Arizona republican., 1907-08-24
The KELVIN CAMP
Is A FUTURE BlSBEt
President Sharpe OF the Kelvin caIu-
met Company Speaks Of the Result
of His Tour of Inspection.

w. E. Sharpe. president of the Kel
vin-Calumet Copper company. ant
Thomas Smith. a stakeholder in tn,
same. returned yesterday from a triI
to the Ray and Kelvin country and were
very enthusiastic about the prospects
of that mining section. The company
is planning TO increase the capacity of
the plant at the mine i'm the fall.
Mr.. Smith said that the outlook was
never better. and in less than five
Years he believed that the camp would
be a second Bisbee. The amount taken
out in eight months from the Calumet
claim, the remaining half interest of
which was a few days ago purchased
by the company. was over $4,000 in
good shipping ore.
President Sharpe said that he was
astonished at the progress of the camp
since his last visit in March. Mr.
Twitchell had written him a number
Of times i'm Philadelphia that he would
hardly know the place when he saw
ii again. But notwithstanding this"
said Mr.. Sharpe. 81 was not prepared
TO see the wonderful changes that had
taken place in the district. l found
houses going up all over the TOWNSHIP,
adobe and frame. new stores, barber
shops, restaurants. and signs every
where of great activity even at the
midsummer season when everything is
expected to be dull IL at any time
Yes, / believe ii is a coming Bisbee
and few years will serve to demon
strate that fact. All engineers who
have gone into the section pronounce
il to be wonderful in the quantities Of
ore bodies. some OF very good grade.
IL such bodies We're opened up in the
older and better advertised camps. that
fact would be heralded to the mining
and scientific world but as IL is in a
district that has once been given a
black eye temporarily by mismanage-
ment in some companies II does not
attract such notice. But people are
beginning to awaken to the fact that
Phoenix has a big camp being opened
up nearby and that its future is now
assured. The exploration stage has
passed. we now know what we have
and are willing to put in more money
in better equipped plants
Mr.. Sharpe further enumerated the
erty of the Kelvin Calumet on the
Madaline shaft in a few days the 300
foot level will be reached and another
station will be established and drifting
begun. At the 200 foot level a station
has already been made and about 1900
feet of drifts and laterals have been
run, in all directions from the main
shaft. and all are in ore. one tunnel
is being run north to the first shaft
sunk, the Globe. Mr.. Sharpe is the au-
thority for the statement that in this
lateral some fine specimens of native
copper have been found. He has ex-
pressed about so pounds of this east
and is taking along in his grip some
fine specimens OF the native copper
which he picked of the walls of the
lateral.
THE thing which ! want to impress"
said Mr.. Sharpe. to the Republican re-
porter yesterday. "if the magnitude OF
the bodies of copper ore we have in
sight. When we say that all the tun-
nels are in ore, ore above and ore be-
low. people sometimes laugh at us. but
IL is there and mining men have seen
ii for themselves and are greatly as
tOnished. And We have demonstrated
that IL can be mined to a good profit
with capable management and proper
economy. We have two plants. one of
the Kelvin Reduction company with a
roller mill with capacity of So tons
day, and the stamp mill OF the Big
Lead or Kelvin Calumet-all three
companies now being one, as you will
remember. When the board OF direct
ors meet upon my return. orders will
be given to increase the stamp mill
from its present capacity OF 10 to %
stamp and with the two mills We can
turn out 200 tons a day. More than
this we are going to begin stopping ore
and expect TO put in our own fur
naces and reduce and ship, a copper
matte in the near future. Before this
can be done we must increase our
power. and after we have more ore
than our improved plant can handle.
We will at once begin to build founda
lions for greater horse power. Tho
rate question has been so adjusted that
We can now go ahead with our plans.
Phoenix business men generally, /
believe, do not appreciate what a vast
market the Salt River valley wilr>9ve
in the Kelvin country and the oppor-
tuHitltS are now dt Manu- 10 get III on
the ground floor and secure the trade
in that growing section. Phoenix
should boost the Kelvin country for IT
is the first great mining center opened
up in the territory tributary to this
city"
From what information he could
learn he did not believe the story that
the Christmas mine had shut down
because of the deceasing price of cop
per. he understood that the company
was simply improving and overhaul
ing its plant and would open up again
in a short time. He saw absolutely
nothing i'm the district the augurs
slowing down of operations and such
stories as had been printed to that eff
feet were bad policy and decidedly as
harmful TO the business interests as
| they We're untrue.
President Sharpe left last night for
the east very enthusiastic and with
the intention of returning in the late