The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-19
VAST DEVELOPMENT
PLANNED BY THE BIG
STATE COMPANIES

PISBFE, May 19.-Appropriation OF
$5,O00,00o has been made by the
| Copper Queen Mining company for
steam shovel ore body of better than
32,000eGH tons of low grade ore
| IL, 900 900 tons so far as the re-
| sources of tho hill have been devel-
oped to this time. This $5,000,000
lis but the initial expenditure. Mil
lions more will be added before the
job of ore extraction and reduction
is finished.
Five million dollars appropriated
for the expansion of it's works by
any one of the big manufacturing or
! ganizations OF the country would
make a considerable ripple. Many
people would talk about it and figure
the large meaning in point of the
employment of increased working
| forces distribution OF wages and
earnings. participation in taxes and
in larger business activities for the
retail and wholesale merchants in
all lines, increased realty values,
larger markets for the agriculturists
and so on through a variety df
| channels.
But here in Arizona the, appro-
priation of millions at one time by
it's big copper producing companies,
| appropriations made in real money,
Immediately available coin, has be-
come so common a matter during the
last dozen years as to attract little
or no attention: The public observes
| only that times are good. that there
are more men working that there
are no vacant houses, although build
pace. The copper mining industry
has become so vast factor, indeed,
that it's growth and the tremendous
economical meaning or it's constant
expansion is entirely beyond the
conception of the average mind, un-
less the average mind takes a few
days off from everything else and
gives the matter it's entire attention.
Then there will be the dawn OF some
larger understanding. But a full
realization of the Importance of the
industry will probably never come
about on the part Of the public as
whole, for the reason that the only
way it could be brought would be by
the tieing up of the copper mines
over a period of months. What
would happen then in the way of
decreased revenues or city, county,
the creation off idle labor and all the
i'll attendant, would be sufficiently
appalling as well as enlightening.
Other Millions Appropriated
The appropriation of $5,O00,00
by the Copper Queen by no manner
of means covers new mining activi-
ties planned by copper producers in
the mining division in Arizona for
this year. The United Verde Copper
company, in the north, for instance,
is right along with the Copper Queen
in the south in the matter of finding
the steam shovel method the most
desirable for employment where
feasible. United Verde is making
appropriations too and will equal the
$5,0O0,000 of the Copper Queen.
The steam shovel mining plans of
both these companies, it is under
stood, are entirely Independent Of
and additional to the great under
ground mining activities which they
have carried on for years and which
each year grow larger. 1t is new
work, entire gain to industry in the
state that this money VIII go out for.
Bisbee's 200 Story Hell Scraper
If a 200-story building on the sur
face would be the superlative of sky
scraper, then, in the Billy Sunday
style of language architecture a 200
story building below the surface
would be a hell scraper. The War
rem district is now getting itself just
that thing, through the new shaft
which the Calumet & Arizona has
started at Bakerville to provide nee
esary accommodation for the min
ing of much increased ore areas. Tho
Junction shaft few years ago was
thought to be big enough to accom-
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