Arizona republican., 1917-06-17

! ceeded in organizing a company to !,
work them. The stock was largely sub |
scribed in Hartford, Conn. He was |
| made managing director and one of the (,
| Raht brothers was made superintend- |
| ent. There being no water in Bisbee. !
! the smelling works were built fifteen |
miles from Hereford, on the San Pedro;
but the Neptune claim, on which Raht
was working. yielded of surface ore,
| only few days run. Mr.. Raht took a
! most hopeless view, both of the Copper
| Queen and of the whole district No
| really effective exploration was done.
J He agreed with many other experts
| that in those limestones only isolated
| bodies of ore would be found, which it
| would be Improbable to search for
At any rate the company's capital was
spent on the smelter, roads, the Castle,
and some very superficial exploration.
A small debt was contracted, which
| was secured by mortgage bonds, and
active work was abandoned by the
| company.
/ Once and again it was leased The
smelter was removed to the mine by
the leasors. Some good ore was found
on the Spray, but it could not be made
to pay. Failure after failure decided
the bondholders to sell the property by
sheriff's sale. 1t was bought by the
Holbrook and Cave company, and, in
1892 with the other properties of the
Holbrook and Cave company, was in
corporated into the Copper Queen. For
years the Neptune group of claims has
been among the most productive of the
company's property.
District About Located
In the beginning of 1881, though act
i i've mining operations were being con-
!ducted only on the Queen and the Nep-
tune claims, the district for a long dis
lance around had been located Imme-
diately above the Queen a parallel
claim, the Atlanta, had been relocated
over an older claim, the Satisfaction"
AS the Queen ore body was dipping
into the Atlanta, and not more than one
hundred and fifty feet distant from the
| Atlanta side, | recommended Mr.. Mar
tin to buy it, as the price asked was
l.only $4,000. He was also recommended
by Mr.. Williams to buy the Prince,
| which slightly Overlapped the Queen
claim to the northwest. Had he done so
much trouble and expensive litigation
would have been avoided but Mr..
Martins one desire was to SELL
Prof. Sillman's bond having expired
Martin and company entered into ne
gotiations with the firm of Zeckendorf
to form a company and sell the stock
of the Copper Queen Co.
Zeckendorf & Co. for a time were
o,oI g.,
and up to the time of the formation
of the company, the Queen headquar-
tiers were in the office of Zeckendorf's
firm in Thomas street, New York. Dur
ing the early days the bullion was
shipped east via San Francisco, and the
only coke available was English or
, Welsh imported drought the same
port.
Little Personal History
| may be excused for introducing
| here a little personal history 1t was
, during the winter of 1881 that l was
: first introduced to the members of the
! firm of Phelps. Dodge & Co. Mr.. Dodge
asked my advice as to whether smet-
: ing works could be advantageously
: erected on an island in Long Island
| Sound, bought by his father long be-
: fore for that purpose. l had no hest
tation in assuring Mr. Dodge that
building smelling works of the old type
would be wasting money. as the Revere
! and Baltimore works were idle, through
/ the falling off of mining in the Alleg-
| heny range, and as all western ores
: would ultimately be smelted at the
4 mines.
/ 1 pointed out that these western ores
t carried gold and silver, that the cost
' of separation in the west was prohi-
t bitory, and that | believed that refining
e and separating works on the coast
0 would be highly remunerative. | had
[ made some tones of electrolytic copper
}, in PhoeniXville, under the guidance of
|, Edward Weston. This was the first
electrolytic copper marketed in this
t country, and l was convinced that this
y method would supplant all others, and
e that the first in the field would reap
e the harvest. During our conversation
S Mr. Dodge said that a handsome, at
=. tractively frank man had that morn
o ing entered the office and without any
e introduction asked for $4,000 with
: which to build copper works near the
e, Longfellow.
Y Sincerity Seen in Church
ID The extraordinary effrontery to such
: demand by a perfect stranger would
l. have been resented but for the genuine
sincerity and absence of all buster OF
exaggeration on the part of the appli-
lie cant. 1t was a Mr.. William Church. He
J. had secured undivided control of 9
= number of claim near Clifton, adjacent
ID to the Longfellow by getting options
n on all the stock of the Detroit Copper
Up Co. He wanted the money to develop
~ his mines and erect smelling works
he AS Ansonia was treating the Copper
c. Queen copper, the subject entered