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Show SILVER IS BOOMING IN ARIZONA CAMPS rRESCOTT, Ariz. Silver hns been discovered dis-covered at Hn t tie Flat, on the northern si o e of the Brads ha w moun tains. Two camps have sprung up. Bat tin Flat was a good silver camp years ago. It was the scene of a fit?ht between United States soldiers and Apaches in the ISTO's. Silver has come ba ck into its own In Arizona. It is urgently needed for export, ex-port, coinage and the manufacture of silverware, sil-verware, which never had a more popular vogue. There is a big demand for silver from China and India- and the United States government is filling it at $1 an ounce, the same price at which It Is supplying sup-plying 200.000,000 ounces of the metal to the British government under contract. When Tombstone was at the height of its fame years ago, Arizona was a great silver producing state. Copper was discovered dis-covered and sliver mining slumped. Iast year, according to the United States geological geo-logical survey, Arizona produced $192,000,-000 $192,000,-000 worth of copper. With the armistice, conditions changed overnight. Copper was no longer needed for war purposes. It is estimated that one billion pounds of copper, more than a third of which was mined in Arizona, Is now awaiting sale. In the Prescott and Tucson mining districts, dis-tricts, silver predominates over other metals. In Bisbee, Jerome, Globe and A jo, it Is a valuable by-product. With the copper market stagnant, demands for the white metal are pouring in from all quarters of the globe and many mines are replacing their copper handling equipments with plants to turn out silver. Inter-Ocean Inter-Ocean Syndicate. |