Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
6be MINES of ARIZONA

about in the state, and also lack O encouragement and incentive to mine, which vii speedily come into differ ent light. The resources committee of the Defense Coancil needs all Of these metals that it can find, and it wi! have the duty of providing pos Iy for a way of making use of their values at home II is very like ly that there will he some machine shops, some furnaces, some fundries in Arizona turned to the output Ot steel and of war munitions before the needs Cf the war perlod in whicf the country is launched are ended Automobiles and auto trucks. cannon shot and shell may he common out put of AriZOra industrial plants be- fOre the end comes and once estaD- lsned, these will go on. There is. Of course also tie possibility of copper wire plants al the doors of Arizona sn;elters all outcome Wihch is d cer- tainty Of the future. but which may be brought years sooner by war than the most optimistic may have hoped for under peace conditions Big brains q world of ingenuity and of science aEe behind the Arizona pre- paredness' and efficiency movement now under the guidance of the De- fense Evard, and no limit may be placed upon the lasting benefits the large expansion in home enterprise which may quickly be brought about. IL is a period in which there is call for every eXertion upon the part of everybody, and called to the test. as they arc. tnere are many in Arizona WhC will develop new things
 New Mineral Values
 Of minerals in which Arizona may pick I'D q vast deal through new de Neioprlent encouraged or enforced ny wal needs. there are severa' In the Ray district. it may be mentioned mere is the promise of development of great vanddium deposit of high grade. The U. $. NaHadium Develop ment company, of which Dr. F. Payne Palmer of PhCen'N, IS presi~ dent, and with whom are associated a number If very high standing peo- ole, hes advanced with development to point Wtere it appears reason ably assured that a valuable prop erty is to be opened. One of the strongest metallurgical concerns op- eTating in the west is so far convinc- ed of tEe value of tho discovery and it's commercial extent that # is eager to place a considerable reduction plmt on the ground fact that carries very high degree of en- lnrsement In the Roosevelt dam co.mtrY there is q reviVa! under way of research for commercial deposits Ot c7n1abar. encouraged recently hV the opening of a stronger formation than previously encountered At Bis bee. lead k coming into mora prornin- ence. even startlingIy so Shattuck & Arizona is learned to have a mil lion tons Cf low grade available which 1t will fe able to handle 0rotitablv The Copper Queen has double that tonnage of the same character of ore available Outputs from these bodies are very hEely to soon be added to the total Arizona tonnage. Man earese, of which there k much in the Warren lisfrict of high grade will also get rore attention. \ man @aNeSe stack. and also q lead stack at the Douclas smc,te:s ore more likely of early realization at this lime than ever refore in the years of consider &tion th''Y have had IS possibilities
 Recovering Side Values
 By Way of dom@ some very im- portant pioneering and possibly of building ED an extensive concern. is a comparatively sma! reduction plant @l tucson Wil>n lS dOln2 very successful work in the recovery of moiybdernum from ores which are being extracted from the old Nam moth mine. now in the lands of the colonel Epes Randolph interests. The Mammoth ores nun to lead. with Nolybednum content The Randolph process of successful extraction at Tucson is something new. The re mining chg is retreated and finally unGersoes teaching, by which means ;he molybdcnnm conten} IS wholly recovered Failing Of the old Nam moth ac1rired by the lIerefcrd in terests of Tucson. are 6eirg sfccess- funy treated for the recovery of molybdenum Values under the same process. The consequences of tn MammOth's development cf values in this very nucn desired metal rrav be far reachilg in opening up other valuable deposits heretofore over lccaed iH association with other ap- parently predominant ValIes or con sidered of no value because of diff ficultiHs attending recovery.
 Oil Possibility
 he net9l districts proper m1v not