Arizona republican., 1903-02-16
 Mines and Minerals ef Arizona
PRESCOTT TO POLAND
How the Big Properties ill That Sec
 tion Crowd Each Other.

If there are any people in this county
 who do not believe that railroads create prosperity let them take a days outing
 and go over the line from Prescott 10
 Poland. says the Prescott Prospect
 There are people here who have not the
 slightest conception oI the ;.s.::sforma-
 ton which has taken place in this shor;
 distance from their own doors. Many
 of them will affect little interest when told by those who have seen what is
 oeing done in the community but will
 harp about dull times and the small
 business they are doing. The Prospect
 would advise these individuals to take a tip fer day over the Big Bug dis
 trict for the purpose of settling in their minds, granting that they are not doing as well as they would wish, that pros
 perity in abundance is near at hand.
 The first point of interest out of the ordinary that attracts the attention of the traveller over the r. & F. is the Val Verde shelter and the concentrating
 plant oi the Standard Smelling and Re
 fining company. The smelter is run
 ming steadily and it may be a surprise
 to some to learn that it is not alto
 { N
 is in the market for the metal and We are informed it is now receiving ore from outside the territory. Several
 new buildings have been added in the past few months which makes no ticeable improvement to the place.
 A short distance west of Val Verde is to be seen what might be termed the Night Blooming Cercusr of the Bis Bug. This Is Iron King City, property or the American Copper company. and it's twelve or fifteen buildings, one Of which is the massive mill. all erected , in the past few weeks. at once attracts the attention of the passenger and many inquiries are heard what place is that?''
 Only Q few miles from Iron King sid ing is Huron. This is the getting off place fer McCabe and the Chaparrai mining district. In this district not to exceed five miles in diameter are locat- ed the Little Jessie. the McCabe. Me Cabe Extension? Gladiator, Morning Star, Gopher. Rebel, Kicker, Dividend, Palo Alto and many other properties all of which tend to make Huron a shipping point of no mean importance. The town is steadily growing.
 A couple of miles farther on the train | leaves the r. & F. and takes the Big
 Bug branch. One is not long waiting ! to see something. for in a very few minutes you are passing close by the Henrietta mine, the property of the | BraganZa Mining company. person only has minute to glance q the row of neat frame buildings and hear the
 roar of the twenty stamps in the mill which are dropping constantly day and night. Before the Braganza company secured the Henrietta. besides the mill l there was only one small frame build 1 ing on the property. Now there are all the buildings necessary fer the business and comfort of q thriving company. as well as quarters for fifty to one hun
 dred miners.
 No sooner have you passed the Hen l rlstta than you are or the ground O. i the Cypress, recently bonded by c. W, | Middleton, and q short distance farther on comes Eugene Gulch, on which EI ! R. Parker and others have some valr q ole properties. From this point the i train rounds the point of the mountain
 on which is situated the Great Belcher, comes in view of the Sterling and LottIe mines across the creek; passes over the Anna mine and by the mill of the same
 name. and comes to halt at the depot
 of Providence, virtually on the dump O. ! the Red Rock Mining company.
 | Leaving Providence the train is soon
 passing the Postmaster mine. whicl.
 lies on the right with the mill almost
 opposite on the left side of the track
 This is the property of the Oriental
 Mining company, Mir. Kent, superin-
 tendent. It is producer Of the paying
 kind, SO the writer is informed.