Arizona republican., 1905-06-16

Both gentlemen report that the busi- ness prospects of that locality are roseate and improving daily. The railroad is finished to a point Within three miles of Salome and graded clear to the town. It is eXpe~ ted that trains will be running into the town by June 2S. A siding and house track will be put in there and a Y will be built, so | that everything indicates that Salome will be the end of a traffic division for probably a year anyway. There are over a hundred people in the town and the promoting company is busy eX- tending its enterprises. A second ho- tel is projected and a fifty thousand
 dollar irrigating pumping plant is be-
 ing arranged for. Recently a bathing pool was constructed, supplied by the
 Salome water works It is 15 by 35
 feet in size and will be cemented In
 the few dwellings that have already been finished there is hot and cold wa
 ter and all the comforts of a home In
 fact it is home to quite a number now.
 MT. Goodman says he thinks the drink
 ing wafer is the finest he has found in
 Arizona so far. The health of the com
 munity is good and as yet no doctor
 has had the nerve to locate there.
 MT. Pratt though was more interest
 ed in talking about the surrounding
 country which is to furnish the enter
 prises that are to make Salome a good
 lively business town. The most not
 able thing just now is the starting of
 the Socorro mill It will be remem-
 bered that a fine twenty stamp mill
 was placed on the Socorro mine a year or two ago but did not run long for various reasons but mainly because the mine had not been sufficiently de- Veloped to provide the ore. About a year ago the management was placed in the hands of $. C. Smith who has finally placed the property on a pro- ducing basis. He remodeled the mill somewhat to meet the necessities of the ore and introduced every practic- able economy in the development of the enterprise. And all the time he was developing the mine with a force | of miners under competent foremen so | that he now has enough ore actually ! blocked out to keep the mill busy for q year-a statement that was made ] when the mill started before but which | proved to be altogether too optimistic | Another year of work though has made a great change. Their ore it is beiev- i ed will average twelve dollars per ton | and at an early day the mill should | begin to return something on the in- | vested capital.
 Four miles west of Socorro Judge | StilweH of this city and man named . Finnegan are developing a property | called the Finnegan mine and the is now flattering. At the liar qua Hala mine a new cyanide plant . has been completed and arrangements financial and otherwise have been made for the sinking of a new shaft 500 feet deep for the purpose of ex- ploring new ore bodies believed to | exist.
 MT. Goodman 3s elated over what he found in that part of Arizona He was i not connected with the Salome pro- noting company but represents con siderable capital of his own and others. He came out merely to see if the en- terprise was what the prospectus set forth and found that it was even bet ter than was claimed for it. So favor ably was he impressed that during his stay at Salome he participated in the of the Arizona Construct
 ing Co.,, with a capital stock of S25,- )O0; before he left the village the com oany had taken two contracts. One of them is for development work on the San Marcus and Wilson claims. known llso as the Martin property. It is four niles from Salome and Mir. Pratt has bond on it. The contracting company will begin development work very soon. Speaking of Salome MT. Goodman says le believes it will shortly become a llace of considerable importance. The : ioil is fine and the water supply for pumping seems inexhaustible. A con ract has been let for the driving of ten welve inch wells for irrigating pur- \ ,oses Three similar wells are now Ompleted and another nearly finished. There is a considerable demand for 2 in the camp as there is nore construction work just now than here are competent mechanics to per orm.