Weekly journal-miner., 1917-04-18
WAR BRINGS STATE
 INTO WORLDS EYE
Looms As Base Supply House of The Biggest Single Store of Munitions
 On The Face of The Globe.

dIcdd III lnc Odtllldn QlStT1ct, around i kingman, in the Prescott country, about Globe and in the Ajo and old Gunsight districts. gold. silver and
 lead development and prospecting is coming to the front actively. There
 arc to be particularly aggressive things done in lcad-silver mining dur ing the next year in the State, too. Matters are shaping that way very strongly.
 While a remarkable era of under
 ground development is going on, the
 surface IS not being neglected With one great construction job just finish
 ing, that of the New Cornclia Copper Company's plant, involving a total
 expenditure of upward of six million dollars, in the southern part of the , State, another is beginning in the north, where the United Verde Ex- tension is rushing the grading at its
 smcltcr site and will soon have steel
 going up on the job, which will entail
 expenditure of between two millions and three million dollars before the furnaces arc lighted carly in next
 year. At Miami, Inspiration is still
 adding sections to its great mill,
 where the construction forces have
 put up millions of dollars worth of
 steel and machinery equipment At
 Douglas the Calumet & Arizona has
 had large construction forces at work
 at its smelling plant all of this year,
 mainly on the recently finished sul-
 phuric acid plant, which is daily say
 ing important values from the sul-
 phidcs that were formerly let go, but
 with considerable other construction
 work going on and still continuing.
 At Bisbee the Copper Queen will soon
 enter upon the expenditure of large
 sum for construction and equipment
 of a conccntrator to handle the low
 grade ore which it will steam shovel
 from Sacramento hill At Jerome the
 United Verde is about to enter upon
 considerable new plant construction
 on and about the old shelter site, a
 material part of which is occasioncd
 by its decision to steam shovel large
 tonnage of ore, thereby adding an-
 other large employment division to its operating departments.
 These are the more notable of the gains being added 10 the permanent future activities of the State in indus trial plants from which great pay rolls will roll forth monthly, swelling the volume earned by the men under ground and broadening the opportuni- ties of all kinds within the State. To be rcckoncd with in addition is a total or several million dollars invested and being invested in plants for develop ing properties in the several active districts, including the new smcltcr at Mayer, many new mining plants, costing from a few thousand dollars up to more than $1OO,OOO, in the Je- rome, Globe, Miami, Ray, Superior, Warren and other districts.
 Tn the haulagc of increased ship ments of mining timbcrs and general supplies occasioned by the larger mines activity, and in the transporta- ton of ore to shelter and of copper from the smclters, the railroads in the State have found it necessary to cn, ploy increased operating forces. The large bulk of their business in the State is derived from the mining in duStry. The several lines operating entirely within the State are wholly dependent upon mines activity With out this business they could not opcr- ate a day, except at heavy loss; while the transcontincntaI lines operate through the State at profit only through the mines business carried iH and out of it.
 All in all, the mining industry IS in , thoroughly good way in Arizona in point of contribution of much to con itantly increasing future opportunity 'or advancement and employment, md steadily increasing contribution ,f mineral wealth to the world The alter has no other division at this imc that is doing more or that is in ,cttcr position to keep ahead with it's york At the same time thc Arizona mining industry is continuing with its constantly lcngthcning lead in provid- ng the main support of the State in cvcnucs for the conduct of its gov rumcnt and the expansion of roads. chools and State institution advant- gcs. The increased metal output and he higher prices obtained for it in he last year will add much to the as- csScd valuation. It is now estimated