Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-18
RAY AND KELVIN
 COUNTRY IS BOOMING
Prospects for One of the Lead ing Camps of the Territory, Over Five Hundred Men on the Pay Rolls,

 The following article concerning l the mining industry in Pinal county | | is taken from the Florence Blade: We visited Ray and Kelvin last week and found that a marvellous transformation had taken place in l | those mountain towns since our last visit to them. eight months ago. The | greater change has occurred at Ray
 owing to the resumption of work on
 the Ray group of mines under a new
 and more practical ownership. When
 we were at Ray last October the only human habitatiOnS visible were a few
 scattered tents and board shacks, and the population did not exceed 100. | When We reached there last week d | large cluster of slightly structures | greeted our surprised vision and the echo of saw and hammer and the i whirr of machinery came from every
 point of the compass. The population has increased from 100 to 1000 and
 We found the fine daily stages plying
 between Ray and the P & E. depot
 at Kelvin loaded to the guards daily
 with incoming miners, prospective in- vestOrs and settlers. The combined payrOlls of the mines show about 800
 employees.
 , The town proper Is situated on a . flat on the east side of Mineral creek
 on the east end of a mining claim ne ], longing to the Kelvin-Calumet Copper
 Mining company. Here is situated the Henness & Griffin mercantile es- |. tablishment in a large adobe build
 ing. The post office is in this build . Ing. Immediately adjoining this ps-
 tablishment on the south is anothCr . large adobe building occupied by the
 Neal & Gibson saloon. Adjoining this on the south is new two story ] adobe building. now in course of con. i structiOn. This will be occupied by | the Pinal Mercantile company wi,h , a general stock of merchandise. Im- ' mediately south of this is a twO-story | frame hotel building recently e,ected . by H. R. Wiggins. The tltJe~ has 3 , barber shop on the front ground foo:
 of this building and the DavIs BrDs. l opened one of the finest bars in the l territory last week in the other front 2 ground floor of this building. A. A. F Gibson has opened a resIaura1[ in the L, near division of this bTiidiug Di- k reCtly across the street from this ho Q tel MessTs Wing & Rundell are erect s ing afTame building about GOXGU feet l. iH size. in which they will place pool k and bi43iard tables. Adjoining this
 building on the south is ] handsome - and CommOdiOus iron and wood build l. ing nearing completion. The Kelviu T Produce cOmDGlT, Of which Th0s. ii. t Peyton is manager is erecting this > bu! ding for cold storage of me2t a2d ,- produce for market purposes. Their T cold storage plant will be capable of y making about loo pounds of ice peI o day in addition to cooling the cold l. storage roQm-
 Just south of this building are two
 others, one chop house and the l. other a restaurant. Then comes B + E. Schilling's wet goods establishment p in which there is a very fine bar and IT St. Louis beer on tap. Then come. ] neat little park in which is located n a large cluster of attractive frame Il buildings belonging to Arizona-Her l. cules Mining company. Just south O d these, on an elevated flat opposite t1E IS Ray mine, are two large new frame buildings, one of which is the Ray
 company boarding house, under the . management of Sam Purcell the 0Lh
 CT is the Hercules Mercantile com n pany's store building. This establish IS ment is under the management o
 Judge E. w. French. Dr. Ira BrOwT .s is also completing a new building a T. Ray in which he will open a druG n store. On the north side ol the crCGr k from the town of Ray are the mIll! e and other buildings of the Kelvin e Calumet Copper company and tht 1T machine shops and power plant of the
 Ray Copper company. On an elevated % point on this side of the creek Fore "a man John c. Devine, of tie Ray nine! 6 has erected a beautiful residence m building. Just north of th;s place If Foreman Wickham of the KelviI-Cal is umet Copper company's mines, ha: in built an attractive residence ana
 graded off a tennis court. Beside tn' ,t places mentioned hun lreds of tentt Is dot the hills on either side of Ih' .r creek.
 II The railroad from Kelvin to Ra! If has been completed to the east abut d ment of the bridge across Minera
 creek, opposite the ore bins of thu 10 Ray mines. Work on the bridge is pro Is gressing rapidly and the structur' g will probably be completed this week ,e At the Ray mines eight hoistini IT. engines and four air drill plants arr 10 in operation and a great deal of hant V work is in progress. At fifteen diff y- ferent points on- the Ray group Worl ', is in progress. From the south ent v of the Ray hill a tunnel is beini
 driven toward the main working shaft
 This tunnel, when completed, will b
 about 1700 feet in length. Two cross ,a cut tunnels aTe being driven to con z meet with the aforementioned tunnel a These will serve the double purpose ,s opening up stoping ground and vent al lating the mine. A long tunnel prot ,s ably 2,000 feet in length. is besn a driven toward the main workin V shaft from the north side of the Ra IT. hill. hese tunnels will connect wit
 the lower levels of the Ray shaft. ,dl Al the Big Lead shaft of the ke as, vin-Calumet Copper company, a con af pressor and air drills were placed | 10 commission this week in the 200-foo at levels and shaft About 1000 feet Q
 drifting and crosscutting has bee se completed from the 200-foot statio
 in the Big Lead shaft. In an ite1