Williams news., 1904-04-02
MINING POSSIBILITIES
Eastern Capital Waking Up to the
 Great Opportunities.

CudTleS "iOoS b OOOh about Arizona under the title 'Land of Poco Tiempo," meaning the land of after awhile-"Manana," or to- morrow. Perhaps this title had a proper application to Arizona about decade ago. It represents a char acteristic of the people of the coun- try inherited from the early Span ish settlers, but today has as much get-there-o on-the-top as any section of the union, and the American has come on the scene "to do things" in the earstwhile ."Land of Poco Tiempo," having with as a motto to displace the Spanish everlasting "Manana" the key note "do it now"
 The lack of water and the dan ger from savage Apaches combined to delay the development of the resources of Arizona. The Apaches have gone to the Happy Hunting Ground" and the water problem has been partially solved, railroads have crossed the territories from east to west and from north to south.
 There were early day bonanza mines in Arizona. The Vulture located about ten miles from Wick enburg and seventy miles from Prescott was opened in 1863 and under great disadvantages produced millions for it's owners. Coin and currency were scarce at that time and banks-there were none-so the miners were paid off, not in coin, not in currency, but in chunks of gold chopped off with hatchet from ingots and weighed out ac cording to the figures on the pay roll. The stamped bars of gold from this mine were current all over central and northern Arizona.
 The Silver King mine not far from Globe, Arizona, was opened up in 1875, and is said to have pro- duced in twelve years twelve mill ions of dollars in gold and silver, principally the former.
 The Tombstone district opened in 1878, and produced millions in gold. Those early day bonanzas, while they attracted wide attention have not produced respectable fraction of the total metallic wealth placed to the credit of Arizona to date.
 Arizona has come to the front as a copper producer, ranking third in the list; Montana and Michigan only exceeded it, and it is claimed that the next few years will place Arizona at the head of the list.
 This would be the case today if the production of the American owned mines just across the border in Mexico, were included in the output of Arizona. The Clifton, Globe and Bisbee districts are we'll known as copper producers. The United Verde owned by Senator w. A. Clark, not far from Prescott is said to produce $9,OOO,OOO per year in gold and copper.
 Arizona is no untried field for mining, and the energetic mining investors of Colorado and the west all speak of Arizona as mining district with great future, and more recently other parts of the country have awakened to the pos abilities of securing undeveloped mining properties in Arizona
 The invasion of Lake Superior capital, particularly in the Bisbee district, is one of the notable feat ures in mining circles in the past few years. It is true that over nine million dollars from the head of the lakes and upper Michigan have been invested within two years in Arizona mining property.
 The results realized by several of these Lake Superior companies operating within the bonanza circle of the Warren and Bisbee districts is no longer problematical.-J. Waterloo, Dinsdale, M. D., in Pres oo44 To,,.-o1 Nf:.o.