Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-20
PEARCE MINE AND OTHERS OTHERS
 IN COCH|SE
Interesting Chat of Nogales Newspaper Man Through District of Many Operations, Both Great and Small.

Last week business oE a personal nature took the Nogales Oasis editor over into Cochise county on the east side of the Dragoon mountains, where he was two or three days, meeting number of people who were residents of Ncgales at one time.
 Going to CocAise station, on the main line of the Southern Pacific, about thirty miles east from Benson, change of cars to the train of the Arizcila & Colorado railway gives one a direct rail route to Pearce, distance of sixteen miles. The con ductor of the train is J. Williams, WHO was in the general office of the So nora railway at Guaymus a number of years ago.
 At Pearce is the noted Pearce mine. owned and operated some ten or a dozen years by the Common wealth Mining company, but operated now under a lease by A. Y. Smith & Co. There is an S0-stamp mill, but at present only thirty stamps are in operation. About seyenty-five rIIrn are employed, and the population ot the camp numbers about 400.
 Nine miles southward from Pearce are the Gleason and Turquoise camps. At Gleason the Copper Belle Mining conpsny is mining 8 good grade of copper ores, and ship about fifty tolIs daily. heavy freight teams hauling the ore into Pearce. whence it is sent to Fl Paso by rail.
 Turquoise is noted for a large de posit of the rare stone from which it takes its Tame. It is the property of Tiffany & Co, the great manufac- turing jewellers in New York city. Occasionally he houss sends out to the camp a number of lapidaries, with their tools and instruments, who have taken out from the mines an amount of the precious stone sufi- cient to supply the trade a couple of years or more, which is cut and polished at the camp. and the fin ished stones packed and sent to New York, followed by the workmen, who return not again until the supply talk en has been exhausted.
 Across the hill, east from Fur quoise is the LeadYille camp, where the Great West Copper company is developing a number of good claims, and are employing about fifty men. The Calumet & Arizona Copper com pany is developing valuable proper 
 cluding properties held under option. and great deal of new grouS5 that has been located by the company That company has established a new camp about half 9 mile eastward from the Leadville camp. where work is being pushed upon a great and continually growing scale. The company named is expendiug 2 great deal of money at Cortland. as the new camp is called, and they 'ave every faith that the properties they nave will turn out fully as valuable as those they have developed at Bisbee. which yielded more than thirty mil lion pounds of copper in 1907. If they do the railway now terminating at Pearce will be extended to Doug las. about fifty miles distant. to en- able the company to transport it's ores to its own s-nelter at that city.
 The work of the Calumet & Ari- Zona Copper company at LeadYille and Courtland is under the manage ment of MT. J. Talbot, formerly a resident of Nogales. who was super intendent for the Reina de Gro Min ing company at Fl Tiro, in the Altar district of Sonora, and working af- terward the American mine at Can anea- NJ. Watt Gittins, from No gales, had been at the Cortland camD just a week at the time of the visit g. noted herein, and is the superintend- ent of the work Mr. W. G. Simon ton, long superintendent for the Yerkes Mining company, at Fl Caion, in the Altar district, is the consulting engineer at Cortland. The writer took dinner with Messhs. Gittins and Simonton Friday.
 Saturday morning the writer left Pearce for Tombstone, crossing the Dragon mountains through Black Diamond camp enroute. Little is do ing at the latter place except devel opnent work. The road across the Dragoon passed the Middlemarc1 camp, and the Copper Grown mine Nothing doing at either place.
 Arriving at Tomgbstone Saturday afternoon the scribe found there number of people who had resided in Nogales, and many more wno are known well at the line city.
 MT. M H. Calderwood, Jr-, wno was assayer at Mowry is assistant assayer for the Consolidated Mining
 and Milling company.
 MT. E. A. F1ske, formerly witt Wells. Fargo & Co.'S express at No gales. is in the office of the same company there.
 Messrs Ed. Summerfield and Geo Howard are employed with MT. A Wentworth, who is the well knoWr and very popular mayor of Tomb