The Arizona sentinel., 1910-08-25
What Arizona Brings to the Nation
By lion. Ralph Cameron, Delegate to Congress.

The importance of the lapful of wealth, present and prospect i've, which Arizona brings into the Sisterhood of states is not generally understood. Statist- ics show that, in copper, Arizona has for some years taken first rank among the states. A study of her great mines just now opening indicates that within half decade she will yield twice as much copper as any other state. In gold production she has long ranked close to the first file and a new era of develop ment is just now on the ways. It sounds unreal to declare that her coal deposits rank with those. of Alaska or Pennsylvania, yet 1 have ridden three days on horseback in an air line over coal fields. There are yet mill
 ions of acres of land that may be brought under irrigation, and the irrigated lands of Arizona yield such crops as do no other lands in the nation. The roman- ces of the future will be those of production.
 1 Former Senator Clark of Mon tana has copper mine at Jer- eme. For score of years he has taken out of that mine the maximum amount of ore that his smelters were able to handle- five to ten million dollars worth year. He might have taken out i've or ten times as much, but he built his plant too small, He is now preparing to enlarge
  i it and the production of the mine will depend only on the inciina- tion of the owner, for there is no indication of a possibility of eX- haustihg the ore. The same conditions exist ct half a dozen other mines. At Bisbee, a town of fifteen thousand people has been bailt about a mining shaft. Copper has been taken out in vast quantities for forty years, , yet there is no indication of the productive ore playing out. The , same is true of the old mines at Globe and Clifton and Morenci. There were 300, 0O0,OO0 pounds , of it mined last year.
 Then, just at this time there , are as many more mines in read mess to begin pouring equal pro , duction upon the market. In the Globe and Miami mining dis. ], tricts thirty-fve mining compa f nies are operating, with CapI |, talization of 5,OO0,O ,OO0 and ar f annual output of 10000, COG pounds of copper. Prominent among these mines are the Live : Oak, Black Warrior, Cordova, 7 Inspiration, Keystone and others. , The Miami Copper Company al- ready has eleveu million dollars r worth of ore blocked out and ', practically ready for the smeltel Upoa these and q score of other f mines just ready to begin heavy
 production is based the clain , that within half a decade Arizona , will surpass any two states com bined in her production of the
 most valuable product of the worlds mines.
 7 In gold Arizona has beer { yielding something over ter , thousand pounds @ year, ol , enough of the pure yellow meta 2 to make four wagon loads. Yav. 1 apai county, in the center of the state, has long been a strong
 producer, as has Yuma county
 in the southwest. But just now Mohave county, the wild and
 mountain broken desert region
 in the northwest, is forging tc
 the front with 6 score Of mines , that are getting into the product i've stage. The last year has
 witnessed a renewal of activity
 in both the old and the new dis.
 tricts. Improved railroad facil.
 ities. Three new railroads have each brought in respective dis
 tricts in different parts of the
 state. Mines that could not bt
 worked because of the difficul
 ties of transportation are now Al l. T.