Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-18
IN THE MINING FIELD
 RESUME FOR THE WEEK
Oxide Ores Encountered in Drift On Twelve Hundred Level Ground Regarded Most Favorable and Native Cop per Encountered Frequently-New Office Build
 ing Of C. & A. NearS Completion

During the past week the price of copper has remained practically un changed and the Arizona o9put is now quoted at 12.75. This is a slight gain over the low minimum of three weeks ago. Eastern mining journals are not predicting any great thing for the red metal in the near futre, but they are not pessimistic and gener- ally agree that the price of copper win not likely go below the minimum fer last month during the present year.
 One of the encouraging features of the mining industry in this section during the first half of the present month has been the increasing num- Der of men who are visiting the var ous districts in Cochise county and the districts in Sonora tributary to Douglas and other towns along the international border. During the past two weeks numbers of men interest ed iu mines or seeking to become in terested in mines have appeared in Douglas and gone south into Sonora. Some of them have arranged to be. gin development work which was stopped with the business slump two years ago. In the vicinity of Cana nea and south of there in the Arizpe district there has been come activity noticeable where idleness has pre- vailed for many months. The Greene Cananea properties are producing more copper than at any time since the shutdown and the overhauling of the reduction plant. The visit of Thomas Cole, head of the Greene Can anea, to Cananea, Bisbee and other points where he is interested, includ- ing the new Courtland district, re- suited in many complimentary and satisfying remarks from this gentle man concerning the excellent condi- tions in the future. Especially was MT. Cole delighted with what he saw on his visit to Cananea, where so many important improvements have ben inaugurated by Dr. Ricketts, re- sult.ng in lowering the cost of pro duction there to the extreme mini Mir. Cole predicted that other inn provements being planned for Cana nea would still further reduce the cost of copper production.
 Dr. Douglas Coming.
 It was learned this morning that Dr. James Douglas left New ork OF Apih To TUT tuG puI pose Oi AudhlhE a hurried visit to the Phelps-Dodge properties in Arizona and Mexico. It is doubtful if Dr. Douglas will visit all the properties under his control on this trip as he will sail for Eng land on April 2S, where he goes on important business. There IS a req son why pr. Douglas will receive an unusually warm welcome on his present trip to the territory because of his remembrance of a large mum Der of the old and faithful employees of his enterprises in the matter of al lottiDg tas tiem a certain amount of ' stock in the Phelps-Dodge company, Inc, at par. This was splendid tes- timony of the appreciation of the Phelps-Dodge people of good service rendered by those who have long been in the service of their various mining enterprises. According to a statement of Boston mining jour nal one million dollars worth of stock was allotted to old employees of the several companies included in the new holding company. This amounted to a practical gift of that amount of money to these employees, as the stock is now held in Boston and New York at s200 per share. WUtTtdo lut Ndllt lS OBkl tIOy. In his long industrial career in Ari- zona, pr. Douglas has many times in the past shown his good will for Ari- zona and those Arizonans assisting in carrying on his great enterprises.
 Cole seIf-Made Man.
 Speaking of Tom Cole reminds us of a bit Of history of this prominent industrial captain. related by a man who has known of his life during the visit of MT Cole to Douglas last week. Tom Cole was the son of poor parents an dhis father died when he was only about eight years old, be fore he had any schooling. His first employment was as a messenger boy in the office of the Calumet and Hec- Ia company and here he devoted his spare moments to study. He was in- dustrious and ambitious as a boy and as a young man and shared all his earnings with his widowed moth CT. Finally he secured a position as bookkeeper and soon was promoted to head office man in one of the big mining companies in the Michigan copper country. Next heard of he had by energy and frugality secured a position of general manager of one of the iron mining companies of the
 
 came involved seriously. but young Cole had become so interested in this business and was so confident in its ultimate success that he put all the money he had saved for years into Ii where it was finally lost. every cena Without any means Cole hunted for another position and soon had a good one. as the pluck and determination already displayed by him had attract ed attention. Since then his career has been a continual success and he has steadily ascended the ladder of business success and fame until nov he ranks among the millionaires oi the country.
 Shsttuck and Denn-
 Work in the Shattuck mine is con timing with the same force as re ported last week. In upraise No. 2l the ore body has been cut through This body proved to be sixty fee thick. In upraise No. 22 the work !: continuing and from thirty-hve to for ty feet of good ore has been cut. Dur Sng the past week some new drifts were started on the seventh level but SO far nothing of importance has been developed here. There port was again started during the week that negotiations were pending for tho