The copper era., 1906-12-27
Tom Coles Wonderful Digestive Organs.

rom COle WOnQerIuI DlgeStIYe VTydhS.
 Tom Cole has just swallowed another mammoth copper property which in importance and capitalization is next to the Amalgamated, says the Bisbee Review. On the market it is rated at about one-fourth of all his other in- terests, including North Butte, Calu- met and Arizona, Superior and Pitts burg, Keweenaw and other lesser lights.
 Before the latest acquision the Cole Ryan properties were selling on the market for approximately 5000, 900 and the new Greene company should add another sixty or seventy millions.
 As usual the big deal was kept quiet until the strings had been pulled completely out of sight in New York for two days. At his office no one knew where the president of the company was, and just a few days be- fore the announcement, in an inter- view in Boston, the Colonel was quoted as saying that Thos. F. Cole and John D. Ryan did not own a single share of Greene Consolidated. Then came the flash over the wires on Mon- day that Greene Consolidated cop per company was no more, that Col Greene had stepped aside as presi- dent, and in his place stood Tom Cole at the head of the new Greene Cananea company, with a market value ot $75,OOO,OOO.
 The only intimation of this stupen- dous copper consolidation was the phenomenal rise in Cananea Central stock. The United States Investor; commenting upon the rapid rise ot Cananea Central:
 "An advance from S29 to $40 1-2 inside of seven days on new develop ment or news of importance looks very much like an inside move for purpose. Insiders may know of good news which has not been made pub lie. ;,
 'The good news hinted at in the Investor is now an accomplished deal, and as shrewd copper trader Tom Cole is another Davld Harum with all the trimmings"
 It is very evident that the insiders did know of some good news, and the good news transpired to be the con- solidation, with Cananea Central getting the big end of the deal. Ad- vices from New York yesterday were to the effect that the POO, 900 shares of Cananea Central, which was in the possession of the Greene Consolidat- ed copper company, had been sold to Thos. Cole and John D. Ryan for S2O per share, S4,OOO,OOO. This sale was authorized at a meeting of the Greene Consolidated Copper com pany, and no doubt was part of the consolidation scheme.
 It is now apparent that the Cole crowd went into the Cananea district with a purpose in view from the first, and that purpose was the ac- quiring of the mines of the Greene Consolidated company and the for nation of one of the greatest copper mining companies. in the world.
 The Cole and Ryan interests now control copper interests in the Unit ed States and Mexico having a mark ct value of a quarter of a billion dollars. It need not be expected that this new copper king will be satisfied yet. No doubt plans are already on foot for the acquiring of new properties and the consolida- tion of other companies until the Cole-Ryan interests absolutely con- trol the copper mining industry of the United Stahes.
 Up to date Thos. F. Cole and his associates have a wonderful record in the copper mining world. The enormous fotations engineered by this crowd are dividend They are miners in the true sense of the word, and the confidence of the gen. eral public in their Organiza tions is unlimited. The copper mining busi- ness is attracting more attention in the mining world today than any other industry. The demand for the brown metal is greater than the supply, and at the head of this great industry is a Tom Cole who seems possessed of an unlimited capacity for big copper deals.-Review.