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THE BISBEE DAILY REVIEW, BISBEE, ARZONA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1908. PAGE ELEVEN URItjI MINES ARE FAMOUS PRODUCERS From Page Nine.) Urlque and on the Batopllas river and over In SlnsJoa located by John Paul and M. The Rosarlo Mining and Smelting Co. of New York, Clinton It. Peterkln, president, and John Abel, secretary, Is preparing tor and beginning extensive development work, and Is to begin a concentrating plant and a custom smelter.at Urique.

It has capital sufficient for all purposes. George Bj Ja-cobs, E. Is general manager and It. Skeels. E.

assistant. Both are from Chihuahua. This company owns the Rosarlo mine, a famous old property which has produced at least $5,000,000 and was a bonanza for many years. It consists of 6 pertenecias and it and the El Sal-to were bought from the Becerra estate. New denouncements were made around to give the company 100 pcr-tenenclas or 250 acres of mineral ground.

The ores are silver, lead and copper, with from .2 to .5 of an ounce gold. The Rosarlo was one of the three famous bonanza mines of Urlque and with the Patrona and Providentlawas worked for the silver alone. It was once owned by two Americans who operated" it with great success in the primitive Mexican way. Then It passed Into the hands of the Becerra "who tcok out millions and today there are two great dumps at the mouths 1000 tons of ore which will run 10 ounces In silver and when treated In the projected concentrator and smelter will net more than the company Is to pay fcr the property. There -are already two cross-cut tunnels on the Rosarlo.

The upper one cuts the vein at COO feet in and the lower one at 1800 feet. The latter Is 500 feet above the river and there are no workings below the lower levels. Of the several bonanzas for which the Rcsarlo is famous the old records show that much, of the ore ran two ounces silver to the pound, or 4,000 ounces to the ton. The Rosarlo company Is planning to build a 100-ton concentrating plant and a wcod-Durning reverDeratory smeu-er. Both will be also 'for custom work as well as to treat the company's own ores.

The smelting plant is to be built in 15 or 20 ten units. A water jacket furnace will be put in later. The fire brick are now being made at Urique for the first furnace. The sill-ca brick are also to be made there The" ores here are chalcopyrlte, with gray copper, rich in silver and often galena and chalcopyrite In quartz gangue, whicn carries some zinc, probably ten per cent. As It is not practicable, by concentration, to separate the rich ores containing gray copper, and galena, as the former Is so friable that It goes off In slimes, the company proposes smelting the high grade orss and forming a high grade ccpper-lead of from 20 to 20 per cent 40 "per cent lead and carrying from 200 to 500 ounces of silver per ton.

A further and later plan of the company will probably be to partially roast and smelt the first matte with dry ores! in a water jacket furnace with a view to producing lead bullion and high grade copper matte. The lead bullion will probably be refined by the "Park's desilverizes the lead by means of metallic zinc, of -which about two per cent Is needed, leaving it sufficiently pure to be run," into marketable Mead direct from the furnace, while the zinc Bkimmings carying the gold and silver will be refined in a small cupeling furnace producing pore (gold-silvery bars. The aim of the Rosarlo Mining and CnHQM llfclllJ BISBEE IMPROVEMENT Manufacturers of Ice Electric Lights and power Telephone Service Phone 197. Office Opposife Depot; C. O.

D. MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE ELKS' Fancy Fryers SWIFTS PREMIUM HAMS AND I COCHISE LUMBER CO. Smelting company Is 'to develop tke region by means of a custom smelter as above; outlined and It proposes to buy ores on a-Sasls ot leaving a profit to both miner and smelter. The Pllon Mining and Milling Co. is- composed of 'practlctlly the sarno people aa the Rosarlo company and is under the same management.

It has taken over the Pllon mine at Urlque. This Is a gold property and covers 1,500 meters on a large bold, undeveloped "vein which samples on the surface an ounce ot gold to the ton. Development work has already commenced. The Urlque Development company Is a corporation composed ot Messrs, Peterkln, Abel, Jacobs and Nesbltt. Its.

object Is to acquire mining properties, water power lands. tramway rights, etc. It has already acquired water Tights extending 10 1 miles up and down the Urlquo Tlver. wood and timber rights over 8,000 acres and have bought 2,000 acres of: the municipality of Urlque. This company has located a copper property In the Barranca de Gloria-pan which assays 10 to 30 per cent copper, two silver properties In Url que and the extension ot the Pllon gold mine.

