Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-21
COUNTY
 MINES MAKING
 GOODPROGRESS
A General Resume and Much Information Concerning Va- rious Properties - What is Being Done

TUCSON. April 20.-Tucson still maintains her position as a mining center. There is no denying the fact that croaking is detrimental to any community. but Tucson will outliye all that. Many mining propositions have been knocked" but the opera tors continue to develop them and pay no attention to the knocking. It is true in some instances that bad management has been responsible for the failure in opening properties. which would prove successful under more favorable conditions, and this has been proven by results reached by the exercise of business methods under a new regime. For a brief period some properties have, not shown activity. but this has been largely due to the low price of cop per and the timidity of capital. Where properties have been well de veloped this timidity is not so mani fest.
 Looking the situation squarely in the face, 1t cannot be said that min ing in close proximity to or which is tributary to Tucson. is dead. Far 1. from it. A casual glance presents a few features that will surprise the knockers" Here are some:
 The Imperial Copper company, Sil- yer Bell district, discontinued ship ments of ore to Douglas late in the year 1907. and a year ago blew in the first furnace at Sasco. with capac- ity of $50 tons daily, although the ore supply was double. Last fall the shelter capacity was doubled and a third furnace Is now contemplated. A year ago at the camp and shelter the pay roll combined was $500: now it is s1100. Ore transportation facil- ities between the camp and smelter will be increased within sixty days. The output in money value, in 1907 was 73,73e40. as compared with SS24252.92 in 1908. The Imperial company maintains 22-mile railway.
 Second in importance is the Twin Buttes Mining company, in the Pima district. which has operated a stand ard railway of 27 miles in length about three years. The output. in money value, for 1907. was 9,03S.40, as compared with s13O.75S.71 in 1908. Shipments of ores 10 the Fl Paso shelter have been made at the rate of 400 tons each week. A new doE- ble compartment shaft has been or dered sunk, to be put down on the Morgan group, from which group all shipments have been made since the first carload was moved.
 While the Fl Tiro Mining company has not shown as large an outpul in 1908 as in 1907. it is a known tact i that the company has continued 10 open ground and installed expensive machinery during the past year. The work on the Fl Tiro was only begun ! late in 1907, yet two miles of ground have been opened. The capital be- | hind this company is an assurance of ] extensive operations this year and many years to come, accepting state ments of bondholders who were here in October last and those who visit ed the camp less than a week ago. 1 Leatherwood. Geeseman, Lowell and others of Tucson have been receiving monthly payments in connection with a deal closed IS months ago whereby
 their properties in the Catalina noun tains were bonded to the Southwest ' ern Mines company for S200 900. The
 bond has been extended to July 10
 1909 Meantime. all the properties
 are being developed for account o
 the Southwestern Mines company.
 The Swastika Lead and Silver Min
 ing company, in which J. S. Hopley D. S. Cochran and other TucsonanS
 are interested. have stacked up 5Ot
 sacks of ore for treatment Two ex
 perts have visited the camp within
 sixty days past and a deal is immi
 nent. The properties are in tht
 Amole district
 The Helvetia Copper company hai
 been developing their claims in tn,
 Helvetia district for ten years past
 Since the destruction of the smelte
 due to a fire several years ago, tn'
 company has been shipping ore ti Globe at the rate of 100 tons daily Powerful pumpss were installed thi year on the property. One hundred men are on the payroll of the com pany.
 Several miles northwest of thi city the Big Vein Mining compan recently began operations on thei copper claims. which were purchases from Captain Burgess early this year The Calumet and Arizona last fai took over several copper claims nortl
 of Mammoth. paying Clark and Scan lon s75,000 for them. J. K. Hoope
 is in charge and has been employini
 sixty men in development work fo
 the past twenty months.
 Tn the Baboquivari district tb
 Fresnal properties, owned by the Al
 lison brothers of Tucson, were trans
 ferred by them this year to New Yorl people. The new owners are build
 ing a dam for impounding water t
 be used at the mill in the camp ant opening this gold property
 Manager Roberts is opening pa ore in the 400 level on the Mohawl at Schultz and has thirty men work ing. This property is controlled b, Connecticut people. Thirty stamp are dropping al the min.
 The Esperanza, in the Pima di:
 tTict is wholly owned by Tucson pee
 pie. including Epes Randolph and (
 T. Roberts. Several carloads of sil
 ver-lead ore have been shipped C
 Fl Paso this year for treatment. tn
 first carload making returns of abou
 s1z00.