Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-01-03
CLIFTON. A Brcezy Letter from a Lively Camp. AN EXCELLENT LETTER On its Resources and Present Con
 dition
AN EXCELLENT LETTER
An Article Interesting to the Con- eral Public--Mines of Gold,
 Silver and Copper.

O-if AO-'j DCO' d. IiIiSOi NlIlHSN.
 Clifton is commercial centre for this
 part of Graham county, l. is the dis
 tributing point for large area of coun-
 try-frOm the Gila on the south to the
 Black river on the north; from the New
 Mexican line on the east to the San Car
 los agency on the west. Settlers on the
 San Francisco and Blue rivers and trlbu
 taries; ranches and stockmen; prospec-
 tors and miners all receive their supplies
 here. There are three general mercan-
 tile houses; two good hotels; four res
 taurants; seven saloons; two physicians;
 one drug store; one dentist; two, some
 times three lawyers and two ministers
 of the gospel. One blacksmith; one
 boot and shoe maker and several dress
 makers; barber shop, and hot spring
 bath house; one white laundry and
 half dozen Chinese whashee houses with
 "hop" joint attachments. One painter and paper hanger; a jewelry and re- pairer, a tamale factory and an enchilada foundry. Mining experts, galore; machine shop and round house; the terminus of the Arizona & New Mexico railway; Masonic lodge of 40 members; an A. O. U. w. lodge swell represented. A neat school house we'll attended with an able lady teacher in charge; an ex- press and fast freight line; stables and corrals. A full corps of magnificent
 'rounders" and-as Jerry oil the car would say, expert "ten harns;" soiled doves and fallen angels. The seat of the Arizona copper company's reduc-
 tion works.
 From Clifton to the mines there is 20-inch railway, the most unlque in the world. At the terminus of this road is an incline 3,200 feet long-said to be next to the longest in the world-and is called the Coronado. (After fellow has rode down and getten out of the car he always feels better.) Supplies are car ried up and ores etc. from the different mines along the route. The railroads, reduction works and mines, sc far as ai- luded to, belong to the Arizona Copper Com pany, and hundreds of men are em- ployed; all of which makes Clifton commercial and industrial centre of no mean importance. From morning to night the "busy hum of industry" is heard and at twilight the twinkle, star light of the electric lights can be seen at the smelling works and the same hum and scene of busy activity is con- tinued, as in daylight. The lurld glare of running slag and molten metal is a feature of the scene we'll worthy of visit. The major part of the population l IS Mexican; there is large chinese con- tingent who have strong foot-hold, respectable sprinkling of Italians, sever | al itinerant merchants-decenda ef | those that crucified Christ 1890 years ago-R. c. Brown remembers all about | it.
 All skilled workmen are white. What | the population is in round numbers no | one knows as the census enumerator | failed to enumerate large per centage. | All the country north and west of here | that is to say on the Blue and l Eagle rivers and numerous min- ! ing camps were not visited | by him but 1t IS estimated, ap- that the population is about 20OO souls. The copper zone is over four miles from here, that is to say, the commencement of the zone. for the | belt IS an extension, running in | one direction about i've miles and in the | other about six, this area, that yeilds | copper, is skirted round and about with | ledges that bear gold and silver. Some of the leads are small but many of them are large, bold in the croppings and ire quently rich in product judging from the shipments that have been made and the shown. It should be under stood when reading this letter that all the camps situate in the Copper Noun tain Mining and the Grsenleaf Gold Mountain Mining Districts and Morenci, which IS town quite as large as Clifton, are covered therein. It is at Morenci that the Detroit copper company have their reduction plant in the midst of their mines and carry on a general msr- cantile and copper manufacturing busi- ness. It is about five miles from here n a westerly direction, At Gro, three miles north, is located ihu Copper King Mining Co. works. Above Gro about tour miles is lhN new town of Frisco at which place there will be erected ten stamps mill by Ihe Gold Mountain Min ng Co. The general formation embraces 5rachite, cementcd gravel, line, iron, Iuartzite, syenite, porphyry and granite. The characteristics of the copper ore Ire, red oxide, glance and corbonates anzerite and malachite.) The silver ores are principally sulphides carrying, both carbonates and gold. The gold is found in gravel beds, and in yold gulch in crevices. Nearly all the odes that bear gold carry silver. There Ire hundreds of fine prospects. 10th of copper and the precious metals, only { waiting the advent of capital; and when hat time shall have come, the geograph- cal mining district divisions, commonly ,alled Clifton" will bound into such as wealth producer as will ,e second to none in the United States. t would seem from the number Of peo- ( ,le representing capital that have been | nd are here now that the day IS not far ' if. Later will present to your readers he enormous output for the closing year l S9O. {
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