Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
CLARA TO BUILD
STANDARD GAUGE
RAILROADS WILL TAP MINES
AT SWANSEA
MITCHELL ACTS AFTER C. & A.
FALLS DOWN
Two Hundred Head of Stock Consts
tute Teamina Outfit Now Haul
ing Material for Big De-
velopments


gan and Secretary E. d. Elson of the
Clara Consolidated Gold and Copper
Mining company to the company's
holdings at Swansea, Ariz, comes the
announcement that the Clara Consol-
idated will shortly begin work OH the
construction of twenty-five miles of
standard gauge railroad which is dcsr
tined to connect the town of Swansea
with the Arizona and California rail-
road at Bouse.
In November last President Murphy
OF the A. and c. caused survey to
be made over the route which will be
used by the Clara Consolidated, and
upon the wonderful showing being
made in the Swansea mines recon-
mended that his company construct
the road. Failing to begin operations
which would guarantee the road To
reach the Clara Cons olidated smeIter
when blown in, President Mitchell inn
mediately began negotiations for tie
launching of the project. and 1t will be
pushed TO completion within the next
few months
The Importance of The road aside
from furnishing transportation to
large number of mines which viii have
their ore treated at Swansea Is made
more manifest by recent developments
where heavy machinery is necessary to
attaining depth as well as furnishing
an economic means OF handling the
ores and getting them to Swansea
Numerous Freight Teams
Recent arrivals of machinery ut
Bouse. the nearest railway point, has
neceSsitated the use of 200 head OF
stock for teaming freight, and despite
these outfits but little impression has
been made on the large amount of ma
terial now stored at Bouse Included
in the machinery yet to arrive is the
equipment, steel. ties and other neces-
stiles for seven miles of narrow
gauge electric railway, dynamos,
pumps, etc, which will have to be
hauled to the mines, distance OF
twenty-five miles by wagon. Coupled
with this is the lumber and timbers
necessary in building the town of
swansea and for use in the company's
mines.
AS soon as the fact of the Clara's
intentions became known boom was
launched at Bouse. which boasts a
newspaper and many of the elements
of a thriving mining center.
Though the Clara Consolidated has
been operating but eight months, the
ore bodies uncovered and made avail
able for immediate reduction eclipse
anything yet accomplished in the ter
nearly 100000 tons of commercial ore
have been exposed and blocked out
ready for treatment at the smelter,
which will receive its ores direct from
this mine by gravity tram.
At the Clara and MORO mines. which
are just now receiving attention, al
most an equal amount is available. and
engineers estimate that the property
has an ore reserve aggregating $12,-
100000 to $15,000,000.
, Capital Comes from East
The capital for railroad construction
will come from this source, heavy east
ern hackers of the Clara's first efforts
agreeing to furnish the bulk of the
money necessary to build.
At 400 feet in the main working shaft
on the Swansea mine crosscut has
been run on the ore for fifty feet, and
shows a continuous body of sulphide
rock. At the 200-foot level the ore
body was proved by prosecuting to
9 width of $50 feet from the foot to
the hanging wall, and showed indica-
tions of widening. Taking the dip. of
the vein, it is easy to estimate its
probable width and proves this deposit
one of the largest copper-gold lodes
opened at the same depth in any part
of the United States.
The inclined shaft on the MORO
group, which lies three miles eastward
on the same general contact. is now
down $50 feet and is being sent down
rapidly with three shifts, showing
splendid free gold and copper ore. The
frequent appearance of copper glance
in these workings, together with
high assay value in gold, shows this
mile to be an exceptionally high one.
The tunnel on the Moro. driven on
what was at surface a gold deposit, is
now in 200 feet and shows large body
of gold ore, together with appreciable
copper values.
Build Camp at Carrigan's
At the Clara mine, still father east.
and at the foot of Carrigan's peak,
thirty men are now pressing develop
nent and a large camp is being con-
structed. The main working shaft is
now down 175 feet and is showing
shipping values on all four sides. Sew
eral other shafts sunk at various points
on the property reveal big bodies Of
ore, all OF which will pay to break and
ship from wall to wall.
Prof. James Stirling, who has been
engaged for several months in making
complete pathological and topograph-
ical map of the Swansea district. has
been compelled to lay aside his labors
for time and return to his home at
Redands, owing to illness. The work
being performed by Professor Stirling
is said to be complete in every detail
and will be a valuable guide to mining
operations in the district.
On their return from swansea the
Mitchell party made the trip by auto
from Parker to Needles, big touring
cars now being operated by Los An
geles persons. These are meeting with
ma rked success.
Mr.. Mitchell left the latter part Of
the week on trip eastward in the IN
terest of the Clara's gigantic projects,
which when completed will mark Won
derful progress in retaining the Biil
Williams Fork country as a mining
center.