Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-13
ARIZONA RID TIhTO
 COMPANY FORMED
Will Take Over and Operate John A. Duncan Group
 of Mines
(Artesian Belt)

kATNtSkdn Dt4NJ
 By the organization of the Arizona Rio Tinto Company on the 18th of
 ast March at this place, Paradise and the Chiricahua mountains are
 be greatly benefited and San Si- mon will be the gainer.
 The company was organized for the purpose of taking over and % eratipg the John A. Duncan group of mining claims close to Paradise on the south. the property in Wood canyon known formerly as the Fay lor-Cardwell group. about eighteen miles west of Paradise and fifteen miles southwest of San simon, to- gether with a number of other claims adjoining the latter group and located recently by Captain Duncan. h all. there are = claims, constituting the largest holdings of any one company ever interested in the California mining district. The officers of the Arizona Rio Tinto Company are as follows: John A. Duncan. of St. Joseph. Mo. pres dent, treasurer and general mana ger: John H. Mcclellan of Paradise. hlAAss NANt ItGHlQtDAs auu AA IlsliAA Duncan of San Simon, AriZ., secre- ary. These three also comprise the executive committee, and they, to gether with Geo. E. Sligh. of San Simon, constitute the resident board of directors.
 ! The principal place for the trans action of the business of the com lpany. (which has been duly incor- lporated under the laws of Arizona), i, | is San Simon: but other offices may be maintained. including one at St Joseph, Mo.
 | The company Is named for the Rio Tinto copper mine in the prov ! ince of Huelva, Spain. the fourth | largest copper mine in the world and the greatest in all Europe. The capitalization is 10000, di- vided into 100000 shares of a par value of $5 each.
 | 1t is expected that extensive oper- ations will be commenced both on the Duncan group at Paradise and on the Taylor property in Wood can yon within two months, and thal these operations will be such as to revive Paradise and the mineralized , belt of the Chiricahua mountains. Both properties are highly spoken of, and on both considerable money has been expended. After develop ! ing them for several years, Capt Duncan became thoroughly con. vinced that they easily and quickly had the making of mines, and the ! organization of the Arizona Rio | Tinto company is the result. The principal values carried in the ore are in copper, leSH and silver, | though gold is carried, also. Scarce fly an assay certificate has been re- Iceived but recorded from $1,SO to s12.00 in the yellow metal. | It was Capt. Duncans property, ! in which he, with Captain Burns, was interested-the Chiricahua-that
 brought boom to Paradise in 1905, about s400,000 being spent in the development of that property in less than three and one-half years; it was largely through the Captain s efforts that the leading copper in-
 terests of the country were induced
 to take hold and finance the proposf
 ton. And now there Is every req
 son for believing that the Captain
 will again be the means of causing
 the district to be brought to tho
 front.
 As already stated, the offices ,r the company will be maintained at San Simon, and at least a portion Iof the supplies for one or both of the two properties must needs come lvia the s. P. and San Simon or be purchased here; hence San Simon B bound to derive beneficial results. l"nIe Paradise will enjoy hapDv 1 ejuyenation.