Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
ARIZONA HAS MANY THR|V|NG G NEW
 COPPER CAMPS
Possibilities of Parker Country Are Yet
 UnfathOmed
BY rITZ- MAC

m..f only by her capacity to smelt i. I,. the ore beyond all dreams of op,r..lilou. Not one of her older plnc. |. yet approaching exhaustion .pd u her old districts she bas new minc. roming in that fairly promise to ,.y,' 'hc greatest of her old ones. Sev. ,n .f these can be brought forward ,cv quckly if the price of copper rortInucs io offer fair incentive.
 Bui iu addition to such individual mines. Arizona has whole new dis ,nc -"vcral of homecoming for. vard more slowly not only to maintain her present output but to vastly in. crease .t to double it even within a few years if her present camps were rrab'c to increase their output by an alditYnal pound of metal.
 There Is no such pper.bearing area known anywhere else on earth as Arizona possesses. With n width of sixty to evenly miles it extends diag. onal'v across the territory from the south end of the Sierra Nevada range m California to the north end of Sier. r Madrc in Mexico. and every year l. increasing the proofs of it's amazing Liberalization.
 The Tucson Field
 The country south and west of Tue. sou Pima and Santa Cruz counties appear, from all accounts to he wide. ly mucralized with copper, and from tae inadequate knowledge of the geol. cgy of ihe section picked up in desul- tory way 1 would infer from the pres. ,ncc of the mineral there at ali that some of the deposits are certain to prove large and valuable. But as I have never studied the field am not able 'o speak authentically of'its mer- its
 The record now making by the com. pany operating at Imperial near Red Rock west of Tucson indicates de posi-, of large value in the bands of perfectly competent mining men able to command all the capital required Co pu, inc enterprise into large pro dueiion. In fact the production IS al ready as large (7,000,000 pounds q year) as the total output of the whol' United States was in the year 1s55- ffty!nree years ago--and the Impe Tial company, now operating a single smcter there are preparing to double their capacity the coming year.
 First Copper Mine.
 speaking of the year 1855 recalls a' interesting hit of copper history. ] recall. the fact that in precisely tha year ,hc first attempt to operate copper mine anywhere west of tn Mississippi was made in the Ajo noun ta.n., Pima county, seventy-hve mile directly west of Imperial.
 There was great excitement abou i, ar the time in California and "Th Arizona Copper Company" was orgar ued m Sacramento CD to operate q The enterprise fzzle dout for some res son lore "too ricn to smelt' pe haps) but that was Arizona's baptisi as Queen of the Copper World
 Like many another queen she h' had To wait for her crown.
 The IIelvctia mine south of Tueso ]. now under active development vii every promise of becoming larl producer of copper in th& near futur The Twin Buttes deposit is spoke of as property certain to burgeon o' as great producer when the eompai "geis down 10 business. It IS cor mouly accepted as certain that wh' they are ready to "burge' both the last mentioned will be able make a large contribution to Arizona yearly output. Although l real know little about the matter l ha thc impression that feeble financln rather than lack of ore, has kept th'' region backward.
 Johnson District.
 This district is in northwestern ehse county, not far from Bens' Tho camp was discovered long ai bnl seems to have only lately strn li' pace. From pretty reliable counts received it appears to be h' In strong and energetic hands WI the intelligence not to expect to something for nothing just beca' They have gone into the mining D 'he's--,he general curse of the tra everywhere. The people operating Johnson camp now appear to und stand st least the first letter of the phabet of mining-that it takes m ey to make money. They probably derstand more than the first letter