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The oasis., 1901-04-27
CANANEA COUNTRY.
A Pew Notes Taken in Visit of a
 Few Days.

The impression of life and activity the traveller receives upon entering La Cauanea Sy stage at evening IS strong.y acceDtuated when he arises the next morning and looks around by daylight. Upon all sides are busy men hurrying to and fro, busily intent upon the work they have in hand, the air is resonant with the ringing of saws, the pounding of hammers, the sharp crack of teamsters' whips. and the continual rumble of laden and empty wagon trains passing in and out, with the shouts and precautions of exasperated drivers hurled at the obstfeperous or recalcitrant mules adds to the ever growing and coDtinu- ally changing clamor. the whirr of machinery and the exhaust of the powerful engines driving all the great plart, add notes of their own to the ever rising melody, while above all and over all the steady roar of the great blast furnaces dominates the variety of sound, and welds 1t all into one grand diapason. singing of the en- terprise aud energy of man. his mas tery of the forces of nature, aud the great success 1t has achieved in tap. ping these rock-rIbbed hills and draw ing from their hidden recesses con- tinually growing and spreading stream of wealth. The hillsides are covered with tents and temporary structures for the present accommodation of the dwelers, aud upon all sides are aris- ing permanent buildings Of adobe or lumber for their permanent uses Every man that comes looking for work is immediately employed, and the demand for labor is such that many more could be set to work should theyc0lne Upon the evening Of my arrival one of the officials declared that the great enterprise was expand. ing faster than they could build tu ac- commodate 1t
 And like Alladln's palace this has all sprung up as in night. But un- like that wonderful palace it cannot vanish as quickly, at the sound of the voice of magician. It's foundations are laid deep in the surrounding hills where has been developed an exten- siye series of the most wonderful de. poslts of copper ever opened in the world, and the end thereof is not yet in sight. Through a distance of seven miles along the foothills on the south side of the Cananea mountains is this work or development going on From different mines along that entire dis tance comes pouring steady and con- tinually increasing output of ore. and every days add to the known extent of their richness and value.
 Several companies are operating here, and at this time it is possible to give them only passing mention. There are the Green Consolidated and the Cananen Consolidated Copper Com. panies (associated), working two blv blast furnaces which consume sixty tons of coke daily, reducing four hun. dred tons of ore and producing from fifty to seventy tons of copper matte, the average production being about two carloads and La Democrata Min ing Co. with blast furnace that re- duces l25 tons of ore daily, yielding in about the same proportion. The re. duction works of La Democrata are about mile away from the main
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rapidly, ties and materials are accu- mulating, tracklaying will soon begin and it is anticipated that trains will | be running before the first of Jure. With all spurs it will be sixteen miles 1 long
 A roadway for traction engines is being built between La Cananea and Naco, and will be shortly completed. The engines and wagons are at Naco and will be put into service as soon as the road IS completed. A great part of the distance needed no work, the road being sufficiently hard to bear up the weight of the engines and so level or easy Of grade that ttey can travel 1t easily; but in places road has to be graded and packed to afford road bed which the engines can traverse
 Last week k. J Murray was in the camp en route from Arizpe to San Francisco
 J. D. Brown of Nogales, is in the camp of the Indiana Sonora company in their employ.
 Wick Smith, who was long time engaged in prospecting down in the Ures and Sahuarlpa districts, and AL fred Saxon of Nogaies, are running a meat market at the camp of the In. dianapolis.Sonora Copper and Mining Co.,. about three miles above La Cana. nea.
 At La Democrata the company has their own store and everything neces. sary to conduct business on their own account, and are a separate camp from La Cananea although but mile away about the same distance as that be. tween La Colorado and Minas Prietas. The Indianapolis-Sonora Copper and | Mining companys camp is also separ. ate about three miles away. There a townsite is being laid out, t,construction Of buildings will commence at once. .and the company will put in big store. A big smelling furnace will be erected and put in operation as soon as men and money can gather the machinery and put it together.
 Mir. Mitchell, general manager for the Greene Consolidated and Cananea Consolidated Copper companies says that at La Cananea they will do ia two years as much as it took the United Verde and Copper Queen com panies twentytwo years to do at Jerome and Bisbee. They are putting in the largest conyerteTs in the world, with capacity of six million pounds per month. Three additional smelt- CTS are to be erected, with combined daily capacity for treating nine hun- ured tons of ore. which added to the present furnaces consume thirteen hundred tons of ore every twenty. four hours. There has been designed and ordered the most complete and economical plants in the mining world, for the handling of ores, saving the precious metals, saving of remit ting and saving of labor atievery turn in the proc sss of mining, transporta- tion and reduction. Mir. Mitchell speaks from authority: the last plant he constructed was that Of the United Verde, acknowledged the most up to date copper plant in the world The Greece Consolidated plant will sur- pass the United Verde in capacity and completeness of equipment. The shelter will be equipped with all the Mitchell patents, to wit: the Mitchell Economic hot blast smelting furnaces; the Mitchell improved method of
