The Parker post., 1917-12-29
COPPER MINES
YIELD VEAL I'll
DEMAND FOR METAL AT WAR
"A
PRICES RESULTS IN UMPIRE
CEDENTED PROSPERITY IN
ARIZONA.

Tens of millions of dollars are COM
| ing into Arizona by the enormous
| production of copper and the high
price that the metal brings in every
market. Indeed, no state in the
union has ever had such a big per
capita income from any single source
as Arizona has during 1917 and is
still having The total production
Of the state for 1917 is estimated
closely at 71O, 100000 pOunds-43
the United States these past twelve
months, had it not been for labor
troubles in some mining fields and
political disturbances on the Mexican
Dorder-the heart of the biggest cop
per deposits in Arizona-the output
of the metal would have been at
least one billion pounds. The whole
output of the United States in 1917
is reckoned at little under two
billion pounds. In 1915 the total
national production of copper was
1860, 100000 pounds.
Up to 1914 Arizona produced one
tenth of the copper of the nation.
IN 1915 it yielded % per cent of the
national output and in 1916 it's mines
put out 33 per cent Of American
copper, but this year, with enlarge
ments of most of the biggest copper
plants and new developments, the
output has been put to 700,000,000
pounds. This is reckoning on the
December output and with official
figures Of the production during the
eleven months up to December.
! Montana is reckOned by the same
J.t,, e5s ~ &c productive Of some 900
100000 pounds and Michigan of
little smaller quantity. With the
! government price Of the metal fixed
$3.50 cents a pound, the income from
AriZOna's enormous copper outpOur-
ing to the world is something be-
tween $165, 100000 and $167, ,0OO,-
600 for the year 1917. 1t was an
average of $52,OOO,0OO annually for
the ten years previous to 1915.
There are about 100000 people in
! Arizona and the income from copper
! is enough to yield every human be-
ing in the whole state excepting
Indians) $642 this year. Statisti-
clans say that is the biggest per cap
ita resource in the union Nothing
else like it is TO be found under the
stars and stripes nowadays. Besides
| her copper, Arizona has some i'm
mensely valuable silver mines, some
good paying gold properties and
realm in cattle and sheep, and now
she is getting some $2,000,000 from
! her new cotton fields in the vicinity
of Phoenix, while mines of zinc, lead,
tOurquoiz and numerous infrequent
metals are adding to the riches of
the new state.
Copper is king in Arizona and it is
going to be so for another generation
at least. The largest producers are
in the southern part of the state,
with the exception of the enormous
United Verde at the Verde Extension
of Yavapai county. They have all
been working at full tilt all this
year. The Phelps-Dodge corpora
tion, with it's millions invested in
Bisbee and in other parts of the state,
has produced up to December, 163,-
100000 pounds of copper, and the
United Verde (Senator Clark's mine
at JerOme) has done almost as we'll,
but it never gives out it's figures.
The famous old Inspiration mine at
Miami has yielded 132,00O,000
pounds more to the wealth of the
world and the Ray Consolidated has
added 72,000,000 more pounds of
the metal since January1
Never before has such intense ac-
tivity been known in the whole cop
per mining industry of Arizona.
Never such universal extension of
concentrating plants, such enlarge
ment of mills and such general de-
VelOpment of buried ledges of ore.
Five new smelters have been put up
in the state The James Douglas in
terests are putting up a $3,000,000
| smelter at Clarkdale. The American
Smelling and Refining Company has
begun $35O,O0O smelter at it's new
purchase of the Mascot.
Everybody Prosperous.
Arizona never in her widest