Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-08
CANANEA REPORT FROM CONSUL
 BREATH|TT
Very Interesting Document Concerning Mines and Prog reSS in Famous Camp Is Subject of Much Peru8aI,

l In response to a request from Con
 suI BrickwOOd at Nogales, United
 States Vice-COnsul J. B. Breathitt of
 this city has forwarded a report out
 lining industrial activity and progress | in Cananea to the end of the fiscal
 year, June 90. MT. Breathitt says:
 The principal industrial achieve
 ment of the last fiscal year was the | consolidation brought about of the Greene Consolidated and the Cananea i Central Copper Mining Companies with combined capitalization of S6O,- OO,OOO, par value of shares S20 and issues to the amount of S50,000 ,0O0 Eight million dollars were placed in the treasury of the new company at the time of the organization for the purpose of providing improvements at mines, smelter and concentratOr and on the railroad lines of the com
 pany reaching their properties, cover ing something over q total of thirty five miles of traCkage. Also included
 in plans for which this sum was set
 aside is erection of a new smelter
 which will give the company l0,000,O00
 pounds or more capacity for output of
 blister copper per month. at reduced cost as compared with anything pre-
 YiOuslv possible. With the work that
 the new management set out to do
 splendid progress has been made un-
 der highly capable management. In
 the mines there is at the present time
 more ore of better average grade than
 ever before. tn most important devel- Opment in this respect having occurred | at the deep level of 1050 feet, where ore bodies have been opened of high l the long life of the camp as a pro | ducer of copper. The Greene Cananea | Company operative mineral lands to | which clear titles are held from the | government of Mexico cover a larger | area than those of any other mining | company in the world some 37,000 | acres, or about sixty square miles, ! With cash in the treasury aggregating between SS,O0O. 900 and S9,000,000 and with other assets beside its mineral land holdings the company has al ready assets at the present time Of about S20.000 900 in round figures.
 Engaged in the mining industry in Cananea district beside the Greene Cananea are twelve operating mining seven of which belong in the producing list. The largest repre- sentative of these is the Phelps-DCdge Indiana Sonora Company which is to Douglas I5O tons of high grade ore daily and could readily in- rl crease the amount several times were shipping facilities available. This {, company will eventually add to an aerial tram system which it operates and then be enabled to reach the rail road of the C. Y. R. & P. direct, avoid ng the necessity of using the crowd ad trackage of the Greene Cananea. ' Ranking with the Phelps-Dodge prop erty as producer and great mining f property is that of the Democrata Mining Company, which operates it's )wn smelter in CaHanea and is pro- iucing an average of about twenty ! ons of matte daily. This company VIII shorty nave increased furnace ( aciiities and viii increase its output C If matte to fifty tons or more daily. Y When the site which will be occupied . ,y the new Greene shelter is deter mined upon 1t is the intention of the )emocrata to seek nearby location, V where it can enjoy the same facilities S which will be available to the enor- nous Greene plant, which will double h hat company's present output of n Ibout 5,000,O00 pounds per month. At ts new smelter site the Democrata will build Smelter which Will have initial output Of somewhere in the a of 1,00O, 900 pounds her nonth and will be increased to higher ! igures steadily. The Arizpe Develop t lent follows these properties in i'm f It is a shipper of high grade r re. holds a large acreage of richly ground and will uopn the d installation of machinery which is now | oing in to enable extensive produc- O ion from it's mines in all likelihood u uild smelter of 100000 or more ounds initial capacity on it's prop 9 rty. eleven miles south Of the city T f Cananea. In this vicinity are also
 number of other properties with de- elopment under way attended by Il ighly encouraging results. Survey u
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