Arizona republican., 1909-04-13
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 IF KELVIN Dotted With the Blue Checks
 Of Ray Copper Co. HAPPINESS WAS SUPREME The Fullest Pay Day the Camp Has Had Recently, but the Development of Other Mines Promies to Lengthen the Payroll.
HAPPINESS WAS SUPREME

Kelvin, April 11.-(Special cores pondence of The Republican, )-Many smiles of satisfaction and little blue papers signifying d months dough" greeted the writers eyes as he made his rounds of camp Saturday. the 10th being our copper company's payday. Little if any time has been lost by the three shifts at the mill during March, consequently the employees got good sized checks this time. The Kelvin bank opened early and was still open Saturday night at S:30 o'clock which we trust means many new accounts and much profitable business. Cashier Cunningham went at the usual hour. to Ray in the interest of the branch back there. but a representative of the Valley bank came from Phoenix on the morning train and did a nice business for our new institution here until a late hour. He seemed to have many friends among us.
 The usual number of plain drunks were around of course on Saturday and Sunday.
 The Ray Central Copper company, better known in this section as the Big Lead, began operations Saturday morning. This mine. which has been worked to a considerable extent be- fore, was recently purchased by the Newishaw brothers, capitalists of the east. the sale being consummated through ". B. Twitchell. This work will add much to our camp from business as well as a social stand point.
 The Ray Copper company's new laboratory. located between the pres ent office building and the mill proper. is rising rapidly and the employees of the chemist department are already smiling over their prospect for larger as well as nicer quarters. The mas sive timbers for the new reservoir are practically ready to be placed and all work has a most gratifying snap and go to it. The men behind our com pany here seem to be void of hot air but chock full of "get-up-an and get" To look back twelve months at quotations on Ray stock and then pick up a paper today and take squint at Ray, you will wish you'd come across when you could.
 George Blackburn and Robt. Archi- bald, both large claim owners of Kel- win, returned last Friday from quite a trip south from this point They have, beyond a doubt, found some thing good
 The dry crusher recently installed at the mill here is raising all kinds of dust. The new crusher will cer- tainly be better arranged in the near future and peace will be restored. Kit Bates thinks the prohibitiOnists are behind this dry business and he simply can't stomach the term. He showed one man how to drive tacks in his leg, but that copper dust won't drive down his whistle without lots of wet
 The social stunts of this burg and Ray are quite too numerous to keep ] track of Before Kelvin calms down | somebody from Ray will pass the word that something is doing and it's l all off with our supplefooted again ! The bazaar at Ray the last two l nights of last week and the two 1 dances at the Kelvin opera house on 1 the same two nights somewhat held ! the crowd apart, but our loyal sup | porters. Dutch and Ray Hickey, were i down Friday night to attend our first l udIlCt Ol lIlt summer StdSDll- llt | hard time ball, and we trust they | had as much fun as we did. The | hard time ball was concocted by some | fertile brain here and the regalia of | many attending showed up pretty | hard, although this camp somewhat | resented the idea of the tale. as 1909 | has been such a prosperous one with | us that to get the required dope for anything hard-timy was quite an ef- fort. MT. Crellin of the Eagle Noun tain Copper company was game to the core. Not having hard time trou- sers he proceeded to attach a tre- mendous khaki patch to the most important part of his trousers, which had the appearance of a Kelvin 1908 patch, and he stuck tG his get-up until the finish. That dancing trick from the Hercules whom I've head called 'bookkeeper," but probably bet ter known as Pete" soon went be- hind the scenes and lost his big red neckerchief and checker pea-jacket. and donned his best coat instead. We agree with him that there should be an end to all things. but the end of his pea jacket certainly came . quick after reaching his waist.
 Many of our leading citizens seemed to be greatly surprised to learn that one of their most popular young ladies, Miss Margaret Nelson, had taken unto herself a better half. Nevertheless. 'tis true and Miss Nel- son, who has been away visiting friends in Globe and Phoenix for some time. passed through Kelvin Fri day with her husband en route to her old home on the Gila banks just above here. The lucky chap was Wm. Anderson, a prominent ranch