The Arizona copper camp., 1916-03-24

fort to get buyer and seller in touch
without the agency of a middleman a
bureau of correspondence and in
formation has recently been estab-
lished. The results are sufficiently
encouraging to warrant placing it on
a permanent basis.
/ Pegmatite Areas Popular
4 The pegmatite, or tungsten bear
ing areas are markedly popular and
! were among the first to receive close
attention. AT the present price of
Observation-Disclosures recently at $500
I. even closer attention and are re-
spending satisfactorily to the test of
4 development. The present price of
tungsten is the highest in the history
of that metal, and indications strongly
favor it's remaining at this or an
even higher price, for some time to
come. Wolframite and hubnerite ores.
carrying as high as 70 per cent tung-
sten, are being shipped from various
sections of Yavapai county to Pitts
burg, Pa, and Denver, Colorado
Tungsten mining, therefore, bids fair
to be very prosperous branch of
the local mining industry. 1t is not,
ton to the eclipse of copper, lead,
zinc and silver-not to mention gold
Copper, for instance is the highest
in price it has been for many years.
AS result, the great United Verde
and other copper mines of Yavapai
county are being worked as never
before. New and commercially yalu-
able bodies of copper ore have of late
been found in sections remote from
each other. In yet other instances
development has been resumed in
copper properties which had for some
time been imperative. Yet other
properties are soon for the first time
to undergo development Among the
latter is the Green Monster, said by
| engineers to be the best copper pros
pect in the vicinity of the United
Verde mine. The Jerome Verde is
another copper prospect for which a
prosperous future is predicted. The
Blue Bell, Copper Hill, Iona Prieta,
Commercial, Little Daisy Omitted
! Verde Extension), Henrietta and But
ternut are prominent among the cop
per producers Of this county, aside
from the United Verde. Copper is
its usual price of from 12 to IA
cents. The indications are it will
remain at 25 cents or higher for a
long time. For the reason stated,
prospecting for copper is on the in
crease here.
Penalty Removed
Zinc, prominent by-product of
the ores of this county, is high in
price and still a,soaring. Penalized
for many years, the metal has now
struck it's gait, so to speak, and is
hailed as an asset whereas formerly
: it was eXecrated as a debit A stable
market for zinc at the prevailing or
an increased price is assured 1t,
together with copper, tungsten and
lead, is what might be not inaptly
called a mining camp war baby
Lead, another profitable by-product
! of
pig at from $685. to $500 per hun
dred pounds. The mineral is one of
number prevailing in local ores that
is readily reclaimed by the oil-flota-
ton process.
Another mineral, other than gold,
that promises to add materially to
the financial well-being of local mine
operators is silver Quoted at Sc
cents, there is ample warrant for
the assertion that the price will in
comparatively short time be con-
siderably higher. 1t is not unlikely
to be quoted at rs cents per ounce
at or prior to the close of the Euro
| L
pai county have added millions of
dollars to the precious metal wealth
of the United States, and at a price
of from 65 to 70 cents per ounce for
silver will add other millions to their
former contributions
Prescott and Jerome, the mining
centers of Yavapaf county, are in
ereasing in population and prosperity.
The hotels in both camps are over
crowded with mining and other bust
ness men, and there is not vacant
house in either of them. Prescott
merchants report that sales during
January and February of the current
year were nearly double these re-
corded during the corresponding
months of last year. Jerome mer-
chants announce similar satisfactory
conditions.
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