Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-28
BIG MINE MERGER
PLAN OPERATIONS
On a Large Scale in the North
ern Portion of the
Territoy.

PRESCOTT, Aug 27.-George Mitch
ell president and general manager:
/ 4, j. Carrigan, vice president: E. d
Eison, secretary and treasurer. and Al
fred Quetu, director OF the Clara Con.
solidated company, were outbound
passengers over the A. & c. THURSDAY
en- route to the properties owned BY
This company. This company is a con.
| solidation of the Clara Gold and Con-
per company, Grown Princess Mining
| company, the Crown Queen, the Signal
Copper company, the MORO group, the
Carrigan. Daley and Golden group, the
( Mary Mitchell group, the Flemming
and Nhitehouse groups. The consoli-
dadcn comprise 1872 claims or 264O
acres OF ground, says the Wicken.
| burg Miner.
The principal development for the
present will be done on the Signal
and MORO groups. A water line from
the Bill Williams river to the mines. a
| distance OF three and a half miles. will
be put in Immediately, and a telephone
| line from the mines TO Bouse, a dis
| lance of about twenty miles, will he
installed also. Plans are under way
| TO erect fifteen frame houses for the
are already on the ground and a third
is about ready TO be installed Thirty
thousand pounds of machinery went
out to the camp few days ago and
three cars of machinery will be sent
! cut the latter part of this week. In
about ten days a big hoist of suffi-
Gent capacity to sink 1000 feet will
be installed, and the work for the
present will be confined to develop
ment and the blocking out of ore
ready for Stopping. The present force
of men at work is about twenty, but
the number will be doubled in the
next week or so.
A 5O0-ton smelter will be erected
on the Clara at an early date. or as
socn as the contemplated branch of
railroad from Bouse to the Signal
| mines is completed Surveys have
been made and the railroad company
has promised an early construction of
the line which will be a prerequisite
to the smelter, since it would be al
most impossible TO haul all the nee
essary heavy machinery by wagon.
This big merger and the consequent
results will be OF vast import to this
entire section. The Signal mine has
long been known as one of the best
copper properties in western Arizona,
and the Clara is also an annually
promising property. The other groups
are all about the same. The charac-
teristics are very similar in all. These
properties are about fifteen miles
from Planet, another famous mine.
In fact, the mines lie in one of the
greatest copper belts in the territory,
as will be proven to the satisfaction
of all.
7. ]. Darlington has laborei long
and faithfully to bring about this great
result ne has accomplished, and while
his former associates received good
round sums for their interests in the
various groups included = the merger,
Mr.. Carrigan has seen fit to take
stock in the new company for his in
terests.
E D. ElsOn, secretary and treas
urer, was formerly connected with
the Mitchell Mining company, being
their general manager for eight years.
Alfred Quetu, director, has been iden-
titled with the Clara for some time
and has taken a keen interest in the
success of the proposition.
Hon. Robert E. Morrison of Prescott
is director and general counsel for the
company.
George Mitchell, president and gen.
eral manager of the company, is well
known in the mining world, having
made several successes, and is now
on the tair way to add new laurels to
his crown.
This immense dead is of great i'm
portance to the entire country ana will
add largely to the restoration of min
ing in Arizona to its normal condi-
ton