Mohave County miner., 1916-09-09
ARIZONA COPPERFIELDS, INC.
 HAS VERY PROMISING FUTURE
[FrOm wednssday;c Daily MinerI

| ly appointed consulting engineer of
 the Arizona Copperfelds, Inca man
 of international reputation-to the
 property of the corporation at Gross
 Springs in the Cerbat range of noun
 tains-about 15 miles north of King
 man, for examination purposes, is
 fraught with the greatest importance
 to the peopleof Mohave county, as a
 whole, and particularly those of King
 man, the supply point of the many
 mining camps of northwestern
 Arizona.
 Being familiar with the holdings of
 the Arizona Copperfelds, Inc, the
 writer has no hesitancy in predicting
 that the report, which the engineer re-
 ferred to will make after a thorough
 inspection and sampling, will be high
 ly favorable. The property possesses
 all the earmarks of a gigantic dissem-
 mated porphyry copper deposit. It is
 practically certain that the examin-
 ing engineer will be so thoroughly con-
 vinced of the merits of the holdings of
 the company that he will recommend
 its further development on a churn- drilling scale, followed by steam show els, the modus operandi of most of the other big porphyry copper properties of the West.
 It is known that at least two of the big copper interests sought to acquire control of the holdings now held by the Arizona Copperfeld, Inc, after their engineers had made exhaustive examinations and prepared reports recommending it's purchase in man. ner that left no doubt as to their sin cere belief that with thorough devel- opment the property would develop into one of the greatest disseminated porphyry copper propositions thus far discovered. The stock of the Arizona Copperfields, Inc, is steadily advanc- ing on the New York curb and it is not unlikely that it will reach the $10 | mark in the not far distant future.
 The potentiaities of the undevelop- ed acreage, as indicated by the par tially-developed 16 acres, may readily be appreciated by comparison with Utah Copper, the leader among the porphyries.
 Utah Copper has developed total of 39O,OOO,OOO tons of ore averaging 1.446 per cent copper on 226.3 acres. This is 1,723,OOO tons per acre.
 If Arizona Copperfields' tonnage persists to the same depth as that of Utah Copper, the 16 acres alone have possibilities of close to 28,OOO,OOO tons, without taking into consideration the BOA acres of the company's territory.
 If the ore on Arizona Copperfields' entire acreage should persist to the same depth as that on Utah Copper, namely, 549 feet, it would make even a greater mine than Utah Copper is at the present time, on account of the greater acreage.
 The foregoing figures of the big represent possibilities that lie directly ahead of Arizona Copper fields, which is only in it's infancy. These properties were not made in a day and it is not expected that Ari- zona Copperfields will develop into phenomenal producer overnight, but under active development it should prove the equal of any of the great porphyry producers.
 Comparing the market value of the issued capitalization of Arizona Cop perfields, Jerome Verde, which is yet a prospect, although it has every ex- pectation of turning into big pro- ducer, is selling at valuation of ST. OO,O00, while Green Monster, also of the Jerome camp and without any ore as yet, is selling in the market at NdludIlOH OI 9EyiOOJOOO. NISSH UhOh- | ster and Jerome Verde are highly meritorious. But they have no dem onstrated ore reserves on which to base any valuation, and therefore they can hardly be compared with an is sue like Arizona Copperfields. A new of development on big lines is about to begin, and soon it should be apparent that Arizona Copperfields with any of the big porphy- ries. The ore showing has been de- scribed by high authorities as "the biggest discovery in the state of Ari- zona in years"
 Arizona Copperfields, Inc, has been in existence for only two months. The company took over more than 89 per ; cent of the capital stock of the Cop ( perfield Porphyry Mining company, owner of six mining claims in the l