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Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-20

Current consumption is at very Conditions in the copper market are extremely sound, and the entire situa- tion one of phenomenal strength. The stimulus of heavy buying has advanc- ed values from 15 to 151 1-4 for Lake and Electrolytic and imparted better tone. There is an enormous demand, and buyers stand ready to take every pound the mines can turn out. Sta bility of process, regularity of consump- ton and prodigious exports are the prominent features. The outlook for extensive requirements and expand ing use of the metal on firm price basis is nothing short of brilliant. All the production is readily absorbed, and this feature is likely to continue for long time.
 During the past month the volume of business was again of large dimen- sions, and numerous orders contribut-
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storing enough water to irrigate 150,- eco acres through seven miles of 14 foot tunnels bored in the solid rock.
 No Chance for Land Grabbing.
 This will cost about s25 an acre to be paid back to the government by the settlers under the business-like provisions of the irrigation law. The land itself is free unded the home stead act and has been reserved by Secretary Hitchcock from entry under the desert and other land laws not re- quiring actual residence and home building.
 Few such picturesque and wildly beautiful scenes can be found as this Shoshone canyon. The river is a succession of foaming. rushing rapids, the water coursing along in a deep green flood and then boiling over great rocks and boulders in a white surgse. Only for a few hours each day can the sun find it's way to the bottom of this deeply cut gorge, the mountain sides towering into the clouds two and three thousand feet. From above the dam site as one looks down at the engineers working on the foundations. directly underneath, they they appear like Trimic men.
 Great Forces of Nature.
 This Shoshcne canyon and it's sur rounding mountains are one of na- lures great handiworks. All has. been cut out by the silver stream, rushing
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refined copper available in this coun- try for immediate delivery is so re duced as to practically eliminate the question of surplus stocks from con sideration. The point is this, that n the light of expanding demand thus far, and especially during the past decade, the next ten years will as suredly witness a greatly increased demand for copper. If the industrial and electrical requirements continue to constantly increase at the ratio of the recent past. production will have to be greatly stimulated to keep pace with the huge consumption in pros pect. All the facts make it apparent that the copper situation is remarka- bly, and intrinsically sound. The pres ent level of values, however, is sui ficientiy high, and any attempt to force buyers to ray more should not be encouraged.
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ed to create a strong tone. Consumers bought freely for forward deliveries, and this fact may be regarded as one of the best evidences of the confi- dence felt in the strength of the cop per situation. The bulk cf the trad ing was at 15915 IS, but more recent y the market has been firmer at i5 14Q1515 3-S for Lake and Electro lytic- Some copper has even sold for delivery abroad at a Slight shade over the outside figures. The buy ing for domestic account was particu- larly good. Europe was also a ready buyer, but offerings for export were necessarily restricted as the home trade jumped into the market with heavy orders ahead of the foreign consumer. Mills are very busy, and manufacturers could probably increase their output of finished goods by talk ing additional orders fl sufficient raw copper were available.
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A quarter of century ago the home of the buffalo. and later a cattle and sheep pasture, with an occasional ranch house, the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming is now the scene of a great activity incident to the building of one of the largest of the government ir- rigation works. Some years ago Col. Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, made survey of the Shoshone canyon and in connection with General Miles projected a company to construct a dam and irrigate some 60,000 acres. The necessary capital, however, was not forthcoming and when the nation al irrigation law was passed, the gov ernment took up the proposition and 8 large party of engineers has since been employed on the preliminaries of a great work of desert reclamation
 The Shoshone river dashes down 6 narrow canyon, with jagged and per pendicular walls, and at it's narrowest point the government has begun the construction of the highest dam ever built It will cement together the awo canyon walls for 240 feet above the stream bed and it's foundation will go below the water line SS feet ad- ditional, down to the soli6 bed rock. The stream, where it passes between these granite canyon walls, is but G5 feet wide and the dam will form a great lake of 5000 acres. with a wa tershed of 1,250 square miles, and
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years in this wild canyon, once fast ness of the Shoshone Indians.
 National irrigation.
 What does all this great irrigation work of the government throughout the west signify? Simply that the na- tion hes wisely decided to use the money derived from the sale of west ern public lands to make it's desert soil of value and furnish many home building opportunities. It means that many men will find employment, in the construction of dams and canals in every western community, and that finally as the works are completed, one by one, new farm homes will be established adding to the nations wealth and balancing our population now inclined cityward.
