Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-30

 vanced Daily the money with which to do his title work. Protracted litiga- ton followed The title was ultimate ly vested by the supreme court of the United States in the Mexican wife Long before the decision was made we knew the Irish Mag to be of value, but, Daly being fugitive from justice, we hesitated to negotiate for his claims. And so the Irish Mag slipped out of our hands and into the hands of our friends, the Calumet x Arizona Min ing Company, the successor to the Lake Superior & Western Develop ment Company. The Calumet & Ari- Zona company has developed by pur- chase and consolidation into a power ful company, owning more than one hundred claims and making a produe- tiOn at present of over 50000,000 pounds of copper per year. It built shelter at Douglas, not far from that of the Copper Queen, and is now rebuilding it with a view to increased economy in operation and a larger output.
 We might have claimed so much of the territory owned by that company as was covered by the apex of the Naco and Escabros limestones of Cop per Queen ground. under the famous decision of Judge Field, in the Eureka and Richmond case Had the question been submitted to litigation as to who owned the ore bodies on limestone beds, the decision would probably have been in favor of the Copper Queen; but the question could only have been settled after bitter litigation, enor- nous expense and repeated injunc- tions and Interruptions of work.
 The Copper Queen company, there fore, decided that it would make an arrangement with its neighbors, waiv- ing the law of the apex. and adopting the common law rule, by which the side and end lines, carried down yer tically, define the ownership of the minerals in depth. The agreements between the companies involved the right to free access to each others mines. Therefore, any discovery made by one company has been open to the inspection of his neighbor. And of this privilege the companies affected have taken liberal advantage. Consequently the Warren district in the last few years has made perhaps greater prog ress than any other in the West
 In addition to the two larger con- panies, the Shattuck & Arizona con- pany was later organized to work a group of claims owned by Mir L. c. Shattuck. adjacent to the ground of the Copper Queen company, where of old We would not have looked for ore. Many other companies have risked considerable capital without as yet receiving any return But it would be premature to suppose that we know the limit, either in superficial area or in depth, of the copper ores of the Warren district. Heretofore, as al- ready explained, the operations have been confined by ourselves and all our friends almost exclusively to the ore deposits in the lower Carboniferous rocks. There is no probability of the limestones of older or lesser age car flying copper in anything like the abundance of the Naco and Escobrosa beds, but it is equally certain that the pcrphyries, which geologists assume to have been the source or the carry ing media of the copper in the lime stone, contain disseminated secondary ores of sufficient value to be worked, and that ore bodies of notable size and of very good grade have been discov- cred in limestones of Devonian and Cambrian age. and which may give longer life to the district than is at present assigned to it.