The copper era., 1909-04-29

In the great and growing southwest is room for every sort of miner. It is not the capitalist alone that finds fields of usefulness and profit. To the skilled laborer and the common miner Arizona now offers greater opportunities than ever before. Nor have the unions obtained the foot hold here that they have in Cali fornia and other western mining com munities. Strikes are almost un- known. Even during the panic and following the great slum in copper, the mines of Arizona kept up activl- | ties, employing nearly the usual num- | Der of men, with only a slight reduc- tion in wages.
 That Arizona jealously guards the interests of tho2e that confde in it has been proved over and over again from the days when 2 fearless gov ernor published a printed declaration against fake mining companies, men, tioning in particular one that he be- lieved to be merely a drag net ot small wage earners, down to the
 poor soap bubble mining company,
 as well as the day of the arrastra
 and the adobe furnace has passed
 away, and with it is passing that dis
 trust which men of means so often
 feel toward the mere territory-the
 frontier.
 The total value of the production
 of copper, gold and silver in Arizona for the year just passed was in the
 neighborhood of s55, 100000. Nor -e
 they the only minerals we Sduce. The list is long ahEvincludes asbestos, molybdenum, chalcedony, sapphire and other precious stones, as well as :. common table salt.
 z The valuation of productive /. patented and unpatented mines and
 mining claims in Arizona (for taxable : purposes) is S13, TIP, ,13432.
 Valuation of improvements, s2, lOO,-
 PIP.
 Valuation of productive patent 2 ed mines, $2, ,552, ,977.93.
 Valuation of improvements, $751; 100.
 Z Valuation of smelters, Sl, ,947 ,S75. . Valuation of improvements on new productive, unpatented mines S3S0,- G8O.
 /, Total value $21 ,485, 125.25.
 And even with the vast amount of y mining going on, the industry is
 in it's infancy here. An observant
 person may watch the lines of trans + portation and the terminals, and he - will see, daily, carloads of new ma :. chinery arriving and being speedily
 transported to the camps of Ray
 Kelvin, Weeden, Bouse and the new
 CT mining camps that are startling
 the commercial and the mining worlc m with the richness. While some O.
 these statements may seem exag
 gerated to men who have even pass ed through the territory, if the mos
 conservative will visit the different 1- mining camps and mills in Arizona - they will agree withme that the min
 eral resources of the territory can = not be exaggerated. The time giver - me did not permit of the preparatio lie of scientific paper requiring re ne search, but if I have awakened you
 interest so that you will yourselve
 investigate the history and statistic F0 in regard to Arizona's mining an nP mineral resources, the object of thi Cs' paper will have been accomplishe' ne We need more capital-that cap oi' tai which we are assured will How 'o us when we become state, eve la- though then we shall be no worthit ne than we now are. We have the mi n" eral, we have the transpOrtatiC Aoi facilities, we have the mills and tl smelters: and when we become Co' state we shall have all the capit "in we need to take out and work u mp ore. Until that time, with Sharl .ro Hail we say, to those that would b tue our admissiOn:
 lgh eve will match the gold ot yo CTS minting, with its mint-star or dulled and marred
 by By the tears and blood that ha the stained it and the hands tn so have clutched too hard. H. With the gold that no man has Ii 'co- for-the gold no woman has ma
 The price of her truth and hon Ari- plying shameless trade rob The clean, pure gold of the mo s of tains, straight from the stro ness dark earth,
 Is of With no tang or taint upon it fir .ona the hour of its primal birth. ara The trick of the money chang est shifting his coins as he wills, vel Ye may keep-no Christ was barte very for the wealth of our lay GOV hills.'