 For 8 thousand years longer this splendid dam site would likely stand idle before private capital woud de- veop it to it's magnificent full capac- ity, for the difficulties in the way of the engneers are many and unknown; but the government will meet all ob- stacles and overcome them and finally turn over to a thousand farmers a perfect job of engineering, compara- ble to the great works of the Peruvian Incas, the Egyptian Rameses or the British engineers of India-an endur- ing monument for all time to the wis 1om of the present generation of 
 GUY ELLIOT MITCHELL
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There has been a renewal of inter- est on the ether side of the Atlantic, and an active demand from consumers has resulted in a large business. Stand ard copper in London opened at
 e65.17,6 for both spot and futures, and closed at G68.7.G spot and e6S.- 12.6 futures. Refined cooper for early deliveries is scarce, and it would not be surprising to see the situation abroad become more interesting Ow- ing to the limited supply Of the metal Returns from England and France show an apparent consumption in these countries for the first six months of this year of 47,3S3 tons, against G4,2s0 tons for the same period last year. German consumption Of foreign copper for the first five months of 1905 is returned at 37,420 tons, con- pared with 43,992 tons for the same months in 1904.
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in its bed below. For countless ages it has eaten its way through granite and limestone, wearing, wearing, wear ing away. For centuries and ages it has flowed, ceaselessly and like wise uselessly on it's way to join the flood of the Missouri; now it is to be harnessed and made to produce for man. A thousand farmers will make prosperous homes for themselves and families and raise an annual product cf a couple or three million dollars.
 In the canyon proper the groEt forces of nature have wrought won derfuly. Enormous granite boulders have detached themselves from the mountains and rolled down thousands of feet. crashing their hundreds and thousands of tons into the rocky gorge. Here the river continually plays upon them. searching out the seams and splitting them up or wear ing them away and polishing them smooth.
 The Rock Pile of the World.
 In the canyons middle, below the dam site, the jungle of rocks in the narrow river bed appears as though a thousand blasts of giant powder had rent the mountain sides and tumbled every rugged projection into the depth below. The imperishable granite, gray, pink and vari-coloTed, oldest of the geological formations, made by the welding of various substances
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high market and the prospect for large prospective requirements is un- questioned. Prevailing conditions point to the employment of immense quantities of copper for years to come which will insure a steady outlet for Q long period. The increase in pro ducion in recent years has been most opportune to meet the vast demand that has arisen, but the rapid growth m consumption has brought the ad- justment of supply and demand into a sensitive position.
 At no time has production been car ried on at the great scale of the pres ent day. But notwithstanding this fact the urgent world demand for cop per is providing many channels of dis tributiOn for the supplies from all producing centers. The rapid devel- opment of the copper industry in this country is the history of remarkable
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production of this group Of properties should show an increase rather than a decrease at the end of the five-year .period. Of the important old pro ducers, the Calumet & Hecla has work under way which should result in in- ccreasing its production 10 appros,- mately 1O0.00O,OOO pounds per annum w51hin the next few years With all allowances made for decreasing values and other adverse factors. an inereas- led output for the Calumet & Hecla seems certain. The Tamarack has been a slowly declining property for the past six years. If anything there should be small gain during the next few years. The Quincy should show an increase. The northern end of the mine is showing marked improve ment at depth, and the prospects of the property are much brighter than for many years past. The Osceola Consolidated may be included in the list of old properties, though it's prin- cipal mines are comparatively new. This property should show a substan- tial increase. Atlantic should about hold it's own. as should Wolverine. On the whole it will be found that the old mines of the district show large possibilities for increased production. and may make 30.000,000 more in 1910 than they will make in 1905.
 Among the new mines there are ex- cellent prospects of increasd output. The South Range mines, controlled by the Copper Range Consolidated Co.,,
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end of the work is held in partial abeyanee, efforts being concentrated upon the completion of the Keweenaw Central railway. under construction by the company, as it is obvious that the work of development can be begun and pushed to far better advantage after rail communication is establish ed. In addition to the work planned by the Keweenaw company, two other interests have plans for the future, these being the Calumet & HecIa com pany, which has been a very extensive purchaser of Keweenaw county miner al lands during the present year, and the Fitzgerald interests, controlling the Arnold Ashbed, HumboIt and Meadow properties. The Arnold was tried several years ago, but could not make a success, lacking rail connec- tions. In the present day only the very richest mines can hope to prove profitable if lacking the advantage of railroads.
 In Ontonagon county the National mine may arrange to resume work The National adjoins the Michigan ere bodies of the latter.
 Within five years the Lake Superior mines should be making at least 275,- 0GO,0O0 and possibly nearly 300 ,000,- coo pounds of copper yearly, the max mum figure being an increase of al most 50 per cent over the output of 1904.
