Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-11-20

the only company working actively.
or producing much copper; but when
the Calumet and Arizona company &C
gUired property and became an i'm
porJant factor in the copper prOduc-
ton of the southwest the same spirit
possessed the companies, and the
same method of avoiding litigation,
growing out of the direction in which
ore bodies extended, was adopted. In
the Warren district the profitable ore
as yet discovered and developed is
confined TO beds of carbOniferous
limestone, whose thickness is about
400 feet, and which have a sOutheTly
dip. Probably under the decision il
the famous Eurei,a-RichmOud case,
Copper Queen, which has worked con
tinuously from q marvellous OutCrop
opened up in 1880 along the dip Of
the ore bearing strata of limestone
for a distance Of over a mile from its
outcrop to a depth Of 1900 feet be
low the surface, might have fought,
with a reasonable expectation OF win
ming for all ore on the dip. But the
result of litigation would have been
clTtailment, If not stoppage, of work,
BIZ fafrn,tiOn. paralysis Of the whole
district, rabid hatred between neigh
bOrs, and the transfer OF prohts Or
under tie circumstances an! happened
70 be madel to the legal profession,
instead of to the shareholders And
therefore the Copper Queen company,
glIided h. the SUCCESS of the eXneri-
ment in the Clifton district was quite
willing to follow the same procedure
and make side and end line agree
ments with the Calumet and Arizona
Mining company, and with five other
prominent neighboring mining-com-
panies.
Mine Development.
'The wonderful development of min.
ing in the district has unquestionably
been brought about through this lib
erai policy, for not only has litigation
and its consequent bitterness of feel
ing been eliminated, but the under
ground development of the district
has progressed more rapidly than it
would have done had not the contracts
contained a clause which opened each
others mines to the inspection of the
contracting parties. The consequence
has been that any discovery made by
any one of the companies, instead Of
being concealed, is published TO the
others, and the neighbor is thus di-
rected to the point where he should
with most probability or success
search for ore. This benefit has been
experienced to the utmost advantage
in the Warren district, where the ore
bodies appear to be eccentrically dis
tributed within the area of the lime
stone above referred to.
so Loyalty do the companies live up
to the spirit as well as the letter of
the mutual engagements, that when
one of the companies works in ore 10
the side line of his neighbor's claim,
and his neiehboT's ground travels
across the line into his own ian event
which not seldom happens in ground
so soft and shafting as the ferrugin-
Gus cIays which carry most of the
copper of the Warren distTict), no
question has arisen as to the right of
the original owner 10 the Travelled
Gre, nor objection raised to his remov-
ing it from the adjacent claim which
he does not own. or else claiming its
value. From every point of view.
therefore, ! believe the companies OF
beth districts have benefited; and the
Population at large of both have pros
pered. Moreover, to this abolition Of
the Law of the apex aad the voluntary
adoption Of the common law rRle. may
safely be attributed the rapid strides
with which the whole Of southern Ari-
IONA has advanced Of late.
Old Spanish Law.
Under the old Spanish mining law.
ss applied to their American colonies,
the ownership OF the mineral in depth
beneath the actual surface of the
claim Is vested il the possessor OF the
surface. but II the miner were negIi-
gent and tardy, and his neighbor
reached the ore in depth below his
surface before he did, that neiehboF
might extract the ore, accounting to