Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-16
CHLORIDE DISTRICT.
The New Railroad to Chloride Opens
Up a Fine Mineral Country.

Chloride is in the midst of a thriving
business and the prospects are that t1e
present state of affairs will continue as
such for some time to come. says a cor
respondent of the Albuquerque Citizen.
While the town is over a quarter Of
u century old it is only during the past
-Four months that the people could
boast of railway facilities. The mine s
in this vicinity have been producers
ever since the camp was established,
and the mineral was Of such high val
ues that it bore the expense of shipping
TO shelters over two thousand miles
away. That a railroad is extended to
Chloride is no wonder when it is known
that every day large shipments of con-
centrates are consigned to the Pueblo
and FL Paso reduction works. The
price of provisions, machinery and
building material are greatly reduced
by rates of transportation and as a
consequence extensive development in
the mines is being carried on and the
homes for the employees are made COM
Portable and convenient. The popu,a-
ton is estimated at about 500 people in
Chloride while there are at least 800
in the mining district a few miles dis
tant.
The Tennessee mine, operated by
the Wallapai Mining and Development
company, with E. T. 10y as president
and general manager, and II. y. Bots
ford as assistant, is making excellent
progress in the development of the
mine and the treatment of ere. About
L 900 feet of work has been executed in
the mine and is being worked by three
eight hour shifts. Sixty men are. EN-
ployed in the mine and fifteen in the
mill. The mill is equipped with two
Wiley and one Bartlett concentrators,
and it is claimed they can save about
SO per cent of the values. The ore as
says twenty ounces silver, four dollars
in gold and about so per cent lead. One
hundred tons of ore is treated every
twenty-four hours, and il is learned on
good authority that the company ships
about twenty tons Of concentrates to
the smelters daily. Fuel can be had at
small expense since the new railroad
has been built, and regarding the
water supply there is no question.
The Schuylkill mill r,hich was de-
stroyed recently by fire is being rebuilt
and the machinery having been crlered
some months ago will soon be on the
ground ready for adjustment and the
works set in motion.
Numerous other mines in the district
are being worked by competent manag-
-rs and miners, ard are hosting ore
every day. There is no doubt concern
ing the permanency of this prosperity.
as the values increase materially with
depth.
The Arizona and Utah is the
Cf icI, Wa
completed in August last and which
connects Chloride with the outside
world. The line extends from a point
four miles west of Kingman through
the Sacramento valley up to Chloride,
Il distance of twenty-five miles. The
officers of the Arizona and Utah Rail-
way company are F. IL Underwood.
president: Charles f. Morris, secretary
and treasurer; S. b. Mcconnell vice
president and general manager; H. NJ.
Mccartney. superintendent and chief
engineer. The last named gentleman
comes from Salt Lake City, Utah, and
is quite prominently known as a COM
petent and able manager of a railroad
enterprise. He thoroughly understands
the work of constructing a new road,
also, as any one can verify this state
ment by a single trip over the rails.
The track is almost perfectly smooth,
and the jostling and jolting so percept-
ible on the numerous railroads of the
country, is particularly conspicuous for
its absence on this new stretch OF
track. Since his brief residence in this
locality Mr.. Mccartney has won an
army of friends by his genial nature
and sOciability, and it is reasonably