Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-11-11

Gated the postoffice, the bank, the Of
fees of the water company and sample |
rooms: also large lavatory for COM
pany employees who take their meals
at the place and have rooms about
town in private homes.
Adjoining this hotel, the same com
pany operates department store that
handles everything the people of the
camp desire. 1t is department store
in every respect and everything from
a beefsteak TO a ready made dress can
be procured and for those more par
ticular, dressmaking department is
conducted. A drug store and a jewel
nv store are also operated. In the
basement of the building are located
the offices of the Morenci Southern
railroad, the express company, the
telegraph company and other convent
ences, including a wholesale liquor
store. where the smallest thing sold
is a bottle of beer. An ice plant is
also operated in the basement and
this plant furnishes the entire city
with ice and makes deliveries where
it is possible, but in many cases, the
houses stretching up the mountain
sides, it is impossible for the delivery
man to "get up" There is but one
"street'' in the town and that is the
canyon through which the Morenci
Southern railroad. enters the camp.
A wagon road comes up the same can
Won, though with less trouble than
the railroad, which makes five COM
plete loops and runs through three
tunnels in the Is miles it traverses in
climbing into Morenci from Guthrie,
where it connects with the Arizona
and New Mexico line, a standard gage
road running between Clifton and
Hachita. The Morenci Southern is a
narrow gage road, but makes ample
provision for Its passengers by hauling
a little observation or parlor car, the
!, equal in comfort to those on thr big
lines. All freight, including coke for
the Detroit smelter, has to be reload
ed at Guthrie.
To 20 anywhere in Morenci one
must walk or hop ore of the ore
trains that run through every canyon
on the sides of all the mountains anC
through tunnels in many of the noun
tains. These little trains, hauled b!
dinky little locomotives 10 the case o
the Detroit company, and electric
dynamos- reduced models of the bis
electric engines that pull trains int
and out of the New York terminals
>, in the case of the \. c. company
run everywhere, hauling Stag, ore
concentrates and supplies of all kinds
! Houses in the town are built on,
above the other; on the sides of tn,
mountains and well worn paths Leaf
: from one TO the other; everybod.
walks and there Is not a buggy, carri
age nor automobile in the town
% Even C. E. Mills, general manage
D of the Detroit company and autocra
h lest paisano working in the depths o
a the mines. Mr.. Mills is looked upol
, as the autocrat of the town, and ht
. must be kind autocrat, for every
: body speaks we'll of him and there
= never a growl about the administra
- tion of municipal affairs; he is tn
IN directing authority of the town, be
l.. cause, while his company owns bu
: half the town, his headquarters an
20 residence are here and his compan
. supplies all the public necessitie:
vs while the Arizona Copper compan
- maintains its headquarters at Clifto
= and only superintendents of depart
:, ments are stationed mere, in charge c
,r mines, concentrators, stores, etc. MI
. Mills gives his personal attention
p. the entire town. His company ful
or nishes electric lights to the people
4 also their ice and their water and te
,g ephones. The company installed a
these for its use-the telephone fC
sb instance connects the general manal
es er with every department of the grea
Il Detroit company-and when the publ
NJ asked for service, the company eI
of larged its plants so that they migt
no have the service The two com pal
nt les jointly light the town free {
n charge at night, and no better lighte
al city is found on the continent.
in Law and order are preserved, whe
&C. there is occasion for its preservatio
he by the precinct officers of the count
r but there is very seldom any call fc