The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-05-17
MANY ENTERPRISES
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GENERAL INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY DENOTES PROSPEROUS CONO'- TON FROM ALL QUARIeHS- MINING ACTIVITY INDICATES CONFIDENCE.

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 TON FROM ALL QUARTERS
 MINING ACTIVITY INDICATES
 CONFIDENCE.
 May Estate farming operations take lands off the market.
 Phoenix-Governmen buys lV bales Pima Egyptian cotton at 72 1-2 cents to 73 1-2 cents pound.
 State to lend $140.000 to rebuild Lyman dam.
 Copper Output in April is greater than last month, The Clifton-Morencf producers will be back to normal first time since strike last June, also the Clobe-Miami, Warren, Jerome, Ray, Aio. Humboldt and Sasco districts. Clobe-Miami total will be about 17,00O- 900 pounds.
 Cuprite-The liyeliest little mining camp in the state at present. Two new hoists ordered for properties here, an assay office built.
 Black Giant Mines Co.,, recei'ins bids for running 300 it. tunnel
 Report of state and national banks shows increase in general resources
 Cooper men believe that an in- crease in fixed price of copper metal is not only a matter of justice to producers, but an absolute necessity f production is to be increased r over present unsatisfactory output.'
 Cunningham Pass-Seven cars high grade copper and gold ore shipped.
 Kingman-DevelOpm work start ed on two claims of Big Jim Consoli- dated. @
 Work to start sinking shaft to 300 foot level Mossback claim, camp of buildings, and complete plant to be installed.
 Holbrock-C Growing activity in oil fields, new companies being formed and soon will be drilling, large num- Der oi, men and geologists interested.
 ChandIer-Standard Oil Co. to open branch, investment s20,000.; Superior making progress, extra shift added to force. Prescitt Work on Jones' Prescott road to start ample funds available. Cupr;te--Bonanza days recalled, average of car day shipped netting about 5000. to owners, ore average high.
 Jerome--New theatre to be built, concrete and freproof, capacity $50.
 A year ago men like Schwab, Ryan and others were classed as undesira- b1e citizens by the vote seeking poli- ticians. Today the nation turns to these captains of industry to pull it out of the hole these politicians fore ed it irtt. a s
 .Bisbee--Copper Queen Go. is work ing Porphyrv Hill copper. deposits. Douglas-Test mill to be built for treatment of manganese at Tomb stone.
 Snownake-Calls for bids for erect ing and furnishing new school. Kingman-Hackberry mine to have 200 ton mill, power planS, bunk houses.
 Jerome Chino has drilled to gas zone. indications favorable.
 Weaver district-Red Gap mine op- tioned to eastern capitalists $100.00e.
 Oatman-Great activity shown in entire district, more men employed at Gold Road camp than during past three years.
 Copper mine employers to ask gov ernment to make 1t possible for cop per companies to increase their wages from 5. 15 to $6. % day by raising copper price, for when government set price Of copper so far below mark ct it automatically reduced their wage which were based on price of copper. Low copper price means low wages, hieh prices mean high wages.
 i1la-Concentrating machine to be installed for low grade ore. Chloride Schulykill Min ing Co. to build big milling plant at Tennessee mine.
 Every citizen should fight for econ- omy in city. county and state govern ment as a patriotic duty and discour- age all forms of freak and radical legislation as hindrance to indus trial development, the nations need at present.
 Oatman-Black Giant Mines Co. de veloping and shipping high grade ore.
 Skull Valley-100 mules employed carrying ore for Copper basin to Ky. | United States department of agri- culture estimated 100000 acres of land will be planted to Egyptian cot ton this year in the state.
 Dos Cabezes-Mascott Copper mine to be operated again. by new owners. ! Mohava countv-10O,000 head of sheep will soon be grazing in the val leys.
 Bisbee-New mill for handling of lead. only one of kind in state.
 Chino Valley-Drilling active. indi cations very promising. depth 352 1t
 Graham county-Farmers are ex' necting good crops in irrigated dis trict, and s2O per ton for alfalfa.
 Glendale-Sewer system to cost s50.o0o turned over to contractors.
 Tucson-Contract for $116, ,00C worth of cement construction award ed by s. P. Go.
 Globe-Miners' union ask minimum wage of $6 in mines, mills and smelt CTS.
 Metcalf-The Guggenheim interest: have offered s3OO,o0e for Lazensky mine.