Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-30
BRIEF MINING HISTORY OF DISTRICT AS TOLD
 BY FATHER OF PHELPS DODGE CORPORATION, WHO
 PASSED AWAY THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY

lanta, had been relocated over an old CT claim. the Satisfaction. The Queen ore body was dipping toward it, and maintained its full size. though not its original percentage of copper, when the claim was bought, on my advice. [ by MT. James and Mir. Dodge. the senior members of the firm of Phelps. Dodge X Co. could not conceive of such an extraordinary large and rich mass of copper as was exposed in the Copper Queen, constituting either the only deposit, or terminating abruptly within the arbitrary bounds of a single claim. l was right, and yet I was wrong The limestones enveloped it on its dip as completely as they con fined it as it's outcrop. and this won derful cylindrical body of copper ore and ledge matter disappeared before it reached the Atlanta side lines. This | untOward disappointment happened after four years of profitable work. at | the 400-foot level of the incline from the outcrop; but not until the original owners-and the shareholders of the company they organize6-had extract ed 34,526.000 pounds of copper, and
 
 During the first period of the | Queens progress the Atlanta Mining company had been driving tunnels, and following irregular tortuous streaks of copper from surface down ward in the hope of discovering an- other ere body, but all in vain. Mean time. however, the Prince Copper com pany had obtained a claim on the same limestone horizon, and was extracting rich ore from an outcrop and contest ing the right of the Queen to follow there on its dip, in conformity with the law of the apex, into the Prince ground. They wen their suit and prospered for a time.
 In the summer of 1894 the Copper Queen had almost exhausted their ore resources, and were drifting aimlessly in pursuit of others. The sharehold- CTS of the Atlanta Mining company had contributed their last assessment before abandoning their search, when. almost simultaneously. the shaft which the Atlanta company was sink ing and the drift that the Copper Queen company was running to the east, entered another ore body with apparently a reverse dip to the rich shoot which had made the previous life of the Copper Queen so prosper ous.
 The inevitable legal question as to the rights of the Copper Queen com pany to claim ownership of all bodies on the dip of their limestones within the end lines of their claims along the outcrop became acute, and a decision had to be reached whether litigation or mining would be the principal in- dustry of the Warren district. Instead of fighting, it was decided to combine and the original Copper Queen con- pany, which owned only the Copper Queen, the Czar. Copper Jack, Iron Mountain and the Fucker claims. threw in their, exhausted claims, in August, 1885, with the Atlanta, Belle Isle and Ellie. The new company simply added the word consolidated to its old title. The capitalization of the company. considering the rather dubious outlook, was lowered from $2,000, 900 to $1,400,000. Then for three l years there was cessation of dividends. i But something better than earning dividends occupied the company dur | ing this gap in it's mOney-making car eer Other ore bodies, one of them the most productive of any as yet ex- tracted, were discovered on the Allan | ta, and the prospects became so en- couraging that money was borrowed to erect larger and more economically l designed works.
 1,a nF hl ioff al Queen ore body terminated in lime < stone, a small streak of ore was de- | tected crossing from the Queen into l the Atlanta on the old 40O-foot level. | Till the new ore body was struck this l veinlet was the only clue to follow. | and to reach it the shaft was being | sunk on the Atlanta with the fateful l S15.000-the last contribution to the | exploration fund-which was to decide | the fate of the old Atlanta Mining com | pany. and probably of the district | This so-called joker" when the I ground was explored by the Consoli- | dated company. led into a large ore f body which constituted the chief ore | reserves for number of years.
 The discovery of these new ore bod ltS anu tAplOIdllOuS III utptu dioiS . the dip of the limestone to the south ! began to throw light upon the charac- ter of the deposits. their possible re- lation to one another. and some faint suspicion as to the bearing of the fels- ] pathic rock and the faults upon the | genesis of the ores. The effect was to excite some faith in the perma- hence of the region as a mineral pro- ducer and encourage the purchase of | adjacent property. The Holbrook and | Cave property. owned by a neighbor | ing company. was in the market and | was secured by interests favorable to the Copper Queen. The large area l. owned by the Neptune company was | sold by the sheriff and bought in by | the same interests: and other groups | of contiguous mining claims were se cured. extending the property of the i Copper Queen far beyond the limits |