Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-18
Gigantic Enterprises.

 ble to attract more attention or wield a wider influence in the development of the resources of this Territory, and of bringing it's lone mountains, it's dark
 valleys and silent plains into such general
 notice as the wide field mapped out for
 operations by those ostensibly composing
 tho Santa Catarina Copper Company, but
 whose enterprising arms extend to the
 coal fields and agricultural districts lying far beyond. Their copper properties will,
 as the companys name denotes, be the
 irst to receive attention. They consist
 of group of three mnes situated in the
 Santa Catarina mountains. The Apache
 and St Nicholas being on the main ledge that girts the mountains base, and the
 Midas, an immense Hedge of copper
 bearing ore lying at right angles with the
 two named and upon the lower end of which the reduction works will stand.
 The Apache is opened by cut and shaft of eighty feet, which shows an ore body 324 feet in width of solid carbonates of copper. The same quality is shown in the Midas whose croppings extend over surface of GOO feet. The whole of the ore averages in copper fully twenty-five per cent, with sufficient percentage of gold and silver to largely repay the cost of separation. As copper properties their values, although long known, were in a measure nullified by their almost inacces- sibility, and the consequent difficulties at tendant upon the construction of road were too much for the ideas of the aver age investor. The best efforts of Mir. C.
 A. Elliott to place the mines were by the same arguments rendered entirely futile, but he had examined the properties and fully appreciating their worth regarded the probable outlay for good road as but trihe in comparison with possible re- suits. So, patiently and consistently for two successive years he sought the same end and finally found in Dr. s. K. Kane Il mind of sufficient grasp to overlook all l present obstacles in the light of the pro- spective future, and through him the properties were successfully disposed of to an organization of New York and Boston capitalists who, willing to sow seed before seeking to reap harvest, at once com menced the construction of road whose | I, Il.
 900, and procured the necessary machin- cry for thirty-ton smelter costing, rail road freight included, 12,00O. The ad- ditional expense of hauling to the mines and its erection, together with the S60,- GOO originally paid for the claims, leave but slender margin on S100,0 900. The road will be completed in the course of a couple of weeks and the machinery at once transferred to it's place, and by April 1st the company may reasonably expect their works to be in copper bullion pro ducing order The entire machinery was purchased at the Pacific Iron Works, and much of 1t built under the supervision oi MT. George Fogg, whose name guarantee: the work to be of the first order. The boiler, blower, pumps and engines are considered of sufficient capacity to supply
 two 30-ton water jackets, and although
 but one will now be put up it will speed
 fly be followed by another, and later or
 by several more entire plants. Of th'
 two engines one will drive the saw mil
 and the other the rock breaker and blow
 CT; one steam pump will be used to force
 the water through the jacket, the seconC
 for re-pumping the used water back int,
 the supply tanks, of which there will b,
 three, with holding capacity of abou
 30,O00 gallons each. By thus economiz
 ing the water, dry seasons will not mate
 rially interfere with the flow of coppe
 matte. The water is said to be abun dant, but in case of dearth a sufficsn
 supply can be piped from adjacent can
 yons. The mine and reduction work will be connected by an endless cable,
 full car on the descent taking up an emp ty one. The saw-mill accompanying tn plant will furnish all necessary lumber The supply of timber in the mountain above is said to be one of the finest belt
 in Arizona and practically inexhaustiblt The lumber for present building purpose { must be taken from Tucson, and on tn
 ground is valued, cost price, at 300 pc
 thousand feet. Their mill, when in oI | eration. will manufacture enough to SUI B ply the whole district at about one-fft the price named. The charcoal will als I be burned on the ground, 1000. .00 7 bushels being already contracted for.
 T The stock of the company is divide into 200. 900 shares, but there is none
 the market and none for sale, and tn - whole is held at value far beyond tf l reach of itching fingers Walter T. Ma n rin, of New York, is president, Henry N e Munsell is vice-president, with board - directors, notably among them being y L. Lombard, an old New York copp, f man, and one to whom much of the - present success is due. And when an el F tire success is assured in the present ui t dertaking, the principals of the san y company will at once organize into co d porate body under the name of the Ar 70 zona Marrow Guage Railroad, and aft, v obtaining franchise will immediate e commence the building of a narrow qua. ;, road to connect with the Atlantic and P e cihc and through them with the Uta d Southern. The company. while seekil