The land of Nayarit, an account of the great mineral region south of the Gila River and east from the Gulf of California to the Sierra Madre . eposit to great depths. Since these mines were closed down there have beengreat improvements in methods of mine operation and ore reduction, which havegreatly cheapened the cost of metal production. With those improved and cheap-ened methods of operation the phenomenal earnings of former years will besurpassed, even with silver at a discount of 60 per cent from the price it com-manded in the halcyon days of the camp. Within two 3^ears Tombstone has been
The land of Nayarit, an account of the great mineral region south of the Gila River and east from the Gulf of California to the Sierra Madre . eposit to great depths. Since these mines were closed down there have beengreat improvements in methods of mine operation and ore reduction, which havegreatly cheapened the cost of metal production. With those improved and cheap-ened methods of operation the phenomenal earnings of former years will besurpassed, even with silver at a discount of 60 per cent from the price it com-manded in the halcyon days of the camp. Within two 3^ears Tombstone has been connected with the outside world byrail, a branch of the El Paso & Southwestern Railway having been constructedfrom Fairbank, nine miles distant. About twenty-seven miles south from Tombstone, and within nine miles ofthe International Boundary, fifty miles east from Nogales, are the great Bisbee Copper Mines, Where are conducted the operations of the Copper Queen Mining Company andthe Calumet & Arizona Mining Company. The first named company has pro-duced copper continuously since 1880, and the production has steadily increased. NOGAI^ES IN 1901—View Along International I^ine. from 1,379,940 pounds of refined copper in that year to 36,385,000 pounds in1903, an aggregate of 400,000,000 pounds within the period of twenty-four Calumet & Arizona Company did not begin smelting until 1902, in whichyear its production was 2,066,676 pounds of refined copper, which output wasraised to 25,000,000 pounds in 1903. During many years the Copper Queen Company conducted its smelting oper-ations at Bisbee, but during the present year it has dismantled its smelting plant,and now its ores are transported by rail twenty-seven miles to Douglas, wherethey are treated in a new and colossal reduction plant of 2,500 tons daily capacity,in which are reduced not only the ores from Bisbee, but those from Nacozari,Sonora (Moctezuma Copper Co.), and Morenci, Arizona (Detroit Copper Co.),all und
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