Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-06-02
One of Arizona's Foremost
 Camps.
A VALUABLE PROPERTY.
Waiting Eagerly For The Event of the Railroad-Res-
 trictions on Vice.
Co.rasoon lance Gazette

| the transfer of the Congress mine to the present company, the camp has been { scene of the greatest activity, The | whistle of the steam hoist and the rattle O. the stamp mill is music dear to the merchants, farmer, cattleman and minel alike; and here they can be gratiied tc the utmost limit.
 The development of the camp Is pro. gresslng rapidly, under the manage. ment of Superintendent E. B. Gage, as sisted by an effi,ient crops of subordi- mates, all of whom are m istsrs of their specialties.
 The mine is under the supervisions of D. J. Jones, a miner of large expsrlence oa the Pacific Coast. Sixty miners are employed ia the slopes, levels and cross cuts, and much larger force will be sst at york as soon as sufficient tim Der supplies can be obtained.
 Every appliance known to mining is brought into requisition on this great pro; erty.
 Day and night, in unceasipg rotation, heavIly-laden ore car. chasa each otuel up the incline shaft and their contents transferred 10 the batteries of forty stamp mil, there pulyerized and convey ed to the twenty conceutrGtors, the con- cenIrates precIpitated into tanks, then through d reverberatory roaster, sacked and shipped to the railroad.
 The mil is model of mechanical per- lection; supp.iei not withonly an eye to utility, but for convience and comfort of employees; a dynamo generates the lum- nous fluid, and serious of inc8ndes- ceaDt lights distributed in generous pro- fusion through ths ui.ding, making 1t at night eu interesting sight to the un- initiated visitor to stamp mill. This department IS conducted by J. ". Bart lett, an old time mill man with the con- pany in former camps.
 The mechanical department is man. aged by 1. w. Proctor. an engineer who has few equals and no supeIiOrs in hls line in Arizona.
 The company has also we'll stocked mercantile establishment, where the employees and others are supplied with necessarie5 and luxuries of life, at rates us reasonable as can be had at Phoenix or Prescott. A boarding house is also connected with the miue, where the transient visitors can be SUD- piled with as good meal he can get In Phoenix for the same price. comfortable lodging houses, livery stable, in fact every accommodation-except a grog sbop-is provided for hy the Congress mining company. They are now remod- cling place formerly occupied by a saloon for dining room purposes, and when completed It will be the largest and best-equipped place of the kind of the territory.
 For a company who have the monopo iy of the ground and water of the camp, this Is the most reasonable place to be found In Arizona.
 Five eighueen-mule teams are en- gagged in hauling concentrates and ore to the railroad, and return loaded with supplies.
 Wood is a scarce commodity in camp; the old supply IS being fast diminished, and the event of the railroad is being anxiously awaited, when lumber and fuel will be easier of access.
 Owing to the dryness of the season the water supply is rather limited and the company are compelled to husband theIr resources.
 Congress, like all western towns, has tenderloin district. where saloons are being erected; but judging from the class and character of the employees of the company, the proprietors are not over sanguine of a sudden accumulation of wealth in dispensing the contents of the cuy that lueDrIateS.
 No whiskey mills are permitted on the cOmpauy's property, and they lately purchased the lower part of the town site, with all improvements for the ex press pursose Of driving out the whisky business as far as possible.
 Ben Block, of Phoenix, arrived here the other day With supply of liquors and material for the erection of a saloon, but, after sizing up tue possibilities of the place he is in doubts whether he will open busniess or not
 Frank Murphy, presideet of the north and south road, and the former suprin- tendent of the Congress mine, in con- papy with MT. Vickers arrived here yesterday from Phoenix, and left today for Prescott, accompanied d by Mir. Armes,
 
 a guest Of Mir. Gage for some time. Mr. Armes is one of the principal stock holders in the company.
 Many false rumors have gone sfloat that race feeling exists at Congress between employees of the com pany. Such is far from the truth; a more peaceble and contented lot of en- ployes cannot be found in any camp, and no such system prevails as discrim- ination for or against any man or class of men. Mir. Gage is not the man to permit for one moment any such sys- tenn to exist under his management. Capability. sobriety and industry are all the requisites necessary for recognition here, and your correspondent car affirm that from close investigation the popu- lation of Congress camp will compare in the above virtues with any mining camp in the west. NJ. k.