Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-20
Magma
Copper Go.
lRy Chas. \. Dinsmnre.l }

tBy Chas. A. Dinsmore.)
 The Magma Copper Co, San Gum
 manager, owns and operates the once
 famous Silver Queen mile. 3 miles
 from Pinal. Arizona---the town of Pi
 nal, where once 20OO citizens and
 where there was a 4O-stamp mil
 pounding the values out of the rich ores of the Silver King and the Silver
 Queen. The Queen, 20 years ago. was one of the famous rich mines of this section Of Arizona--and it may again come into great prominence, though this time as a copper-silver producer. The ore is chaicocite and bornite. com ing from a 40-toot vein, the ore chutes being somewhat cratic, as is common. aud sometimes the lenses are of con siderable extent. At one point on the I9operty there is an incline in ore 1900 feet, the chute being more than 200 feet in length and l feet in width, carrying an average of 50 per cent copper, with considerable silver val ues. In the old times the mine was worked to 400 feet Of vertical depth, where the rich silver values gave way 10 considerable copper, and the com pany now operating has sunk another 400 feet in copper ore. The vein is a Assure in lime. and has persisted to 800 feet with great regularity. In the latter haf of this woTk there has been occts,"ha good bunches O. hiEh grade ire, a | his has been sto .ad No sjop- ing les leen done. Thc property> IS well eqd,l ped with bousrs. etc. for oFfrs ng the machine drills ana the pumping plant necessary but the water developed on the soc John Neary is superintendent. Thirty-fye men are working; and t is probable tEa ore Shipments will soon begin.
 In writing of this district it is nee. essary to revert to the old time. for here was one Of the most active camps of 20 years ago The Silver King was one of the wonders Of the southwest and the Qneen was not far behind One pas on the east and the other on the west side of a high mountain A small shelter was built at Pinal after the copper came in, but as this materdial was rather sparsely dis tributed in the vein and the metallur. gical skill of the smelternlen not all that could be desired. the plant closed down and is now but a memory. There was, too, at Pinal a 40-slamp mill, also memory. and today. indeed there is not a soul in the place. The Silver King did things on. a big scale they had the biggest wagons. the biggest horses the biggest machinery. l In the countryside big lathe that they formerly used is now in the shops Of the Southern Pacific railway at Tucson, doing fine service. There were 20 spans-40 horses-to a team hauling ore from the mine to the Uill. quad everything was on a similar scale. From these mines-the King and Queen-S30. .000. GOO was taken in | 2 few years, but this was at the time | when silver was Sl to Sl.50 an ounce | Here, as in many places, the more | precious metals gave way to copper | with depth, and it si more than prob | able that the Hague and other com panies will make good" and reinvsst 1 the country with actiyity-a mere con stant and permanent activity than it l ever had before. The mines are about | B miles from Mesa or Florence. an 1 supplies coming from these points.
 Wayside Notes.
 was talking with David Cole the other day. He is the manager for the Ray Consolidated Copper Co.. and his | headquarters are at Hayden, where I the big concentrator is located. We were talking Of mining in general, when l remarked that it must have made a deuce of a racket when they shot out the bottom of the pillars in l the Ray mine simultaneously. There :