Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-17
MINES OF ARIZONA

soon become the baby state of the Union, will probably contribute to the wealth of the nation within the the contributions of many of the next few years an amount equal to older states in the whole history of their existence. says the Daily Min ing Record of Denver.
 | Arizona now stands first in the production of copper and during the year just passed she has given the world 292.S75,1OO pounds of the red metal. equal in value to 35,145,Ol2 silver dollars.
 i In addition to this splendid output of copper, she has also produced l IS3,375,256 worth of gold. S1,516, FPS worth of silver, thousands of dol ] lars forth of other important met als precious and semi-precious stones and coal
 ! In the early Sos silver mining was in vogue south of Tucson. In 1858 the placer beds at Gila City, 20 miles east of Yuma, were yield | ing their gold. At the now abandon ed camp of La Paz, on the Colsrado river, several thousand people gath i cred in 1862 and more than $1,OOO,. 900 worth of gold dust was washed from the sands during the next two years.
 | Cochlse County.
 The mines in the Tombstone dis. trict have worked under great dis advantages during the past year. as an increased influx of water made necessary new pumps and other ex- pensiye machinery.
 In this district are some of the famous mines of the state, such as the Tombstone Consolidated, the Herschell, the Arizona United, the Calumet & Arizona, the Copper Queen and the Superior & Pittsburg and many other prolific producers.
 The Copper Queen company be- gan mining here in an open cut and the town of Bisbee has since grown up around it. A daily ore train car ries something like 2,00O tons of ore to the Douglas smelters. The sul- phide ores are said to run from to F per cent copper, with some gold and silver.
 There is more or less activity here all the time and modern de- lyelopment work is bringing splendid results and great prosperity.
 Graham County.
 It is said that Uncle Jimmy" Metcalf and Prospector GreenleeI were searching for lost" mines when they fought their way into what is now Graham county, and To- cated the Clifton-Morenci section.
 The first copper mines of the Southwest were worked in this dis trict.
 It is understood that the very first mine worked in this section was the Longfellow and that the first rail road in Arizona was a narrow gauge from the Longfellow mine to the adobe furnace at Clifton, where the ore was smelted.
 Tn old adobe furnaces have since given way to the splendid srnelting works of the Arizona Copper con- pany, the last report from which gives the gross output of this com. pany as s4.O49,92Z15. The Stand ard and many others located in this section had a prosperous year in 1910 and expect larger output and bigger net profit in 1911.
 Pima County.
 Much may be expected from this section in the next year.
 Heretofore the companies have been handicapped for more ade- quate transportation and smelling facilities, and plans have been made for the building of new railroads and smelters in the very near flu ture
 Such splendid producers as the Twin Buttes, the Helvetia, the I'm Derial Copper. the Jack Rabbit, and others are located here and in the Santa Rita mountains, in the east ern part of the county, are rich placer beds which for generations were worked by Mexicans and which are now being handled with hydraulic machinery to a much better advantage.
 Maricopa County.
 There are few paying mines in Maricopa county. for a large part of the county is more agricultural than mining, but it is the home of the famous old Vulture mine, which in the old days. yielded up somewhere between s16.OOO,O0O and s17,OO6, 600 worth of gold.
 Pinsl County.
 Pinal county is the home of the 1 Ray Consolidated Copper company. whera sornafhin0 IfLa 1En0 rnav have I