Weekly journal-miner., 1908-11-25
PLAT ,3X--NsIvE
 DEVELOPMENT ON A. & c.
(frcm ~Juday's Daily)

Preliminary w.ii of the largest mine development and equipment ever at. tempted in the new copper country tri- butary to the Arizona and California railroad is now under way on the prop | critics of the Clara Consolidated Gold | and Silver Mining Company, according to the statement of George Mitchell, | managing director of that company, who stopped over Friday night on his way from Los Angeles to the compa ny's mines.
 Director Mitchell is iubilan, over the
 outlook of his company and does not hesitate to say that he believes Swan sea, the name of the new townsite at
 the mines, will rival Cananca, Mexico.
 in wealth, population and mineral out put when the mines are extensively
 opened.
 Three carloads of machinery of al
 smelting plant intended for erection
 near the Signal mine are now at Bouse
 station on the A. & C. railroad, await ing transportation to the company's
 shelter site. Two other carloads of
 machinery are expected to arrive there
 soon.
 Director Mitchell says that the
 shelter plant will include water jack
 et furnace of $50 tons daily capacity
 and 70 ton reverberatory furnace. A
 pumping plant will be installed on the
 Bill Williams Fork River and n pipe
 line four miles in length connecting the plant with the shelter. The pipe
 line will nave 100 foot head giving |. over loo pounds pressure at the three water tanks of 30,O00 gallons capacity each that will be built above the smell
 terss. The plant will be of modern ma chinery, especially adapted 10 the
 smelting of the ores of the company's mines. which are diversified in charac-
 ter, but self .fluxing when properly mixed. All shelter columns will be , reinforced concrete and the manage. ment intends to line all the permanent openings in the mines with supports of
 the same material, which is much , cheaper than timber or lumber which . cannot be delivered on the ground al [, less than $50 thousand. All neces. sary material for reinforced concrete : is on the ground, with the exception of iron and cement. Three carloads of n the latter are already purchased for 4 the foundations for the new machinery Speaking of the company's groups y of mines recently consolidated, cover n ing n stretch of mountain and mesa e eight miles long and from one to three !, miles wide. Director Mitchell says tha \. the surface naturalization on the l6' a claims is larger and more promisin. , than the great outcrops to be found II e Cnnanea, Mexico, which attracted at ., tcntion several years ago for the frs n time under ais management. He de IS clares croppings of the Signal can b m traced for 5000 feet, the outcrop Q
 the old Clara 2,0OO feet, the blossor
 of the Moro l,700 feet and the Crow '. Princess, Crown Queen and Mitehe '. groups 1000 feet, l,5Oo and 2,5oo fec " respectively. These properties are
 various stages of development, the or' ~ being principally sulphides, carbonate " oxides and red hemanites affording 'e combination proven already self-huxin
 with the addition of gypsum, of whic ,m there is a large deposit on the groun in some eases.
 ~ Tae largest development is on q
 Signal and Moro properties. The si
 nal is being opened by two shafts 2 ps' feet and 200 feet deep, respeetivel ?" Both shafts are equipped with lar ne hoisting plants. There is third shs 're i65 feet deep where sinking will 'id resumed soon. At the Moro there 'eS 500 tons of ore on the dump whe KS the mine is opened by a tunnel l em feet, n erosscut 2i0 feet and an ineli ,n 90 feet.
 lhe The site of the shelter is 2l mi north of Bouse, short distance bell as the Signal mine. It will be connect 'ne with the other groups in the eonsoli' ieh ton by narrow guage railroad { u'' and a half miles long.
 A railroad survey corps is now l3 the field making preliminary surv' The between Bouse and the Signal a 900 Planet mines.
 CO.,. ----- lsts RuYs LUMBER FOR MINE.