Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-31
NEW COPPER CAMP WILL SPRING UP
 IN DISTRICT WITHIN PRESENT MINES

coming Of the new low grade camp within the more than ever resOurcefui and active high grade camp will not entail new ownerships or new manage ments. The old companies made the new discoveries, is all. Copper Queen mill will be around the point from Warren Its operation, in connection with the steam shovel mining and raii- roading features of Sacramento Hill, and the mining of the low grade lead silver ore which will be handled in division of the new mill, together with the increased employment brought about by the new mining and milling work of Shattuck, will add heavily to the working forces of the district as well as to its output of metals
 S' Need Aid of the Government
 The carrying out of all this develop ment and construction work repre- sents the largest enterprise in the de- velopment of new copper, lead and sli- yer resources that has been undertak- en since the outbreak of war in EG- rope. The fact that it has been pug sued with every bit of speed possible and with unstinted money appropria- tons from the beginning. regardless Of the knowledge of those producing the funds that they could not look forward 10 anything except exorbitant costs as compared with normal times. and re gardless of the fact that at any time they could have dropped this new worK and sidetracked it until the return ot nofmal conditions without enbarrass- ment. tells a pretty big story of the patriotic sincerity which has given stimulus to the work. Now that 1t IS nearing completion and that the cop per production of the country is barely up to the requirements of the nation and its allies. it looms doubly large in it's importance and doubly creditable to the patriotic foresight and liberality of financing which has carried 1t through The margin being so narrow between the actual requirements of copper for war purposes and the pres ent top output Of metal, conditions might readily arise at any time that would make the increased resources now coming into availability in the Bisbee mines a saving factor.
 Uneasy Supplies Situation
 In the mining industry at large in the state, fuel ana general supplies de Iiyeries have occasioned increasing concern during the present month. In the fuel division there have been times when several of the larger producers were run exceedingly close for oil. Producers of the latter have been ham, pered by the shortage and by uncer- tainty as to their own situation, main ly relative to course the government will pursue in requisitioning oil and oil lands for naval uses. Destruction by fire in the LOrdsburg yard of large quantities of fuel oil disrupted the dis tributing system there temporarily and seriously interfered with supplies available for delivery The end of the month finds the oil situation improved, but not in shape to dissipate all uneas- mess. In respect to other supplies there is no certainty whatever as to de- liyeries, fact that has been responsi- ble from time to time for some tenn porary curtailments of mine, mill and smelter operations and which is add ing steadily to costs of production some manner of authorized relief, based upon contemplation of the cop per mining industry as war industry the needs of which must have regular service 1T Ilc OulDul of metal is to be maintained. this con sideration entirely aside from price. is vitally needed
 Price Fixation Interest
 Interest in the probable action of the government in June with reference to copper metal price fixation witnessed sharp revival during the week, princi- pally because of rumor which has be- come current that the matter may be taken up early in May. Many small producers are awaiting the announce ment of the metal price for the months succeeding June with deepest concern, while all producers have occasion for much concern An advance will result in the starting up of production by a number who have been closed down, and if sufficient increase is made to allow of the mining of their low grade ores by the big vein mines and of in- crease in wages which will put the cop per producers on an even footing with other var industries in competing for labor in the open market, there will he marked increase in output of metal in the latter half of the year. Other wise the tendency toward decline as the hugh grade is drawn upon more