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son. In consideration of the butcher. ing privilege (So am informed) MT Proctor deffays the cost of conducting the school. For che latter the com pany has erected large frame build. ing 40g60 feet in dime lsions, and several teachers are employed.
 In the camp at La Cananea are em- ployed many persons we'll known at Nogales, Hermosillo, Minas Prietas, Bisbee, aud other points in nora and Southern Arizona.
 MT. Ed Noon of Nogales, is night foreman in the Cobre Gran Ie mine, one Of the properties of the Cananea Consolidated company?
 Andrew Neahr is day foreman in the same mine.
 A. Q Murrieta of La Colorado, is in the camp doing contract work. He has in hand several buildings for both the Cananea consolidated and tbe Democrata companies.
 Wm. T: Powers Of Tucson is stenog- rapher ia the office of the company store;
 F c. Won Petersdorf formerly at Torres, is boo kkeeper in the same office.
 Joseph BlllngsleY of Patagonia is working in the carpenter force at La Cananea.
 H. B. Smith, $. B. Comstock, Pedro Torres and Jose Ackley of Nogales are all with Frank Proctor.
 Sunday J. F. Bowman. Ed Flynn and Chas. Moody arrived from No gales to erect a number of buildings for the Indiana. Sonora Copper and Mining Go.
 w. P. Mccormick from La Colorado, is working in the carpenter force at La Democrata.
 J. T. Wilkie, formerly at Torres and La Colorado, is clerking in the otii ce of the railway department of the Green Consolidated Mining company
 Mir. Frost, formerly chief clerk in the maintenance of way department of the Sonora railway at Nogales, is chief clerk of the railway department.
 Guar les Winston, well known all over Southern Arizona and Sonora, is in the camp, having just returned from a prospecting trip through northern Sonora.
 Messrs. Alfredo Villasei1Or and Al fredo Monteverde of HermosilIo, rep resenting the state government of Sonora, were in the camp list week, checking up the improvements and machinery put in by the Democrata company aud the Cananea Consoli- dated, to determine compliance by the companies with the terms of their re- spective concessions. They started homeward Tuesday of the present week.
 Last week Messrs. Louis B. Fleischer Ol NbSdlCSf AitbO uhd Ds DClkH of Nogales, Sonora, were in the camp on business. They returned home on Saturday-the 20th inst.
 Sunday last MT Fernando Mendez of Hermosillo arrived i1 the camp.
 MT. Tyler and Mir. Matthews, two engineers, are making an examination of the properties of the Green Con- solldated and Cananea Consolidated, in the interest of various capitalists who are negotiating to buy large block Of the treasury stock.
 This week new electric rail way has been installed at the shelter at La Cananea, to haul the slag dump.
 Grading for the narrow guage rail- way to connect the mines and shelter
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sight at the top of the ridge between
 the two camps. Beyond the Demo. crata couple of miles are the proper ties of the Indlanapolis.Sonor Cop
 per & Mining Company (the Indiana polls pe0plej upon whigh development and exploration work IS all that Is at prese being done. At this writing
 MT. Reinhaft, the manager, is in Ei Pas0, to buy hoist to put upon the property to accelerate the work. Some six miles away is La Mexicana, lead and silver mine, the property of Col unel Frank Morgan and ass ssociate>,
 which Is working, the ores are very rich and pay handsomely in shipment. But complete descriptions of all these mines aud their workings, with their reduction works, must be deferred until l have visited them in detail.
 The visitor at La Cilanea is made at home by the various officials of the different companies, dsl Uf whom are admirably fitted for their places For the Greene Consolidated aud Cananea Consolidated companies MT. George Mitch2ll is general manager James Kirk, general perintendent; Frank Mitchell, perintendent of shelter; Ed. Massie, mine foreman. MT. Scott White, secretary of the company, whose office is in Naco, has been at La Cauanea two or three weeks past, attending matters at that end. Sun day last MT w. C. Greene, the presl. dent of the company. returned to Li Cananea from business visit to New York.
 At the Democrata, MT. F. Hook Is uperntendent, and Pedro J. Aguirre of Nogales, is assayer. Mir. II. Hoff- of Cincinnati, one of the principal own- CTS in the property, is expected from the east within few weeks. Mir. Leo. G. Cloud, another Of the owners was in the camp last week He went t. Nog iles wheuce he expects to go east shortly and will return with Mir. Huffmi m.
 For the lndiana-Sonora Copper and Mining Co.,, Mir Wm. Rnenarte is uperintendent, P E Murray Is mine foreman. aud c. T Glday of Nogales is accountant. Sunday last Doctor Henry Jamieson aud Mir. Samuel Morss of Ind diauapolis arrived from the east and have been visiting the camp this week. MT, Morss is president and general manager of the company, Doctor Jamieson is treasurer, and Hon. Thos. Taggart Is secretary.
 At the principal camp, La Caaanea, everything in the way of real prop erty is at present controlled by the company, which in that way controls the business of the place. The site is on the Cananea grant, one of the properties of the California & Mexico Land & Cattle Co.,, and the Cananea Consolidated Copper Go. leases from them. Negotiations for a transfer are pending, and the surface rights, in case of deal, will pass to the Copper company All the buildings ia the town are owned by the Copper com. pany, which leases to the occupants. In that way the company controls and regulates the business of the camp. For instance it leases one building for saloon, and It's contract the company makes an exclusive lease to the lessae, stipulating the conduct of an orderly house and the closing of | the bar aud games at midnight- This rule is inexorable and must be always obeyed. The butchering business is made similar exclusive concession.
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CONTINUED ON THE LAST PAGE.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

