks bond ed the mine it could be reached only , by burro trail but he has construct 1 ed a good wagon road via Camp Creek, suitable for heavy hauling, and has erected good hoisting works. The mine has been worked continuously in small way ever since MT. Sparks secured possession, but the new owners propose now to increase the force at an early day and as soon as possible erect smelter and begin re- d1ction.
 The Cananea company is now said to be shipping 100 tons of copper daily, besides from to cars of rich gold and silver ore. When the new concentration is completed, which is no7 in the course of construction, the output will be materially increased.
 The Clifton Morenci Mining bureau reports that rare opportunity is now offered for capital to take hold of the coal fields. The excitement attending the original strike is now over, and the people are beginning to realize that coal mines, like copper mines are made productive only by the ex- penditure of large sums of money. These coal fields are on the line of the s. P. from Solomonville which has already set It's grade stakes through the district.
 The work of dismantling the old Copper Queen smelters at Bisbee is progressing rapidly. In a short time nothing will be left but few piles of scrap and brick. All machinery of value is being carried to the new plant at Douglas. The old smelters stood on dump of copper elag made when they were making black copper direct from the oxide in the furnaces without bessem erizing. The slag is very rich in copper carrying anywhere from to 10 per cent. and possibly even more. The entire dump with what other dumps are alongside, weighs about 1,OOO,OG0 to ns and it will be gradually shipped to the new smelters and reused It is estimated that the company has not less than 90, GOO, GOO pounds of copper in these waste dumps, all of which can be saved by processes now in common use.
 One thing that people who rely on statistics often overlook, in compar- ing Arizona's mineral output with that of other countries, is the small population. This territory is third in the list of copper producing states, and add to the value of her copper product in money the four or five millions of gold annually produced and the silver, lead and other metals, and it is not unlikely that Arizona is today producing more per capita from her mines than any other state. And not only this, but her output is in- creasing more rapidly than that of any other state in the Union.
 c. w. Williams has just made the discOVnrv that he has heen maDufap-