Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-08
news of r1linins, Stocks and fllarksts
BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR
 FINAL COUNTY MINES
A VISITING ENGINEER WHO q GREATLY IMPRESSED BY
 THEM.
Predicts Half Million Men Win Be Elm. ployed in Copper Belt Extending From Bisbee to Jerome.

 Predicts Half Million Men Win Be Elm.
 ployed in Copper Belt Extending
 From Bisbee to Jerome.
 MT. J. R. Chapton, a mining and constructing engineer. has recently re- turned to Phoenix from an extensive trip through the principal mining dis tTicts of Pinal county. He has visit ed the same section several times be- fore, but never made so thorough an examination as on his latest expedi- tiOn, which covered a period of sever al weeks. His impressions are most flattering for the territory and for the men interested in mines. He believes that while the county only has a few big properties opened up there is ey- cry reason to believe that it is won- derfully rich mineral field and that 1t is only a matter of hard work and money spending. when it will become one of the best producing sections in the west.
 MT. Chapton has been more or less interested in mines for the last thirty seven years, having al that early day gained his first practical knowledge in the Lake Superior .egion. He mas visited Arizona before, but this latest visit began fast January. when he came to make a search fer two good copper mines and one gold property, which he has eastern capitalists ready to take hold Of He has seen numer- ous fine prospects and some most de sirable mines, but naturally the pTov- ed properties are hard to get hold of. However he thinks he has secur- ed what he wants in respect of cop per mines but is not yet satisfied with what he has been offered m a free milling gold proposition. He has not confded the names of the copper properties that favorably impress him. but the inference is that they are in Pinal county.
 On his latest visit to Pinal county Mir. Chapton thoroughly inspected nine different properties of seeming merit. and some of them that are un- questionaDly destined to become great producers. Among the good ones he names are the Woods, Winkleman ani Sewers holdings, the Hamilton and Copper Bell groups, the Arizona Pa citic, the De ATmltt & Brady Westfa.l Bros. and some property owned by w. Y. Price. He also makes special men, ton of the Ophir Mining Co.'S proper ty. This is owned mainly by Phoenix people. Johr T. Dunlap, Charlie Dun lap, J. B. Dougherty and A. s. Arthur being among those interested. There are seven claims in the group which is fifteen miles east of Florence and four miles from the Gila river. Though the property has not been extensively developed he says the ore bodies are immense and the pay streaks show most flattering values. He has no doubt but that development will prove the property a very valuable one.
 In a recent issue of the Florence Blade, Mir. Chapton published letter in which he briefly refers 10 this min ing section iI the following language:
 Tn answer to your request Of some time ago for my opinion of the mining outlook in the district on both north and south sides of the Gila river, com mencing east of Round Valley and ex- tending east to Riverside South of the river for several miles. and north to the Silver King mine, there is no doubt in my mind this will become ono of the greatest copper producing coun- tries in the United States of America, and when we consider the great amount of gold. silver and lead iii these copper properties it is reason able to believe that this section will within ten years become hive of in dustry, and the time is near at hand when the great copper belt of Arizona from Bisbee to the northern part of the territory, will employ half a million men.
 "There are a great many develored prospects near the north and south, buttes that show values Of copper, isgold and silver that are remarkable. 1 The ore on the dumps in most cases ! is not large, but of a grade of copper that sorting there can be shipped ores | that will bring up to and exceed $50 per ton. With the advantage of a | teaching plant on the south side of the | river and smelting plant on the north | side of the river that is now being erected, the future of the whole 6is- I trist, including Kelvin and Riverside
 mines, will be bright, as it will enable the owners to develop their mines from !, the sale of their ores.
 'I have visited several copper pros
 pects that are as good as can be found
 in any country, so far as their devel opment at present date. My expert
 enoe has been quite extensive in Ari
 zcna. also in Nevada, California. Col
 oTado. Michigan and Old Mexico, and i have come to the conclusiOE that Arizona copper properties gre far su
 perior in values to any in ths above
 states taken as a whole. l look for s
 great many investors in copper from
 and after October 1st."