Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-08-08
Trails on Cliff Sides 2000 Feet to
 the Bottom.
A Prize Piece of Copper for the Worlds Fair-Mines 1000 Feet
 Above Sea Level.

Manganese blue, belonging to the ID,
 troit Mining Co. MT. Mclean IS supe
 interdent of this company's extensiy
 mining operations in the Morenci dis
 trict, and has fill the responsible positio
 for about ten years past. His brothe
 Alex. D. Mclean is foreman of the min
 and kindly piloted me through tb
 portion where the most work wes bein
 done. In April last a great caving C
 the mine took place, filling the tw
 upper levels and much of the Sd and At
 levels, necessitating partial suspensio
 of operations. Work of clearing ou
 has been gong on continuously since
 and in drifting around the caves, tn
 richest strike that was ever made in thi
 mine occurred less than & month aga
 was shown lump of this rich strik
 weighing 1000 pounds. It still remain
 in the mines, and an effort will be mad
 to get it out intact to probably be ex
 hiblted at the Chicago Worlds Fair il
 '93. It .is estimated at 75 per cen
 copper. The ledge measures 9 feet il
 width, and assays over 90 per cent
 Large chunks of almost pure native
 copper are taken out of this ledge The
 depth from the attic to the 3rd level ii
 150 feet. Sections at. this depth show l deposits of from 300 to 400 feet wide oi
 extra concentrating ore now being talk
 en out, employing about 75 men, mostly
 Mexlcans. The company is comprised of Wm. Church, the president and chief stockholder, and Phelps, Dodge 6 O., of New York. Louis Sweeney is the general manager and metallurgist. The principal mines of the Detroit system embrace the Manganese Blue or C-P- per Mountain, Arizona, Cenn al, J-Auary' Thompson, Yankee and ron'e%unia' Besides these are countlO>s other copper claims of greater C. less development and value. in r-oximity to Morenci, owned by tbc Oetrolt Co.,; also Is silver claims in ~ group still little beyond. The ,dlue of the latter is not thoroughly tosted. The company have about 200 men on their pay roll, D per cent Mexi- cans at an average of S2.25 per day. The company's store is managed by l.. Fraisslnet, doing a principal share of the mercantile business of Morenci, which has probably over a thousand people, four-tifths of whom are Mexicans. A library and reading room is an ad- iunct furnished by the company.
 A model framing machine run by an engine has just been set in motion for framing the timbers used in the com- pany's mines, giving good satisfaction. It is under charge of H. E. Grant, as- sisted by four others.
 Joe Tatton IS manager of the smelting works, consisting of three furnaces of 40, 60 and 80 tons capacity, respectively. w. l.. Bell IS the foreman of the concen- trators, working 6 pigs, and requiring 3 assistants. The quantity of copper turned out daily is about 5000 pounds, only second to the Copper Queen of Bis bee. The water for use of the smelling plant is brought about m:les from the San Francisco river, and IS pumped up an elevation 1925 feet, and stored in two large tanks in Morenci. The Arizo- na Copper company also get the water they need at the Longfeilow and De- troit groups from the Detroit company.
 The Detroit company's barding L bxyM @f the late Hon. MT. York, of Coronado ranch, killed ten years ago by Italians.
 Morenci stands at an elevation of about 5.200 feet above sea level, is chiefly a city of canvas with an occasional adobe nut to break the monopoly. The few exceptions are the substantial stone off, fee of the company, and their residences and store buildings. There Is one store kept by Salcido t Schultz, barber shop, China restaurant, and five saloons. Mir Schultz has two silver mines, near by, called the Comstock. One ledge, 3 feet wide, he says will assay from Slu to S10O0 per ton with 800 tons of 935 ore on the dump.
 Westbrook < Redmass are shipping silver ore from the Twig in Silver Basin. Its value cannot bs reported until returns are received but there is believed torange from s25O to s4OO per ton.
 Iexpect to visit Gold Gulch today (Monday) and inspect the Lakenan group of mines, owned by R. Lakenan. They are the talk of the camp, and are, from all reports current, the richest of the kind in Graham county.
 Ben Crawford, twelve year resident of Clifton, is also said to own several gold and silver bearing claims in Gold Guloh, employing four men at present In developing and taking out ore. He estimates he has 700 feet of shafts and tunne!ing in his mines, in one of which there is 6-foot ledge that averages S15 per ton. It is within convenient dis tance of Eagle Creek, which furnishes plenty of water and excellent mill sites; and the deposits warrant the erection of mills.
 Col. Newton Ingram, the Clifton tailor, owns the old Pinkham group of twenty claims, located in the same district, em- bracing gold, silver, copper and lead. They were once bonded for S120,000 by l.. ID. Pinkham, who, like many other faithful miners, fell prey to the rap acity of Indian butchery in 1881. Mir Ingram's assays of the ore of one o: the group show Sl2.50 gold, S25 silver, and 15 per cent copper, and another gives 231S per can't copper and a small per centaye of gold and silver.
 An individual named Doc Waddel liv- ing Tn the gulch excites some curiosity from his hermitical tenderness, living alone here for the past eight years. But how he lives nobody seems to know, he never having anything to sell, and not being a war pensioner either. The old man has some mining claims which he seems to be watching.
 On Saturday rode over one of the toughest regions have seen Tn Arizona. By previous appointment l met Hon. David Cough at the Copper King smelt- el on San Francisco river, three and a half miles above Clifton at 8 a. m. The altitude where the smelter is located is about 3,6O0 feet, and from this point we climbed 3,4C0 feet by trall about three miles, to reach the Copper King mine, estimated to be 1000 feet high. The trail ia notched out of the mountain