Arizona republican., 1917-04-29

| Operation oI all of the orange groves, fruit ranches and other agricultural and horticultural enterprises of Cali fornia and Arizona combined aoes not involve anything like so huge sum in point of money distributed for wages On top of the wage expense comes something more than it's total of s5, 000,00O which goes out for the purchase of timbers, powder, steel. necessary new mahinery, construction materials railroad ireignts the latter plodlgious sum in its total, interest, insurance taxes. running into many thousands of doilais day, ana a list of miScellane- ouS necessities.
 Reach Into Many Channels
 These dollars reacn IntO many chan nels from the Atlantic to inc Pacific, and in Arizona into every channel, pro- viding in reality the entire states daily bread, directly anu indirectly. They tkeep the stores open. the hotels ;anG restaurants going, the barbers busy, the railroads running and their work Ing forces increasing, the later from coast to coast, while in the broader fleld of the country at large they are llkeWlse extending a good part of the work which keeps the iron miners dig glng, the steel workers at the furnace, the logging camps in activity, the oi! u ing upon Arizona agriculturists for ev- erythIng they can produce and then reaching out over the country for it's products of the soil and food products of all kinds.
 Two Oldest Districts
 Coinelia and Magma are central in two of the oldest mining districts irl the southW est. Magma was producing silver with profit nearly forty years ago. While AJo shipped from Cornelia more than sixty years ago the first copper ever sent out of Arizona by White men on commercial basis. IL went around the Horn to Swansea. WalcS anu was there reduced. The l shipments, however. were short lived Tor the high grade did not hold out. MaSmaS s career came to a pause when the price of silver fell. The Silver King. famous as d producer of lead silver, went out Of commission at the same l tlme The properties were near neigh DOTS and had much in common in fea |. | lures attending their development ana production. The ores Of both were run nlng 51to copper when they shut down copper did not have sufficient value d, } the tune to make 1t worthy of consid eia'ion at so remote a distance from faii and supply markets. But when the , seefi ch oi Sopper properties became in l tense Il dozen years ago, the carly da5 copper shONirgs of Magma were re- membercd, and investigation followed l 3HVer was mined at much less deptI ) lhan they found the real copper values The latter may readily go to far great
 CT depth than yet attained. The district l indeed, may prove to be one of tn. deepest pI otita"le mining in the world II mas tendencies that way in it's for s nation. So far, Magma alone has goi Q doWn to the really great zone. Other, l have plans for depth. Silver King be. 9 ing included in this list. Their outcom, . may be largely dependent upon tn, S mining intelligence. patience ant > financial resources available fol S tEe task Some day however ] It Is considered reasonable to be a 'ieve that considerable are; Will be added to the presen e proven zone of the district, and or - some of this territory it may not b. \ necessary to make as great depth ir n order to reach commercial bodies of or, }, as hds been required on Magma How. : ever, to all of this outside territor, = there as yet attaches various question. S which require solving before anythin, S definite may be claimed with assur. p ance.
 f Cornelia Is Ideal
 Q Cornelia has come up from one o Q the greatest deserts trials upon tn, ,, patience and money and the very If, - or western miners to the status of tn, | Southwest's ideal copper mining prop. 4 erty. F or more than sixty years, centra . Tn the AJo district, Cornelia wasted tn, t money and the lives of prospectors anC n investors. Its rich streaks and pocket: J or high grade lured them on, only t, lead into the snares of low grade O
 dl1flcult character by reason of tht .'roblems it presented to the reduction i plants These things are now succeede, l. by development and mining pla,
 which are one and embody every ad . vantage that could be asked. These ad
 VantaSes on the mining end have O.
 course not come about unaSSiSted bu the great ore body has lent itself to the
 ingenuity and understanding applied
 by the Calumet and Arizona organiza
 tion which has the direction of tn,
 property, with the result that the idea
 conditions for successful operation which now prevail were brought about So complete has been the cooperation
 It may be cited, that it has been DOS
 sible to plan the trackage for the or
 pit and every step in relation to it
 opening and mining from the surfac
 to the estimated bottom at depth of 40
 feet; in other words to diagram an, chart the operations which it will b
 most economical and efficient to con
 duct over period or more than thrt. years from the present date
 Fine Example Of Specializing
 In this work as in the gigantic tasl of plant construction which has jus
 been finished, specialists attended ev. cry step. and specialists remain per
 mancntiy on the job to carry out tn. 1 required performances They arc yard
 age and tonnage record holders, record holders in point of getting efficienc, out of steam shovels and trackage an, from powder in breaking ground tt best advantage for the machines: the, are laboratory and mechanical ant
 rostS specialists. In no department ar. they lacking, but they are working to
 getner as one, and have done so iron the beginning. If is for this reason tba
 New Cornelia stands out as perfec
 piece of work at this time-as neal perfect as anything ever set up. |
 lacks no feature that is necessary to ef
 ficiency. and it has no gateway closed to any important development that ma, come up for later attention It em
 braces everything in both mining ant recovery plants that is essential ant l that spells preparedness and it has i
 all of the best. To quote a keen ob. server who has familiarity with grea
 many industrial plants of various kind: all over the world: These people knev
 what they required and they put it in As it turns oyer before us now undcl power it is evident that they were do
 ing no experimenting: the eXperimenta
 work was done before the plans wer
 made for this plant No such result