The copper era., 1905-11-23
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strikes would have caused a stam
 pede to that district, but the public
 is becoming so accustomed to then
 now that there is apparently little
 attention paid to them. Any mar
 can recognize an opportunity when ii
 it takes a wise man to pick out the opportunities best suited to himself
 when they are coming thick and fast At one time, talk of six or sever per
 cent interest or of making ten to | twenty per cent. on a deal looked
 large almost to the point of disbe. lief. Now we talk about 100, 800, ] 1000 per cent. with as much abandon
 as an old toper will drink enough 1 liquor to put ten normal men in the hospital. What we need is more at tention to things that exist. We
 shall never have better chances of
 making money in mining than we
 are having now. The conditions are
 such that companies dare not ad- vance the price of stock much even on rich strikes. This will not endure always. Remember the old adage
 about haymaking and sunshine Journal-Miner.
 A few weeks ago a crowd of sev-
 enty American mine owners and
 prospectors met in Cananea an so-
 cial barbecue and while talking over
 mining affairs and other things a sug- gestion was made that an association be formed to look after the interests of Americans engaged in prospect ing throughout the state. The sug- gestion was hailed with much favor
 and before the party broke up gen
 eral out line of the\ association was
 drawn up, committee was appointed and instructed to apply for charter, and it is expected the incorporation
 and election of officers took place
 November 16th. The membership
 will be confined strictly to Americans and the society will be known as the
 Sonora Prospectors' Association. Its object will be partly for social purposes, but mainly to assist and protect prospectors in all part of the state. The recent murder of sev- eral well known American mining men and prospectors in Sonora and the inability to get at the facts in nearly every case is the main reason for the Americans banding them selves together into a protective as sociation, and it is hoped that its foundation will have great moral ef- feet upon the class of Mexicans who consider American prospectors good fish to take into their nets.
 The Copper Queen mines are now producing in the neighborhood of 1900 tons of ore daily for shipment to the smelter at Douglas. The two new furnaces now being completed at the smelter will take about 300 tons each additional to the output of 1900 tons, and it is expected there that about the first of the year the Cop per Queen mines will be producing and shipping daily something like 240O tons of ore daily. The mines are good for this amount and vastly more. Miners familiar with the ore bodies blocked out in the mine say that it is merely a matter of putting on men. All the ore can be had that the company cares to take out, through the employment of more miners. At the present rate of pro- duction there is ore in sight for many years to come. For instance, be- tween the Holbrook and the Spray there is body of ore 400 feet long and 300 feet wide so far as prospect ed, and extending from the first to the fifth level. It is now said to be the biggest body of ore that has ever been had in Copper Queen ground. An additional fact adding very much to its value is that there is quality as we'll as quantity to this ore body it making an average of twelve per cent. copper straight through.
 Placer mining is still going on in the Eagle creek country on small