Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-17

The Grand Canyon Mining district. locvated in Coconino county, northern Arizona, is shortly to come in for it's full share of attention, as will be ob- served by the following, which is ta- ken from the Williams News, of Sat urday:
 At last. after years of waiting, years interspersed with spasmocic la bor labor that present plans show was practically wasted; years in which those who were the prime factors in bringing the Grand Canyon Mining district to the attention of capital have almost begun to doubt their farsight- edness in first attempting such task, this district is to be thoroughly ex- plotted. Not on the same lines as | their preSeo essors, however, are the members Of the organized Anita Cop Ter company planning their operations in the copper fields north of Williams.
 The first ideas Of working that mine al section were cruce, indeed, and patterned after the prospector's %hS1A4OAS AClC anu on the surface, striking an occasional rich pocket or body from which much ore, that has yielded good returns, has been taken.
 Nearly all the work out around Anita has been surface work The ! theory seemed to be general that the deposit thereabout was merely a blanket formation. extending for miles in every direction, and even the iarg CT companies seemed to be of that opinion. There were, exceptions, of course, a few who reasoned and ar , rived at a conclusion in their own minds that the surface deposits must have come from somewhere be'ow, and who believed that with proper de- velopment a body of ore such as would redoun6 to the fame of Arizona as a copper producer would be en- | countered. In a few places. shafts were sunk but in most cases the re- suits, to the inexperienced miners, were discouraging, and deep work was abandoned for the more profitable bus mess of quarrying the surface ere. Everybody is acquainted, with the 1 history of the opening of these de- posits and the subsequent building of the Grand Canyon railroad which was primarily intended only to tap the mining region, but was later extended on to the Canyon and has proven to be winning card from it's inception. It iS also an ok, story as to how a smelter was erected here at Williams and how, finally, work was shut down. because, while there were large quan- ! titles of surface ore that would pay handsome profits-could it have been worked on the ground-the ore was not rich enough to pay for transporta- tion and smelter charges at points to winch it had to be shipped.
 The above is history, an6. there are | many who do not look back with pleasant memories over the past six or seven years. However, we be- lieve. and there is every reason why it should be so, that We are now on the eve of one of the greatest mineral discoveries of the age.
 During the past year certain mem 1 bers of the old Anita Consolidated Copper company, who still had faith m the proposition, have labored harG to present their claims in the right | light before capital, and the result is the rejuvenated Anita Copper compa. ny. Much cf the stock of small , shareholders, whose feet had become cold with waiting, was taken up and men with money became interested in see it through to a successful termina- | tion.
 During the past summer and fall | the new company has striven to solve the great problem Of finding mine i (not a prospect hole) thereabout and 1 has secured, the services of Mir. Todd c. Woodwork, a mining engineer of Boston, whose ability is beyond ques- tion and who has had years of practi- cal experience in some of the greatest copper mines on this continent, and who is at present retained as consult ing engineer by several large corpora tions. Mir. Woodworth has made four separate trips to this section to study the conditions and his report has been l.such that the present plans of the company. which are of magnitude, are based on facts, not theories On his last trip here. (Mr. Woodwork and party arrived from Denver three i weeks since) assisted by Mir. Oliver Dix Johns. also mining engineer. with corps of men, under guidance of Niles J. Cameron, MT. Woodwork made thorough study of the walls and formation of the Grand Canyon, the mines therein and the possibilities of deep mining in this section. Of the exa-t contents of his report We know little. but sufficient to state that his presentation of conditions as he