Near Denver work is progressing on
the largest storage reservoir in the
world. The retaining wall. are now
12o feet high aud the water is backed
up seven miles, Barges and steamers
are used in bringing material that
enters into the construction of the
great dam. The gate way to the dam
is through a great tunnel bored in the
solid granite at the side of the dam.
Through this tunnel the water will be
carried to the place where it will be
used. Power will be generated aud the
water used for domestic uses.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

1t is rumored on the streets of King.
man that an agreement of settlement
of the st. Charles Repu blcan libel suit
has been entered into. BY the terms
of the greement the Republican is to
pay the attorneys of st. Charles the
sum of 500S, make retraction of the
libelons matter and give the name of
the sender of the alleged libelous tele.
gram. So far there has been no at
tempt to carry out the agreement aud
the matter may be tried in the district
court at Prescott.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09
The Great EIkton Mine Sold,

The Elkton, one of the best mines
in the Cripple Creek country, has been
sold TO eastern investors for 6,375 ,O0Os.
The mine was recently flooded and
when the water was pumped down to
the flooded level an immense body of
ore was encountered in a crosscut.
This ore is said to run from l,0J0s to
2,OOOs to the ton and there was esti.
mated to be 500 tons Of. this class of
ore in sight. The mine has been big
producer and is thought will rival the
Independence or Portland. The ore
values are higher than in either of the
other big mines.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09
Rural Mail Delivery.

The government has at last hit upon
a plan for supplying OF miners, farm
ers and raDchers along mail routes
with special mail delivery. Mail
carriers will be required to deliver mail
into all boxes and hang small bags
upon cranes or posts along the routes,
under the following conditions: ANY
person living on or near any star route
herein described, and not within the
corporation limits of any town or with
in 80 rods of any postotfice, who desires
his mail deposited at a given point on
the line of the route by the carrier on
said route may provide and erect a
suitable box or crane on the roadside.
located in such manner as to be
reached as conveniently as practicable
by the carrier without dismounting
from the vehicle or horse, and such
person shall file with the postmaster
at the postoffice to which his mail is
addressed (Which shall be one of the
two postoffices on the route on either
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09
rline Warning Notice.

