Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-28
SMITH
 COMMENTS UPON
 BISBEE PROGRESS
Prominent Mining Man, For m erly of Bisbee, Tells Miami People of Great Progress Made in District.

Hoval A. Smith, long one of the most prominent mining men in the Southwest, was a visitor in Miami some days ago. Smith said some very pleasant things about Miami and also about Bisbee. His interview, as pub lished in the Miami Silver Belt, fol- lows:
 Why shouldn't Miami be a large city? After all is said and done, the things that make big cities are their incomes. The Miami shelter is pro- ducing.as much copper as all the smel- ters in Douglas combined. It's pro duction is nearly equal to that of the Utah, and it is only a question of time until it will lead Arizona. which means the world, unless some other camp like Bisbee should take a sud den spurt. And" he added, "this is not all unlikely in Bisbee
 Never before in the history of Bis bee has there been so much mining activity as at the present time The Copper Queen company seems to have renewed its youth, and is doing more new development work in the Warren district than ever before in its his tory.
 Everywhere throughout the War ren district you see mining activity Sacramento Hill is being stripped for low grade concentrator ore production The famous old land mark has been found to be one solid mountain of low grade ore. It is intended to tear down this entire mountain and put it through the new large concentrator to be erected for this purpose
 "When you stop to think of it, this is not only a unique but also is a very interesting and spectacular thing 10 do
 "Denn-Arizona is working again. Ov- CT across the mountain and down to- ward the flats the Whitetailed Deer is operating. South of the Junction toward Bakersville a new shaft is be- ing sunk and away down in the lower end of the district at Warren just above the water tanks of the town. the old Calumet Cochise shaft is be- ing re-Opened. It is the intent to sink this Calumet COchise shaft not less than two thousand feet deep.
 There are many other evidences | new work in the district, and besides all this new work. the regular ore production is going forward. If you should see the Junction power house now from a distance you would think 1t battery of cannon lined up on the German front; there are SO many stacks.
 "All of which goes to show" said Mir. Smith. what a wonderful camp Bisbee and the Warren district has become. Twenty years ago when I came to Bisbee as a young construc- tion engineer to erect the Spray shaft for the Copper Queen Mining company, it was thought that about all the ore available in that district had already been discovered. The Spray was con sidered as being a long hazard. wal out at the end of the district. Today the district has grown three miles be- yond the Spray. The ore zone has out and down to the Black Gap.
 "Of course the men then in charge of the affairs of the district have passed on and out, and the boys of that day are now in control. The War ren district today is being administ- cred in broad. vigorous and compre- hensive way. l expect wonderful things in the Warren district within the next few years.
 'lf the Miami district is to keep 1 up with Bisbee. and hope it will. it | will certainly have to go some.
 When you stop to think of it." added Mir. Smith. there is no won der that. Arizona leads the copper | world when she possesses two such | camps as the Miami and the Bisbee i districts, not to mention the many | other great producers of the state.
 T look forgard to the day when ! the Miami district will broaden just as the Warren district did. You are very young here yet. and your dis trict is but a baby, compared to Bis bee. and when it will have added as many years to its development as we now have in Bisbee. there will be re- . vealed a geological history just as unique. just as interesting and as full in a very short time, and am proud to say that many of your best miners
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