Arizona republican., 1906-12-26

MohaVe Counties, and Their Pros
 poets for Greater Development.
 The Very rapid strides which Arizona is making in mining and mining enter
 prises is looked upon by a large ma jurity of the people with wonder and amazement, while there are others who regard it as something truly phenom- enal
 In 1883. the first year in which an official record was made and kept. Ari- zona's copper production was 43.OOS, 900 rounds. In 1893 it was 53S73.920 pounds. an increase of over one million pounds year for the ten intervening years. The increase was not astound- ingly great. but it was enough to show that the copper was there and that there was more where that came from The next ten years proved that con- clusively. for in 1903 the production was 47.G47 060 pounds. Three times the amount of production of twenty years before But this is not half the story. In the last three years the pro- duction has more than doubled, or in figures. the production in the last three years has risen from 147. .S47. .36O pounds in 1903 to 30O.O0O,O0O pounds in 1906. Bisbee and Douglas have ceased to be a wonder any more amid the amount of copper production in new fields and late discoveries. The great Jerome copper mines have also ceased to be wonder in their vastness and richness and from the sOuthernmost confines of Arizona's limitless ore belts to the far away northern boundaries come au- thentic news of new and rich discover ies in gold. silver. lead and copper. which are only laying idly by awaiting the strong arm of force and capital to make of them producing properties that will rank with any in the land. New wagon roads are being cut r hrc''gh mountain and plain. where, 4 lithetio the chipmunk and noun Fain lion have held sway in the 'solitudes of the desert. The scarcity oi water. so prevalent only yesterday. which deterred the prospecting and opening out of new mines. is. to a very large extent. only a misfortune of the past. Capital has awakened and in vaded these waterless plains and val leys and long and wide canals dug for mining and the irrigation of it's rich soil in the growing of great grain, fruit and vegetable crops, while new springs and wells afford the purest and best crystal waters for drinking and house. hold uses.
 Probably the largest and most useful improvement made in Arizona lately is the Humboldt smelter. situated at Hum- boldt in Yavapai county, and not far from the beautiful town of Prescott Here hundreds of carloads of ore are being unloaded daily which quickly disappear in the red maws of the furn- aces and just as quickly results return ed to the miner. who hastens him home on fleeting wheels of steel to prepare and come with another shipment. The shelter has the confidence of the min CTS in the matter of fair and equitable treatment, and no word or breath has as yet been heard to the contrary: and the smelter has been crowded with business from it's initial starting as a |. suit of these honorable and upright 'rlles. and no sign has as yet appeared on the horizon of its surroundings that it will ever be otherwise large blast furnace was installed and placed in commission in the shelter in the |
 
 it's former capacity and has proven a | great relief to shippers and miners. | who hitherto. had been compelled to | withdraw large consignments of ore, | owing to the inability of the smelter | company to handle the large accumu lation of ore under the former capacity. 1 The work of construction is being | pushed in every department as fast as men and money can do it. and every thing will soon be in readiness to ac- commOdate a much larger number of customers than up to short time ago. The faith of the miners and general public in the stability and fairness Of the shelter management is also Obser- want by the large number of people and sums of money that are taking town lots. and pretty cottages for homes and business houses of a substantial char acter are in course of construction In the town proper adjacent to the smell ter The population of the camp. in cluding the employees of the smelting company is about 1900, and is being increased daily. either by the mining men of ordinary means or of others of more affluence and investing capital. The town and community has an excel lent water system and electric power and lighting by the smelter company.
 The improvements and mining enter prises in Arizona are progressive ana continuous. At a meeting of the di- rectors of the Lake Superior and Ari- zona Copper company held at Calumet