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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1907
Page
7
In early reports, growth indicators point toward a swift economic expansion, with experts noting acceleration across multiple sectors. Analysts emphasize sustained demand, rising employment, and improving investment activity as the outlook strengthens.
Reports from multiple districts describe rising mining activity and copper output. Butte leads producers in 1% copper with 143,000,000 pounds estimated. Mexico zinc demand grows. Cripple Creek and Goldfield see new high value ore shipments and looming smelter needs. Nome thawing outfits employ pay dirt washing. extensive development at Copper Creek and Two Queens, Ray, and Saddle Mountain mines signals a busy winter mining season.
The report notes thirty five tons aging from eighteen to twenty dollars per ton with armed guards watching shipments. It mentions Guggenheim interests near Gillies property at Cobalt, a reported forty million dollar offer, and shifting control dynamics in Niptasing. The Baxter Royalty firm expands leases as metal prices rise, while consolidation sweeps Keweenaw and Cananea districts. Fuel shortages hit mining towns like Goldfield, with record wood prices. In Patagonia, Wrightson district activity grows as Greene Consolidated nears Cananea, with Ramseys directing prospecting and several mines employing hundreds of workers.
Territorial items report mail by cable across the Redrock Lordsburg river, miners at Goldfield settle a strike and await high grade ore shipments. Socorro board chair Farr praised, Socorro State Bank shows strong 1906 year end, vagrants treated kindly by Phoenix city officials, and Arizona crops feature a rare midwinter strawberry standout amid a coal and railroad disruption looming in Roswell and region-wide.
An 19th century drug advert warns against mercury based catarrh ointments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Care and other remedies. It urges using only prescriptions from reputable physicians and notes Hall's Catarrh Care is mercury free and made in Toledo Ohio by F J Cheney Co. It also advertises Hall's Family Pills and Chamberlains Cough Remedy as safe options. The text ends with a stray line about a tramp steamer named Wabbly towing the Ponce into port.
A portion of detainees bound for San Francisco will depart after an imposed wait while 28 prisoners remain jailed for some time and 3 of the escaping detainees from an El Paso box car, pursued by an immigration officer, were captured near Los Craces and held locally. Their hearing is pending and action will likely take more than a week before removal.
Notes from the railroad world include Herman Schweitzer and H McCreary of the Marvey system traveling to the Grand Canyon and Los Angeles job changes, plus sightseers visiting Albuquerque. A Philadelphia rumor suggests Pennsylvania RR may absorb the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, linking Atlantic and Pacific rails. Deputy Marshal Billy Smith warned about legal issues on interstate safety rules. Fire in the Franklin tunnel disrupts Santa Fe line near Martinez with Southern Pacific routes used. Wells Fargo guards lose eight thousand dollars in gold bricks from the Yellow Aster mine after a break-in in Barstow, with no thief caught.
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