Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-08-15

scssment roll we have listed 1874 pat. ented claims. of these, l7 'clsin,s, ec or I.33 per cent are listed to the United Verde Copper company, and may be counted in the same class with Grs. ham county's large copper producers,
 which claims are in sumber 60 per cent
 of the whole number of the claims
 listed in the county.
 Outside of these 17 claims, we have
 perhaps 100, or about s per cent Of
 the whole number, that are in various
 stages of production, some of them, no
 doubt, at loss, which are assessed at
 valuations ranging from s75O to si5,000
 per claim. The balance of. the
 claims, perhaps 1900 in all, belong to
 companies struggling 10. develop them,
 and make them producers, and to indi.
 vidusl owners, mainly prospectors,
 who are holding them with the hope of
 a sale at some future time, 'and have
 patented them against the aasusl legal
 requirements on unpatented hihes.i
 Such claims have been assessed for sev-
 eral years at . uniform valuation of
 t'b8 per claim, for n full claim. and
 have been paying taxes to the territory
 on a valuation of A37 sn scsc, while the
 most valuable claims in Cochise county,
 and that means the most valuable in the
 world, have been contributing on
 valuation of S5 to Sl0 an acre.
 A large proportion of the claims in
 these two classes are without value,
 escept to give large acreage to . group of claims for promotion purposes, or for protection against crowding, ia the event of active sperstion Of the principal claims of . group of claims. Some of these arc of no more actual "a. . lue than the came acreage of unreciairA. ] cd desert land. : The valuation for this cishA of : mining claims had been established . long before I assumed the duties of
 the office of assessor of Ysvspsi couh. ty. soon recognized the injustice of . such a system of valuation, and would !. have remedied it had ! had the power D intel'igently and justly 10. do 90.
 ], To separate the good from the bad ' of these mining claims and to place . just valuation oh all, would require in D the assessor's office a lsree corps of f mining experts. We all know that ths [ services of these "yellow lekged" fsl n lows come high, too high, in fact, tt { be met by the modest compensatios oi Q m Arisoua county assessor. Not ~ee
 ing my way clear to do what should b. i. done, ] did the best l could, which ws, to follow the method followed by VI, . predecessors. !. Gentlemen, it m ,me that thss, ', ~laims should get n rest, and that th, ], big mines of Cochisc county, and of al ]. The territory, shooti pay the taxes ds, | from the mines "f the territory. Bn, . if they must be taxed, it is very unfair n and unjust that they should, for th, | purpose of this years adjust mem, ,,s b, }. lined up with the select mines of Osn !. ham county, and be compelled to pa, q taxes on n par with them.
 The following statement will ~bov !. the number of claims assessed. tots t valuations, average value per. claim
 and highest assessed claim. in the re
 spectivc assessments of all the Iarg Q copper producing mining companies 9 Q the territory r,.l. .. = Dstsilsl statsmsut Nc. :.
 O Copper Queen Mining company: Q 130 claims, assessed val. q. .t502, ,s032
 Average per claim ....... 3,s63.l, O Max. valuation per claim. l25,0OO.Q - Max. valuation per claim ls5.OOO.6 o Calumet ( Arizona Mia. Co.,
 y l2 claims, assessed val. :. es0.e23.l | II Average p~r claim ..... 0,7is.5 ts Maximum val. per claim. .. 100000 Q. Cop. prodse.. 1905 lbs. .... 3e,50Oy00 # Arizona Copper Co.,; Ltd.--,
 IT 30 claims, assessed val. .tl ,J1s 1860 't Average P-r claim .. I%,sl3.0
 Max. valuation per claim 100000 's Cop. produc., 1905, ibs... 330O0,00 E. Detroit Copper Co., ..
 d g claims, assessed val. e, .&s04 ,o00.0 'e Average per claim ........ @,3a3.6 ye Mar. valuation per elaim,. l35,00O.0 r. Cop. produe., 1905, lbs. 100000
 shannon Copper Co.,
 2. 22 claims, assessed val. ., .tid5y000.0 y Average, per claim ...."., '7,oe0.0 h Max. valuation per claim, 75.00o.o In Cop. produe., 1905, lbs. :. l2,500, ,0Q