El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-02
Williams, Ariz.
Special to The Herald.


WILLIAMS. Ariz.. April The last
four days of March have been QGite
stormy. showing most of the time,
though melting quite rapidly. verifying
the old adage. Comes in like lamb,
goes out like a lion"
The scheme between DR.. E. E. Perrin
and the Santa Fee Railway company,
aided by people in the Salt river val
ley. who think the Colorado river and
all other streams in northern Arizona
empty into the Salt river" has fallen
through. DIR. Perrin owns about 25,-
600 acres. none of which is timbered
sufficiently for merchant use. the Santa
Fe Pacific owns every even section
along the road in Arizona and New
Mexico. extending seven miles on each
side of the track. a portion of which is
timbered heavily. They were at the
point of sale to the government for s.
per acre, DIR. Perrin wished to sell all
of his while the railroad company only
cared to sell the land not timbered. A
delegation was sent to Washington
from this county. ]. c. Phelan. chair
man of the board of supervision from
this city. and two others from Flag
staff: they met Attorney f. S. Clark.
|of Flagstaff, who was in Washington ON
legal BUSINESS, and to Mr.. Clark the
principal of the credit is due for de-
feating the sale and The subsequent
forcing of all cattle. horses and sheep
out OF northern Arizona as it was stat
ed the government intended making
the northern part of Arizona gigantic
reserve MIR. Clarke deserves the life
long gratitude of every citizen in this
section OF the territory for protecting
their interests and of the government
for preventing their buying over mil
lion acres of worthless lands that had
been misrepresented to them as beng
valuable timber lands.
In anticipation of this sale the Santa
Fe has had sever corps of surveyors
working in the fields north OF here
since last September preparing for this
sale. Mr., w. o. Owens, of Utah, has
also been inspecting the work for the
government SO that in case the deal
went through that much would be
ready to turn over without delay.
| The Eastern Star mine, owned by
Flagstaff parties. OF which J. w. Fran
| els is principal share holder. has been
bondede to a Duluth. Mimi, syndicate
Through the efforts of a Mr.. Barbour of
Chicago. a man of twenty years eS-
Iperience in mining. This property
gives great promise, and a copper mine
being fifty-nine miles north of Will
liams and one and one-haf mile from
| the end of the Santa Fe and Grand
ICanon railway and some ten miles from
the rim of the Grand Canon. Immedi-
ateIy below the rim something like q
900 feet. there is q very extensive rich
vein of copper in sight. the syndicate
will sink a shaft to this body and work
| it for all it is worth. This property Is
expected to be as large a producer as
the Jerome mine as son as sufficient
work is done to enable them to work
to advantage. Perhaps two years viii
be required to run enough drifts -
work a large body OF men. A car OF
surface ore from the Eastern Star has
assayed 80 per cent.
The Anita Mining company. whoeA
principal owners are w. r. and j. III.
Page of Rutland. VT. will also work
this promising copper property. On the
same plans as the Eastern Star, COM
mencing within the next month. They
have the advantage of being directly
on the S. F. & G. c. road. A miles
north of Williams.
Mr.. Barbour has about completed ar
rapgements for sbuying the smel.er
erected by Lombard. GoOde & Co,
some tire eyears ago. but has never
been operated. 1t has capacity of 1oe
tons daily. and will be able to save a
heavy expense in shipping the antreat-
cd Or..S