The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1905-10-18
OUARTZITE SHELTERS
The Yuma County Timing District
to Have Two of them.

Inc MdrGlneZ NeWS-HeralQ OF last
week contains some Quartzsite news
which indicates an extremely lively
condition of affairs in that mining dis
trct. The News informant is Mr.. E.
G. Skaddeu, general manager of the
Will Smelling Company of Quartzsite.
Mr.. Skadden says that everything is
looking good down his way and that
there will be two smelters running full
blast before long cannot be doubted.
He states that the Valenzuella Copper
Mining Company has Bottom water
| jacket smelter on the ground, and that
as soon as Mr. Darling of that company
gets back from the east, which will be
| in a few days now, that work will be
pushed in the erection of the smelter
The original plan of this company was
to put pipeline from the colorado
river, but Mr.. Darling thought it best
to make test for under ground water
before commencing work on the pipe
line, and that test for underground
water has been made and the result
has been very hattering to the COM
pany. An ample supply of water has
been encountered and>will be used for
this pant The machinery for this
smelter has been on the ground for
over two years and few other hinder
ing occurrences have taken place dur
ing the time, but Mr.. SkaddOn, and
his opinion is worth more than that of
the ordinary man. is strongly of the
opinion that the Valenzuela will be a
real producer in the next few months.
In speaking of the operations of his
own company, he stated that they had
the four dry concentrators which were
formerly owned by the Michigan Gold
company, and that these concentrators
would be put to work in the near flu
ture. The company has plenty of pla-
Ger ground on which to use these ma
chimes, owning by location $500 acres
of good placer dirt. These dry corcen-
traitors are to be put to work at once to
do the title work on the ground, and it
his opinion that the dirt will almost
pay for the work and in many instances
it may more than pay. 1t takes a
great deallof money 10 hold the vast
amount of mineral ground which is be-
ing held in the Quartzsite section and
that money is now going to be spent.
This will make lot of business in that
section. Mr.. Skaddon's company owns
the Quartzste Hotel and they are now
erecting large and commodious assay
office Everything in the way of BUSH
ness which can be done for that section
is being done by this company.
The main thing which Mr.. Skaddon
talked of was the new smelter of the
Will Smelling Company. 1t is 50-ton
standard water jacket. 1t is bought
and paid for and is all on the ground.
Mr.. 'SkaddOn says that in spite of the
knocks Of certain individuals who say
in sneering manner that Quartzsite
is great place for shelters, that the
statement is true just the same and
that the outside world will soon know
it. Two smelters will be in operation
there before the winter is over, and
that will mean great deal for the
town and surrounding country. The
coming of the new railroad in that Sec
ton is doing much for the advance
ment of the mining industry therein.
For instance, the smelter which his
company owns was bought by him
from the Development Company of
America and was shipped from that
company's property at Imperial or
Silver Bell, and had to be hauled by
wagons only forty miles, while it would
have had to have been hauled much
further if it had not been for the new
road.