It has taken over from the Becerra estate the old Santos Reyes silver mine, which has a splendid showing, and work has been commenced thereon. The vein Is 18 Inches in width. The upper tunnel Indicates an ore body 400 feet long and averaging 100 ounces and 'over to the ton. The second tunnel, is $00 feet lower and when, it cuts the vein, If the same ore shoot continues In richness, 2,000,000 ounces of silver will be blocked out. This tunnel win have to be run 300 feet more to cut the vein.

On one side of this ore body Is a rich stringer which -n HI run 2,000 ounces of silver to tho ton. Too estate of the late Buenaventura Becera of Urique, is the owner of a large number of mining properties in that district. The estate owns about 37 great properties In all. They are located In Urique, Batcpolls, Cerro-j cahui, Cieneguita ana ouier districts of that section. It has several properties under bond to the Rosarlo, Pllon and Urlque Development companies besides the famous Pledras Verdesi and Bahnerlchlc copper mines which are under option to a syndicate of New Ycrk capitalists headed by Rob-1 ert S.

Town of the San Luis FotosI i smelter, who has been doing a great deal of work on both of them. It was Buenaventura Becorra and Garcia who sold the famous Lluvla de Oro gold mine about 30 miles from Urique for $2,000,000 gold. The Becer-ra properties are gold, sliver, and copper, and many of them have been great producers Martin J. Nesbltt of Urique is the 5 one man above all others of that sec-i tlcn who has done the most to keep the mining possibilities of that dis-j trict and the suroundlng territory before the world and to him is due the credit for getting much capital ln-j vested in mines. He Is a son-in-law and was business partner of the late Buenaventura Becerra.

Mr. Nesbltt Is now the senior "member of the mercantile firm of Nesbltt Mendoza. who have large general stores at Urique and Barranca del Cobre. Some 200 mines have been worked In the Urique district in its day and if the history of the great camp could only be written it would be as romantic as that of the famous Batopolls. Like most eld districts there are stories galore of hidden treasure and a number have been dug up from time to time.

The oldest mines In the district are to be Patrona, San Marcos, San Antonio and Colorado. The Patrona was lost until about thirty years ago when Jose Maria Becerra, a brother of ran on to an old door In the workings. According to tradition this mine had been covered up after the flrece "Battle of the Priests," as it was called It appears that it "was owned and worked in the old Spanish days by a priest known as Padre Gallego. Ho Dad struck many bonanzas in it. Ha and another priest whose name is forgotten were enemies and the latter owned and worked the adjoining San Antonio mine.

One day the ofrces of each met in the workings and a fierce battle was waged be- isfl STORE BLDG. PHONE 296. and Broilers BACON. RANCH EGGS Wholesale Retail Dealers in Puget Sound, Texas and California Pine, California Redwood. Lath Shingles ami Sashes, Mouldings, Doors, Windows and Mill Work.

Phona 141 W. C. READ, Mgr. BISBEE, ARIZONA. Gum Trees Well i No group of plants, perhaps.

Is the subject of greater Inquiry In southern Arizona at the present time than tho eucalyptus. The Importance which tnls. remarkable genus is assuming in parts of California as a producer of good that can be "turned to a variety of purposes, together with the similarity ot the agricultural valleys of southern Arizona and certain Interior ones of California where the trees are grown successfully, is responsible largely Jor this, growing interest On account of the marvelous growth ot eucalyptus which enables the California planter to net handsome pronts from ills groves. It Is only natural that their Ti.i14 Via Iim imneManitlnn here. I It the most drouth-resistant vane ties of aucalyptus trees are once-well established during a period ot wet years, or belter yet.

