Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-01-24
RETURN FROM TRIP THROUGH
 MINING DISTRICTS.
(From rriday's Daily.)

| ing company, and E. w. Brooks, n min. ing engineer connected with the man. ngemcnt of the same institution, nc. companicd by W. A. Drake, general superintendent of the S.. F. F. and F. railroad company; r. A. Jones, gen. eral passenger and freight agent, and Master Charles Finncy, Jr., returned Wednesday from an extended trip through the mining districts of Pinal, Yuma and Yavapai counties, tribut. ary to the s. F. P. and F., the Phoenix and Eastern and the A. and C. rail. loads.
 Mir. Finncy, who is the executive head of the smelling department of the Arizona Smelling company, stat. ed to a Journal Miner representative yesterday, when interviewed, that the principal purposes of the trip were to familiarize themselves with the condition of the mining industry in the districts travelled through, to get acquainted with the mine owners, prospectors, and operators with view of establishing agreeable business rc. lntions between them and the smelling company, and to show them the advan. tages to be gained in shipping their ores to his concern in the way of re. duced smelter charges and cheaper rail. road transportation over the conditions that heretofore existed in the rates de. mandcd for shipping their output to reduction companies operating in other states.
 The party visited Florence, WinkeI. man, and Kelvin, and also a number of the mining camps adjacent to these places In the Kelvin country Mir Finnie stated that the Kelvin Reduc. ton company was opening up cnor. nous bodies of conglomcratcs, carry. ing good percentage of copper, and that large body of very rich sul. phde ore had recently been struck in one of the shafts which is now be. ing sunk to great depth.
 Kent and Williams, also operating in the same district, were doing some heavy development work, and expect to commence shipping to the shelter at Humboldt in the near future. They hava ooao~d m m aoo,c,o,,s hoJ,, <e copper ore carrying a percentage of from 6 to 8 per cent.
 P. II. McCarty shipped two carloads of ore to the smcltcr at Humboldt dur. | ing the past week. He is continuing development work, and intends to make regular weekly shipments in future.
 The Troy Manhattan company TO- gently struck a large body of rich ore in ono of their shafts and are doing de- velopmcnt work on n large scale. The Ray Copper company has large bodies of carbonate ore in their mines, and nrc doing a good deal of development work.
 Near Florence n shaft is being sunk on the Augustine Isoperties to n depth of 1000 feet, which is one of the best pieces of development work go- ing on there. Copper ore of high grade is beiig taken out of it. The most extensive work going on in this vicinity is on the properties of the Su' perior Mining company. This company is composed of Michigan capitalists, who understand mining thoroughly, and are doing tremendous work in the way of sinking deep working shafts to handle the immense product which the work already done there has demon- strated to be possible from the large amount of ore in sight. This company has the survey completed for the con struction of a standard gauge railroad from Florence to Superior, which will not only insure their product cheaper transportation facilities, but will shorten the haul to and from many mines along the route over which 1t will be built.
 The Saddle Mountain Copper com pany near Winkelman, owns and oper- ntes one of the largest mining proposi tions visited. This company is work ing on a very large deposit of copper ore. All of the low grade orc extract. cd Is run through blast furnace into matte, and shipped to the Humboldt smelter.
 Mir. Finney was very much impressed with the great activity apparent in the mining industry in and around wickenburg, where he stated the party was entertained by the board of trade, which was recently organized there, and which he stated was live and up-to'