Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-28

termittently for a number of years. The present situation at the property is indicated to be highly encouraging to the belief that it will make a very valuable mine and that it can profit ably enter upon regular production on dollar silver.
 Most Promising of All
 The Monte CristO mine at Wickeu- berg claims the largest attention ac- corded any silver property in the state when silver mining comes under dis cussiOn among mining men. The MCn- te Cristo has had more than a dozen years of careful development. There has never been any hurry, nor have any bets been overlooked as they went along. Everything has been in vestigated and carefully followed out. Monte Cristo ground is both rich and extensive. Whenever production is engaged in the mine will be found equal to standing up to heavy output and there are none who know the property who do not believe that it will make a record second to none in the history of silver production in the state.
 Mines Carry Burden
 An extra burden the copper indus try is carrying under the control of the metal as exercised by the govern. ment is the tidy little matter of rust ling around S0.0OO, 900 and carrying the interest thereon for four months periods. these figures representing ba Arfzcpo ,.apnfrou,apfs
 Under open market conditions the copper producers sold their copper as it was made and had the use of the money from its sales. Under the ar rangement since price fiXation and government direction of sales. pay ment has come upon delivery of the actual metal Traffic delays com bined with refinery delays have made a four months pericd between shelter and delivery dates. During this four months the copper producers are without returns and must carry their pay rolls, supply costs and all other expenditures without receipts from their metal. In consequence copper company treasuries are scant on change despite the fact that they have large sales of their output arranged in advance. with all of their copper, indeed, spoken for months ahead.
 Arizona output is running in the neighborhood of 70.00O,000 pounds the month which is up to the normal. This means 2S0.O00,0O pounds of copper in four months At 23 1-2 cts. the gov ernment fixed price. it represents close to SS0.0OO. .00O. lt is probable that in the next price fixing confer ence change will be made in the meth cd of payments Co relieve the copper producers of unnecessarily carrying this enormous load of quarterly financ ing.
 May Probe Labor Heads
 Current rumor in Tucson has it that the next investieation put up to the Executive Committee of the Coun- cil of Defense will be Of T. J. Croaff. chairman of the labor committee. who labor leaders are limiting, is in the hands Of the I. w. w. and at their i'm stigation trying to disrupt the Arizona Federation of Labor. of which he is president Prior to election as prcsi- dent of the Federation. Croan was a postal clerk and looked upon as com paratively tame. Since at the head of the Federation he has changed to eX- treme radiCalism in his utteranccs. The charge which he put before the Arizona Council of Defense that l. W. W. were being knowingly employed by mines resulted so disastrously for the radical labor element, in utterly