Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-16
TWIN BUTTES
 ACTIVE DISTRICT
Mining Camp Is Busy Place and Rapidly Growing in
 Population,

TUCSON, Aug. 15.-To ride on train out through section of the country here but a quarter of cen tury ago Geronimo and Cochise in the prime of their feroeity and savagery roamed with their heartless bands through a section where heretofore the only means of transportation nave been the burro, the horse or the slow-going stage coach-seems odd, Ito say the least.
 Tc hear locomotive whistle oppo- site San Xavier mission, near Tucson seems unusual, Yet all this is expe- rienced ip a ride on the Twin Buttes railroad. The road is bit jolty yet, for it takes time for new railroads to settle and become smooth. It runs, as the crow flies. for full twenty miles to the south of Tucson. It is a slight climb on this straight line. and then it yeers sharply to the right and be- gins the long climb to the Twin Buttes, the big camp south of Tucson.
 Five, eight, ten miles out of Tucson and the city is just visible in part. The big standpipe is the last thing that can be seen on the outgoing trip and it is the first thing that bobs up again coming in. Gradually as the train speeds southward, the city disappears entirely. San Xavier can be seen three miles across the mesa. The deceptive hill just to the east of the mission. which it seems to re- quire long time to teacn and lon ger time to leave behind, is the only elevation passed. As the train gets out fifteen miles, the Santa Ritas loom up prominently and in a pocket in those mountains can be seen Hell vetia. To the east are the Rincons and to the northeast are the Catalinas, always visible.
 Later the road turns and crosses Twin Buttes camp.
 The camp looks not unlike a small fort. The site is ideal for a town. It is 1900 feet higher than Tucson. It is always cool there at night A breeze comes up at sundown and stirs until sun-up.
 There is a depot at the camp. The town lies back 100 yards. There is a store, a modern meat market with large refrigerators, apartment houses, which would be called flats" in a city, a large boarding house and a great many tents.
 One shaft only is being operated at present. It is the Morgan shaft, mile west of the camp. The railroad runs to the Morgan, and several car loads of ore are being shipped daily
 The shaft is down below the 2G5 foot level and is being sunk continu cUsly. There are nearly 100 miner
 employed more than thirty working on each shift. They are drifting on the 1G5 and 2G5 foot levels and sink. ing the main compartment shaft { which is 7xl6 feet. The shaft is all in ore and the width of the vein can net be determined until crOss-cutting is done. The striking thing about , Twin Buttes is the enthusiasm which 1 the veteran miner manifests over the property The snOw-ngs nave been
 unusually good and as the shaft goes deeper they continue to grow better. President D. s Rose of the Twin Buttes Mining Company received 2 surprise Sunday Q camp when he | found in his mail adyices from E. Pa i s;j which showed smelter returns On | half the thirty car loads nf ere snip | Led since August l and inclusive Of i August II. The fifteen carloads gave 1 net profit of S23S.G5 per car. New machinery is being installed, which l includes big boilers. an air compress sor. etc. Shipment of 100 tons daily 1 is the report at this date.