Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-07
GREAT CHANGES IN HELVETIA
 DISTINCT
In Eight Years New Company Has Developed Mines and Several Are Now Shipping
 Pay Ore to VailS.
Especial to Review.)

TUCSON, Aug. 6.-In strong con- trast with conditions that existed in the north end of the Santa Ritas in 1889. is he situation or today. Dur ing the former period the country was sparsely populated, there being only a few prospectors in what is known as the Helvetia mining district. Among those were Ed Hughes Char ley Layery and P. McGovern. who owned, collectively. about 100 claims.
 In the fall of 1898 sas. B. Seager of Michigan and associates took bonds on about sixty claims, the principal to the utterance of the bonds being Ed Hughes, now of this city Hughes was paid in March. 1899, six months prior to the expiration of the bond he gave. He received about s50,0e0 for his interest, but still retained claims not covered in the bond. Chas- E. Udall, now manager of the Cerro Colorado, Arivaca district. and Dan J. Dwyer. now of Silver Bell. appear ed as promoters in the transaction and came in for good percentage as a reward of their efforts.
 The Helvetia Copper Mining and smelling company began work at an early date following the settlement with Hughes, and within two years had the smelter in place and operat- ing. Fire partially destroyed the smelter and adjacent property few years ago and operations were sus- pended. Manager J. B. Seager and Chief Assayer F. B. Close and Phy- sician J. w. Lennox coming into Tue son the first two mentioned estab- Vvh they later transferred to other parties.
 Messrs. Seager and Close returned to Michigan Two years ago Close arranged a transfer whereby the hold ings of the old company came into the { control of new organization bear &jng about the same title as the old. Dperations were renewed at the &xaiues in Helvetia, the dismantled s1nelter was restored to duty and con ditions made better generally under the supervision of General Manager Close.
 : -Aa1cut a year ago Dr. Lennox gave up his practice in this city and re- turned to campA little later speclal car containing officers, directors anG stockholders reached here, lhe visit ors going to camp oii ah inspection trip. They returned east with ex- aIted opinions of the Helvetia mines and plant. stating before they left here that additional machinery would be installed on the properties. part ot which has been placed. The com many now controls 25,000 acres and has expended s1, 100000 on claims and other improvements.
 Few interruptions have occurred af the mines and camp since renewal o1 operations and all reports from the mines have been of satisfactory na- ture. The shelter has been running on 150 tons of ore daily and almost 150 mer are on the pay roll of the operating company The best mine of three opened in the Isle Royale where the shaft is down 300 feet.
 The Helvetia company has treated hundreds of tons or ore shipped tt them by ex-Sheriff J. K. Brown ol Tucson, from his mines in the Santi Ritas, besides handling ores ot otne' parties. hey have made good prog ress under many adverse clrcum stances.
 in the camp and immediate yiciaii! there is Q population O. 250 people John Barkley runs daily stage camp from Tucson. distance CT D miles. Communication With iuca2n ! had by IS miles of road roG-e 10 Nai station and 20 miles west of ,. 7 line
 The Guggenheim property, knowl as the Tip Top, is in the Helvetia els trict. Daily shipments or ore nav been made from the Tip Top to Val for many months
 The omega, an old proposition io' in possession of L. Zeckenfi irf D nurchase. has been shipping ores [ ail station for several months pas