Arizona republican., 1899-08-01
It Is Only a Mining Camp Typ
iCal But Promising,
And WILL BE A BIGGER ONE
The walIapaI a Good Nine and Wei
Equipped with r1achinery-Thg
EIkharf Temporarily noderafeS
OperafionS-The SohuylkiII, the
n:rrImac and oihet More or Less
Valuable Properties.

Correspondence of The Republican,
Thursday evening Mr.. Lusk, of the
firm of Kenefick & Lusk. who are
building the new line to Chloride. was
kind enough TO notify me that the
construction train which usually
leaves NcConnico junction, four miles
west of Kingman about 5 O'Clock,
would pull out on Friday morning at
$3.50, and deciding it was hardly worth
while to go TO bed and turn out at
O'Clock, 1 determined that when the
moon rose 1 would walk down 20 the
junction and take my chance of few
hours rest in the caboose. Luna put
| in her appearance at $50 and strolled
over to the Santa Fe, where my four
mile trot over the ties was TO COM
mence and was delighted to find
westbound freight train on the point
(the conductor said) of departure.
They had Just one switch to make,
but something went wrong during the
operation and it was after twelve be-
fore we pulled out of Kingman. My
seriously curtailed, and thus do/ "the
best laid plans of mice and men, gang
aft aglee"
Eventually we reached the railroad
camp (about three miles from its ter
minus at Chloride) about O'Clock, and
after getting some breakfast set out
to discover for myself what the real
Chloride as compared with the imag-
mary Chloride of the New York Sun
was like
From the terminus of the railroad
where the new town of Chloride is
to come into existence, a trail leads
norohward over hill and the climb
is quite steep enough for the sort of
weather they are just now enjoying in
these parts. On reaching the summit
the mining camp of Chloride-the
whole thing-lies spread out on sun
kissed plateau directly below. De-
seending the hill one finds that the
camp consists OF upwards of a hundred
buildings of all shapes, sizes and de-
scriptions, from store of really noble
dimensions to a shack eight feet h.
twelve and tent six feet by eight.
The majority of the buildings are un-
painted shacks, interspersed with
good many tents, but the stores. res
taurants and saloons and some few
residences are of more substantial
construction. The camp is fairly well
laid out, but the main thoroughfare is
decidedly sinuous in character and
there is almost an entire absence-not-
withstanding that the settlement has
attained the venerable age of thirty
yearS-of shade trees Dust and a
particularly fine article in the way of
dust, too, lies deep on the roads and
between the glare of the sun above and
the dust below the perspiring way
-farer acquires a thirst which some
fellows would be wiling 20 purchase
at a considerable figure
There was not the Slightest sign OF
the rush" described by the San
Francisco Chronicle and the New
York Sun. On the contrary, every
thing was particularly quiet, and the
ranks of the unemployed sufficiently
in evidence in the neighborhood of
the saloons, had been swelled on Fri
day morning by some men, laid off at
the Elkhart owing to a scarcity of
water.
About mile east of the center of
the town in the Tennessee mine owned
by the Wallapai Mining and Develop
ment company-E. T. 10y being the
president and general manager, and
which company commenced operations
a year ago last October-there are now
three shafts on the claims being
worked by the Wallapai company one
OF them 800 feet in depth and the
other two 200 feet. Twelve hundred
feet of drift and tunnel work have
been accomplished and this is good
showing for the time the mine has
been in operation The mill aud sur
face buildings generally are substan-
tial and commodious. the plant COM
prising two steam hoists, one of fifty
and the other of twenty-five horse
power, two sets of Davis high speed
rolls. a Blake crusher, five sets of
igs, and two Whitley concentrating
ables-the milling and other ap-
)liances being altogether well ar
anged and efficient. The system of
water saving or impounding is as
rood, if not better, than anything l
AVE seen in the territory and includ-