Show ARIZONA'S RANK AS COPPER PRODUCER Value Greater Than Combined Product of California and Colorado MINES IN THEIR INFANCY Predicted Fred That With ViI Ii Development Slate Will ili Excel Montana ii In Copper Output While most Arizonans are Cl aware nrc that Arizona stands second In the list listI I of rich copper producers In the union a n great gleat many man are not familiar famil amil- mr with the fact that In total mining wealth Arizona also ranks second only to Montana and produced about 10 more from Crom her mines her mines last year ear earthan than Colorado about double as much is ns was produced In California 12 more than Michigan pays s 's the Miner California and Colorado are the richest gold sold producing states In the union and man many a one would answer without hesitancy If asked ed what hat Is IR the mining state slate In the union Cal- Cal fornia or Colorado John Q A. A King ing who ho takes a as much In the territory I c or and especially her ler er mines as ns any other oilier r man In It It has been doing a little figuring Intel lately mines produced 4 i ast last year Michigan produced 00 Colorado and California Califor- Califor ila uia 2 I Arizona produced nore mOle copper coppet alone than any of the theother ther other states rates produced from all their nines mines with a total of or Anona ArIzona Arlona Arl- Arl ona zona produced in gold and In sliver silver sll I Michigan produces uces in opper copper and amI In silver sil Cobado Coo Cob ado mines yielded up In old gold In copper and 1250 00 In In sliver silver hile California pro- pro need 17 in gold In n ru copper and in silver Grout Great Value alue of Copper It will be he seen that the value of the copper opper produced In Arizona was more than han the tho combined wealth produced by y the famous gold goll mining states of California and Colorado and was more than han twice as ns much as the combined liver silver and copper production of the two wo we states put together These figures In face lace of or the fact th hat t Arizona's I mines are In the in- in fanc ancy bf lIf their development recalled to o 0 Mr King the prediction made m ulo to him ilm a couple of bf years a ago o b by a n Cobado Colo- Colo ado mining man who luo had tramped and LIU nul ridden over the mineral minerai land of he the whole continent He lie said that when Ihen Arizona was developed as ex- ex as s Colorado Mie hl he would 1 be bo behe behe bothe he the foremost of all the mining mining- states or f the land hand not excepting Montana which hilch last ast year produced forth of copper alone She would be beo beso so o 0 far ahead of them that this terri tern orys ory's wealth would stagger tn er the world His lis pre prediction was made after a trip a considerable le portion of or the |