Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-12
The Copper Magnate Passes Through On Way to
 Cananea.
GREENE CONSOLIDATED
 WILL HOLD MEETING.
First Payment on Federal Smel- ter at Fl PaSo Has Been Made = Greene Gold-Silver is in Excellent Condition.

mining king and railway magnate, president of the great corporations owning the Cananea mines, the Sierra Madre mines and railroad, and presi' dent of the Greene Gold-Silver com pany, passed through Bisbee yesterday morning in his private car, accompa niei by his corps of stenographers and private secretaries.
 Greene's stay in the city was short, but he took advantage of the stop to shake hands with a number of friends and hold a short conference with w. H. Brophy about matters in which they are mutually interested.
 Recently Greene made a handsome donation toward the expense of build. ing an iron fence around Ever green cemetery. When told that good progress was being made in the mat ter of improving the cemetery he ex pressed satisfaction.
 Colonel Greene expressed himself as delighted with the fiourishing con dition of his interests in this section and the general prosperity which he | found in evidence throughout the Southwest.
 Colonel Greene is the picture Of
  fire as ever and is generally enthused yIover the prospects and conditions of This various properties and enterprises and especially over the good showing fhe was able to make at the meeting of the stockholders of tbe Greene \ld-Silver company held in New k, March 26, when by practically simous vote the capital stock wac Lsed to S2JO000Q0.
 cnel Greene, in an interview be Greene Gold-Silver company the largest number Of patented 5 of gold, silver and copper Of lily orPoration operating in the world oday We have the most valuable kovernment concessions and one of he largest coal fields of any company n the world today. We have over 00, ,000 acres of heavy timber lands nd eleven reduction plants on eleven ifferent properties on mines that we wn We have the sole right from he Mexican government to locate hines over an area of more than 4,00O luare miles, We have made our first payment the Federal Copper mines and melters in Fl Paso, including 237 cres of land within the city limits ron which we propose expending rge sums in operation, improvements pd betterments.
 We have also acquired the Mexi- n-American Refining company of laymas and are putting in 300-ton better there.
 I've have fourteen copper n:ne=, CT lich we have made payments, in Iding the Peabody in Arizona and Columbia ia Northeast Chihuahua T propose pushing the work of de lopment along all lines not cnly tn the Greene Gold-Silver company with the other enterprises with ich I am connected, and Fl Pa5O going to be one of the busiest min and mineral centers on this conti nt''
 5olcnei Greene was accompanied Colonel Nj. NJ. Parker and Messrs l.. Sperry and l.. D. Baldwin, direc Of the various Greene companies with his party occupied the pTi car "Cananea." They are CT te from New York to Cananea tc end meeting of the directors oi Cananea Consolidated Copper ppany.
 t the directors meeting held on rch 31St, Colonel Greene is re- ted as saying:
 Since our last meeting I have wis the mines of the company and Id the development in ore to be emely satisfactory. We have ped up in the last six months her ore body which is known as Esperanza, which is separated the Massey ore body and is en- y independent from any ore that have heretofore worked. We are ing it up in good shape, and now two levels run in and are pre-, q to make, whenever our reduc. facilities allow, a large extrac from it. It is a good grade Of and, outside of it's being hign iphor, very desirable ore. The pug van be er2dicated by the CTS We propose 10 erect, and it e, think, of the most valuable 3 of ore that we have in our property"
 Earding the telegram reporting pre had been struck in level No the Massey body, Col Greene re, ed: This telegram means the OA GiS &1dSSts OEC bDIl dt bet below the level on which il Ftruck. On that level ir was 3 bcite, evidently a second enIarge
 and iD the minds of some oi pining men there was a doubt
 whether that deposit would SC
 Twelve months before we
 the Massey ore body we started
 2 on the Veta Grande and sunk bet, and we have now drifted
 her cross-cut, about 2,600 feet
 west under the heart of the
 ain from the bottom of this
 and there is where this tele
 pf Mir. Dwight's says We have
 Is ore and it is of very great
 hnce to the company as show
 that ore has gone down, that
 Fe the original ore at 400 feet
 where We had the secondary
 sment of the Massey body. Il
 Jed a very large amount to the
 our mines"
 St of the reverbatories is
 ped up and should be in full