Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1908-07-21
IMPERIAL COPPER
MAKING PROGRESS
COMMENTATORS NEARING COM
PLETIoN AND NEW FURNACES
AT sMELTER-LARGELY IN
CREASED OUTPUT.

| '"i SNNcih l'"iS thc iiHpNiial upper
company, with properties near RED
| Rock, thirty miles west of Tucson, has
been a producer OF copper, shipping ore
to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas
and its shipments have returned as
high as 100000 pounds of copper pei
month.
The Development Company of Ari
zona is the controlling factor in this
company, which was organized in 1903
with $5,000,000 capital in $40 shares
in addition to which there are $4,000, 900
of bonds authorized.
Last February the company ceased
operations as a shipping proposition and
became producing property by placing
in commission a concentrator and a
smelter, the latter with one furnace of
$50 tons daily capacity These reduc-
ton works cost the Imperial company
100000, paid for partly from earn.
ings and partly from advances made to
it by the Development company. A see,
ond unit is in process of construction
and third is under contemplation.
In June the company produced 650,-
600 pounds of copper, in May, 600, 900
pounds, in April, 500 600 POUNDS in
March, $4,000 pounds, and with see.
ond unit in commission in about two
months, production should ranck from
100000 to 100000 pounds per month
The cost of production is not far from
10 cents per pound, erediting precious
metal values against the cost of copper,
of sl2 cents per pound.
The company has just made three
years contract with the American Met
al company for the refining and selling
of il coppers, based upon average
monthly quotations.
The properties of the Imperial Cop
per company are still in the develop
ment stage, and with the financial
strength and the intelligent manage
ment of the Development Company of
Arizona back of it. mine of large pro
portions is expected to be opened. In
fact the management of the company
say that their goal is a 5O,000,0o0
pounds per annum producer.
Activity at Silver King.
A. W. Downs of London, England, is
at Silver King looking over the proper
ties of the San Rival Milling & Mining
company, in which he is interested, Mr..
Downs is more than well pleased with
what he has seen and believes that with
little more time and labor his com
pany 5 holdings will be big silver, and
copper producing mine.
W. +. Mcdonald of Phoenix and
Atehison Kans.. is looking at the Sill
yer King property in the interest of
himself and associates. He is going
through the underground workings and
exploring the old chimney of the Sill
yer King He claims that il is one of
the most mystifying ore chutes he has
ever had the opportunity to explore
and thinks that without doubt there
is as much if not more ore in the
old mine than was ever taken out.
Harry Rain, foreman for J. II. Me
Cabe on the old Cloudburst, has "A force
of men at work Strengthening out the
workings and has discovered several ore
chutes running good values in silver
and gold. He has also had the old
Stoneman grade, Silver King road, put
in strictly frstclass condition from
the old town of Pinal TO the Silver King
mine. distance of five and half
miles General +. N Solowass, who yes
terday passed over the road TO the ST.
yer King properties, states that he had
no trouble whatever with his machine |
and found it TO be far beyond his ex
The Gibson properties closed down
July ! and will be idle until the new
ordered for the McGred and
Brown group, arrives.
The six-horse teams Of the Gibson
yroup have been put on the road and
ire hauling oil andore to and from the
superior properties. There are now so
many freight teams on the road of this
district that they have the same appear
nee as in the days of the old Silver
King.
Congress and Tiger Gold.
Bars of gold to the value of $500
we're received last Thursday by the
PRESCOTT National bank from the Tiger
iold company and the Congress Con-
Mines company. The bars
rere the results of clean-ups of the
llls after short runs. The three bars
rom the Tiger Gold company aggre-
ated $4,000 and the bar from the Con-
ress Consolidated Mines company
,eigh $500. III
In addition both companies shipped
carload each of concentrates yester-
ay. The Congress concentrates are
f very high grade, while the. Tiger
concentrates is also of high
rade, although not as valuable to the
on as those of the Congress
Both companies have been on the
reducing list number of years. The
congress mine is opened to a greater
epth than any property in the terri
Dry. while the Ora Bella mine, owned
y the Tiger Gold company, is also
pened severel hundred feet deep and
cry extensively by drifts, crosscuts
nd wines.
We make old clothes look like new.