The copper era., 1906-01-11


 zona Copper company, the Detroi a Copper company, the Shannon Cop I per company, and in fact all of tn p old companies will materially increas
 their outputs during the present year
 which, with the new companies nov coming in will give the territory ; : total increase of probably D pel cent, which is a big jump for ont year, and will put Arizona up close tC Montana, which is still in the lead. Since the New England and Clifton , Copper company announced it's in, |: tention of shipping ore there has been a material advance in the price of the company's stock. In August
 and September the stock was not
 marketable at any price. When the
 announcement was made that the
 company would resume operations
 and ship ore the preferred stock was
 quoted at $1.25 when accompanied
 mon stock. The latest quotation on
 the stock was S2 for preferred and Sl.25 for common. The great trouble
 with the New England has been a total lack of inclination to do any thing, except purchase mines and claims, of which it picked up and paid for number of good ones, some of which, notably the Antietam and the Ohio group make a remarkably good showing of ore for the develop ment done. Work is opening up the old New England King mine is now progressing. The ERA has been in- formed that the report of MT. Austin showed that there was in sight in this mine something like $1, 100000 in ore when copper was worth about 13 or 14 cents. It is not generally known in this section, at least, that the New England and Clifton company is backed by the Calumet & Hecla crowd, the strongest copper people in the world. From the condition of the property, and from the crowd behind the enterprise, it would seem that the New England has a very bright future. It is predicted that the stock will go to par as soon as the company is able to ship from 40 to 50 tons of ore daily, which will be done upon the completion of it's tramway in March.
 D. L. Saver, editor of the Magnet, at Jamestown, California, who had the honor to establish Clifton's first | newspaper, the Clarion, in the early | sos, gave his many friends pleasant | surprise this week by dropping in on them for an old time chat. He had i been to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where | he spent some weeks under treatment | for that arch enemy of all newspaper | men-the gOut. MT. Saver left Cliff | ton more than twenty years ago, | hence he was greatly surprised at the | many changes for the better since | then. Like all Californians he lives in town which has a monopoly on | the only really good climate in the state. Southern California is famed | for it's salubrious climate the world over, but MT. Saver says it is not in the same class with the ''foothill climate of Jamestown" and having spent many years in Arizona, he is pretty good judge of climate. Mr. Saver was given a cordial reception by the few old timers who were living here when he edited the Clarion which was one of the best paying in its day in Arizona. In fact Mir. Saver made a comfortable fortune during the four years he was in Clifton, which he invested in mines in Mexico, which unfortunately proved to be a permanent invest ment.
 Hugh M. Watson has been appoint ed postmaster of Clifton, vice Arthur resigned. MT. Watson has been in the office of the store de- partment of the Arizona Copper for several years. He is young man who stands high in the and is well qualified to fill the duties of the office in a manner. The change in the office will probably occur about the first of next month. The many friends of MT. Hudson will be pleased to know that he does not contemplate leaving Clifton but will soon engage in business for himself, having al ready secured a location on Gold avenue.
 George H. Stevens, better known as "Little Steve" one of the old time characters of this county. who left here about twenty years ago, but was afterwards connected with the penitentiary at Yuma, was heard from a few years ago at Victoria. ''Little Steve" was the first sheriff of this county and was quite a char