Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-08-15
MAGAZINE
DEVOTES SPACE

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the year round AT Warren are To-
Gated the handsomest homes of the
district and broad lawns surround
many of these. 1t is upon a graceful
slope and the mountain scenery be
comes distant, stretching further and
further away to the south
In tracing the influences which have
brought Bisbee to its present promi-
hence, it is necessary TO look no furth-
or than TO the fact that the Copper
Queen Mines output more ore through
a single shaft-the Sacramento-than
any other copper mine in the world
These mines also have more miles
OF underground openings than any
other in Arizona. and as many, If not
more than any other group of mines
In the universe, the total length Of
these openings being between four and
five hundred miles They are adding
% these underground workings each
year at the rate approximately Of
twenty miles or more. driven Boa pur
suit of and blocking out of ore, of
which there is now a greater amount
in sight and reasonably 90 be antici-
pated as certain of development than
al any other time in their history. COW
ering a period of thirty-four years, in
which time they have produced more
than one billion pounds of copper and
paid noiv than sixty millions i'm divi-
bends while devoting many times that
amount TO pay-rolls and construction
work
The Copper Queen Mining Company
! is employing at present around four
thousand men, It's monthly payroll is
about half a million dollars or more
than six million dollars a year, prac-
|tically all of which finds distribution
I i'm trade and bushes channels of the
Warren District Since producing its
first copper from Bisbee ore the Cop
per Queen has paid more than one
hundred million dollars In Bisbee.
Calumet & Arizona, the second
largest mining company operating in
the Warren District, and also the sec
ond largest copper producer I'm Ari-
IONA, entered upon fits career i'm the
district at the Irish Mag shaft. more
than a mile east and south of the or
iginal discovery in thee amp, and
amid much doubt Indeed. 10 required
great deal of determination and
sturdy application to conviction. to en-.
able It's owners at first to proceed I'M
the face of equally firm conviction of
most everyone in the Warren District
at that time that the Irish May loca.
ton was on of the zone of copper en-
irichment and the management very
badly al sea i'm the Irish Mag location
j Since then Calumet d Arizona has
paid more than eighteen million dol
lars in dividends Calumet g. Arizona
as her affairs now stand, is assured
OF a very long and rich life It is ques
tionablo If there lis another copper
producing organization anywhere that
has accomplished as much in as com
paratively short a time, and with a
I beginning marked with so large a
measure Of doubt. in entrenching sol
idly against the future. while coinci
dentally caring for immediate things
with so much thoroughness and SO
high a degree of results as attended
les career. Besides meeting it's diyi
dends now established on quarter
lily basis Of $3.50 per share. improving
It's mine surface equipment as Occa
sion required, acquiring new proper
ties from time 10 time, and maintain
ing continual aleriness for these, the
IC d A. has built two smelters, boil
splendid plants the FIRST recently dis
placed By the new plant, conceded q
have the maximum equipment for th,
attainment Of highest efficiency in IA,
work ahead of IT,
The Calumet & Arizona payroll in
, che Warren District carries eighteen
hundred men 10 whom there is PAL,
/ I'm the neighborhood of 100000 pc
/ lmonth. Underground workings at c
g. A now total about 200 miles.