Arizona republican., 1911-11-06


 About copper district in the southwest is Clifton. Morenci and Metcalf. the the Longfellow. the side of Chase Creek can It a chimney of beautiful free smelting ore readily reduced in adobe furnaces built by pioneer mer chants the Lescynsy brothers charcoal being the ohy fuel burned in the district The first railroad in Arizona "babysauge" connecting the Longfelow with the furnaces at Clifton built in time when Dad AroucKe' engineer. crouch low in his little cab to yon Just now little free-smeltng ore IS found m te district of the product being base that seems to average less than per cent copper and that re- Puires primary reduction in several great concenatos Three companies control most of the ground with hund- reds of claims each. litigation being averted by side line arrangement The Arizona copper company, d Scotch corporation has it's shelter at Clifton the plant being chiefly noted for the more power units it contains This company owns the 1O-mile railroad Lorlsburg. the Southern Pacific and also has
 complete gauge system tapping all its widely mines. short distance south of Clifton the Shannon Copper Company has fine and modern sme ing concentrating plant connected with the mines by a railroad parallels the Arizona Company's Morenci the Detroit Copper Com has it's concentration and smelter connected with the railroad Lordsburg by remarkable for its many loops and heavy grades.
 GLOBES GREAT SHELTER
 About 1882 it discovered in Globe that it's mines valuable far more for copper than for silver Just capping of extraordinary richness. Three little sOton jackets the old Globe mine of the old Dominion Company two weeks on carbonate ore that returned 25 per cent while the fur each handled 54 tons of daily charge throughout Almost the site the little trio of 25 ago is magnificent modern shelter. with attached with and with economical appi dreamed the original plant Yet the old plant by richness treated aged make profit. despite the expense of getting coke Wales. costing $60 in Globe $40 being the of transportation by from Wilcox, 14O miles distant The about Globe nearly all slici valuable Things but generally deficient enough sulphide economical charges. suphde has found the lower old Dominion levels but much has been brought in for flux
 IMPERIAL COPPER.
 The Imperial Copper Company at Silver Bell, Pima county, closed down its Sasco shelter August 191O conditions prices transportation both being unsatisfactory The company. which another of the offshoOs of the Development Company of America, has a iron in the fire in the shape O a railroad a point it's Silver Bell line Port Lobos the Gulf California; with northern branches a Santa Fe connection Phoenix a junction with the Fl Paso x Southwestern system beyond Tucson. That the plan is all imagination shown by the floating of $7OOO00O Port LobOs railroad bonds in the east Such line would enable the shipment of copper bullion lowest direct Europe and would be valuable the bringing in of mining tmbers and foreign coke. There seems that the Imperial COmpany is permanently quit ting for t has acquired possession of the adjoining Tro mines. simply recognizing methods to fit modern conditions
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