Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25

will probably be the case in the other mines ia the district as well It is said that the Miami property has eight million tons of ore blocked out. averaging 3 per cent. Concentration will be the method of first treating the ore, reducing it to a high grade con centrate off smeitng. The first unit of the min is now under consbuc- ton.
 At Ray. the Ray Consolidated and the Ray Central are preparing for pro duction from the low grade ores. Sev- eral other properties in the camp will ultimately be brought to the produc- ing stage. The Ray Consolidated is milling about two hundred tons day; this more in the nature of an exper.- ment. however. The construction of the first unit of the great plant that will be eventually built will te start ed in the near future. It will not be long before the Ray Consolidated is treating 5000 tons or ore daily. Ray is situated about eighty mics east of Phoenix. on the Gila river, and is served by the Phoenix & Eastern to Kelvin the mill town. from which place a seven mile company railroad connects with Ray. That Ray and Kelvin. in the near future, will sup port a population of ten or fifteen thousand people is patent to al who are familiar with tha situation.
 About sixteen miles further east, on the Gila, is the promising camp of London. An extension of the rail read runs from Kelvin, 16 miles to Winkelman. which post office serves the London camp The Saddle Mount ain property was the first mine in the camp to start production, and suffi- cient work was done to show that this mill has the making of one of the big copper mines of the world. and the future will demonstrate this fact. The Saddle Mountain is on the ex- treme east end of the camp, and ranging from this property west for nearly four miles is. what will event ually r-ove to be the greatest four miles of copper ground on the conti- nent. Owning this four miles west fICm the Saddle Mountain, in the or der named. are the London-Arizona. Ball Copper, Overland Copper. Scot tish-American, London Range. Hotch- kiss Syndicata. Armada, Crusade, Seventy-nine aud London West com panies, all in the course of financing and beginning of development on a proper mining scale. The first three companies named probably have the cream Of the district. However, all have nest promising properties and will add to the copper production or Arizona and help maintain her lead as the producer of the red metal
 The biggest surface showings in this section occur on the London Arizona company and the Saddle Mountain properties. Indeed, it is said by many in Q position to know. that ths showings are larger than any ether place in the United States That these properties. in the future. will rank with the great copper mines of the, world is so considered hv many experienced copper men who have invest, gated thoroughly. Some of the best mining engineers and reclogists in the country have ex- aBined these properties, and without exception have passed most favorably on them and expressed themselves as setisfied thst tie properties would produce copper at q cost to compare favorabiy with any mine in th world | After all, this is the test-the coost Of production and the selling of cop per in New York Mir E. ". Br3uks has made the most complete investi- gation of the camp and his report has been verified by many prominent men.