Arizona republican., 1908-08-02

of about fourteen miles east, and also
 route from Patagonia to Alto. about
 the same distance west. At this time
 money was easy and the company,
 having two excellent properties, the
 MoWry silver mine producing. and the
 Alto copper mine in course of develop
 ment. had no trouble in raising money
 for the work in hand. The Alto is a big proposition and the work of de-
 veliping the property and blocking out
 ore and putting the mine in condition
 for production was expensive and kept ! the company treasury from becoming
 burden because of oVcrabundance of
 cash. The work at the Alto showed up a large body of good copper ore
 and the mine was just in shape to be- come a heavy producer when came She 7 big slump. Money is necessary to Op- crate even a well developed mine till such time as returns can be had on the
 product of the property. and the ready | cash in this case had been spent in developing the mine. Money could ! not be borrowed or bought just then
 and the jails were rapidly filling with
 men who were alleged to have stolen | commodity CNot that anyone in San ta Cruz county would attempt to se- cure the needed in the latter mannerD ! So the mines shut down and the pro ] jected railroad was temporarily abandoned. even soon after the stakes
 had been driven into the ground mark ing the surveyed route.
 But the mines are there and with the resumption of operations will come the necessity for the railroad. And in the meantime pTOspectors have proved that there are other mines in
 the Tyndall district. where is located the Alto. The big copper strike at the Four Metals mine, three miles from MoWry. was not thought of at the time of the shut down. but will now become large factor to be considered in any projected railroad into the Patagonia mountains It will require but a three-mile extension to the road already surveyed to the MOwry, to reach Guajalete flat. where a live little camp is growing up around the Four Metals mine. Since the slump. the Morning Glory mine, about a mile or little farther from the Mowry. has bttH AidiENibi iiitu nun hh ttilii''t abandoned silver prospect into a cop per mine. with a vein of clean ore ready to yield a good daily tonnage. The surveyed route to the Mowry passes within a mile of the Morning | Glory. It passes through the Harshaw district where are the Hardshell, Her mosa, American, Alta, Blue Nose and
 other silver mines ;along the border
 of the Harshaw basin, where are the i Weiland x Gobler claims, the Jeffer- son, Cottonwood and a dozen other
 the strikes that have been made during the past year. there is now several
 times the traffic in sight for such a
 railroad that there was at the time the
 route was surveyed.
 The same condition prevails in the
 country through which the Patagonia Alto route was surveyed. Close to the
 route of the latter survey, the Salcros
 Mines Company is developing a num-
 Der of copper-siIver properties. About
 a mile and a half beyond the Alto camp and southwest of it. is where the Arizona Pittsburg Mining and
 Smelling company recently commenced word on a property locacted on the Veta Grande And every canyon and gulch along the route, running up into the Santa Rita mountains, leads to