Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-15
CAMP COURTLAND
WORKS 1000 MEN
AVERAGE WAGE FOR LABOR IS
So A DAY
MINES AND RAILROADS PUSH
DEVELOPMENTS
Guaranteed Production Aggregates
100000 Pounds Of Copper
Monthly-Larger Mines
Employ $50 Men

CORTLAND, Ariz., March a.
Over 1000 men are on the payrolls oil
CORTLAND today, and the building oil
the city has barely begun. These lOOu
men are drawing on an average OF 20
a day, considering mechanics, miners
ard the smaller paid railroad gangs to-
gether.
Within a radius of six miles from
CORTLAND are Southern Pacific and El
Paso e. Southwestern railroad camps,
employing at least 700 more men at
remunerative wages, so at conserva-
tive estimate it may be stated that
CORTLAND at the present time is the
center of a district with a payroll of
S35, 900 a week, or $4,000 month.
In the mines at the present time are
employed $50 men. This statement IN
Guides only the Great Western. Caiu,
met & Arizona. Copper Queen and
Leadville properties. There are other
big mining prospects in the district,
some with the richest of surface indi-
cations and promising in extent. but
as yet there are only prospects. on
a number of these outlying properties
many men are employed IN deVeiop-
ment work. The mines are not con-
fined to copper, but silver and Lead
promise to play big part In the de-
velopment of the new camp.
Employs Seventy-five Men
Al Ine NTbfHldIld VI ZIG Nttip
met & Arizona seventy-five men are
employed. At present 5000 tons of
ore are piled upon the Germania dump.
This ore is the production of develop
ment work alone.
At the Mary shaft of the Great
Western, where seventy-fve men are
employed 1000 tons of ore are on the
dump. This, too. is merely the pro
duct of development work. In fact,
at the shafts of all the four big prop
4 critics of the camp work thus far mas
been confined to development. AT the
dump of the Humboldt shaft of the
Great Western are piled 1000 tons OF
ore
The Copper Queen has splendid
showing of sulphide ore at its Casey
shaft, and 1000 tons of ore are piled
on the dump ready for shipment. Inc
Leadville people have 5000 tons of sui
phides on their dump. and the Calu-
met & Arizona has 5000 tons piled OH
the Maid of Sunshine dump.
So in all 31,500 tons of ore are piled
upon the dumps of the four great COM
panies i'm the CORTLAND district This
with only $50 miners employed. What
is really revealed in the shafts of tho
four properties can easily be guessed
by the tremendous amount of railroad
work being done in and adjacent to the
new camp.
Large CONSERVATIVE GSth"~sS
At a conservative estimate 700 men
are at present working in the various
constructive departments of the city
proper. From early morning until
dark the air is filed with the sound
of the hammer. saw and plane. het
the building of the city has barely
started Scores of men and teams are
employed in the grading of the Great
Western townsite. and buildings are
springing up like magic.
Two cement brick and block compa-
MES have already been formed and
part of a plant has already arrived for
the one which has opened for business
upon the McFate CORTLAND townsite.
This plant is owned by the CORTLAND
Brick and Block Manufacturing COM
pany. and before the end of the pres
ent week it will have the full plant
installed and ready for delivery.
The good feeling between the Great
Western and the McFate people ~
manifested by the agency of the Court
land Brick company being placed WIN
the Southwestern Mercantile company.
the bie, concern on the Great Western
ground in which Manager ]. II. Talbot
OF the Great Western and Calumet a.
Arizona companies is heavily interest
ed. All indications point to a heavy
business by both concrete concerns
which have Incorporated for business.
Last week it was said the Calumet Il
Arizona and Great Western companies
had SUFFICIENT ore in sight to guarantee
production of 100000 pounds of ore
monthly for the next four years. or
course this should have read 2,5OO.O0O
pounds of copper instead OF 2,oOo,oo"
pounds of ore.