Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-27
Enormous interests, Mining and Otherwise. Included In Consolidation of Cananea Copper Mines.
TITANIC MERGER
All Is outproWth of Labor and
 Brains of W. C. Greene, tho ] Real Copper King of Sonora.
 Who Made Cananea.

Thaaap r. Cole resides in the city ar huluth, Col. William C. Greene has a beautiful home ffontins on broad green pfasa in the citymlains camp of canahsa. Mir, Cole, aa everyone knows ia ARsaniated with John n Ryan. nf New safk. in certain specified and uha specified matters, Coi, Greene has generally directed hiH own affairs without inc aid oF partner.
 Recently there has taken place a great Financial deal that has interested the entire financial world. yizi The consolidation Of the Greene and Inc Cnis interests in Cananea Col Greene represented himself aud friends. Ar Cole represented himself and Mir Hs- En and the Calumet Arizona inter. esta.
 Several years ago wm. c. Greene ot1ained possession of several copper claims In the region designated as La Cananea" He saw the great value of fhe region and kept on prospecting locating and purchasing claims. He struggled along, obtaining money here and there. and developed some of his prospects into mines His persistent work attracted attention. and his friends and enemies as well Law suits followed, and in almost every fn- stance he won in a court of justice. His perseverance and indomitahle will oyercame every obstacle and he made the Cananea the greatest mining camp in all the land. He erected a smelter and one Of the largest concentrating plants fn the country. and made hts name known to all the world and fam ous; and the world called him the Copper King" He earned the title Mexico is Mexico. and pTrud Ehs Is proud Of her laws, her traditions, her justice, her power and her pride. To maintain, operate and manage a mine in Mexico requires a Mexican corporation. Col. Greene organized one called the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company-the four C's. Mir. David Cole is general manager of this great concern, and he is a general in the mining business; but he must not be confounded with MT. T. F. Cole, hereinafter mentioned.
 Cash and capital generally reaches Mexico from the United States, and in order to raise money to operate a Mexican corporation successfully sis ter corporation is usually organized in the United States, and the property Of the Mexican company Is turned over to it; 1t Is usually called the holding company. The twin sister corpora -tion of the four C's company In Amer 1ca was called the Greene CoEsolidat- ed Copper Company, and 1t absorbed to itself all the holdings of the four Css in Mexico, including stocks, securi- ties, etc. The American organization then fIoated the stock through the va rious channels and markets In the great cities of the land, and raised cap ital to operate the mines in Cananea through it's Siamese twin, the four Cs called the operating company, 10 dis tinguish it from it's American sister, called the holding company.
 Under the generalship of Col Vim. c. Greene, controlling and managing these two companies, he made his name and that of La Cananea known from ocean to ocean, and from Lake to Gulf. Even in Europe he was known. and the stock Of the Cananea was watched on the brokers boards there. From small beginnings the Cananea property rose to vast and almost un- eomprehended values.
 Thomas F. Cole, a gentleman of commanding presence and powerful intellect, and J. D. Ryan, a great New York flnancier, called so either loving 1y or otherwise by the public-had for
 
 msnts of Col. Greene in the Cananea district and determined to butt in" They did so. and "Barkis was willin'. l" In other words, their appearance was met half way by Col Greene, and the results that followed eliminated in an agreement to consolidate the Greene interests and the Cole and Ryan Interests. This agreement has not yet gone into effect, but will be in effect in the near future.
 The Cananea Consolidated Copper Company is a corporation organized in accordance with Mexican laws for the purpose of operating mines and carry ing on of other business. Its proper ty includes the great producing Cana nea Copper Mines, and it possesses concessions from the Federal Govern meut for the construction of railroads in the States of Sonora and Chihua- bua. as vel as other valuable conces- sions. IL owns 51 per cent of the cap itaI stock d the Sierra Madre Land 6 Lumber Co., upon whose lands there is a virgin forest containing billions of feet of splendid pine lumber. It is now building standard gauge rail road into these forests, and is con- structing saw mills Jo have an output of 800 900 fed of lumber daily.
 This compzny's mineral rights in inc Cananea district comprise upward of 20 coo acresof mineral lands, and if owns the surface rights to upwards of ROO 600 acres of lands surrounding ifs mines. It owns large percent age of the municipality of tyananea and does an enormous mercansne, iunn. her and banking business. It Is the largest producer of copper in the Re