Arizona republican., 1898-06-21
GRAND REEF AND TABLE NOUN
 TAIN

GRAND REEF AND TABLE NOUN
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 A Graham County Bulleten reporter visited Klondyke, Table Mountain and Grand Reef last week and writes as fol- lows concerning these places:
 Klondyke is really wagon road junction, situated in the Aravaipa can ,Jon, fifteen miles from the Table Mountain district and three miles and a half from the Grand Reef mine Two saloons, one store, one restaurant, two tents occupied by fallen women and a corral make up the famous town of Klondyke, which reminds one in many different ways of the new town of Ge- ronimo, when first started. If the two new camps prove success Klondyke may some day become town of some importance. G 9J ef3i Has afA Klondyke is also the stage station for two lines running from Wilcox to the mines, owned and operated by w. T. Richards and Mart Moore respect lively. .aoig % ,oge i.s | s..f 'a efa is
 The fare from Wilcox to Klondyke Is $5; to Table Mountain 750, and to Grand Reef $6. The road is good all the way and en route the traveller passes the cattle ranches of MT. Me- Kittrick, H. c. Hooker, Eureka Springs company, J. H. Kennedy, Paddy Lynch and A. M. Hellner. The stages leave Wilcox at o'clock a. m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, arriving at Klondyke at 4 p. m. The distance is sixty miles.
 I rode up to the Table Mountain mine about fifteen miles distant from Klon- dyke. The road leading to the camp is the best mountain road I have seen in the territory. For distance of twelve miles the road runs along the mountain sides, through canyons, and down steep grades, just such a road as that which runs from Clifton to Morenci in this county. This road cost the company in the neighborhood of $50,000. They had an average of 200 men at work on it for over four months. All this was done before the mines had been developed to any great extent, showing that the people In of this property.
 Mountain mines, consisting of group of six or eight claims lying on either side of the Table Mountain, is com posed of Chicago capitalists together with J. D. Burgess of Tucson, who is the largest stockholder in the company and also was the original owner of the mines
 At present the management is pre- pairing to make run on about six.o eight thousand tons of copper ore which is piled up near the smelter and which has been taken from the surface cuts entirely. The shelter is a small affair at present, containing two fur naces, crusher and three engines all under one roof. The water is pumped about 250 yards from a well through a three-inch pipe. At the present dry season water is very scarce but for a greater part of the year there is water in abundance. The crusher was in op- eIation while your correspondent was there and preparations were being made for blowing in one furnace which was done last Tuesday. -
 William Jenks, formerly of New Mexico, is the superintendent. At present the mines are being developed and the ore blocked out Tunnels are being run and shafts sunk on the claims nearest the smelter. t
 Altogether there are about seven ty-five men at work for the company including few Mexicans who are put ting in wood. The miners are all white men and receive three dollars per day. The company boards the men for $1 per day including lodging.
 The town lies in canyon about two or three hundred yards wide and is built entirely with tents. The com pany's store is in tent as is the board ing houses and bunk rooms. The only substantial building in the camp be- sides the smelter is the company's s office, which is built above the town on the hill close by the shelter.
 Hualipai Clark is the foreman at the mines and also owns some valuable mining property close by.
 Two men went into the camp on the stage just ahead of me, looking fol work One of them, a shelter man went to work that afternoon; the other man was unsuccessful, however, an6 proceeded on his way to Mammoth sixteen miles distant.
 The ore taken from the surface cut: runs heavy in gold and copper, but jus how much ore the company ca1 depend on has not yet been developed. Int present run of the shelter will be more