Weekly journal-miner., 1908-11-18
DECLARES ARIZONA
 LEADS COPPER COUNTRIES
(By Emil IIolden.D

(By Emil Holden.)
 Commencing st the United Verde in the Black Iil! range, about forty five miles in northeastery direction Of Wiekenburg, Marieopa county. Arizo- na, and the Copper Queen at Douglas, this region produces from 100000 to 9.OO0,OO0 pounds of copper monthly; the various Bisbee camps contained also considerable native copper, and the ~ulphides are of No. l character: also the Greene Consolidated mines at Cananea. all turn out an excellent ore, but which demands extensive treat ment before it is marketed.
 Arizona is without hesitation the most promising copper held in the United States; it's increase in produc- ton is greater than that of other coun- tries. Copper is found practically in every county in this wonderful terri. tory. Thirty five per cent of the cop per eompanes are located in Arizona. The ore bodies here in Arizona are blanket deposits. Instead of the enor nous shafts sunk and employed at Calumet and Butte, tunnels are driven mostly through which ore is extracted. The great lenticulsr ore bodies are very often deceptive as 10 its immense mineral contents.
 | This is the great problem of our Ar. | izona mines that makes them more preearious as investments than the copper properties further north. It is [ further due to the fact that both min ing and refining charges have been radically reduced in the last two years, owing to the number of huetuat- i ing conditions in mining; through the depreciation in the metallic contents of the ores; certainly different mines conduct their operations in different ways. All this depends a great deal on the officers. in charge of such val uable properties. 1aere is absolutely no more chance for yellow legged ex. pert than there is for grocery clerk or a shoemaker to run a mine in Ari' zona, but a straight, upright, theoreti. cal man connected with practical eS. perienees will always find here a wide open field.
 In copper mining as in all other present day industries, the secret of sueeess lies in low operating costa compounded with the extraction of tevsry pound or ounce of by products It will require several years yet tC educate the public to a knowledge and appreciation of copper shares as an in vestment, for the demand for copper will increase one hundred fold vel from generation to generation.
 The writer of this has been on tn. stan of the great Iron Mountain Cop per Co., in Keswiek, Cal, for sever years; has worked for Capt. Delamor' 25 years ago in Pioehe, New, als, lately in Copper City and Bully HI in Shasta county, Cal, but for the las
 four years with Thomas W. Lawson o
 Bostoa at Kennet,, Cal, under th' general management of W. II. Brown and has acquired the knowledge tha lcopper win always be a eOmmodit,
 with any market on the globe; as th' chief concern of the consumer is: "ti get the red metal" regardless of price There may be more excitement an. romance in the discovery of gold, am
 mea may face death in more forms L be the first in such camps as sonopsl
 and Goldheld and other new gold dis eoveries in Nevada, but to ssnsibl mining men and capitalists there equally as much satisfaction in th
 opening of property of virgin cop per; and hundreds of these peopl from the east and other countries vii turn their back. in disgust and vii } investigate in new copper camps sue as Wiekenburg, Marieopa county. Ari
 xona, with numerous great promisinI but undsveloped properties, withii
 easy seeessof two railroads and plen lty of water. Unlike most other cop
 per fields, this sesticn of Arizona
 while it carries higher per espt ia eoy per, it's gold values shieh are indes prominent make the isdsstsy of dos
 ble value.