Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-17
SWANSEA PROPERTY
 PASSES INFANCY PERIOD

CohsoHuated Oold copper company
 mas just passed through it's stage ot
 infancy and has experienced all tn,
 knocks and cuffs which have alway,
 been given to really big proposition
 and has come out on top. Now every.
 thing is moving along at a high rate
 of speed. The low speed lever has
 been thrown away. Great mining and
 geological experts have pronounced the
 Clara to be the making of one of the
 greatest copper mines in the country
 and at the head of the company is
 Geo. Mitchell, who has made a success
 with every plant he has ever been con-
 neeted with and he will make a U,gger
 success with the Clara than he did
 with Jerome or Cananea. He has de-
 veloped and worked until he knows
 what he mas and now he is going to
 take the real red metal and the yellow
 metal out of the ground and ship it
 east. Eevery energy is to be strained
 to rush with all possible speed.
 Just at the present time Mitchell and his agents are securing the eoun- try trying to get teams to haul their freight from Bouse to the Clara at
 Swansea. They want to get at least three hundred teams and more work ing from now on until the railroad is built in to the town of Swansea and the smelter. In the first place there is the smelter which is to be hauled and placed in position or built. That will be done within the next three months and then there will be matter to be hauled back to the railroad at Bouse. Then there will be coke to be hauled to the smelter. Then it is the intention to build a fine, modern, up- to-date mining town at Swansea. The company will build some fifty to sixty frame houses for employees. These houses will have four rooms and be all modern. Then Mitchell will build a large hotel which will belong to him self, personally. Then the company is going to build large company store. The town has been laid out and ready for the houses to be built just as soon as the lumber can be hauled out.
 The railroad from Bouse to Swan sea is sure thing. The Clara must | have a railroad and have it soon and | Geo. Mitchell states positively that if | the Santa Fe does not build it right | away that he will build it, or rather the company will build it and con- meet Swansea and the Planet with | Bouse. It now costs SIS per ton To have freight moved from Bouse to the Clara and if the railroad is built it will not cost to exceed $1, so there will be saving of SIP per ton which will amount to considerable on several thousand tons per week. The Clara las the ore and the capital to go lhead and will do things very shortly.
 Just now Prof. Sterling, one of the pest known geologists of the world, is making a survey and analysis of the Ilara properties. Prof. Sterling was formerly director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia, and af- erwards Commissioner of Mines of Australia to London. He has publish d a number of books containing re- ,orts of his discoveries and workings n geology. He is acquainted with all he leading geologists of the world. He s now making an exhaustive study of he Clara properties and states that he ore is on the Clara properties and an be taken out very proftably and n large quantities. He believes the lara will be one of the great mines of he world some day. The Clara Con has one hundred and sixty even claims, all contiguous and fol owing up the principal dykes. The principal ore body is several miles long nd about one mile wide and outerops n several places for some distance. 'his surface ore at the outeroppings las right values and will be blasted of nd run through the shelter. Much of he mining on the Clara, after the melter is built, will be simply quar- yiHg.
 Now Working on Burke Hotel
 Dennis A. Burke, formerly of Pres ott, and one of the best hotel men in he west, is now in Bouse prepared to i've here permanently. He arrived ay or two ago with a large force of nen and material ready to begin york. He now has some twenty-five nen busy making adobes, exeavating, te He has employed W. W. Cain of Denver, Colo, to take charge of the york. MT. Cain is now in Los An