Arizona republican., 1912-09-11
General Manager of Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad, Says Conditions Were Never Better in Arizona.
FIFTY PER CENT ORE
 IS BEING SHIPPED
New Railroad is Also About Finished, Work Has Been Resumed at Swansea and Clark Shelter is Being Rushed to Completion.

With the Swansea shelter running at full blast and smelting about 400 tons daily, the Verde Valley Railroad due to be completed in about another month work being rushed on the 2000 ton smelter of the United Verde and with the rich strike of ore at Copper Basin, eleven miles west of Prescott General Manager w. A. Drake, of the Santa, Prescott & Phoenix railroad, believes an almost unprecedented min- ing boom is about to be experienced in central and western Arizona. MT. Drake came to Phoenix yesterday with President Frank M. Murphy and spent the day transacting business with To- cal railroad officials. MT. Murphy left last evening in his private car to look after some of his mining interests in the Imperial mining country.
 Probably the richest are now being mined in Arizona is being taken out of the new mines at Copper Basin,' said MT. Drake yesterday. Some of it runs as high as fifty per cent. It is of course still in a state of development but about fifty tons a day are being brought down by wagons through the Skull valley and shipped to the Doug las shelter Should the development of this property be undertaken upon a large scale, as it seems to me it likely will, it may develop into one of the richest mining properties in Ari- zona."
 MT. Drake was not in the least doubtful but that it would be but short time when this new property
 %l1a Sr1t tl1a 1ny state The developers are down but little more than 100 feet and are in the richest kind of ore. It is believed that the supply is practically unlimited and that the real development is yet to come In that event it will be found practicable to connect the new mine with a railroad affording means Of shipping the ore and cutting out the eleven mile haul by wagon.
 The Swansea shelter has been run- ming now since the middle of August" said MT. Drake. We are hauling in about 200 tons daily of fluxing ores, this ore coming from the Humboldt mines Just how many men are work ing there now, I do not know, but 1t is considerably in excess of 100. Con-
 1itions are booming in Swansea and Bouse as they have not boomed in years before. There is every indica- tion that under the management or the Swansea Consolidated Gold & Cop- per company, which took over the Clara Consolidated holdings when that company went into the hands of re- ceiver, a long run is in store. This IS all that was needed to make that sec ton boom again and the people or Bouse and Swansea believe that IL presages continued prosperity.
 "Our new road, the Verde Valley railroad, from Cedarglade to a point just opposite Jerome, is rapidly near ing completion. We are just now con- structing a large, steel viaduct about four miles from the terminus Of the road and expect to have rails laid and the entire road, over forty miles in length. in operation about November first. A new town will be built at the end of the road to be known as Clark vile. named after Ex-Senator w. A. | Clark who is constructing the big smelter at the base of the United Yer | de operations. A big tramway run ming from the 1000 level above the tracks of the new road has been built | to bring down the ore from the United Verde. The new smelter will also be used in custom work when completed. l General conditions all over the | Santa Fe are particularly good just
 now and we look for a continuance or | this era of prosperity.