Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-23

ues in other metals, and all such work has been done with the object O. getting only the better ore. as a result there has been no development possible.
 It is impossible to pacK copper mat te on muleback ana compete with the product Of the pig copper compan- ies of the worIc, ana wherever the matte is being pacKed it is for the
 gold and silver yaTues contained.
 Gold Belts Traverse Section.
 On both sides of this great copper
 Eclt run gold belts ;Ung Known and worked for thelr si.r1ace ores offer ing the ancient miner Some return even by the crude methods they use.
 Here and there, all the way down the coast, American ane English mining
 nel. are opening up properties and preparing to operate them, but there are but a few of them in an immense stretch of country, and although there
 of the large bodies of ore considered So valuable where transportation IS is a steady flow of gold and silver from these few properties, there there will be no particular notice taken Of this development until the prospect
 ing and developing enterprises can
 be counted as more than one to the hundreds of square miles of terri
 tory.
 This west coast Is known to have
 in paying quantities, and is actually producing gold, silver, lead, copper,
 bigmuth, and all the precious metals, while there are large deposits of iron i and coal, as yet undeveloped. The known coal is in the state of Sonora, I while the iron deposits occur. at ire qrent intervals all the way down the
 coast. It will not be long until the | ccal and iron deposits of the west
 coast become extremely valuable, as ] the water transportation offered will | give this field the command of the
 iron and steel markets of the world,
 and particularly will these great com mercial commodities, on the shores
 Of the Pacific, be available for the de- yo!0pment of Asia, now jIst awaken ;Es from a sleep of a thousand years.
 The volcanic disturbances Of those sections of Mexico included in the west coast area have been violent, of great extent, and numerous. The re suit is heavier mineralization, great. fer exposures and the promise of great depth. An extended examina
 tion of the copper deposits in the
 states named will confirm the beliet -i that they have great depth, except in l. certain districts where it is evident that the naturalization has been from above-you might call it from the frazle edge of the copper zone. onIy High-srade Properties Worked
 From midway in the state of Son ora to the south, extending far be , low the states of Durango and Sina loa, are found a great number o large low grade gold and silver veins for the most part in the lavas nov called trachyte, rhyoIite, dolerite, an , desite, etc. As yet these large low ' grade propositions have attracted very little attention because until tho 5 railroad came there was ID man min ing in that section who would con slider any ore under one or more hun dred dollars in value. In those day.
 ore had to be mined. packed on mules ! to some sea coast town. perhaps twt s or three hundred miles and there solC : to the ore buyer. It was then ship - ped to the United States for treat : ment. The ore. most naturally, hat 9 to stand all the expense of mule anC F ship freight treatment and handling ? etc, and the ore buyer was not ther' . for his health, either. Under thos' Q conditions only the very high-grad' [ properties received attention. and on F ly the precious metals were consid