To all whom It may concern:
Notice is hereby given that the Blackioot
mine, situated in Waiiapai mining district.
Mohaye county, Arizona is under lease TO
parties working the same, aud j. the property
OF the undersigned, aud that neither the mine
nor The owner thereof will be responsible for
any lsbOr or debt contracted nor injuries sus-
taned by any person or persons employed or
working on said proper 3; aud that no lessee
or emplOye II the agent Of the owner for any
purpose Whatever, aud that all operatives aud
labOrers engage In such service at their owl
risk aud that 40 debt or claim of debt Is valid
against said mine or it, owner.
BYRON COLLINS
Kingman. Sert 2s, 1901.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09
Mine Warning Notice.

To Whom Il May Concern:
Notice Is hereby given that the Victor aud
Virgin miuing claims. in san Francisco min.
lug district, MOhave county, Arizoua, are un
der lease and bond TO parties working the
same and that neither the mines nor the M.
dersigned cO-Owner thereof VIII be respOnsi.
ble for any labor or debt contracted, nor In
juries sustained by any employer or emplOye
Ia rking said property. aud hat 40 employ
er or emplOye l. the agent OF the owners for
ANY purpose whatever. aud that all operative
engsge IN such service al their own risk. aud
that no debt or claim Of debt is valid against
said mining claims or their owners.
CHARLES GOODCHILD.
Kingman, August 9Th. 1901
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

An understanding has been arrived
at between Aug. Heinze, w. A. Clark
and the Amalgamated Copper Com
pany looking to the restriction of the
output of copper. From the date OF
the meeting of the copper magnates
there has been gradual curtailing of
the output of the big mines and this
will continue until the excess copper
now on the market has been used up.
This action will clear up the copper
market and maintain prices at the
present level.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

Reputed chemists have started a
boom in the Smokey River Hills, in the
northwestern part of the state of Kan
sas, where they are said to have OBJ
taiued from ten to twenty dollars to
the ton from the deposit of shale that
lines the river The fact Is that by the
ordinary method of extraction no gold
can be obtained from the shales, but
these so called chemists claim to have
discovered a method by which recovery
of high values is obtained. The value
less lands are being taken over by the
unwary sucker aud the holders Of the
big tracts of that section are getting
rich,
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

The oil men of California have a
hard time of it trying to make some ar.
rangement for the advancement of oil
prices. So far there has been practic.
ally nothing done in the matter and
the chances for agreement are less now
than months ago. The price of oil is
sure to be regulated by the market de-
mand and there is not much ueed of a
combine to handle the product.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

Al. Shotwell, a mining man we'll
known in this county, has been sued
in st. Louis court for over l00,000S.
The plaintiff in the case is mining
partner, who alleged that Shotwell sold
mining property in the Ajo country
on which they had bond aud failed
to pay over his share of the proceeds.
The mine is one in which Fred Pom
eroy of this county is interested, but
the sale is said to have fallen through.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

Last week daring attempt at Jail
breaking was made at Yuma by a con
victed murderer named Hart and a
highway robber The men held up the
jailer and locked him in the cell, then
taking rifles and other weapons they
ran to the railroad yards, made the en- i.
gineer and fireman of the yard engine
get off the engine and then steamed
out on the main line. The engine was
abandoned about eighteen miles from
Yuma, but was followed by another en-.
gine with posse of officers on board.
The men we're overtaken near Fortuna,
where battle took place. Hart was
killed and the other man captured.
Yuma at best Is hard place to get
away from.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09
To the Public.