 HORACE J. STEVENS.
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ly an oblong granite rock of 150 tons
 weight was torn from it's base and hurled down into the river a hundred feet below. Shatters of rock flew in all directions and a great splash of water rose like a geyser out of the black depths of the canyon into the sunlight in a majestic white spray. Yet this huge block of granite was but baby addition to the family of bould- CTS which had been detached by the more giant forces of nature and thrown into the river bed. A few hours before, l had crawled directly under this rock in my canyon "ex- plorations." Returning l was fain to accept the assistance of one of the road builders in getting across this place, looking down the while into the river boiling below among the rocks.
 If you slip, you can get out a quar- ter of mile down stream remarked one of the dynamiters cheerfully, as I passed my camera over and was across this slippery six feet, to the canyon side.
 The engineering credit for this great project with it's great dam, it's enormous spillways, it's mountain road building and it's miles of canals and huge tunnels bored through the solid rock is due to Jeremiah Hern, a gov ernment district engineer, who, al most cut off from the outside world, has taken up his residence for several
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offer the greatest prospects of enlarg- ed production. These three mines, the Baltic. Trimountain and Champion, wlllm make more than 40,OO0. 900 pounds of fine copper this year, and each should be making at least 20,0OO,O0O pounds before the close of the present decade, which means that each of these great mines will be another Quincy by that time, while it is by no means sure that even this size will mark the ultimate capacity of three mines in question. On the north range the Mohawk, which is now mak- ing approximately 10000 GOO pounds per year, is to be given increased capacity, and within five years should be making 16,00O,000 to 1S.O0O 900 pounds yearly. The Michigan s an- other mine that is quite certain to double or more than double present production within the lustrum and the adventure gives promise of also dou- bling its output.
 Of the developing mines the AlOuez and Ahmeck should each be making 10.000,000 pounds or better within five years. Both are producing in a small way at present, carrying drift-stopes, which afford a limited tonnage of stamp-rock for the mills, it being felt by both homogeneous that the mines should obtain some benefit, during the period of development, from the very favorable copper market now ruling. The Superior, lying next north of the Baltic, is promising property and
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Washington, D. C. Aug. 17.-The
 strenuous President of these United
 States is still piling up things for his
 extra session of the 59th Congress to
 do. On the advice of the Attorney
 General Moody he will add to his recommendations to the extra session the subject of the revision of the crimi- Eal law of the United States. This undoubtedly comes from the fact that there seems to be nothing in the crim- inal law as it now stands to catch and punish this fellow Holmes for leak ing the cotton figures to the cotton gamblers in New York from the Agri- cultural Department. A law to eov- CT such transaction as that may well be passed, but what is the use revis- ing the criminal law when there is whole lot of criminal law on the stat utes today that is not being enforced by this holier-than-thou Republican ad- ministration. If it were enforced there would be no use for the railroad legislation that he is so strenuously asking for, because there is not a sin gle case of railroad discrimination. CT rebate that could not be checked if the law now on the books were honest ly and vigorously enforced, and that is about the only thing that the people of the country are complaining of. No man, who knows what he is talking about, believes that the freight rates are too high. They are kicking be- cause some fellow like the Standard on Trust or the Beef Trust is getting
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should be heard from during the next five years.
 Among the prospects there are enough properties of promise to guar antee that from the number several good producers will be secured. The Globe tract, lying next south of the Champion, is under option to the Cop per Range company, and in view of it's immediate eontiguity to the Cham pion, which is the richest of the South Range mines, cannot be regarded as other than a property of exceptional promise. Unfortunately the overbur- den is very heavy and difficult of pen etratiOn, but the Copper Range com pany has ample funds to overcome all unfavorable features surrounding the early stages of development. About midway between the Globe and the WinOna mine is the Erie-Ontario pros pect, on which steady work has been performed for some months past. The results, while insufficient to predicate the certainty of making mine, are strongly favorable, and if a mine is made at this point. it is almost cer- tain that mines will be opened on ad- joining properties. To the northward theMiswabik has promising property, apparently carrying the northern ex- tension of the Kearsage lode and this is full of promise to the Rhode Island, where six years have been spent in opening a series of heart-breakingly hungry amygdaloids. The little drill core in question also promises well for the Franklin Junior, where a care
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ful and intelligent management is oc- eupied in getting a new dollar for an old one upon a normal market. with q few cents loose change profit when copper is 15 cents per pound, as at present. The Arcadian-even the ut terly damned Arcadian may come in for some of the pie, if the Kearsage lode reaches that far south, with work able values-and it must be said for the Kearsage that it yet has to be shown unavoidable at any point open ed.
