Arizona republican., 1902-02-16
TROY AND MANHATTAN
More About the Big Mines in That
 District.

the Davis and Alice claims and runs down to the Gila basin. This canyon } provides an outlet to the valley of four miles. and in the canyon the smelter will be located. One of the probabili- ties of the near future is a road down the canyon to the river and on to the railroad, when it is built through the valley. The shelter site is so located as to give the ore from the surrounding mines easy access by gravitation to it. The power works will be located at the Davis shaft, which is close at hand and the power transmitted over copper wires to the shelter. Water will be piped from the Davis shaft to the workings all about the mountains.
 There are thirty-two claims in the Troy group. The principal work is di- rected upon the claims mentioned above, the others being good prospects but with scarcely any development There is iron and lime in the group sufficient to provide ample lluX, which makes the camp an ideal smelting proposition.
 Thomas Kavanaugh is the mine fore man. He is well and favorably known among mining men of Arizona. where he has Ia bored successfully for many years. The shift bosses are all men who have been connected with the lead ing mines Of ArlZOna, ana only the best miners are employed.
 The Manhattan group is located on the opposite side of the camp from the Troy. Although the groups are con tiguous the work upon the Manhattan begins at some distance from the Troy
 The Copper Queen is the first deVel- oped claim of the Manhattan group. There is an abundance of stoping ore on hand, the ore body being ten or twelve feet in width on the foot wall. On the hanging wall there is two feet of ore. The vein has a width of forty feet.
 The Manhattan is a new company which started work last July with small force of men. It has made good progress, although the group is not regarded as of as much value as the Troy.
 The Sisson shaft is sunk 3OO feet. which represents the greatest depth that has been attained on this group. On the first level of the S!sson shaft drifts have been run. and on the sec ond level there is crosscut. There is an excellent showing of ore on the foot wall all the way down the shaft and in both levels. The Sisson shaft is equipped with twenty-two horse power gasoline hoist.
 The Rattler is what Manager Cut ting calls his 'surface stope." The vein is exposed by an open cut on the side of the mountain where the vein outcrops. presenting a fine showing of rich ore. IL is said to be fourteen per cent ore. This vein is also developed by tunnel which exposes the vein to some extent. It is q rich claim and one which will provide more than its quota of ore when the smeIter calls for ore.
 Like the Troy group the Manhattan also is provided with fine wagon roads. The facilities for rapid development of
 oth these groups are excellent and
 .obably are accountable for the great
 ,ount of development work which
 s been done in so short time.
 There are two veins upon the Man
 tan group which run parallel. The
 alth of the Manhattan group is just
 g revealed, and as the work is ex-
 d in the Sisson and the Rattler
 ngs the ore bodies grow better.
 group has produced large
 mt of ore in years gone by when
 IS in the hands of prospectors-
 the two groups the claims which
 now receiving the most attention -.= the Climax No. 3, the Alice. the Last Chance, the Sisson, Copper Queen and the Ninety-one. One hundred miners are on the pay roll constantly and the rate is sS.50 and s4 per day Charles H. Cutting is manager of the Troy and superiptendent of the Man haitian. Mrs. Cutting lives at the camp with her husband and they are comfortably located in a pretty cot tage. They are delightful people, and are very popular in the camp and wherever they are known in Arizona
 The smelter will be of siXty-ton ca pacity and will be installed by April.
 fsNnL nf will be added. the policy of Manager Cutting being most conservative one. He has secured more than enough ore to keep a siXty-ton jacket warm Tor a long time, and as the mines develop the capacity for making copper will be increased. This camp is but seven miles from the proposed Phoenix and Eastern rail road. and will become one of the most important feeders of that road The railroad will do much for Troy, for at the present time everything is freight | ed from the Southern Pacific, a dis tance of about eighty miles, in freight wagons resembling the old days of mining in the frontier country of Ari- ! zona.
 When the srnelter is placed upon this I look to see double the mum 7 Der of people in this camp. The cost i of mining here is now very great on | account of the distance from railroad | This will be lessened | to a great extent when the Phoenix ! and Eastern railroad passes through | the Gila basin in close proximity to this l young camp. Here is demonstrated | ', hat this rich mining region tributary | iu the Phoenix and Eastern road will ! produce under the most adverse con 1itions. II is easy to imagine what | this country will be with railroad | when such development has been made without it's help.
 The Globe stage passes this camp every day with mail which is carried to Florence. The mountains about here