Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-07
SWANSEA WILL
 BEA BIG CAMP
 IN FEN, MONTHS
Over Two Million Tons Of Cop per and Gold Are Blocked 0ut-Big Shelters Being Rapidly Erected.

SWANSEA. Ariz., Jan. 6.--Within the next five or six months Swansea will be numbered among the copper producing centers of Arizona. as by that time the big snrelter being erect ed by George Mitchell at the Signal mine will be operating on ores from this and two other properties >coIn- prising the Clara Consolidated Gold and Copper Mining company which recently began development on the Bill Williams Fork in Yuma county. The smeltng plant is now unlOaded at BouSe, gJ miles south anu is beins hauled by rsight teams to the mines, where it isf to be erected al con venient site permitting tse handling of ores by' car from the ma n shaft bo the furnace.
 Six mouths operation on the consol- dated properties has brought in enough ore to snpply the shelter with 2,500,0 0Q0 tons of high grade copper and gold ore. and at the rate ore is 6eing opened in the Signal mine this property can keep the smeltihs plant busy for some time 10 come.
 Development at the Signal has brought in an ore body known to be 90 feet in width. while a shaft sunk $50 feet On the hanging wall has cut the ore on the 3OO-foot leTel This is feet from the 9G foot cFosscBt and 1t is believed the ore extends this en tire distance. A mcclure of two big outcrops at surface bears out this theory
 When the Mitchell people took hold Of tais field it was barren wilder ness, far re.nove,l from water and supplies. A camp has been establish ed with store and other frame build ings, and Swansea will be the central point from which much development will radiaie both west and north. \ pipe lire from the Bill Williams Fork river is being constructed a q stance of five miles. and will be extended to the Clara and Moro mines also
 The signal Is now operated wiJI two gasoiine eoists. but these are to be replaced with heavy steam hoists when the smelter is completed. by the use of boiler constructed by Mfr. Mitchell. slag from the smelter Viii be used to generate steam for ali pur- poses. This boiler has been tested i at the Cananea mines, Mexico and is 1 a success.
 The MorTo mine is both a gold and ! tBllEI lEGiltl A lUiitlt-t aflNtLl iuAl the south side of hill 200 feet dis ] closes much good gold ore. and cross cuts on the vein show it to be 50 feet in width, all carrying values that will !! pay to take out. On the opposit side of the hill old and new workings nave disclosed large bodies of copper rock carrying good values in gold
 At the Clara three shafts have been 1, Y-af -hn | ing 8 feet of high-grade copper and i gold ore at a' depth of 100 feet. An. other shaft is all in ore at a depta or 1. 100 feet while third. sent down ou a gold cropping showing copper siIi- 1. cate has brought in 9 feet of smelt- ! ing ore, some of the ore deposit running better than a hundred dollars per ton. | This incline shows the vein tO be dip- ping toward heayily-impregnate iron cropping showing the same con ditons that prevail at the Signal, much copper cropping along the contact of the diorite and lime. Various tests made on all these croppings show good grade of ore.
 The first geological work to be done in the district is in the hands of Prof. James Sterling, who is prepar ing 9 psychological and typographical map of the entire field about Swan sea.
 On the strength of the showing in the Consolidated properties a spur of the Arizona & California railroad has been ordered put in from Rouse to Swansea, and this road is to be com pleted in six months. This will per init many operators to market ore at the Mitchell smelteT. whica will be enlarged to meet the demand of the Parker region and Bili Williams Fork country. which have a large number of mines that will pay when treatment facilities are near at nand.