by means of moderate Irrigation, there appears to ba, cood cause to believe thex may be grown successfully with limited irn- cation on lauds that are of seco 1 lory value for cultural purposes at the iTfeS-. heat and winter coH, never having cnt tlmo rn account of limited water I suffered any injury therefrom. It Is suppl) Also the waste, pieces ot land also drouth-resistant. For ornament-about the farm, borders of ditch banks, alplantlng it is ono of the best. Its and een roadsides, might well "be commonly erect habit, combined with planted with these useful trees.

fits symmetrical form and dark green Examples are known of small groups foliage, makes It a desirable tree for of eucalyptus three growing In valley shade or avenue planting. There are lands which are usually deep" and al- two forms of the species, a weeping luvlal In nature, for periods of six to one, and an erect oval-leaved one, the ten years without Irrigation. Not In- latter ot which is the more desirable, frequently the underflow In these val- Specimens of this tree growing under levs is within the reach of these deep- rooting trees, which undoubtedly explains In part their ability to grow undor such extremely arid conditions, However, the writer would warn the practical planter not to expect too much from trees growing wiin a limited water supply. In addition to the possible economic value of eucalyptus, several varieties have shown themselves to be valuable additions to our list of shade and ornamental trees. As ornamentals they art- evergreen, which Is a Resirabw feature In a region with as little color as our own, and possessed of a pleading aroma.

They have thus far been found free from fungus and insect pests, and unlike decidious trees, do not cast a litter ot fallen leaves each year: although some of them shed considerable bark. Eucalyptus to grow In the warmer parts of Arizona must be able to endure maximum temperatures from 10S degrees to 120 degrees with low humidity and Intense sunlight, and also survive ten to twenty degrees of frost in winter. It will be Interesting to note that almost without exception the varieties that are capable ot grow-lne under a wide range of conditions in California are the identical ones tnat succeed oest wim us. sheltered situations, It Tcmalns to be seen whether any of the species can be crown with success at altitudes above- 2800 to 3000 feet. The species that have been found to withstand best the above conditions are the forest red gum, red gum, desert gum, red box, narrow leaved Iron bark and mana gum.

According to Profsscr McCIatchio, sugar gum, white gum, and gray bark grow successfully at Yuma and Phoenix; and there Is even a possibility that blue gum will survive in the situations near Yuma. Witt fjther study other species will undoubtedly be found tnat win resist cquuuy our heat, aridity and ecld. Forest red cum Is a rapid-growing tree, and considered valuable in Australia for its 'lumbar. When planted near together the trees Decome ia and erect with uniform trunks, while if scattered, they are likely to grow stocky and branched. A small clumP of this species Is growing me auua Cruz valley three miles northwest of Tiirinn.

These have never suffered any injury from our wide range of temperatures, it is stated mat wej have not been irrigated unnng mo nast six years. At this time they are about twelve years old and the taller ones range frcm nfty-flve, to seventy feet high, with trunk diameters four- rAn cOUDTltPn MnPnfiS. Red gum Is quite similar In appear ance to the last species. Deing neany related botanlcally. Though It Is tween them down urder the earth.

Padre Gallego was defeated and driven out, the Patrona's mine workings worn covered un and its location for gotten. The priest retired to a cave high up In tne cutis in wnica. mere was a spring and lived a hermit's life near Urlaue. The cave is known to tWs dav as tho "Cueva del Padre Gallego," and there Is a "wall yet at the opening snowing tnat it nas Deen Inhabited in the past. Tradition today says that Padre Gal-lecca from this cave secretly and with the aid of his faithful Tarahumare In dian followers crossed over the cordon into the upper part ot TJurique dis trict and near Mescalera secretly worked a rich silver jnlne, out of which the white metal was cut with axes.

Seme people In Urlque nave seen the ore, which wag shown them by the Indians. i The proof of the "Battle of the Priests' In the Patrona was made by Jos Maria Becerra. The forces of the rivals inust have fought viciously, for Sr. Becerra found jthere In the midst of bonanza ere running from 12 to 36" per cent In silver, a number of skeleton In old Spanish armor, and weapons lying about. Evidently after the battle no one re-entered the mine, for the bonanza left is ample proof Jose Maria Becerra was for leng years the king ot "Urique and the sur rounding He was to urique what the late Governor Shepherd was to Batopllas.

