Williams news., 1922-01-13
MINE OUTPUT MUCH LESS

 ! 087.OOO pounds in 1921. The i value of the output decreased from $1O2,719,16O in 1920 to about $20, ,OOO in 192 1, owing to the curtailment of pro- duction and the decrease in the average price of copper from 1S.4O cents to 12.5O cents a pound. The Consolidated Arizona shelter was idle througout the year, and by May all the copper smelters of Ari- zona were idle and most of the mines were forced to close. The Miami Copper Co.,, how ever, continued to make con- centrate at the usual rate, and the Internationl smelter resum- ed operations late in the year to treat the accumulated material. The teaching of copper ore was continued at the New Cornelia plant, at Ajo. The Copper Queen and Calumet & Arizona companies mined and shipped to Douglas a reduced quantity of copper ore after the smelt- ing plants were closed.
 The mine production of lead in Arizona decreased from 14,- 599,765 pounds in 1920 to a. bout 5,182,OOO pounds in 1921. The value of the output de- creased from $1, 1,167.981 to- about $238,OOO. No ship ments of lead ore or concen- trate were made from the Shat tuck mine, which was the larg- est producer of lead in 1920. Much silver-lead ore. however. was shipped from the Copper Queen mine, especially from September to the close of the year. and the Bunker Hill Co.,, at Tombstone, shipped much lead ore as we'll a silver ore to Fl Paso, Tex.
 As the demand for zinc was poor and the price decreased to about 5.11 cents a pound, no zinc ore was shipped from mines in Arizona. The Ari- zona Hillside property in Yava- pal County was idle.
 The dividends paid by Ari- zona mining companies during the first eleven months of 1921 amounted to about $5.225, 1928, exclusive of STATEHOOD paid by the Phelps Dodge Corporation, which also operated mines in Mexico and New Mexico. The compaies that paid dividends were the Miami. United East ern, United Verde, Calumet & sion. and Prelps Dodge Corpor- ation, the last principally for the Copper Queen mine.
 The value of the gold, silver, copper, and lead produced by mines in Arizona in 1921, ac- cording to the estimate of V. c. Heikes, of the United State Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, was about $26,- 100000, a decrease from $114,- 628, ,5S4 in 1920. As most of the copper-smelting plants were closed after March or April the output of copper was less than one-third of that in 1920. No zinc was marketed, the output of lead was abnor- mally reduced, and the output of gold and silver was only half ! that of 1920.
 The gold produced by mines in Arizona decreased from S4,- 7S6,122 in 1920 to about $3,- O46,OOO in 1921. largely be- 1 cause of the closing of the cop per mines but partly because of l the smaller output of gold ore. 1 Operations were continued at | the United Eastern and Tom | Reed properties, in the San Francisco district, Mohave 1 County. but the output was | somewhat less than in 1920. The United Eastern Go. pro- duced about 60 per cent of the ! gold output of the State in 1921. ! Of the copper properties the Calmut & Arizona. United ] Verde; and Copper Queen l mines were the largest pro- ducers of gold, though they were actively operated only a. ! bout three months of the year.
 The mine output of silver de- creased from 5.355, 1903 ounces in 1920 to about 2,179,OOO | ounces in 1921. As most of | the silver is associated with cop