 Among the developments of the next five years should be the opening of mine on Section 16 of the Atlantic company. The work of the past eighteen months at the Baltic and Su- perior properties has thrown much light upon the hitherto puzzling geol- ogy Of the Section 1G tract, and the location of the extension of the Bal tic lode upon the tract in question is closely approximated.
 In Keweenaw county there is much activity in the extreme southern end, at the Allouez, Ahmeek and Mohawk properties. As a matter of fact the southern end of Keweenaw county is merely a continuation of the Calumet district, from which it is distant but a few miles, with continuous produc ;ng mines from the Osceola to the Mo hawk at present. Further north the Keweenaw Copper company has SC cured eight old mines, and will explore it's property. At present the mining
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achievements in mining. Less than 90 years ago the total United States copper production did not amount to 100000 tons per year, or 4S,7S4 tons less than the exports from this coun- try for the first six months of this year If we go back only 25 years we find that the annual American out put of copper then did not equal a sin gle months production at the present time
 It is only GO years since this coun- try was able to show a yearly copper production of a round 100 tons. In 1869 the United States product was 14 ,OO0 tons, and about one-third that quantity was carried in stock at the end of the year. The domestic pro duction is now estimated at the rate of close to 100000 tons per annum having a market value of over $780, 900 GOO, and the percentage of unsold
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cheaper rates than they are, thus put.
 ting the little fellow out of business.
 Place everybody on the same plane
 and guarantee to every shipper the
 same rates and there will be no need
 of placing the rates of the railroads
 in the hands of a partisan commission
 that knows no more about making
 rates than I do of navigating a ship.
 Whats the use revising criminal laws that are not going to be enforced after they are revised? That's the way the Republican party always is pulling the wool over the eyes of the people. Its leaders clamor loudly for reforms and for laws oenforce them and then with great flourish of trumpets they pass these laws which are to remain dead letters on the statutes as have the Sherman antitrust law and the Elkins railroad law.
 The Presidents demand for all these things that shall be accomplished by the extra session is simply rot He knows that the extra session cannot anything and that he won't get what he asks for from the regular but it looks well in print to ask for them and then pose as the great champion of the people. His program for the extra session already includes legislation covering Federal control of railroads rates and of the in- surance business and the Panama Canal. Possibly also tariff revision, if he has the courage to go against he wishes of the 'stand-patters." Al ready they are trying to dissuade him. Speaker Cannon is preparing to de-
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snake is slow as moIasses in January by comparison.
 You don't see the connection yet Well it will be plainer when I tell you that Chicago interests and Chicago in fluences have been back of all this az itatiOn for railway rate control by the government. That has been the ground work for the present proceeding under the Sherman Antitrust Act to compel the railroads south of the Ohio, which are an independent group from those north of that river, to help Chicago pull her chestnuts out of the fire and give her the trade she wants Chicago has been back of practically all the agitation in the West and has used Governor LaFollette, Wallace. Hoard and other agitators as cats paws. even though those estimable and pre- sumably honest gentlemen have not been aware of the fact.
 But the particular nigger in this woodpile is now uncovered and people generally are now allowed to see him. Before he gets under cover again everybody will have an opportunity to discover that this whole agitation Is intended by Chicago as a means to stir the people up and help her in her game to get control of the trade of he Southeastern States.
 Outside of it's political aspect it is a light between communities for busi- ness, and the claim that any high nor Il principle is involved, SO far as the Western agitators are concerned, is lll humbug.
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seend On Oyster Bay. Senator Cullom and others are circulating arguments through the newspapers. They have driven the President to cover before. Why should they now despair of sue cess?
 The President started out with a dash and shout to call an extra ses- sion last spring. The politicians saw him and it was postponed until Sep tember, then until October and then. fearing it might interfere with some of the plans of the politicians during the election, he postponed it until after the election, to November Il. If the House organizes it's committees by the time the regular session begins in December, it will be doing better than it usually does.
 MT. Roosevelt has abandoned the substance for the shadow. His spe- cial session is sham and a fraud.
 If he is playing for another term, delay in pressing tariff reform will not strengthen him with the people. The impression had got abroad that he was fighter, that he never reckon. ed the odds. A bully fight" was pre- cisely what he said he liked best. That reputation appealed to the peo- pie. His dilatory policy appeals to the politicians. It fits in with their plans. Not improbably it may strength en him for renomination. Has he that purpose in mind?
 Nr. Roosevelt is the apostle of the strenuous life. There never was better time to give Congress and the country an exhi6tion of strenuous