The copper era., 1909-02-04
Its freight traffice is enormous.

1t is reported that because of the rapidly increasing importance of the town and district the company has ordered additional passenger. equip ment and will probably put on solid passenger trains.
 While the two companies mention ed have heretofore represented all the development and production of the camp, they by no means monopo- lize nor attempt to mOnopolize all the good mineral land of the district and other companies have not come into prominence simply because the millions of capital, the millions of production and the thousands of en- ployes of the two big companies overshadowed all other efforts. There are other companies operating or developing in the district, and it will not be long until some of them are in the list of real big producers Among those rapidly coming to the front are the New York-Arizona company, the Home Copper company, the Gold Belt Development company and others.
 The New York-Arizona company is home concern, with A. L. Work as president. It is capitalized for S9OO.- GOO and has more than two-thirds of it's capital yet in it's treasury. This company owns 30 connecting claims, covering what appears to be two dif- ferent mineral zones, one gold and silver and the other copper. These properties are about four miles west of Morenci.
 The officials of this company have been making good use of the money available for development purposes, and now show about 2600 feet of work, shafts, tunnels and drifts. The main work is a tunnel on the Lillian, a promising claim of the group, which | is being driven in on the vein for the purpose of tapping large body of ore now partly developed in the "Buzzard Shadow" another claim belonging to the company. This tun- nel is now in HOO feet and has al- ready cut one shoot of very rich ore, showing free gold, but as the object l i've point is only about 100 feet from ! the present face of the tunnel it has been determined to drive that dis tance before proceeding with the de- velopment of the ore body already exposed in the tunnel.
 1 A number shafts, all in ore, have l been put down in the claims of the company covering what is known as 1 the gold zone, and three gasoline en- zines have been placed for the pur- pose ot. operating hoists and con- pressors, etc.
 Lower down the mountain the con- pany has 7O-foot shaft with a 5O-foot drift showing a strong vein of heavy copper sulphides, but there the water got so troublesome as to cause the abandonment of work until such time as the company could install the necessary pumps.
 [ The Home Copper company is an other promising proposition for the district. This company owns large acreage of very valuable mineral land and last year expended cOnsid- erable money for development work and was rewarded by splendid show ings in several places. The 1909 campaign of development has not l yet been fully determined upon, but it is said that money is available for extensive operations.
 l The Gold Belt Development com pany has recently elected new board of directors, and, according to l reports, will. secure SlOO,OO for de- velOpment and machinery. This is considered a very valua ble property and hundreds of tons of high grade oIe are now piled up on the dumps. A mill is to be erected immediately. The properties held by this company adjoin those of the New York-Ari- zona company.
 Owing to the natural conditions met with in the district it takes a great deal of money to develop prop critics and those companies having the money to do it with made their ventures immediately successful. The companies not having ample funds at command are going little slow, but getting there just the same.
 The district is a good one and is fully established by the wonderful records of production being made by the Detroit, Shannon and the Ari- zona Copper companies, admitted to be three of the very best copper properties in the entire southwest.
 The Detroit Copper company IS one of those going into the great copper syndicate recently formed to take over the Phelps-Dodge mining inter- ests, and is considered by experts to be one of the most valuable proper ties in Arizona. The district is large and undoubtedly contains mine min erals as good as that owned by the D. C. company and this certainly is now attracting prospectors and in- vestOrs.
 Another live company of the dis trict is the Shannon, which concern has made more wonderful advance ment during the past seven years