Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-10
HOW CANANEA
 CAME ID BE
 FOUND IN 7O'S
Charles MacAnderS0n Graph- calb Tells the History of Bill Greene'S TenaCity of Purpose

(Wrltton By Chas. McC. Anderson for tho Mexican Mining Journal)
 This Is the story as told in the min
 ing camps of Mexico and the south
 GCst Of the discovery of the Cananea.
 as it was told to me iu the mountains
 Of western Chihuahui by an old
 Greene lieutenant who knew the facts
 from his own personal knowledge;
 tho story l have heard repeated m
 many mining camps throughout Mex leo. lt is the story Of Ed Massey,
 and his bull-headed persistency in dis
 Ubaying orders that led to the dis
 cOvery Of the great copper mines of
 Cananea. and the consequent rise of 1 Bill Greene, frontiarsman, cowboy and
 prospector to Col William C. Greene, copper king; of the transformation of
 a petercd out copper prospect to one | of the worlds great copper mines.
 1 Bill Greene was q rough and ready | frontiersman who had spent his life
 on the border as a COW puncher ana i prospector. He had lived for years | in the arid lands of the southwest and the mountains of Mexico. He ] had penetrated far into the wilderness Of the practically unknown Sierras, l | tion, rislSing his life in the wild Apache and Yaqui countries. Away | back in the latter part of the TOE
 when the struggling adobe settlement
 of Cananea, Sonora. vas the abiding place of old Geronimo and his band
 of Apaches, that Greene. prospector,
 on one of his prospecting trips found | a copper outcrop on the mountain side near the village where Geronimo had his office. The prevalence of | Geronimo ip that neighOorhood made | the outcrop unattractive at that time,
 and Greene prospected in other health fer localities. Some ten years or so
 later. after Geronimo and his follow
 CTS had been gathered in by the reg ulars, Greene went back to Cananea to prospect for copper and located d claim and began work. From thls claim has grown the immense Greene Cananea Copper company's properties that now produce 50,000 900 pounds oi | copper annually. Ed Massey was Greene's right hand man, and was in charge of the development work A company was incorporated under the
 name of the Cananea Copper company, and subsequently, reOrganiZed as tho Cobre Grande Copper company. with i Massey as mine superintendent. The ! cOmCany had 9 small reduction plant | for the treatment of its ores. The | ores were taken from the surface and | they did not amount to very man, i tons. The management, however, be- gan installing reduction works for | handling 8 large tonnage without any l ore in sight with which to run the ! plant On the old Espcranza ground i there was some very good oxidizet. ore. but just . blanket. Massey i thought that there was a good show l for Suiphides, and accordingly start | ed a crOsS-cut tunnel to under cut the ! hili. The general lanager at that | time opposed the tunnel scheme of | Massey's. and informed the directors ! that their mine superintendent was a | bone head who was wasting their
 money, and advised them to fire him i or hC would ruin the company with | his iInnDli x WlIcI" shera EIS DO ora i to be fCund. This brought Col. Greene I'1 the front, who was president and
 chief StUckholder Tn the property, and | ne prom ,ly ordered Massey To stoD i sHnneiing 2ud go back @ the work ! tGat had been laid out for him Mas S'S CNpiained to Greene the reason | ahead with it. Greene, however, told | hiM that tse company had no money ' tv G.'JW away on indisCriminate | prospecting and fol him to stop it. ! Massey stopped. A soon, however, as ! Greene l.aa gone aW@y, Massey put ! his men back to work on the tunnel ] md kept tunneling CWay until Greene got wind of what hc was doing and came back and st 1Dpcd him again. | During Greene's stay at the mines Mas { scy Cheuianily followed orders but as soon as ne left Massey went back 10 | ltuuHelilE ',- ain. E UT times id Col. ! Greene come and s'ni. him, aal four | tiv:Cs Llj .iassey go back to his tun- ] nol a-diu G5 soon as GTCeTC was ! zone. t'r the -Jtl of October 1900. 1 when the tunnel was in a distance Ot i DOS feet, Massey struck what be was l looking for. lie started a cTOss-cut and ran into the ore seYenty-six feet. ] Then he concluded that instead of | crOss-cuttiug the veiu he was running ' on it, and so went back 10 the hang ' ing wall and driftsd both ways on il until he was certain of the trend and | then started a sure enough cross-cut and went through. finding he had just ' about l65 feet Of as good as six per ] cent copper ore, carryIng someg 'ozs. ! D lsilvCr and about S1.3O gold per ton i to help out. Massey was then the ! wECic thing around there for a while. la,.d given su1 credit tor his disaOy- | cry. Greene. hI,rrtN in speak; x Cr| | it Co stCcllhnldct5 saic: "You give me | 8 lot of credit for what we have here, ! but you can thank this bullheadeo ! Dutchman for this, for ! sure tried my ! best to keep him from finding it. This is now the Famous "Capote," and has produced I do no- know how many and is going to keep on producing long after you and I are gone. As to the "Veta Grande," it was
 much the same thing over again. Ex- perts of high standing ridiculed the
 idea of finding a mine there. telling him there was no show for it, tkat it
 was slide from somewhere else, but
 Massey kept pounding away. and now
 the "Veta Grande" is a proposition
 that has been furnishing good ore from
 the day work was started. and now
 has anywhere from s.000.GO0 10 12, ,000- 900 tons of ore blocked out for the
 future. Which constitutes quite
 mine. Another thing in connection with the
 above Is that Massey wtas running his
 blind tunnel without having any money
 with which to pay his men at that
 time. They, however, were mostly men
 who had worked for him In other
 camps. and had faith in his word to
 pay them of sometime. They worked
 for nine mOnthS yffhouf a nay day and