Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-14

COppST CldlIuS III tue Sdldllhd ulOuh tains and will begin development work on a large scale.
 This information is next to the news of the entrance of the Guggen- helms into the Helyetia district and the Calumet and Arizona people into the Twin Buttes and the Mohawk dis tricts, the most important mining item that Pima county has known in years.
 The Butte capitalists have organ ized their company under the name of the Arizona-Apache Copper Min ing company. The officers are w. W. Adams, formerly of Butte, president; A P Pohndorf, of Butte, vice presi- dent; w. J. Guthrie, of Butte, secrs. tary and treasurer.
 The company has incorporated with capital stock of $2,50000d. This is divided into 500,0 900 shares with a par value of $5 each.
 The company has purchased from Frank Foran twenty-three claims and in order to settle some litigation pur- chased six adjoining claims from the Christman brothers, who have been employed in the governmental forest reserve force. The claims purchased are known as the Keystone group and have been under the observation of eastern capitalists for several years, first coming to their notice in 1902, when copper was worth only 10 cents per pound, and 1t was considered i'm practicable to start development on account of the distance from rail road which is forty-flve miles. The claims lie on the eastern slope of the Catalina mountains and are ten miles distant from the San Pedro river.
 George c. Clark, of the Clark Engi- neering company of this city, has gone out with a force of men to make the surveys on the property. It is said that the property was bonded for sI0O,0O0. It is said that a railroad will be built to connect with the San ta Fe extension.
 Pittsburg and New York capitalists have had options on these claims for several years, but few months ago let their option lapse, and it was i'm mediately taken up by the Butte crowd and since they obtained posses sion an offer has been rendered by Charles M. Schwab, former president of the United States Steel corporation.
 The Butte crowd has received re- ports from many Of the most noted mining experts in the country, all of whom have agreed that the only draw back to the making of a wonderful copper mining district was the dis tance from a railroad. Several of the reports note a striking resemblance to the Cananea district of Sonora, and a report made to Colonel W. c. Greene about two months ago goes to the ex- tent of calling the district a second Cananea.
 A great deal of development work has been done on the property by the original owners, consisting of tun- nels, open cuts, and shallow shafts, in which copper ore has been exposed in almost every case. The variou. experts who have examined the prop erty have reported on samples taken from these respective cuts, tunnels and shafts and are unanimous in the statement that the ore runs from 3 to 50 per cent in copper.
 The report of the engineers and ex- perts appealed to the Butte crowd and they at once looked into the matter of railroad transportation. It was found that the Santa Fe system had already extended it's Phoenix and Eastern line to within forty-fiye miles of the property, and the surveys on both sides of the San Pedro river are but six miles distant These facts de- termined them and they at once se- cured possession of the property. or ganized the company and made plans for immediate development.
 Tom Stafford. formerly connected with the c. and A. in the Bisbee dis trict, and who has lately opened up the Butte and Arizona property in the Huachuca mountains, will have full charge of the new property and will at once make arrangements for its development along lines formulat- ed by the company's experts. It is the intention to sink a vertical shaft at once with modern machinery and also to install a diamond drill outfit to locate the main ore body.
 With the Butte crowd in back of the project, the favorable report of the well known experts and compe- tent management, there does not seem to be a doubt that the great copper district of Arizona is going to be extended into Pima county.