Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-26
Mining, SrnGIterS and Stock Quotations
PAPER BY FRANK COX ON ARIZONA MINERALS

The following paper on mining and tbe mineral resources of Arizona was written by Frank Cox of Phoenix al tho request of an official of the Amer scan Mining congress and read at the last meeting of that body held in ittsburg in December:
 To every bar of precious metal pro Guced not only in Arizona but in any ll;ning region, there is a personal his tory attached. From the ambitions and hopes of the sturdy prospectOr down 10 the calculations of the largest min inz operator, is the story woven. In eIesting as these stories are, however, and much as we owe to the men who broke the ground. individual mention of them must be here omitted. But, tHough even the names of the men have been forgotten, We do not forget the fact hat it was the brave, the S. .out-hearted pioneers. that made pos sible such mines as the Detroit and me Arizona, the United Verde and tho Coaoer. Oueen-mines known all over the civilized vorld-mines without wnlCh we could not make our proud boast that, with her yearly output of something like 25S.000.O00 pounds of copper, Arizona today leads the Unit leG States in production of this royal
 metal
 The manufacture of copper Is the
 most important industry in the tern
 tory. Mining was substantially com
 ncnced here long before Arizona was
 ;.nown as a political subdivision of
 tae United States. In the early part
 cf inc eighteenth century, lt was car
 ried on in a crude way, and there yet
 einain, in the southern part Of the ie.IIlory. many evidences that silver mines were worked there hundreds Of
 years ago. When I first came to Ari-
 zona. mining on the improved and
 modern plan had just begun, although years before that, stamps had been d1oppine at the Euiture and at the Silver King. The Vulture was gold,
 me King . silver. producer Both have records of many millions of pro
 duction, and both. on account of ex- peasiYe transportation, were shH
 down long ago. Now railroads have made possible tEcir working at pruf- it, and they are to be re-Opened, con panies for the purpose having been already organized. At tho Nultarc and other mines the original houses were built of gold ore. so rich that afterwards they were torn down ana nilled at large profit.
 It was shortly after the Gadsden purchase that the first smeiter--aa adobe plant at the old AajO mine-was .,perated by Peter Brady. a well known pioneer. In 1873 a similar smelter was at work in Binal county, and this plant it was that made the first as
 ay of the ore of the famous Silver King. In the early sixties mills were at work in Arizona but among the first of the modern ones constructed here vas the twenty-stamp mill on the San Pedro river. near Tombstone. erected .n 1873. This mill worked ores from the famous Tombstone mines.
 Now, great. roaring furnaces have .uppianted the crude roaster: stamp mills, the arrastras of the obOrignes: and magnificent Corliss engines. the whin of the prospector. And nowhere can there be found to- s~- -'n~n oorn~'afe and nerfect ma cLinery than that operating on the % .s and III the canOns Of Ariona. If
 rr --~~ --Na workeS ou the VeckOl twenty years ago could see the Im- ts...-. sino ger on the plain at SascO, 1sfr W BIlA NLAula tAla4L AAutN AAotAt4Ah IdaA come 10 life and rubbed his lamp again; 50 with the old miner of the Lucky CUss, could he travel now tnc northern customs smeiter, or through Douglas. where two great smelJers' arc iu operation night and day; or through Jerome, from where, by night, the slag dumped from the mighty furnaces sends out q glow so vivid
 nd far-reaching as to be seen-a mag nifcgnt painting-in the Coc0ninO fOr- est, fifty miles away
 Among the gold mines of the Ari- zona Of today is the Congress, prob ably the deepest in it's workings Of ; ny in the territory, and it's richness holds with depth, nor shows signs of giving out. The King of Arizona and the North Star, two comparatively re- cent discoveries in the western paTJ nf Che territory, are developing into gold producers, and every day brings rcWs of additional discoveries Not able among the gold mines of Yava- pal county, the home of the Congress, s.e the Tiger, the Octave and the Pc iand. Of Mohaye county, the Gold Road and the ArizOna-AIexican.
 Nor must mention of our placeTs be emitted: for, from the POt-H0ies of YuDla county. to the Painted Rock in ha-icopa, there seems to have been a shower of the precious metal: from the summit of Rich Hill to WickeE- "uTg, the record Of coarse gold would iadicgte that in early ages there had been @ cloud burst of the golden sTains From the top of Rich Hill alone a million and a half in coarse gold nuggets was picked up by hand n years gone by. And only capital is