Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-16
ANDERSON-APACHE
 DURING DEPRESSION
Makes Profit With Modern Methods and Ore That
 Averages z Per Cent,

DOUGLAS. Dec. -(Special)- Among the copper properties in this section of the country Jaat ale uow attracting most attention, outside of the big producing propositions, are natdrsalig eIio~ga, thC SC that have sue ceeded in weathering the financial blow Of the past year and produced copper steadily at a profit to the op- orators. In this class there are not many contiguous to Douglas When copper dropped from a market that was twenty cents or better to the rock bottom prices that prevailed dur Ing the last year it was inevitable that the resultant economic conditions would freeze the smaller producers out of the market, for at the low price of the red metal they could not mine and pay freight and treatment charges with any profit to show for their work. But there arU Il rev that have stuck it out and have, as a result. gained greater prestige as probable big producers and are in a way to accomplish much bigger things when conditions shall have become entirely normal again.
 Of this class of mines is the Ander- son-Apache Copper company, whose property is a few miles from Hachita station and which is now being oper- ated by company of Douglas and Bisbee people headed by George ii. Neale, mayor of Bisbee, as president. And the operation of this property with profit at the low copper price that has prevailed can be explained in but one way-greater depth and i'm proved values of ore. Certainly had fT1os i T market been shipping the class of ore that Robert Anderson formerly mineu ont of the upper levels of the prop erty, there wouldn't have been enough money accumulated In the treasury t0 buy beans with. The ore Mir An derson shipped from the property be- fore it was acquired by the present company, along in the first four months of 1907, never ran as high as f per cent copper ard frequently was under one per cent. In fact, two per cent would about pe the average cop per value of the Apache ore at that time, when the upper levels were being worked. But with high cop per market at that time Mir. Anderson made a nice cleanup on each carload shipped, and he was shipping five to ten carloads a month
 When the property went under tne present management the company be- gan mining on a more modern scale, and with an additional hundred and fifty feet in depth encountered large quantity of high grace ore, so that in stead of shipping one to three per cent copper, the company has shipped, as the statements, show, ore that has run from six per cent to ten per cent coprer. The average value of the ore shipped by the present company IS probably in excess of seven per cent, and in the opinion of all experts who have examined the property, it only remains to go deeper to find still rich CT ore and more of 1t.
 And the shipments of the company have constantly shown a bigger prof it with a 12 and 13 cent market than Mir. Anderson formerly made when copper was at 20 cents and there abouts. But few shipments, of when there are two a week on an average. have netted under S300, while several have approximafed $500.
 There are undoubtedly some big things ahead for this property, and the additional 100 feet in depth which is to be attained soon may go far to- wards demonstrating that which is confidently believed to be reasonably sure-that the Anderson-Apache is to be big producer of the near future.