Arizona republican., 1914-09-20

mill. increasing the daily capacity to
 1000 tons. The Inspiration Copper company has erected a test, eXperi-
 mental plant of two hundred tons
 daily capacity, and is going to erect , a 10000 ton daily capacity concen
 trating mill at Miami. The Copper
 Queen company has also erected
 test mill at Bisoee to treat the sul- phide ores form the Sacramento Hill, mention of which is in another col , umn This will be followed by large mill of several thousand tons
 capacity The Detroit Copper Com pany has a large concentrating mill
 at Morenci which last year concen- , trated 01,92S tons of ore of an aV- : craze of sos per cent copper. It
 has two units of $50 tons each a day
 capacity, and cost over $1,000,000.
 Great CIarksdae Plant
 The United Verde Copper company : has just completed the new smelter at Clarksdale, Yavapai and is ready to blow in It is said to have cost ; altogether $3O00,0O0 and will have
 capacity of producing over 4O,0O0,O0O ? copper per annum, and will do GUS l. tom smeting of ores in Northern Arizona. as well as treating the com
 Iany's own ores from the United ] Verde mine, with which the plant IS I connected by a railroad from the 900 foot tunnel. It will be the l most up-to date plant in the world Q Doubtless the coming yea will Wit ness a large increase of copper and , gold from YaVapai county as the re- T suit of the starting of this smelter. , The importance of these mines and Q reduction plants may be realized by
 the fact that Bisbee and it's enVirons
 supports d busy population of about 2 2G000 people. the assessed value of { the mines being about $50,O00, 900, The ? census of 1910 gave Douglas over
 1897. This has increased to 10000. T In other words on the sites of these !, two mining towns, where thirty years :. ego was only bowling wilderness, t covered with greasewood, mesquite r and inhabited by 9 few wild animals, 0 there has sprung up under the magic
 hand of the copper mining industry, e a busy hive of about thirty thousand a people. All this wealth and popula : ; tion is due to the working of a space , of ground in the Bsbee camp less = than two miles long and q mile wide. J Could the same area of agricultural n land do the same? The same is true
 Of the Clifton Morenci district which a has nearly as large a population as = the Bisbee district, and of the Globe { Miami district, which has nearly as n many people now and is growing ra- , pdly Besides these are a score of [ | lesser camps with busy people and e the growth scarcely has begun. Fl i Paso is q market for all these towns , and camps, many of them shipping y ore to the shelter and all buying : machinery and supplies in Fl Paso. f The commerce that has sprung up e caused the building of the Fl Paso
 and Southwestern railroad about a
 decade ago, giving Fl Paso won s derful impetus and increase of popu- .. 1 lation.
 | Arizona Will Experience Gold Boom 8 Already the mines of Mohave coun- f ty, such as the Gold Road, Tom Reed, Q BoundaryCO Cone. Arabian and others ! are producing large amounts of gold
 
 range is being explored and develop
 ed for the yellow metal in Yavapai. ' There is q gold belt running ljO :, miles from northwest to southeast ;, through the heart of Arizona, con- = taining Assure veins of gold of more :. than ordinary richness Now since T the European war has demoralized 0 the copper mining industry tempor- s arlly, attention is again being direct l ed to these gold veins, and discov- | cries of gold are being almost con = stantly reported. The first important n discovery this yea. was made in the l vicinity of Ray, by the Higgins 1 brothers, Another has just been = made in Juniper Flat, six miles from = Bisbee, another is reported in the n Patagonia district One is reported t in the Johnson district and another e south of Bowie. In Graham county l are some large gold quartz veins, 9 l miles from Saffo:d. In Greenlee
 county, near Clifton, there is a good gold belt. The Big Bug and Tip Too s district in the Bradshaw mountains, l 1avapai county, and in the country Q south of Prtscott, some recent devel- : opments indicate one of the richest l gold regions in the United States. , Mohave county continues to call it. 2 self the big gold county" says Yav- aFal. new magazine of Prescott, but when the by-product of gold 2 rom the copper shelter of the Unit ed Verde and other mines of Yava- pal county is taken into considera- ton, It is possible that Mohave's , clam is not quite correct" The famous Congress gold mine is in the same county and has produced mil ? Hons in gold. In the Pearce district Iii Cochise county is the famous Commonwealth, with a production of over twelve million dollars in gold l and silver, the Commonwealth extep- slon and several other gold p-oper- tles that are coming to the front. In the Dos Cabezas mountains in the same county are rich gold quartz Neins and placers, besides copper.
 Publicity Has Done Wonders
 During the last few years the news
 papers have given the mines of Ari zona wide publicity following the example of Colorado and Montana and Nevada. The effect of this tfal mn not F.,