Arizona republican., 1902-02-15
Mines and Minerals
 ef Arizona
THE MINES AT TROY
A Model Camp and a Fine Looking
 Property.

Troy Camp. Ariz.. Feb. S.-(Specfal correspondence of The Republican)-It is hard climb to the top of the Mescal mountains, but the scenery which IS opened up to the eye at this altitude surely recompenses one for any discom- forts of travel to get here.
 Troy is on the very crest Of the Mes cal range. For hundreds of miles mountain ranges appear in pInoramic splendor. all of the coloring of nature being brought Into use to portray their different phases. Far off to the south east tEe Galiuros look as passive as though Rattlesnake canyon had never torn its way into them. and only the Pinal mountain stands out majestically defying the illusions of distance to cheat 1t of it's importance. Some of the ranges l climbed day or so ago and found them rough and wild seem from this distance like mounds upon a mesa. There is but enc accessible, or accept able, road leading to the camp on the Mescal range. and that is the old- time Globe stage road. which passes through, Cain canyon. The road skirts dangerous cliffs. and is very steep. It was in this canyon that Pearl Hart the woman bandit. and her partner. Boots" held up the Globe stage a few
 
 hold-up took place are these words painted With wagon grease upon the cliff. Are you ready to meet your God2" Whether Pearl Hart was the artist who wrote these words no one seems to know. but they are there, and from the precipitous canyon road I think they present appropriate warning to travellers.
 There are q great many substantial T. derce portion is made up almost wholly of tents. There are perhaps two hun dred people in Troy camp, and they represent the best miners that the country affords. '. The camp is strictly sober. No saloons are allowed on the company ground, no miner is employed after once committing the misde- rleanor of taking on q jag. and the camp, a result of such restrictions and discipline. is entirely different from any I have ever seen. The usual hangers on of a mining camp are not here: there is no loud talk no threats of violence. nor pistol shots to break the peace and quiet of this model min ing camp. I asked Manager Charles II. Cutting how such discipline worked and he answered:
 Tt simply gives us a full working force all the time. The day after pay day the men are at their posts, they save their money. there is good feeling on all sides and We move along without any quarreling."
 There is reading room. the miners union has its own hall. there is a school and .he miners children are given all the advantages of a small place. Dr. William Lawrence Woodruff, who is well known in Phoenix, is pleasantly located here as the company physician. and Manager Cutting feels that he is very fortunate in getting such an ex- perienced and capable doctor. A hos pital is to be built for the doctor very soon. but at present he uses his resi- dence as an office.
 The Troy group of mines was bought by this company about three years ago from several prospectors for something over s100,OO Since that time active development work has been carried on. and the camp is now safely out of the prospect stage and has prepared itself to enter the list of copper producers of Arizona. The Troy and Manhattan groups are contiguous, the locations covering an immense porphyry dike which traverses the mountains from east to west. The vein matter is four hundred feet in width in some places. as it is traced upon the surface. but the development of the vein has shown no such width. although there are i'm mense ore bodies developed in the work thus far completed Most prospective mining camps have thousands of tons of ore on the dumps. but here there is scarcely any-it is all in the mines, and what is better still. in stopes ready for the drill and blast when the smelter calls for ore.
 I first visited the Troy group, of which I shall write first. These claims are accessible by fine mountain roads which have been built by the company to every portion of the mountains