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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona was an American copper mining and smelting company based in Morenci, Arizona. Incorporated in 1874, it existed as an independent company until 1881 when a controlling interest in the company was purchased by the Phelps Dodge Corporation. It continued to exist as a subsidiary of Phelps Dodge until 1917, when all Phelps Dodge operations in the area were consolidated into the new Phelps Dodge, Morenci Branch. The company was co-founded in 1874 by Captain E. B. Ward, a wealthy steamboat owner from Detroit, Michigan, and William Church, a mine speculator from Denver, Colorado. Actual mining operations did not begin until 1875, however. The company consisted of 145 mining claims near Morenci. In time, the company owned a large store, a hotel, and considerable amounts of additional property in the town of Morenci. It also established a water pumping plant on the San Francisco River seven miles away. The quality of the Detroit lode yielded about 140 pounds of copper per ton of ore mined.

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