Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-22
Larger Number of Men Work
 ing in Big County and More
 Investors Waiting for Op- portunity than Ever Before.
GENERAL ACTIVITY
 NOTED IN THE FIELD
Big Bug District Looking Up With the Announcement That Reduction Works May Soon Be Opened.
(By William P. De WolD

PRESCOTT, Ariz.. October 21. - When the mining men of Iavapai county about year ago hung out the sign: This is my busy day" spit on the palms of their hands and began swinging the mine development dou- ble-jack with increased vigor against the drill of mining success. they open ed the lead to the most prosperous mining period the county has ever ex- per.enced, and developed into a cer tail ty the assurance of a full dinner pail for many years to come Since then each days work has adder ap- preciably to the value of the mineral wealth disclosed and has demonstrat- cd more forcefully the unusual breadth of the area through which it is disseminated.
 There are more miners on the Job and more mine investors in the field her, now than ever before; and the result of their joint efforts is every where apparent in the reopening of mir es. the making of mines and the developing of prospects. The ucket Brigade has on its muster roll hard rock men from the mines of Colorado. Montana. Idaho and the DakOtas: poe ket-hunters from the mother lode or California; single-jackers from the rich stopes of the Nevada desert: sil- yer miners from Mexico: copper r'in- CTS from the Lake Superior country: iron miners from the Masaba range. Miners from the South African rand. from South American placers. from the Alaska tundra Mine investors from the financial centers of the Un- tied States. from war-rent Europe. from bandit-ridden Mexico. from the Hawaiian Islands. from the wealthy South American states. They have all foregathered here in what might be not inaptly termed an Old Home Week for the miners and mine invest ors of the world.
 Activity In General
 Their activity extends to all DOT tions of Yavapai county and includes in its scope the mining of copper. gold. silver. tungsten. lead and zinc Refners of ore are present in proper ratio to the miners thereof. and have solved all of the reduction problems thus far presented. This fact is in it. self one of paramount importance in its relation to both past. present and future ore production. and assures the solution with equal facility of other problems that may crop up The un- derwriters of mining shares and the incorporators of mining companies are two other important factors in the advancement of the county's mining business Under the supervision of the Arizona Corporation Commission the last mentioned are kept within the bounds of rational statement and act ion-were they otherwise disposed. which is doubtful-and ss a result the promotions nut forth from here may be accepted by the public as genuine in intent
 The underwriters of mining shares have made and are making possible the ready financing of many promis- ing propositions New York. Boston. Philadelphia. Pittsburg. Chicago. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Michigan and Arizona capital has been and Is avail able for that purpose. A coterie of mining and business men of the Lake Superior conner country financed. al- most overnisht. the Jerome Victor Extension Copper company. owner of the old Haynes estate adjoining the United Verde mine at Jerome. James Layman. one of the best and most fav
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