Bisbee daily review., 1906-11-07
MINING ACTIVITY
 IN CANANEA DISTRICT
An Eptiome of Current Mining News in the Sonora
 Copper Belt.
(Cananea Herald.l

A. s. Dwight, accompanied by Will lard B. Morse of the Guggenheim
 smelling interests, arrived in the city last Saturday from two months wis | it of inspection 10 the various plants of the Guggenteims in Mexico. They came here direct from Monterey, re- maining until Tuesday afternoon Prof. James Doulas this week went east. following a visit to Phelps-Dodge properties in the Southwest. Regard ing the general copper situation. MT. l Douglas expressed much optimism, giving the following statement in an interview: "Of course rom the stand point of producers. the copper situa- tion was never better, and I believe that the present high price of copper is az healthy and legitimate mark for ] the metal. .VlWhen taken in compari- son with pig Iron, during the last year, the production of copper as com pared with the production of pig iron Twas in the proportion of 1 to 76. Dur ling the present year the production of fpig iron has increased 3S per cent, and the increased production of cop ] per is only 10 per cent. There has been an enormous increase in the de
 maDd for copper, and with the com tparaIively small increase in proruc- tion. 1 consider it but natural that the price Of the metal should advance. The inevitable rule of supply and demand
 governs the price. and as long as the demand so far exceeds the production,
 the present price of copper will be sus-
 tained If, on the other hand, the
 demand should still farther exceed the
 supply. I believe that there will be
 sr,a ;y fi,a ,Nrfr nf
 the metal" bnEii
 B. RI. Paitfson. superintendent of
 the ShatmckArizona and Denn-Arizo-
 na properties at Bisbee, l.. C. Shat
 tuck, Joe Muheim. F. l.. Harrington
 and Judge, I. NJ. O'Connell, all promi-
 nently identified with big mining in .eyests of Bisbee and Minnesota, came to Cananea last Saturday, remaining
 nntiI Mondy. The immediate object
 of their visit was with reference to the
 Bell property in the Frontieras dis .-,ct, titles to which are now being traishtenel out pre0aTatory to trans fer to the Pattison-Shattuck crowd. Regarding the entry of the Pattison- Shattuck interests to Cananea for the ,,rrpcse of active development Of --nund. ali the members of the party refuses either confirmation or denial.
 Then coming to Canapea and other po-ticns Of Sonora to do business is l highly important. Regarding the Frcntieras property in the Ajo noun itains. it can be said that exploratory work will commence soon. The ground | is situated about 9 miles west Of Frontieras. and at present shaft l2o | feet in depth has been sunk. Ore running about per cent copper was found at shallow depth, and IF car loads were shipped to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas The smelt- CT returns showed that the ore also contained 20 ou-ces of silver.
 1 America No. 3. made it's start the first of the week and promptly fol- lowed the lead of all other workings
 of the property by coming into ore with small delay Jae ore came at 9 feet on Wednesday and is conttnu- l ing with the work. The latter has s,reaehed about 10 feet. 7 l.. May. for some time with the Orc | Maximo and Picacho mines as chief Of the engineering corps. was, in the ! city Thursds-y enroufe to California. Mir. May declined to discuss Orc Max i imo affairs while here, further than to state that the report given last week I covered the situation very well.
 | F. B. Paul.. aiditor with Cole flota- tions. was a visitor in the city this week. arriving on Monday and depart ing on Tuesday. Mir. Paul. stated that
 he was here merely with reference to
 detail matters in connection with. the
 books of Cananea Central. Regar, y,e affairs of interest In local mining cir
 cles he said he knew of nothing for
 publication at the present time.
 Judge D. A. Richardson, of Douglas
 was here '. ednesday and Thursday
 with reference to legal matters. pre-
 sumably in connection with Fl Tigrt
 litigation, t.Iol:si the attorney de
 ciined to say. Judge Richardson said
 when asked how soon Q decision would
 probably be reached in the rehearins
 in the Cananea court of the first in
 stance, that he did not anticipate Il
 under a month.
 At the dam at the tailings treat Bnent plant ten teams and a number of men are employed raising the dan four feet This will give it tota height of 36 feet Shines have pracfi cally filled up to the top of the ol; 32-fcot level.
 } P. J. Tehaney left Tuesday after