The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-12-16

on to them year after year and back
ed up their faitn with assessment
work.
FINALLY, late in 1906, Fred Alsdorf,
a young mining engineer who was in
the district looking for opportunities.
examined the claims and concluded
there was a strong possibility for the
existence of a large body of low grade
copper ore underneath the iron stain
ed Gaping. and decided 20 take
chance. At that time, Utah Copper,
low the largest of the porphyry cop
lers, and. In fact, the largest mine in
he world, and Nevada Consolidated,
mother porphyry copper mine, We're
coming into prominence, though they
rad not yet begun to pay dividends.
.'he mines at Morenci had been pro-
ducing copper from large low grade
ore for some years, and are properly
referred to as the Oldest of the por-
)hyry copper mines, But the ore bod
les in the above mentioned mines con-
sisted of dissemination of copper,
mostly in the form Of chalcopyrite, in
Quartz monzonite porphyry or granite
lporphyry, whereas the formation of
he Miami mining claims is a quartz
mica schist. Mr.. Alsdorf, noted, how
ever that the general character of the
liberalization was very similar to
that which showed on the surface of
the Utah, Nevada and Morenci mines,
| nd concluded there was no reason
why similar bodies of ore should not
ccur in the schist as well as in the
Iporphyry. Accordingly, together with
his friend, F. J. Elliott, young at
lt0rney from Globe, he obtained from
Newman and the others an option to
purchase the claims.
AT the Dominion hotel in Globe a
! ew evenings later Mr.. Alsdorf met j.
Parke Claiming, consulting engineer
| the General Development company
Lewisohn corporation, who was in
he district negotiating for the In
splration claims, which he finally re-
ected, as he considered the price to
,e excessive. Being, therefore, in a
eceptive mood, Mr.. Claiming listen
ed to Mr.. Alsdorfs proposition of the
Newman claims when he Offered his
option for sale, and the next day went
ut and examined them. The result of
lis examination was that he arrived
let conclusions similar to Mr.. Alsdorfs
Regarding the possibilities of the ex-
istence of large body of low grade
"copper" ore and decided that the
chance was fair one, and he acquir-
ed the option for the General Devel.
opment company"
This, then, is the history as chron.
icled by an expert of how fate side
tracked the General Development in
terests from Inspiration to Miami ant
changed the entire history of the Mi
t ami district in so doing The ro
: nance of Miami will be the theme 70
: another story later. So far more thai
+ $10,000,000 has been spent on MAN
and Inspiration, and all this before
s pound of copper was produced b
either mine.
0 ella county, in which the Globe an
d Miami districts are located, has bee
d known from the earliest times as on
n Of the most thoroughly mineralize
n regions of Arizona. Millions of do
= hrs are being spent in exploring an
II in underground work. and million
n will be spent for railroad facilitie
1t Large sums of money are being sper
= in metallurgical practice for the pul
e pose of securing every commercial
e profitable atom of ore that can
le milled and smelted. In all Of the'
N developments Inspiration Consolidate
r. closely allied with Anaconda and /
's International smelter, stands head ar
= shoulders above a gigantic group. r.
IS several years Inspiration and later II
y spiration Consolidated have been
small public interest, but they a.
{ now coming into their own, and herr
} after will command a situation in Il
5e copper world. With a production
re approximately 3S7550,0OO pounds
re copper last year. Arizona not only r.
is tains her lead as the greatest copp
G. producing section in the world, b
Y had the distinction of mining, millil
end smelling almost as much copp
t. as her two nearest competitors, Mo-
es Itana and Michigan. Inspiration Co
lg solidated will in her first year produ
n more than one-fourth of Arizona
We output Of last year.
as Inspiration Consolidated sets ne
EN- pace in the copper world in ma
ed ways Everything about 1t Is b
from the towering ore bins to
'ly source of the company's motive po
n er, which 1t secures by contract w
lis the reclamation service, from
he Roosevelt dam project, giving
ere cheaper power than any mine in
20 southwest. The development Of
,e- SEPARATION, first as Inspiration and
,se terward as Inspiration Consolidat
les has brought before the public so
see strong personalities. One of the fl
pes was the late George z. Gum of S
lks Lake City, who was general mana
be of the original Inspiration.
ing Special reference should be made
ne, William B. Thompson, who was
ed, dominant figure in the Inspiratl
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