Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-07-04
new ROUTE
To SWANSEA
The Clara Consolidated Road
Building in Full H|eadWay
OPERATIONS AT THE MINE
Bouse Is Betting Its Bot
tom Dollar on the Little
Butte Under Its New
Management : Activities
in Adjacent Properties.

Rouse, Ariz., July Especial Cor
respondence of The Republican, 1.-The
building of the new railroad from
Bouse to Swansea is now practically
under full Roadway and just as CAST
as men and teams can be gotten to-
gether and the work put through the
railroad will be completed and then
Bouse will be the proud possessor OF
two railroads or rather two systems,
because the new line to Swansea Is be-
ing built by the Clara Consolidated
Gold and Copper Mining company and
will be owned by them. The estimated
cost of the twenty-five miles of rail-
road is 100000 and George Mitchell,
president of the company has cabled
from England that the money has been
secured to complete the railroad. There
is considerable talk that the line is be-
ing built by the A & c. or Santa Re
people but that is a mistake. Ii Is
true that the engineering corps which
has charge OF building the line is COM
posed of engineers who were formerly
in the employ of the A. & c., but they
are on the pay roll of the Clara Con-
solidated and have no connection,
In the past the A. & c. made several
surveys from Bouse TO Swansea, Pan
ct and other mining camps but the
new railroad which is now being built
does not follow any of those surveys
The old surveys went west of Bouse
about six miles and started thence to
run the branch line. The line now be-
ing built starts from Bouse and goes
west along the right of way of the A
d c. whence ii strikes directly for
Swansea following practically the
present wagon road. In order to get
the new road to build right into town
and build a separate depot and yards.
the citizens of BOuse have raised
bonus of $500 The site for the depot
and Yards has not as yet been deter
mined upon but it will likely be near
the present A. & c. depot which is
right in the middle of the town. Bouse
will be the headquarters for the rail-
road and will reap many valuable ben
efits Several carloads of ties and rails
have already been received and many
more are on the way. Some forty
teams are already employed on the
grade as well as a small army of men.
Clara Rushing Development Work.
The Clara Consolidated is rushing
development work at the mines. A
full force of men is employed under
ground. sinking the large three COM
partment shaft, driving crosscuts and
tunnels and blocking out ore to be
stopped down as soon as the smelter is.
blown in The new smelter and con-
verter is practically done but all hands
laid off until the railroad is completed.
Last spring when the smelter was
started it was the intention of the
management to freight in all supplies
for construction also the necessary
coke and oil for operating but after
several months trial it was found that
the freighting charges were too high
TO operate the mine and smelter at a
profit. consequently it was deemed ad-
Visable to build the road at once and
discontinue freighung by wagon. Con-
sequently all work on the smelter and
top work has been suspended until the
railroad is completed which will be
within four months. AS soon as the
road is completed the smelter will be
finished and blown in and there will
be enough ore blocked out to keep the
smelter running steadily.
Little Butte Continues a Favorite.