Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-08-07

stand? Will the town be here a year | from now? The answer would sem to
 be decidedly, yes. The conditions un-
 der which the old company worked and
 the ones of today are quite different. Four public stage lines connect Ray
 with Kelvin, the railroad station on
 the Phoenix Eastern railroad. Prep
 arations are about completed for put ting an automobile into service between the towns.
 The road down the canyon is kept alive with freighters hauling ore, oil and general merchandise. Four, six and eight horse teams are not unusual and one twelve-horse team is in service, when the road is heavy. Order is pre- served through the efforts of Lew H. Mickey, whose enlistment as a ranger expired yesterday. He held the rank of sergeant.
 MT. Mickey has been appointed dep uty sheriff and through an arrangement with the copper companies will spend his entire time here. The camp is very orderly and seldom requires the heavy hand of the law. A jail is soon to be built. At present the little jail at Kel- win is used when necessary.
 All the activity at Ray is brought about by the development of the mines detailed description of the work be- ing done on the Ray, Gila, Big Lead Calumet and Arizona Hercules prtI er- ties was published in the Republican very recently. Here the actual mining is done. And here the mills of the Kel- vim Calumet and the Kelvin Reduction companies are turning ore into concen- trates. About three hundred and nifty men are employed in the mines and at the mills.
 The prediction is heard that the camp And this may be, as the mines in most part are low grade propositions, and mining here means literally tearing the mountains to pieces. The growth of Ray will be rapid, as the slow stage in the work is about over The business offices of the Ray and Gila companies are in Kelvin, but the office of the is here. The local busi- ness offices of the Kelvin-C Calumet and the Arizona Hercules properties are in Ray.
 A part of the town is supplied with water piped from an everlasting source at Indian Springs, three miles away in the mountains. The part of the town not so served is soon to be furnished with water from a gravity tank on tfe of the Kelvin Calumet com pany. The narrow gauge railroad from here to Kelvin has ben overhauled apd after two months work put in shape | for hauling the ore from the mines of | the Ray Copper company to it's coneen- trating plant in Kelvin.
 There will be need for school | here, but that, of course, should take care of itself under the laws of the territory. And there is a need for the church and allied institutions.
 There is one little business opening: 2 good shoe cobbler would doubtless do we'll. There is no one who repairs shoes either here or at Kelvin.
 Perhaps the rapid growth of the town from two buildings year ago 10 it's present size and activity is best emphasized by the fact that bank was opened here about two months ,go.
 The Home Savings Bank X Trust company of Phoenix established a branch of that institution and is doing l general banking business.
 And this is Ray today-tomorow will ldd new chapter to her activities, as he slow descending sun counts that day ost that does not add materially to the rowth of the camp, village, town-city if tomorrow