Arizona republican., 1905-11-19
NAcO'S FINE PROSPECT.
Sure of Getting One Shelter and Try
 ing to Get Another One.

Naco has been in a terrible stew for sometime past, trying to find out where she was "at." but according to the latest issue of the Naco Budget, she has found out now and is reason ably happy. For a long time there has been talk of the erection of a smelter at Naco by the Mitchell Mining com pany, which is very largely another name for Robert and George Mitchell. Trouble came up over the securing of a site satisfactory all round. It was finally announced that all was arrang- ed and shelter would be built at once, some of the machinery already being ordered. Again it was announced that the project was all off. Now comes the Budget saying that the Mitchells have bought the whole townsite. or at least all that was left of it in the hands of the Naco Land and Improvement com pany. They can now build where they please and the Budget says that they will proceed to do so at once.
 The Budget also says that there is another smelter enterprise very likely to mature there, expressing itself in the following language: The Budget man learned in Bisbee the other day, in quarters whose reliability cannot be impugned, that Naco stands a very good show of getting the joint smell ter to be put up by the Shattuck & Arizona and Denn- -Arizon properties. Mention of this has previously been made in these columns. Douglas Is making some effort to get this enter
 prise-as it does to get everything else that comes along-but the Budget is able to announce authoritatively that [ r,1o s.f4 1c Of tI,1 panies have either this point or Bak- ersville in contemplation. They are fig uring on saving that thirty mile haul to Douglas. A concerted and well di- dected effort on the part of the citi- zens of this community will, we be- lieve get the enterprise for the town. It is a well known fact locally that a certain citizen of Naco, who owns a tract of land north of town, has been approached with reference to a site for the proposed plant. But some effort should be put forth to prevent the en- terprise being switched away from Naco. As the Budget said with refer
 ence to the Mitchell enterprise. if the projectors are for any reason dissatis- fled with some local conditions, then let Nacos citizens satisfy them.
 AN ARIZONA QUICKSILVER MINE. MT. l.. s. Judd, manager of the prop critics of the Colonial Mining company, near Ehrenberg, was in Yuma last week on business. The Colonial com pany owns and is developing the only quicksilver mines in Arizona, says the Yuma Sentinel. They are located at Cinnibar, fourteen miles from Ehren- berg. The mines are being operated by the Colonial Mining company which has been carrying on development work on a considerable scale for the past year. The results have been very grat- | flying. A double compartment shaft has been sunk to a depth of 1S0 feet. The ore body extends the width of the shaft (six feeO and how much farther is not yet known, but there is a large | body and the ore averages per cent. pure cinnibar. The company has in- stalled the most modern machinery for economical mining and says that it now has a million dollars worth of ore blocked out, but is still sinking and developing the property.