Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
ARIZONA AGAIN IN LEAD
 IN PRODUCTION 0F COPPER
According to Estimate Territory Produced Thirty One Million Pounds of Ore in March-Several New and important Districts Will Soon Add to This Production. Globe
 Ray, Kelvin All Developing Great Properties.

From thg best authority obtainable at the present writing. Arizona for the month of March produced about thirty-one million pounds of copper. exceeding Montana by nearly two mil- lion pounds. This places Arizona again in the lead, and it is not likely to be caught up again with for many years to come. Many new camps will add to this production, and it is prob able Arizona will forge way ahead of any other state. nation or country.
 Arizona lead the world in the pro duetion of copper in the year 1907. and stood second in the year follow ing. passed only by the state of Mon tana. It now leads the world again, and probably will maintain that posi- tion for generation, perhaps for all time
 The production of Montana prcIi- cally comes from the enc camp of Butte, and while there will be more ore found in virgin ground. still this must be somewhat limited in extent, for it must be remembered that Butte has had the advantage of development for a great number of years, and the confines of the ore bodies are fairly well 4-nwn.
 With Arizona the case is entirely different The output is widely dis tributed, practically from one end of the territory to the other. aud as rail roads are extended, new camps are springing into prominence. Many new camps have been sufficiently in vestigated for it to be known for certainty that copper will be produc- ed in amounts comparing fayorab'y with the other bonanza camps of the commonwealth. Besides nearly half of the area of the territory has scarce ly been prcspected. especially the the northeastern part. and copper IS known to be there in several places, and future investigations will ass1red- " open up several camps. How ever We do not need to concern our selves with these possibilities to know that Arizona is right in the Le- ginning of an increased coppe- pro duction Several camps have teen visited by the big copper men of ibe country. much ground has been se- cured. companies started and financ- ing begun. sufficiently to assure an increased output of the red metal
 Perhaps the three largest districts that are now ce..ssss Into prnnl.nInce are what the writer ei Ies to cali the West Zone of Globe, where are slt- uated the Miami. Cordoya. Live Oak, Keystone, and the Inspiration, and the Ray and London districts. he town is called Miami. and hy this name the locality will probably te known. Miami is about SIX miles west of Globe. The Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railroad is now grading to extend the rails from Globe to the new camp, and trains will be running into Miami within a few months.
 Up to the present time no large bodies of low grade ore have been mined in Arizona, except part of the Clifton product, and the new camps of Miami and Ray will be the begin ming of a new style of copper mines for The territory Ely, Bingham. and Nich. gan hava heretofore been the home of the low grade mines, the sO- called steam shovel mine. This IS, however. a misnomG as far as the Michigan is concerned. But in the Flv and Bingham the steam shovel IS aetualIv used to mine the -arge bodies Of pcrphyry cres.
 The ore in t.,e Miami district IS an fnp-ernated fgneous rock occurring as sheer zones in the schist- In th5 Miami the diabase contains the ore as pyrfte and chalcopyrlte. ms