Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04

county, in the London range, a dis
trlct of the very first order is opening
up. l call it the London-Kelv dis
trict. 1t contains such we'll known cop
per properties as the Ray Consolidated
and the Kelvin Calumet, at Ray, on
Mineral creek Cloth already partly
| financed and operating). The Ray Con-
solidated contains stupendous de-
post of copper SulphideS similar to
the great Miami property, twenty miles
north, which at the present time oc-
cupies the public's eye in copper cir
| Giles. 1t is operated by the Salt Lake
people, who have made such a phe-
nomenal success in operating the Utah
Copper, near Salt Lake, where they
are milling 5000 tons a day and still
expanding the enterprise The Ray de-
post, like that in Utah, is a grade
milling proposition and can furnish
equally as large tonnage.
East of Ray, in the London range,
but closer to the ella river and the
railroad are the London-Arizona and
the Christmas properties. The latter
was producing in 1906 and 1907, but
| closed down at the time of the panic.
In Prospect Stage
The London-Arizona is still strictly
in the prospect stage and is not yet
| financed for extensive operations-or
wasn't the last knew. 1t was on the
point of closing very advantageous ar
rangements for all the capital needed
last year, but the drastic panic of 1907
knocked the plans. 1t is a magnificent
copper property in the prospect state,
lying its whole length (two full miles)
in the low London range within 5000
feet of the ella river and the Phoenix
Eastern railroad. Its geological struc-
ture and it's mineral character are con-
tinuous and identical with the Christ
mas ground where the ore exposures
are very large in the limestones, fur
nishing a self-fuxing ore like the Bis
bee mines. 1t has a very large acreage
about 1S00-and, once successfully
financed, can be brought into large
production very quickly.
Counting Copper Creek, Ray, and the
mines of London mountain in the
limeStOneS as one district, which in
geological birth they are, though in all
three the ore deposits lie in different
horizons. they will not, in my judg-
ment when developed stand second to
any district ever opened in Arizona,
and the mines along the ella having
the railroad right at hand can be
brought into heavy production very
quickly once their financial arrange
ments are completed.
The Great Parker Country
This means the large expanse of cop
per country in northwestern Yuma
county surrounding the town of Par
ker, on the Colorado river, recently
opened by the new Arizona and Cali
fornia railroad, which crosses the river
at Parker.
1t contains a number of copper camps
of great promise. The region along the
south side of the Bill Williams river
for twenty miles presents an almost
continuous string of fine copper mines,
and BOuse camp, at the north end Of
the Plumosa range, is also a. copper
camp of great promise and has the
railroad passing right through the
camp. South Of Bouse, in the Plumosa
and Dome Rock ranges, there are other
excellent camps.
1t would take a column of space to
enumerate all the fine copper pros
poets of the Parker field. They are
receiving energetic development. but
as yet with inadequate capital. 1t
will not be long till this large field be-
comes one of Arizona's most impor-
tant producers.