Sr. Becerra came to Urlque a comparatively poor man who had ben mining near Guazapares.but he had been educated for an engineer and he grasped the possibilities. In mining. With his terrible energy of which stories are told to this day, he had "Unque In a few years producing $4,000 worth of silver per month, and a. pay roll of $3,000 dally to tho people.

He worked numerous mines ia Urlque, Batopalls, Zapuri, Chlnlpas, and other places'. He was his own engineer and his tunnel and ether works on tho Rcsarfo and various other mines are models to this day. it Is said. At the time of his death he Is said to have had on a deal for the rale ot the great Cerro Colorado gold mines near Batopilau, for $3,000,000 gold. With his death some years ago all his big mining operations ceased at once and Urlque has 'languished ever since, only awaiting the advent of American capital and enterprise; that ia just now beginning.

Suited tcj. Arizona thought to be less drought-resistant than the forest red gum, It Is apparently equally resistant to temperature, extremes. Its growth is rated, though somewhat variable, some trees being tall and straight, others lrregU' lar. In Australia it Is considered one of the most valuable ot eucalypts on account ot the extreme durability of Its wood. It Is being much planted In parts of California at this time.

Professor McClatchle recommends the red gum very highly In his bulletin on eucalypts cultivated in the United States. Good specimens cf the red gum can be 6een growing In Phoenix. 1 1 is said that this tree can be planted in lartA itVlot 4a nllriflntnf? for a considerable time, also In slight- ly -aixaiine situations. Desert gum has Teen planted mors perhaps In southern Arizona than any other variety. "With favorable condi tions, it is said to be cne of the most rapid growing of eucalypts, especially when young.

At Tucson It has shown itself extremely resistant In summer ratner unfavorable circumstances cs the Uuiversity campus at five years of age average twenty to twenty-two feet In height and five and one-hair to six and one-half Inches in diameter, The desert gum, especially when new- ly set, is subject to chlorosis or yel lowing ot the leaves which eventually kills tho tree. The disease is known locally as "frizzing." from the abnormal brush-like development of the young Umb3. The aflected plants should be replaced early by healthy ones. Red box is another species equally resistant to heat, cold and arid condi tions. It Is of a more or less erect habit, usually with a single stem! though not always symmetrical In Its development Its silvery-gray round leaves render it a conspicuous plant In a landscape, contrasting nicely with trees dark-green foliage.

On this account it should be used considerably for ornamental purposes. A fiao lat ot young trees of the red box two years after planting may be seen on the west line of the university average fifteen feet in heigh, and three Inches ia diameter at the base. The red box is not desirable for shade as the desert gum, on account ot Its less dense leaf canoopy. There are probobly few localities in southern Arizona having an altitude below 3,000 feet, where with sufficient, though scanty, water supply, these two species may not be grown. Narrow-leaved Iron bark also endures nicely the climatic conditions at Tucson.

The trunk ls ordinarily straight and of uniform diameter, and with the jellow-llko leave and pendu-ItfUs branches gives to the tree a graceful appearance. The narow-leaved iron bark is not well known enough, yet, however, to be highly recommended. It is also subject to the chlorotic condition already noted for desert gum. Manna gum Is crowing successfuly at Yuma and Phoenix. It Is a rapid grower and in Australia becomes one cf the largest of eucalyptus.

It was formerly much planted In California, but because Us wood is or very secondary value, even for fuel. It has been largely superseded by tne red gum. It Is said to be of some value as an ornamental. With reference to eucalyptus fo rpar-tlcular localities, the writerwould suggest for altitudes up to 30C0 feet, as on the upper Gila, desert gum, forest red gum, and gum; for the Salt river and Colorado river valleys, desert gum. red gum, red box.

forest red gum, narrow-leaf Iron bark and man na gun. The most favorable time to set out eucalyptus Is from the middle of February to the first of April, according to locality. They may be planted from four to ten feet apart, depending upon the water supply. The closer they are planted together, the greater will be their tendency to produce straight timber. Small trees may be obtained frcm any of the larger nurseries.