Allow me to say a few words in
praise of Cham berlain's Cough Rem
edy. had a very severe cough and
cold and feared would get pneumonia.
but after taking the second dose of
this medicine | felt better, three bot.
ties OF it cured my cold and the pains
In my chest disappeared entirely.
am most respectfully yours for health.
Ralph s, Meyers, "a Thirty seventh ST..
Wheeling, W. Va. For sale by H. II.
Watkins.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

Every community has its little
sprinkling of snide aristocrats, who
bear about as much resent bance to a
true aristocrat as mud hen does to a
bird of paradise. They try to talk
French before they learn the correct
use of English. They imagine they
can delect technique in the howl of a
cayote and curves of beauty in the
convolutlons of pug dogs tail. Such
people are usually married out of a
wash tub by man of means aud i'm
mediately rise to the conclusion that
they are superior article. They will
pile up 10 cents worth of refres hments
on IA dollar table spread, invite the
honorable so and so and imagine they
are "kwality." II they happen to get
into an assembly of clean decent IN id :
die class people they gather their drap-
cry about them as though they we're
afraid of vermine. After all they are
more to be ptied than despised being
victims of an incurable delusion that
they are superior to average humanity.
Globe Times.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

side of and next to the box or craue) a
request in writing for the delivery of
his mail to the carrier on the route for
deposit at the designated point, at the
risk of the sddressee. The small bag
or satchel above described, as well as
the box or crane, must be provided by
the person for whose use it is intended
without expense to the department.
1t shall be the duty of the postmas.
ter at every such postofIice, upon a
written order from any person living
on or near the star route, to deliver to
the proper mail carrier for that route
any mail matter-placing in the re-
spective satchels, where such are used,
the mail for the persons to whom such
satchels belong-with instructions as
to the proper mail box or crane at
which said mail matter shall be de-
| posited out registered mail shall not
be so delivered unless expressly re
quested by the addressee in his written
I
a carrier shall be carried past another
postotfice on the route before being de- |
posted into mail box or hung on a .
crane or post.
The carrier on the star route will be .
required to receive from any post
master on the route any mail matter or
nrtvata mail SotobaI that ,,ar ho -
trusted to him, outside of the usual
mail bag, and shall carry such mail
matter or private mail satchel to and
deposit it into the proper mail box or
hang 1t on the proper mail crane
placed or the line of the route for this
purpose; such service by the carrier To
be without charge to the addresses.
No particular design is required for
box or bags, bat they should be of
such character as to afford ample pro.
lection to the mail matter intrusted to
them. The carrier is not required to
collect mail from the boxes although |
be may do so at his own instance.
The routes on which this system will /
be established in Mohave county are
the following: And it is the desire of |
the department that some one within
the county take contracts for carrying
the mail over them for the contract
years after January first, 1902: The
time, distance and present contract
price over each route is given for the
guidance of bidders:
Needles to Fort Mohave, Is miles.
and back; twice week; present con-
tract pays 39267s; subcontract, 372.34s
bond, zoos
White Hills to Chloride, 2s miles and
back; six times week; present con.
tract price, 1,2J0s; bond, 3,OO0s.
Campbell by Mineral Park to Chlor-
ide, l6 miles and back, six times a
week; new service; bond, 100 3.
blackberry 10y Sandy On. o. and
Owens to Signal, 75 miles and back,
twice week; present contract, l49Os:
bond, 3,010S.
Cedar to Yucca Station IN. o.. 2s
miles aud back, twice a week; present
contract pays 1898 for service once
week; bond, l2OOs.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09
Arizona's Copper Production.

In eighteen years Arizona produced
copper to the value of nearly l42,0OJ,-
OJ0s. This is indeed a wonderful show
ing when it is considered that the pro-
duction of copper in the territory $
assumed Importance only within the
last ten years. Within ten years more
the mines of this territory will rival
the best mines in the world.
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

At the copper mines of Arizona and
Montana an effort is being made to
suspend operations on Sunday. The
Amalgamated copper company is the
first in the field in the laudable work
aud all the other operators are follow
ing snit A miner who works below
ground six days in week deserves a
day of rest
Mohave County miner., 1901-11-09

This week we received from Major
James A. McCliutock, of Phenix, dis
criptive booklet on the resources of
Maricopa county, compiled by that
gentlemen for the board of trade. The
letterpresss is very neat and the half
tones are exceptionally good. The
whole booklet is a work of art and a
credit to the author.