Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21
Great Producer of Present Day Changed Failure to Success
 Making Globe Big District

five operations and management the old Dominion at Globe offers one of the most instructive and interesting examples Grouped under one man agement at this time are the prop. critics of the old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelling Company. The United Globe Mines and the old Do minion Company Their importance Is clearly indicated by a July produc- tion of 3.176,565 pounds of copper Dc spite the disturbed conditions of the copper markets and the generally cur. taiIment which practically every cop per producer of the country found forced upon it following the outbreak of the European War. the old Domin- ion Group produced 47499.S2t pounds Of coper in the 19 months ending Sep tember 1st
 Low cost Of transportation is an absolute essential for profitable pro. duction of the baser metals. Little was done in Arizona until the advent of the Southern Pacific railroad so far as copper mining was concerned. Without transportation facilities it was but natural that silver values found in the Globe District should be given prodominating considerations and the copper outcropp.ngs tha, ap pearcd throughout that section be giv. en little or no attention and be treat ed almost with contempt Such was the case in the first few years of the Globe Camp.
 It was in 1874 that prospectors en- tered and filed on claims in the Globe District It was not until 1878 tha, Van Arsdel and Garsh mined the first copper on the Hoos.er claim and the first Globe copper ore was smelted in an adobe furnace at WhealGelds. Then a total of 40 tons of black mat tc was recovered and shipped It ir unnecessary. to recount the troubles and failures Of the copper industry in Globe prior 10 the advent of the old Dominion Company.
 First Shelter Small
 The first old Dominion Shelter was a 5)-ton water jacket furnace put in at Bloody Tanks seven miles west oi Globe to smelt ores from the New York and Chicago claims but most o' the ore treated came from the old Dominion and Keystone Claims. From the Old Dominion Claims the company took its name This plant only lasted some three or four months. when. aE ter the purchase of other claims. it was moved to a more convenient To- cation on Pinal Creek near Globe. and there increases in capacity were made from time to time and other claims. in cluding the old Globe which was tho first property located in the district were acquired that claim for a Ions time being the first producer for inc company The original Globe mine made good until 1884 when it's outpu was about a million pounds from two 30-ton furnaces. old Dominion did mol operate with any high degree oI sue cess despite rich ores of the distric which it handled. Low copper price. in 1885 and 1886. high operating ex po7ses, aggravated by high transporta tion and a haul of 13O niles to WilIcox dissensions among the stockholder proved a heavy burden The nroperty was sold at auction to William Key ser of Baltimore for S13OOOO Al other plants in the district which hat fen Increased 10 six. closed in 1886 be cause ~ '7' lower copper price. UT 10 the time of the sale the Old Domin ion had produced about 23OOO .OOl pounds Of copper, considerably les. than a years production under pres ent management
 Feoruanizatton Effected.
 In 1888 the Old Dominion was reor ga7ized by Boston interest which Ist or became a disturbing element an, brought about further litigation Worl at that time was resumed from ,b, siHth level of the mterIoper shaft Here improved ore and larger bodie, were fornd with depth a condition which the company has found 10 con unue in its subsequent operations. A thi7 time the company was contendin, with the theory that ore should no continue with depth and to meet stae ments that 'its mines were worke, out" A generation has since passe, and the contrary has at length bee, effectively demonstrated for the OI, Dominion is in a position to produc, as never before in the past.
 Though still suffering fro mlack o rail transportation, operations on th, part of the old Dominion continue, without interruption from 1888 to 1892 Considerable deepening and stead, Improvements on the surface beini noted But in 1897 the drain on re sources by reason of lack Of adeouat, transportation facilities proved to, great and it was deemed best to clos, down and await the advent of the rail road then under construction. Thi road connected Globe up with tn Southern Pacific at Bowf' sa Decem ber. 1899, and the Old Dominion wa enabled to once more resupa.
 Tn the meantime the United Glob, hfd been organized in 1892 taking owe the HoosieT Buffalo and other claim in the vicinity. In 1895 the campan, Fnr~rr-na rlrrfr~.-e