Weekly journal-miner., 1910-01-19
Statistics Regarding The Showing of Arizona
 Mines
Copper Queen and (. And A. Smelter Led
 All Others

The figures now being compiled of the copper production of Arizona for 1909 make it plainly apparent by their magnitude why the territory leads the producers, says the Phoe- nix Republican.
 Approximately 134,OOO,OOO pounds of copper were produced by the prop critics of Phelps, Dodge & Co. during the year 1909. Of this amount l1O,- OOO,OOO pounds constituted the out put of the Copper Queen shelter ana the rest, or 24,OOO,OOO pounds, was the yield of the Detroit Copper com pany at Morenci.
 In regard to Copper Queen figures it should be taken into consideration that they represent smelter output, and include the product of the Cop per Queen mine, Moctezuma mine in Mexico, also a Phelps, Dodge & Co. property, as well as some custom ores.
 The Detroit Copper company ended the year with an output for Deeem- Der amounting to 1,S31,70O pounds of copper, felling off from No eember of 1,S94,OOO pounds. The shelter output of the Copper Queen totaled 9,5OO,OOO pounds in the pre- ceding month.
 The total production of both the Copper Queen and Calumet and Ari- zona smelter for the year 1909 on the basis of a monthly average was 16O,5OO,OOO pounds of copper. The total production of copper in the Douglas smelters for the year shows a monthly average of 13,175,OO0 pounds. Of the total, the Copper Queen smelter produced los, ,5OO,OOO pounds, a monthly average of 9,O42,- GOO pounds. The Calumet and Arizona produced 52,OOO,OOO pounds, a month ly average of 4,333,OOO.
 The production for December at the smelters was: For the Copper Queen, 2,45O,OOO pounds; for the Calumet and Arizona, 4,5OO,OOO pounds. The Copper Queen operated eight of it's ten furnaces. It is prob able that the steady production which characterized the operations of both smelters last year will be main tained throughout 1910, though on ae- count of the gradually climbing price of copper the production may be in- creased toward the close of the year.
 During the year there was very little custom ore received at the Copper Queen, as compared with the years 1906 and 1907, when the GUS tom ore amounted to several hundred tons daily.
 The Shattuck began shipping one hundred tons daily with the begin ming of the present year and that mine could send many times that amount daily if the management so desired.
 From Sonora comes daily the con centraues from the Montezuma Cop per company and besides this several properties in northern Sonora are sending an occasional car of ore.
 The first annual report of the Gila Copper company, operating near Ray, in Pinal county, shows cash and cash assets of $2O9,S61 The prop erty comprises 95O acres, of which 275 acres are believed to lie within the mineralized territory. Of the 275 acres, 110 show through the primary naturalization, 165 are of less min eralized ground and 40 acres are sur rounded by ore-bearing territory of the Ray Consolidated.
 It being apparent that this latter detached area could not be worked independently to the best advantage, an agreement was made, dated Jan uary 9, 1909, between the Gila and the Ray Consolidated, looking to an exchange of mineralized territory On December l, the drilling showed 12,- 237, ,O0O tons of fully developed ore, averaging 2.O5 per cent copper. This was on 20 acres. Besides this, there was a considerable tonnage not fully proved. The company for the past four months has been adding to its reserves at the rate of 1,5O0,0OO to 9 OOO OOO tons per month.
 c. E. Finney, who passed through here this week on his way to Los