Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-16

 WILL TAKE
 MORE ORES
Douglas Plants Announce Will Accept Customs Ores Again in Short Time - Added Forces
 Are Working Here Now Daily
Shelters Announcement Means Much To Small as Well as
 Large Miners in County-May Mean That End Is in Sight

Opportunities for the resumption of work by the smaller operators of mines in the district are growing dai- ly brighter, and with the announce ment of the smelters at Douglas that they will be in the field in a few days for custom ores, there is every chance in the world that the copper mines of this county will again resume work with forces almost as large as prior to the war scare. Not only the Cop per Queen but the Calumet and Arizo- na shelter at Douglas, it is under stood will again accept shipments from the small producers inside the next few days
 In addition there are marked in- creases in mining activities in the Warren district during the days just past The Copper Queen has aver aged six men each day for the past week or more whom 1t has placed in new workings underground In addi- ton, there were yesterday employed several men who were sent to new divisions of the Sacramento hill pro perty. There are also reports Of new men employed by the C. & A
 So far the increase since the first cut has brought the average percent of employees of the Copper Queen up 10 seventy-five percent of what was employed at the outbreak of the war. This is an increase over the middle of the month of August Of about fiji. teen percent as only sixty percent of the men were retained at the time of the first curtailment
 However, to the miners of this coun ty, the announcement that the Cop per Queen will begin taking customs ores at the smelter soon is the most interesting and encouraging announce ment of the past month. In the event the small properties are permitted to work, shipping their higher grade ores to the smelters for fair price, many of those who are now idle will be able to resume work.
 But the announcement has deeper meaning than that the small mines may resume operations, in the opln- ion of many mining men of the dis trict What the meaning of the an nouncement is, however, most will admit is beyond them Some state that the shelter can now take the customs ores since they have reports from authoritative sources that the end of the war is in sight. Others state it as their guess that as selling agents the smeiers have found a market for an additional amount of copper which they will secure through customs ores. And still others aye of an opinion hat in anticipation ol a market the company is laying up a store.
 Of these surmises the first is by far the most probable It is likely that in view of MT. Douglas visit to New York recently and iD view of the fact that he wrote encouraging letters back to this state. he has found grounds on which to base hope or confidence in early peace, and that the added operations in the Warren district mines as well as the announce ment that the smelters will take GUS toms ores, comes as result of this inside information.
 Be that as 1t may. however. there remains the fact that conditions lo- cally are looking up There are more men working. there Is less of the war hard times heard on the streets daily, and prosperitl again has ihe camp firmly in it's grip. Copper. copper mining and copper conditions look good, with Bisbee looking better as each day passes.