Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21
Scotch Tenacity Exerted In Face ofDiscouragementR Rewarded
 By Accomplishment

opens up the mountain at depth of l,IOO feet
 US new smelting plant, erected on a site on the A. & N Al. Railway about tWo miles south or Clifton, has an al- most iueal location. Its arrangeuents Tor delivery and rapid and convenient nandmg ot ore approacnes perfection.
 n equipment ana facilities it is the latest word m reduction works so far as applicable to conditions there exist ms. lt is Ereproof throughout in con. structon ana will enable increases In output that will readily raise pro- auction figures to 5O,OOO,OO0 pounds each year when running and fed to its run capacity. lt has been designed to handle the ores from the Arizona Copper Company's mines almost ex- clusively and the handling of customs ore to any extent has not entered into the calculations.
 Early Day History
 In connection with this description of the success which this company has made of its holdings some early day history of the properties which it has developed into mines win not be out of place, especially as it forms practically a summary of the events that preceded the development of the properties of the other companies of the Clifton-Morenci-Met District as well, since it was the same New Mex ico prospectors that located practically all of the mining claims that ultimate ly gave all such companies their real start in copper production.
 Attachments on the property of the company mark activities since 1872, in which time there have been pro duced from its ground 59O12S,873 pounds of copper, all of this with ex. cepton of about 2O,000,0O0 pounds since its requirement by the Arizona Copper Company from Lezinsky Brosj in 1882. The Lezinskys secured con trolling interest following purchase of interest of Bob Metcalf one of the founders of the district. Metcalf went in with Ike Stevens, still a resident and mining operator of Clifton, in 1872, with about a dozen others from Silver City, N. M where the report of high naturalization in the San Fran cisco river and Chase creek country had been carried by a party of soldiers on return from an Apache scouting ex- petition In 1872 Metcalf Stevens and their associates were the only white residents of that part of Ari- z0ua In 1873 a number more joined them from New Mexico, and the ca reer of the Copper Mountain mining district and of Clifton was fairly launched. In 1872 Metcalf Stevens and Golden had located, among other properties which were to become famous as producers of copper, the Longiellow and various claims in the Metcalf area. In 1873 they attracted the aid of the money of the Lezinskys, then engaged in mercantile business in Las Cruces, N. M., and who subse- guently became very wealthy from their operations in the district. In 1873 they put in the first adobe smelt- CT in the Southwest. with capacity of one ton per day, or perhaps 75 pounds of copper, from which has grown the enormous smelling industry of Ari-i zona, in 1913 equal to the production of more than 4OO,O00O00 pounds of copper per year The original shelter blast was obtained by the use of a hand bellows. In 1874 a water jacket furnace was essaycd on the San Fran cisco river, and from that time dates the real development in the state of methods of reduction of it's copper ores During this early period the pioneers of Clifton were not only con fron-ed with large difficulties of min ing and treating ore, and of trans portatiou of their crude matte to rail in Colorado, but they were beset with constant physical danger in their i'm mediate locality from savage incur sions of Apaches In 1882 a number of miners were killed by the savages on Gold Creek, and an attack was made on the town of Morenci, where the Indians were repuIsed and driven back into the mountains. Their raids, however, continued at intervals up to 1885, during which time the outlying country was entirely unsafe for the nrospector, and travel of an sorts un- 1arfaLan Dplv u-ffb hazard