The larger plants give the better re-' suits, potted plants two to three feet high in small lots will cost about twenty-five cents apiece. These are especally desirable for ornamental planting. In order that they may secure quick transportation they should be shipped by express. Under our conditions of arid climate and more or less alkaline soil, the small planter will find it advisable not to attempt to grow eucalyptus from seed In. Arizona, as he is almost -certain to meet with LEACHING COPPER ORES.

Copper is one of the most leachable materials known In nature in fact, the usual outcrop of a copper deposit Is a leached-out gossan in which little or no copper appears at all. This leached material usually continues downward 200 or 300 feet and at times as deep as 500 feet. There are, of course, localities, such as the northwest coast of North America, where conditions of glaciation and weathar arc such that little or no leaching is in evidence; but. as a rule, a copper deposit is found In a partially leached condition. Silver and gold are very mucn less easily leached by natural agencies, and yet thcr are several very sue-, cessful metallurgical processes for leaching gold and silver oces, while there have been very few- successful copper Teaching plants.

We recall several, fncludlng that at Clifton, Ariz, which employs an acid process and pcrap-Iron precipitatlve, "and tha Rio Tinto works In Spain, which Imitate th-s natural agencies. At 'Rio Tinto large paXios oc yards are prepared a locality where the soty Is a dense clay. The. clay Is moistened and Kneaded until it is pracucany waterproof. In these years there are built great piles of the ore.

which piles are then allowed to leach by the combined influence of water, air and sunshine. Tha natural operations are hastened wetting of tho piles of ore. The solvent -Is preclpl-tated very largely with Iron scrap. The leaching plant at the Snowstorm Copper mine, MullanV Idabo, was reported la profitable operation last' year, but, as no extended run was made, it cannot be termed a pronounced success. Smaller sulphuric acid-scrap-iron precipitation plants have been operated In New Mexico and western Colorado but in these cases only the most thoroughly oxidized ore was handled, Butte, considerable copper is recovered at the leaching plants (scrap" Iron precipitation)! which run on both mine and tailings seepage waters.

It seems strange that a satisfactory copper-leaching process for sulphide ores, partially and fully oxidized ores cannot ba developed. With a material which Is so easily dissolved In so many different ways. It would seem the simplest thing In the world to dissolve the copper In an ore and then precipitate it electrolytlcally and get electrolytic copper directly. We have hejird of several such processes, and we have had occasion to test two oi them, but these two were not at all satisfactory. Mining Science.

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NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE. Under authority of an order of sale granted by the Probate Court of the CountA- of Cochise Territory of Ari-zonal will sell at private sale the following described real estate, situated! in the city ot Bisbee, County of Cochise, and Territory of Arizona, to wit An undivided one-half Interest in and to that certain portion ot the surface ground only ot the "Leviathan' lode mining claim, situated in the Warren Mining District, Cochise County, Territory of Arizona, designated by the Surveyor General of Arizona as Survey No. 1715, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point whence -coi-aer No. 3 ot said "Leviathan" lode mining claim bears N. 39 degrees 38 minutes W.

148.8 teet, and running thence S. 85 degrees 55 minutes E. 5.5 feet; thense N. 25 degrees 57 minutes E. 40.8 feet; 'thence S.

7G degrees, 15 minutes E. 23.1 feet; thenca S. 02 degrees 04 minutes W. 159.4 feet: thenca N. 82 degrees 21 minutes W.

5G.4 feet; thence N. 7 degrees 48 minues E. 121.8 feet to the place of beginning; together with the three (3) one story frame buildings sit uated thereon, and the appurtenances thereunto belonging. Subject, however, to the conditions and reservations contained In the deed conveying Kie premises of which those above described are a part, to Louisa Sand, which deed is re corded in the office ot the County Recorder ct Cochise County. Terri tory of Arizona, in Book 27, Deeds of Real Estate, at pages 172 ana kj.

The sale will be made on or after March 2nd. 1908. and bids will be received at the office of O'Connell McReynolds, Schmld-Shattuck Building, Bisbee, Arizona, on or before the 2nd day of March, 1908. Terms or sale, cash, ten per cent payable at the time of sale, and balance upon confirmation by the said Probate Court. LOUISA SAND, Guardian of the persons and estates of Ben Louis Sand and Frank Edward Sand, minors.

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