The Florence tribune., 1900-10-13
FROM KELVIN CAMP.
Active Developments on the Mines in
 That Vicinity.
Special to Florence TaIBUNE.l

I Preparations of very elaborate pro portions are being made for the re- opening the Ray mines on or about the 18th of this month which will give employment to over l75 men.
 The mill is pronounced success and is handling over 150 tons of ore every 24 hours. Every ton of this ore is, am reliably informed, good for $S in l gold, besides an average of 5 to per cent copper. So it can readily be seen that the Ray Copper company have a big fat thing of it beyond all perad- venture.
 Aside from the Ray company other big companies are already in opera tion, full of tremendous promise that fully justifies the belief that this camp is destined to be one of the largest, richest and most permanent camps not only of Arizona, but of the world in general.
 Mir. J. R. Mclean, of the Kelvin and Agassiz copper companies of Boston, Mass, is here, and has let contracts for extensive working not only near this camp but also at Dagger We'll and other places on their valuable and ex- tensive holdings. Tom Hall and Jim Shoemaker have the contracts and have force at work on the main tunnel nearly opposite the Ray Copper Co., $ big mill. This tunnel will cut across from seven to ten large lodges and dykes showing up rich copper on the surface, and will penetrate vast bodies of sulphide ores as seen now from the lower workings of years ago when sulphide ores were not understood as at present. Mir. Mclean has secured the best in the field with the greatest privileges in the way of river front, roads already made, complete drain age of tunnel, cutting under over 300 feet of rich ores that can be stopped at very trihing cost, also mill-sites and on line of proposed railroad to Red Rock. This company is called the Kelvin Copper company, with head quarters at 92 State Street, Bos ton, Mass, and they certainly have the finest showing I have seen in many years experience in the mining camps of the west. The Agassiz company, of which MT. Mclean is the head repre- sentative, have big bodies of ore, river fronts and conditions generally about similar to the Kelvin company, and is composed of some of the most solid monied men of Boston and Maine, who will put everything through in fine shape.
 Another big company of Boston have got big bonanza in copper and gold at Skinnerville, or rather more prop CT speaking Troy, Arizona, in the same belt as the Ray company, six miles above Riverside. Skinnerville got its name from some profane mule driver who skinned his mules, getting up to where Mir. Cutting, of Boston, acquired this great property. Mir. Cutting, with his highly refined, gentle manly instincts, promptly changed the name to one more poetical and classical, Troy, after Helen of Troy, just as Mir, Mclean and his friends in Boston named the Dagger Well, Agassiz, after the great naturalist. Thus it is refinement and culture follow the crude provinciaIisms, and gold and copper are the great magnets which draw it from centres of poetry and art to the western wilds.
 Tom Shoemaker, Tom Hall, Tim Donohue and Mir. valjean have got a wonder in their Hidden Treasure mine, adjoining Mr. McLean's group, They have tunnel in now 100 feet cross-cutting lodges of sulphide ores for the entire length; the body IS over 500 feet wide; it averages per cent copper so far, on the last ledges, with considerable silver and traces of gold. 1t is beyond all question another big ore body similar to the Bisbee, Ray and Clifton. It is undoubtedly the largest body yet struck in the field.
 The foregoing statements are facts. The outlook here is great. It has taken time, but much is being done. The palmy days of the Silver King are but drop in the bucket to what is yet in store for Pinal county in min, ing wealth.
 Yours truly,
 Jos. MULHATToN. ! FN