The Arizona sentinel., 1905-07-19
THE ARIZONA SATIPLENG
 AND .SMELTING COMPANY

AND SMELTING COMPANY
 The Arizona Sampling and
 Smelling Company has been OF
 ganized for the purpose of ere
 ating a market for ores at Yuma,
 Arizona, by erecting a sampling
 works, purchasing all classes of
 ores, and eventually building a
 shelter to handle both copper
 and lead products.
 For distance of one hundred
 and fifty Q50 miles north of
 Yuma, on both the California and
 Arizona sides of the Colorado
 river, and tributary to Yuma by
 river transportation, are hun
 dreds of mining claims, devel-
 oped to a greater or less extent,
 but lying idle because there is no market for their ores other than at San Francisco or El Paso, which means, besides the river haul, long distance by rail and an exceedingly high freight rate unless shipments are made in car load lots. ProspectOrs, and mines in the early stages of de velOpment, cannot produce ore by the carload; what they re- auire is a market that will take (and pay for without delay their ore in any size lots, from 800 lbs. up.
 Then, too, the larger shipper can have his money in from 12 to 24 hours after his ore is re- ceived at the works, instead of waiting from 30 to 50days, which it usually takes to get returns from a shipment made to the smelters.
 Sampling plants are great de- velopers of the mining districts tributary to them, by reason of the fact that the small producer as well as the large can turn his ore into cash, and that, too, without an irksome and expen- sive wait for his returns.
 With a market assured, all the claims and prospects upon which only the necessary amount of work to make the title good, is done annually, will be worked | continuously, and instead of . working for some one else in order to get a grubstake to work his work his own claim, the pros pector and small mine owner will ship his ore to the sampling works, and with the proceeds buy bill of grub. secure some one to work with him, and be of everybody.
 After a time, and not very hong time, either, as a natural the tonnage will not only warrant, but demand, that we Cuild both copper and lead shelter to treat the ores on the ground.
 Captain A. R. Coonradt of the steamer St. Vallier, which plies on the Colorado river for dis lance of 150 miles north of Yuma, in letter to us on this subject says we can figure on at least 250 tons of ore per month from that source, to start on, then by rall, where the local rate would aot exceed S1.00 per ton, we have the mines in the Gila, Ca 5eza Prietas, LumaS Negras and mountains, which would 1 furnish at least as much more, and as the development in some of the above named districts is extremely active, this tonnage will increase rapidly.
 The smelters are ever anxious for ore, and keep men in the diff ferent large mining camps buy ing and making contracts, and at all times some of the large SmelterS require @ certain class of ore for the purpose of fiuxing other ores, to such an extent that they will pay a bonus, by ii which is. meant they will pay the maximum price for the met ais contained in the ores, with Il minimum charge for treating; for example, about a month ago prices given on car of copper ore carrying high values in gold and silver, by the Selby smelter at San Francisco, and those giv-