Arizona silver belt., 1886-12-04
OLA COUN r l.
sts Mineral Resources F9eal and Personal WeaitE--- Necessity Of a RaiIroad for Our Future FoYos-
 peYity.
perIty.

From a report on the resources and
 wealth of Gila county and a Uomputa-
 tion of the business, past and present,
 of Globe and San Carlos, prepared by l C.. T. Connell and submitted to Messrs. 1 Walker and WagstaH, ot the Narrow
 Gauge Company, we have made the
 following interesting extracts, giving
 information never before coIlated and
 made public: @ @
 As "a straw" showing what the bus
 mess of Globe formerly was (during the greatest activity iu mlning,) and
 how we have suffered by reason of our
 isolation from railroads and conse-
 quent exorbitant freight charges, the
 yearly amounts of freight received by
 E. F. Kellner < Co.,, one of our leading
 mercantile firms, is given. In 1880
 they received l, ,l80,000 lbs, :; 1881, 965,. GOO; 1882, 850,000; 1883, 720, 900; 1884, 670O00; 1885, 610,000; 1886, 3SO,000.
 In 1883 the assessed value of real
 and personal property in the county was $l,O60, 306. A railroad would ! quickly restore values and make our 1 taxable wealth far greater than what
 it was in 1883, The credit of tue county is evidenced by the fact that Gila county scrip has never been be- low par.
 There were fourteen gold and silver quartz or stamp mills in this and ad- jacent districts, most of them still be. hing seryicable, viz: Centennial null, 10 stamps; Golden Eagle, 10; Mack
 Morris, 10; Pioneer, 10; Howard, 5; Champion, 5; Globe City, 5; Mineral Greek, 5; Silver Nugget 5; MeMillen, 5; Middleton's 5; NefFe's, 8. Total, S6| stamps,
 The production of the various gold and silver mines could not bo accu- rately ascertaiued, The Mack Morris shipped, (as shown by tho company's books) bullion to the amount of $647,- 574.S5, and before its purchase by the company yielded large amount of silver.
 When iL ts considered that the cost of material used in working silver ores is almost trebIed by reason of the heavy charges for hauling from Vii. cox to Globe, it is apparent why none but hlgh grade ores can be proatably worked here. There arc large quan- titles of ore on the dumps of various mines iu this district, thrown aside as valueless with the present expensive methods of reduction, which would yield handsome profits, with the cheaper transportation that a railroad 1 would afford.
 There are six copper twater iacket) ] furnaces in this district, with total ! daily capacity of 180 tons. Tho Old Dominion Company produced, from ! 1882 to September 1886 (with stop pages of from one to four months year. ly) 22t800ooo pounds of copper, or II, 100 tons. During that period the l company consumed p. 500000 pounds 1 (l2,650 tous) coke. The yearly con- sumption of wood was l 800 cords, of lumber for tin,bering, 34OQ0o feet, candles, powder, oil and other supplies, ! s tons, and extra machinery per year, l5 tons. The total amount of freight reeeiyed and sblpped by the company during line past four and one-half years was 48,G00.o0o pounds (24, 300 l tons}; per year, 5,400 tons, per day 15aa tons. In addition to what is here 1 enumerated, a large amount of other freight was received by the company. New machinery will bo required next ! year and two plants will be put in op- 1 eration instead of one. Dr. Tappel, 1 superintendent, says: With two fur. naces going ten mentas and one going two months, we can produce and con snme 50 per cent If the above figures tifty per rcent of 4s,G00,000 lbs.) yearly. l
 Foar other copper mining eompa- uies ran for time and produced GOO { tons of copper but owing to tho de- cline in the price of copper, the nigh 1 freights and their ore not being high CT than l2 per cent, they were com. pelled to close down and await cheap er transportation. Il IS generally l understood and believed Chat these companies stand ready 10 resume op. eratiops, as soon as the cheapening oil freights will justify 1t.
 The amount of merchandise received by Globe merchants, during tho pres ent year ff886) was, in round num- bers, 2,533000 lbs The total receipts ! of Wells, Fargo < Co. for the past four yearsfor fteightand yaluatoniamount- ! cd to $25.791,0Q. l
 The business of San Carlos would I bc an important factor in the ealrala- ! lions of | railroad Merchandise re- eeiyea at the Agency yearly te tr- lY 5,0Q0 Indians, troop of caga off 100 men, 50 white employees, be= es qpartermasters anpplies The foli9R-E I