Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29
American Copper for World Reconstruction

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There are large copper mines in
Cuba about twelve miles west of San.
tiago which were opened up less than
Iorty years after Columbus set foot
S for i sna US Island al They were worked
ment; and before the Calumet and
Hecla mines of Lake Superior were
discovered they were considered the
TIcnest copper mines of the world.
They are now owned by Americans.
The ore is smelted and sent to the
United States. I visited that property
not long ago. and found hundreds OF
tMexicans working under American
tt6ITremen M; They are now mining some.
face. and pumps have to be kept
going to take out the water. some az
me tunnels are 900 feet below the
Ievei OF the sea. The ore Is of a low
grade; and the deposits do not COM
those Of many small mines of the
west. '"o
AS to the copper deposits Of tho
United States, they are the largest
ana hnao most valuable Of the world. We
over over our country from Alabama to
Maine, and from Lake Superior to
Alaska; The mineral was found in
Mmassachusetts twelve years after tho
. and IN Lar landed on Plymouth Rock,
porated In Connecticut to work cop.
per ore. At about the same time
they were mining copper In New Jer.
fo ey a sme siinans the the ore to England
once visited the New Jersey mines
before the war of the revolution. and
at It's close Nicholas j. Roosevelt. 4
great granduncle Of Theodore, Rad
an interest In them and organized q
copper and brass rolling mill there.
Other mines were soon found in Virs
gina North Carolina, South Caro-.
INA and Georgia. and Tennessee was
once one or the chief copper prob
ducers OF the country.
Our great copper era began witt,
the opening up of the copper deS
posits OF Lake Superior. These be>
gan 70 be mined something like sew.
enty-five years ago, and since then
they have produced metal to a value
OF many hundreds of millions Of dbl.
lars: At the close of 1914 they had
procured more than five and one.
mar billion pounds Of refined copper,
produced in any two years since tiey
were opened. The copper Of Lake
superior Is unique in that 1t is about
the only district from which a large
output osr MS Is derived nHl,, from native cop.
mas some. weighing as much al
100000 pounds. Much of A. ia Iov3
grade. but 1t is handled on an inn.
mense scale and that at great
profit. me dividends paid from the
fok1
dreds OF millions of dollars, and
many or the fortunes in copper hava
been made from them. When I
Y's,.ed this region many years ago
mines was discovered A pig had
fallen into hole, and in trying to
root ITS way out 1t uncovered the
ore. which was finally developed in
.nH 4, Calumet and Hecla, a property
dends. and will continue to paw for
years to come. There are now sew
erai SCORES Of copper mines in that
We have some Of the richest COPS
Rocky mountain plateau. There are
some near Butte, Mont, which
produce more copper than any two
foreign countries. and the present
11 LIP Ito OF Arizona is more than
year through. Arizona ranks first
among our copper producers, Nom
tana second, after which comes Utah
and Michigan. 1t was the Anaconda
copper mine near Butte that made
the fortune of Marcus DAILY, and IL
was the United Verde of Arizona
which added 30 greatly to the wealth
or William A. Clark. The control,
ling interest in the latter property
was bought by Mr.. Clark thirty years
ago for less than 100000, and sinc9
then 1T has for long periods proc
dhced copper worth twenty timed
that much. Senator Clark was onc8
offered $25.00O,00O in cash for the
property and during the first twenty
years of it's operation 1T had an outl
put Of S90,O00.000 worth Of ore Th&
ore has gold and silver mixed with
tho copper. and the gold and silver, /
am told, have been enough to pay
the running exposes, leaving the copl
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