Arizona republican., 1905-11-11
THE NEW WEALTH
Which the Arizona @ California IS
 Opening Up.

With a view of securing for Phoenix merchants the trade of the district re- gently opened by the construction of
 the Arizona and California railroad, J. H. La Rue, general manager of the ! Arizona Hardware and Vehicle com pany, and C. w. Mckee of the Mckee Cash store, accompanied by MT. F. A. Jones, general freight and passenger agent of the line, have just completed a weeks trip through the tributary country. The party shipped from Phoenix a team and wagon to Saiome,
 from which point they drove to with in twenty-five miles of the Colorado river.
 ''The section we visited" said MT. La Rue in speaking of the tip yes terday afternoon, will very rapidly develop into one of the best business sections Phoenix merchants will have
 to draw from. I believe the Quartz site section is one of the richest in the whole United States and nearly as rich is the country for miles to the north of the railroad. Some ten new towns have sprung up in the past year and all of them are growing rapidly. Phoe- nix is their natural point of supply and if Phoenix merchants go after the business they will in time build up a trade that will mean thousands of dol lars to this community. Too much can not be said in praise of the men who have made the section accessible and in this all will agree with me after they have looked the ground over and seen the projects just in their infancy, that are too numerous to mention.
 "The building of the railroad itself requires the maintenance of camps in which there are now two hundred men employed and the company is adver- Using for two hundred and fifty more. Besides this, mines that have waited for years on transportation facilities are taking on life in the way of de- velopment and will in a few months, each one of them be prosperous little camps. The recent strike in the Clara mining district, known perhaps better as the Carrigan district, by reason of the miner of that name making the lucky find, has brought hundreds into the section above Wenden and many of them will remain there. To give you an idea of how it is growing, four weeks ago there was no stage run from Wenden north and this week there will be stage line making three 
 wagon loads of freight waiting to be moved through Cunningham Pass as soon as teams can be secured and all ready a half car of goods has gene into the section, shipped by the com pany at Congress.
 At the property of the Socoro Min ing company there are thirty men at work and a mill of twenty stamps dropping ten hours each day. With this run they are treating 8 tons of ore which averages $16.5O a ton. The ca pacity will be increased to forty tons and three shifts will be worked"
 When the party was about twenty five miles from the Colorado river their team gave out on account of the heavy road made by recent rains in that sec tion and they were forced to walk for several miles back towards Salome. They were all tired when they reached resting place and the two members of the party from Phoenix were well worn out when they reached home on Thursday evening. but both Mir Me Kee and MT. La Rue said they would not have missed taking the trip even had they known such hardships had to be faced and encountered.