Arizona republican., 1908-01-24
A MINING PROJECT
 FOR FINAL COUNTY
John Mecabe and Associates to Build Fifteen Mile Tramway From Sil- yer King to a 250-Ton Shelter at Price's Station.


 John McCabe arrived here yesterday from Pinal county having come recent ly from Boston, and expects to meet here any day, one or more of his as- sociates in a project he says is the big gest thing he has ever turned his att tention to, and which he thinks will someday become one of the largest in duS5rial enterprises in the territory He says the negotiations have proceed ed to point where he feels sure there can be no hitch or failure in the en- terprise. It involves an aerial tram way from the old Silver King mine to the P. & F. railroad at Prices station, the tramway crossing practically a continuous chain of mining properties, all of which are promising, many of which have been well proved and some of which are already producing, and all of which can find a rail or shelter outlet by means of this tramway. as soon as they have ores for transporta- ltion. Il It also involves the construction of a 50 ton smelting plant at Prices sta- tion, where he now has a finely equip ped assay office and a twenty ton sampler, known to all familiar with that country as the McCabe smelter. He says everybody in Pinal county has had his little joke about the McCabe smelter as the plaything of man who was rather wild in his plans but he ! says he has never for a minute been operating without purpose but has al ways had a fixed determination along the lines of the project to be here | referred to. It will take a lot of mon ey to carry 1t out however and he feels assured now that the money will be forthcoming. He had the project all | but financed twice before, one of the ' plans going to smash when his assO- ciates were practically put out of busi-
 ness by the San Francisco fire. This time he is associated with five Pitts burg and Boston men who have looked | the ground over, are familiar with all the conditions, have accomplished all the preliminaries and have sufficient capital to back their courage and their enterprise. He expects the surveying for the tramway will be undertaken at once and as soon as building Is far | enough advanced, the shelter project will be undertaken. He says his little plant at Price was never intended for ! anything but a sampler and as a pre- liminary construction to the real smell ter which is to follow.
 MT. McCabe said he did not care to ! name his associates until after they arrive and he has conferred with them, but that will be very soon, and he Is more than enthusiastic over the result of his five months arduous work that has kept him hustling all over the country. The building of this tramway it is roughly estimated will cost s10,- 900 a mile or $150,0 for the entire distance. The eastern gentlemen are lprepared to supply this and to add an- other $100000 for the coincidental pro- jects, and incidentally they have ac- quired a large interest in the Silver King which Mir. McCabe owned. The grade from the Silver King property to Prices station is an inviting one for a tramHyay which can be construct ed in a practically straight line thus reducing the road distance between nearly all of the large mines the tram will cross, and the station. by one half or less. For instance the Superior property adjoins the Silver King on the south and the tramway will cross
 
 of the present thirty-five mile haul. While no arrangement has yet been made with the Superior people, MT McCabe has been greatly encouraged and has no doubt but an arrangement may be made whereby the output of that wonderful mine may be worked at the new smelter. It will obviate the necessity of that company building big reduction plant, one or both of which projects have been under seri- ous consideration.
 Other properties the tramway will cross are the Winsor Daggs, Rich and Scofield groups and a score of others are in close proximity. The Newberry property lies just east of the shelter site, and the properties. for which the tramway was originally conceived, are the Silver King group and the San Rival group, both owned and exploited by Mir McCabe. Of the Silver King nothing need be said at this time. Its