Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-22
Intimate VieUs of Copper in the Greatest Camps of United States Glue Idea of Present Industries

The copper mines of this country are working ot about half their ca- pacity The price at which the metal they produce is selling Is too low to warrant any greater output than now being made. Copper has been hurt by the domestic conditions and by the wars abroad much of the produc- tion being sent Co foreign countries. The domestic attacks on big business has hurt the copper miner just as it has the miner of iron ore, and just as it has hurt the factory and mill men, the lumbermen, the textile workers. the coal miners, the railway men, all forms of industrial enterprise.
 Thi swas plainly shown by the vote poll in the last general election. That was what the vote meant. Had the present administration of the country's affairs been satisfactory the landslide to the Republican side would not have been shown In this matter it will take another election to again place the party Of business in power and that this change will be made two years from now is cer- tain It is as inevitable as were the elections following Democratic sue. cesses at all other times in our coun- try's history.
 THE COPPER WILL KEEP
 The copper will keep in the ground It will not rust or blow away. Some forms of it can burn, however, the copper ores, the sulphides. some. times taking fire and being hard to eNtinguish. There are some mines in which fires have been burning for many years in some O fthe high-grade sulphide stopes Anaconda has such places as has Copper ueen and other mines of the west and southwest. The Lake Superior copper cannot burn in the lode It is insured against that due Co its physical characteristics.
 In time all this copper will be de- manded by the manufacturing world. With the wars ended. and with bust ness again in competent hands in our country there will be good profits and shareholders will be receiving oldltime dividends and making up for the barren seasons. Big business is going to have a fair chance on a fair system, and capital will again be busy developing the natural resources of this, the greatest country under the sun.
 CALUMET AND ARIZONA
 They are finding new deposits of ore about the Cole shaft, that are ol high grade and of great importance to the company. Some of these new deposits are in the ground that was being opened last winter. Cole shaft is now one of the most important of the c. & A. group in the Bisbee camp. Calumet & Arizona is work. ing only about half force, having re duced in common with other copper mining organizations when the price shrank to so low a point. It could not be sold even at the low figure in the quantity that could have been outputted by the mines of this coun. try, so the wise policy was to re- trench Surpluses are not conducive to better prices
 Calumet & &Arizona can make money at the eleven-cent quotation, it being fortunate in the possession of ores of high grade, and it has | highly efficient management that has | lowered costs to about the best there is in America Its new smelter has been of much assistance being much | more economical than the old and per i mitting of greater flexibility in ore treatment. It is able to handle satis- . factorily all classes of ores that come ! to it Its mine cost, as we'll as those ! at the shelter, are very satisfactory. |
 The company passed it's September . ividend due to the unsatisfactory l business conditions. It had paid out large sums in the past year in the acquiring O fnew copper lands in Bis bee and at the Ajo Mountains. In II Bisbee the Calumet Bisbee and Hig- gins groups of claims were taken over . and paid for, and heavy payments were made in the purchase of the . New Cornelia mine in the Ajos. This left the treasury rather bare The | lands secured through these payments ! are highly valuable and of much i'm ! portance to the future operations of the company which is now well for tihed with copper producing territory. | having the big end of the holdings in ] the mineralized area of the Bisbee camp, and the cream of the Ajo mountains copper deposits so far as | known or the ultimate value of the New Cornelia mine ores there is no' doubt In time this will be one of the most important of the compay's | operations Nearly fifty million tons of ore of commercial grade have been proved there and its peoovery win