Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-06

will take about ten years to work up these carbonate ores. and by the time these have disappeared there will have been a a great plant constructed to handle the sulphides. There prob ably are on New Cornelia and Ajo lands fully s5.OO0. 900 tons of ore of commercial grade. and undoubtedly this estimate will be found too low when sufficient time has been allowed to prove the mineral holdings. IL may be that a plant in which to treat the sulphideS will be decided upon and constructed long before the carbon ateS have been exhausted When we were in Arizona last spring there was some talk Of working at one end or the big body and getting a face of sulphi6es on which oil flotstion might he soon applied. That was before the big teaching plant had started. but undoubtedly present high costs of con construction Of mills. etc. would de ter any such operation at this time. We have TO information that the board of directors are considering any such step in the immediate future. and our guess is that they will await improved labor and material condi- tions before engaging in this enter rrise. There is plenty of the carbon ate ores to last eight or ten years. and that's a pretty long look ahead. Incidentally one can figure where the company has ores to last for more than thirty years. permitting the talk ing of more than 5000 tons a day for this period. and this is a pretty fine looking prospect in the line of sta- bility. About t2.oococo Pounds From Direct
 Smelling
 Including the AjO and New Cornelia ores that will be sent to Douglas for treatment next year it is safe to pre- dict that about 12.000. .0OOO pounds of copper will be produced from the higher grade ores at these properties. New COrnelia will secure about S.SSS.- O0O pounds of copper sent from the New COrnelia for the present year. These ores are taken from the low grade mass in which they are found. 1 They are a considerable addition to | the copper output and were not eSti- l mated. so far as We are aware. when | the figures on valuation Of the ore I bodies were compiled.
 Plenty of Water for All Purposes
 The New Cornelia Copper company is rarely fortunate in having devel- | oped all the water it needs for its | plant and people. When the ore was l first being considered by Calumet S l Arizona interests that finally secured | it. water was one of the things that l caused no little concern. Aio was I always described as a dry country. | The PapagOes moved about the dis trict following the action of the | springs. When one dried they were I forced to seek another. and springs | were rare. But there was consids- able vegetation in the valleys at the | foot of the mountains and this lent the hope that water would be found. | Drilling was done and an abundance | Of water was finally found. The maxi | mum use has shown no diminution of l the flow of the water level. the wells | being several hundred feet deep. The I teaching plant demands a great deal I of water. Had the water not been | near the mines the company would have been forced to have either built its works at the Gils river. forty miles distant. or pumped the water from the river to the mines. a very expensive undertaking in either event
 Probably Discouraged Others
 lt was the dryness Of the Aios that I probably discouraged other mining in that looked into New CorneliS. because several others had options on 1t before Calumet & Arizona had its All turned the property down for reasons that they deemed wise. Some of those who explored the lands several years before Calumet & Arizona did not have the benefit of more regent inventions in ore hand
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