Arizona republican., 1913-06-16
Mining is Leading Industry, the Wages Paid Annually Representing $50 for Every Man. Woman and Child in State
RAY MINES ARE
 STILL IN LEAD
Properties Second Largest on Western Hemisphere, With Enough Ore Devel- oped to Run Plant for Twentv-SiX Years
Especial to the Republican,

RAY. Ariz. June 15.-In connection with the celebration at Ray is to be considered the fact that Arizona leads all the states Of the union 1T the pro duction of copper Also the fact that mining is the ieading industry of Ari- zona There is paid out in wages an nuallv bE the mines sum equal tO SSO per capita. for every man, woman and child m the state. Arizona iS the home of some of the largest copper mining concerns on the western conu- ucnt. Among them are Jerome, Bisbee, Moreuci, Clifton. Miami Globe and Ray At Ray is the second largest proven body of ore in the western hemisphere Since the acquisition of Boston Con sOIidated property, the Utah Copper company has the largest continuous body iu Bingham Canyon. Utah. Ray with it's S6.000,00o million tons is sec ond Inspiration at Miami, third; Chi no, \. NJ fourth.
 Ray is a new camp. It has not yet reached the limit of its producing ca pacity. And yet, three ore trains, with an aggregate length of most a mile. are in use daily conveying ore from mine to mill. In less than four years time, three main working shafts have been opened up. sixteen miles of railroad built and equipped. sixty-tive miles oI underground work done, an So00-ton concentrating plant erected, shops, store rooms. change rooms for the men. etc. constructed The preliminary eN- penditures of such an enterprise nee asSariIy run into the millions, the cost of surface roads for churn drills to locate and determine the extent of the ore bodies was a quarter of million dollars. There has been expended in development work today, S3.024612. In construction and equipment. $6.51A615. The Ray property. with the constrxc- tion and development work added. rep resents an investment of $1S,465,S94.
 The Ray Consolidated Copper com pany. has blocked out at Ray enough ore to keep the present operating ia ciities going tWenty-siX years. This does not mean that all the mining ground has been explored or that fur ther development work will not be done by the company. IL merely means that it is not necessary to invest more in development until some of developed ore is gotten out of the way. Lateral extensions of developed ore bodies are known to exist. It likewise is known that ore exists at greater depth than vet attained. Tn certain portions of the ground, drilling was stopped in ore. The company owns 2100O acres of min ing ground, besides 40O0 acres of mil ling and tailing ground. Of the 2100 acres of mining ground but little over 200 acres are included in the developed area.
 There are now employed by the Ray ha American Smelling & Refining that has a plant alongside concentrating mill. 2400 men. While the people were celebrating the rebuilding of the fire destroyed town. 1000 men were busy in the mines blasting and shipping out ore while another 1000 slept awaiting their turn to go on shift. Seven of the eight units of the min are in operation. When the other unit is put in opera ton, which will be within less than sixty days. another 1000 tons of ore d day will be added to the output and 300 to 300 more men will be required.
 The Ray mine is porphyry or low grade ore averaging 2.19 per cent cop per and carrying some silver values. It is only of late years that system has been devised whereby the pOrphyry ores can be handled prOfitably and on account of the enormous expenditure involved in preparation for convesting the low grade ores into copper. quan- tity is the first essential The success ful method of treating the pOrphyries is due largely to D. c. Jackling, that human dynamo who has lately become the managing director of mining prop critics and other industrial enterprises from Alaska to Chile, South America Some of porphyry ores are mined by the steam shovel process. but at Ray the caving system is better adapted and is in use. Louis $. Gates. young man of expert knowledge in this sys- tenn and possessing good executive ability. has been made manager foi the Arizona properties and the work at Ray and Hayden is organized thor oughEy and completely. and the com pany was enabled at the last quarterly meeting of the board of directors tt declare it's first dividend
 A noteworthy fact in connection with the Ray mines, one of the world: greatest known porphyry deposits. i. that just over the divide to the yves
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