Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-22

start as soon as market conditions will warrant. Testing to prove the i most practical system fore treat. i ment has been underway for several months
 COPPER QUEENS MINES ] The Copper Queen company is working about three. .fourths normal
 capacity and even with this reduc- tion is showing very good costs. ] With Calumet & Arizona and the Shattuck companies, it supports the i town of Bisbee as well as any other
 copper producing place in the coun- try is now being maintained. Wages | have been cut, but by comparison they are still high. Several places have been closed where the ores
 were leaner than the average of the mines generally. At the Uncle Sam and Southwest areas work is being pushed because of the lead values,
 and precious metal values here ob-
 tained. The company, like Calumet
 X Arizona, is one of thos that can make money at the present too-low
 price for the red metal. The ventil. alton system for the Sacramento and
 Lowell divisions has been completed
 and works with much efficiency. be.
 ing a great aid to the miners. Mir
 Chas Mitke. in charge fthis work. has done much for the company in this line The Gardner division was similarly improved some months ago.
 The Copper Queen company had been doing considerable work in the
 Burro Mountain district at the Che mung and other properties recently acquired. The slump in the copper
 industry resulted in the cessation of activities at such locations and little will be done on outlying development until market conditions improve.
 There's a big tax burden on the mines O fthat region and in dull per iods this interferes with explorations of lands outside of the developed prop critics Copper ueen last year paid taxes amounting to 50 cents per ton on all the ore it mined and that's very heavy load in the taxation line: too much for copper that sells below l5 cents per pound.
 THE coPPERMINEs COMPANY
 One of the properties in which there is considerable interest taken by Lake Superior people is the Cop permines with properties at or near Ely, Nevada, Giroux and other con. cerns were merged into Coppermines There's no work now being done. the company like many others who were conducting extensive operations. shut ting down when the pinch in money came
 Everything was being rounded out for a start in production when busi- ness generally went to pieces. Money could not be ha for any purpose no matter how legitimate or how high .he interest offered might have been. It went out of circulation for all kinds of industrial purposes, and for mining in particular. When gflt-edged paper of the leading business houses in the country could not be placed at less than seven per cent there was little use trying to secure any fnan. 1 clng of mines. The Coppermines di- ! recturdte had worked hard to bring | things to a successful conclusion and had it about arranged for when the business crash came. No matter how ! good the security the money could | not be had.
 From the time fthe organization Of Giroux conditions initiated against | t'e prosecution of the work 10 the | best advantage. There were fires and strikes, and legal proceedings, and as soon as one thing was disposed of enotler seemed to arise. Tie man. agement which was efficient and dil. igent. worked hard in the interest of the organization and its shareholders. and thi Fwithout price 1he consol- idation of Giroux with other yroper ties in it's immediate vi inify vas al good iooye although this was com b2tted ty some O fthe Giroux and Copper mines and Butte & Ely share. roiders not familiar with conditions at these properties. The basis of con Solidei'on was as equitable as cou'd be he"red on what was known of the properties
 While all this work ci formation was ir progress the company was ex ploring "s lanls and mas ne. will fine success in exposing new areas and tonnages of commercial grades Of copper ore.
 The Coppermines company is to be one O fthe big copper produces of the country A great-taddiuon in ore has been made in the past two years. and the aggregate tonnage now known is sufficient to make Coppermines very attractive property. When buat1ess becomes right again Copper. mines will be taken hold of energet