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Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
THE REWARD OF FAITH

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 And Tom Haley. Bill Supperine. and others have lived to see it all. To them is the reward in seeing their dream of wealth come true. Haley and Supperinc are todar moderately wealthy men. AS a general rule the old prospector receives but a poor re- ward for his labors and the hand of capital gathers all within its mighty paw. Time and capital has done well by Haley and SupDerine ard today they spend their declining years in comfortable circumstances they anc their two enormous bull dogs. born and bred on the old sod from which the Ealavs and Superines also sprang
 Along in the eighties the Ray claim along with the EsperanZa, the Burn sides. the MorOe. the Ried and Tibbets were located by one William A. Bull inger. Bullinger and Schenebeck joined hands as their claims were in the same vicinity. a company was formed. called the Ray Copper com pany. and a shelter Nas built in the culch nearby. the materials for the smeltor were furnished by a group Of CalifOrnians who latter attempted to obtain control of the property from the original locators.
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23

needs no further recommendation
 The Hayder Drug Company, under the able direction Of M. J. Fitzgerald, is also a progressive business firm, which carries everything In the drug and sundries line. The Hayden Drug started business in that town during the year 1911. Since the inception of the company, the business has steadily grown until at the present time they conduct one of the largest drug stores in the county.
 Six years ago the demand for ade- quate automobile repair facilities in Hayden became so great that E l.. Hetrick decided to install garage and machine shop. He did so, and his faith was amply rewarded by @ steady increase in business from that day 10 this. The garage at the pres ent day has been greatly enlarged from it's former size. and has all the wcrll that can be handled at all times Hetrick is also Hayden agent for the famous Maxwell line of cars.
 CHRISTMAS
 Close at Hayden there is at pres ent developing a new great mineral district, which lies in the great cop per belt Of the region. At Christmas. a few snort miles from Hayden, there is q producing mine any many new possibilities, which are at present undergoing active development to de- te~mne the extent of tkeir enrich naent This district, however, is in the county of Gila, immediately con- tigucus to the countv line. The ln- terests of the Christmas district in reality lie with Pinal coenty. as do the interests of the town of Hayden. The future may see this great dis trict also included in Pinal county. The town of Winkelman, also in Gila county. immediately across the coun- ty line is the feeder for the large agricultural interests of the Gila val lev al that point.
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23

holding from 10 to 12 tons--a skip load. From the measuring pocket the ore goes through an air-lift gate to a lotion skip, size Aft. s in. by it. by 10 it. deep in which it is hoisted yer tically to the surface and dumped into an ore bin near the top of the head frame Recently at the No. 1 hoist 364 skips (4,000 tons) of ore were hoisted during shift of eight hours Shafts 1 and ? have two compart- ments. size 6 by 6 fl. 10 in. The ore then passes through one of the four air-lift gates and over a grizzly. The oversize goes to two size s, style K Gates gyratory crushers, and unites with the under-size from the grizzly then into a bucket elevator which hoists the ore to the top of building and allows it to pass over an inclined screen chute to two Garfield rolls, size 72 by 20 in. The undersize from the screened chute unites with the crushed ere from the rolls and is fed on to an inclined conveyor belt which takes the ore to the top of a storage bin. (At No. shaft the storage bin holds 5000 tons. while the one at the No 1 shaft holds 25,000 tons.) From these bins the ore is drawn off through basket gates into a railroad car of cotton ca pacity and shipped to the concen- tratCr.
 CONCENTRATION OF ORE
 Ray Consolidated has three main shafts from which ore is hoisted, as has been described. From these the ore is taken and conveyed by the Ray and Gila Valley railroad to Ray June ton. a distance of six miles, where it is transferred and delivered to the Arizona and Eastern railroad and by the latter road it is transported on to Hayden. where it is treated in the mill of the company. This miff, thoroughly modern and complete in every detail. has a daily capacity of 5000 tons. From the mill the concentrates are taken to the Hayden plant of the American Smelling and Refining com pany for smelting.
 As has been stated, development thus far has been confined to about 750 acres and in that area there Is total of 425. .233 feet of work, about S5 miles of underground work. Of this work ] 75,26l feet was completed during the , year 1914.
 Although at first operations were
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
Strange Stories Told
 Of The Superstitions
 By Primitive Tribes

Over in the northern end of Pinal county lies the cast and broken heights and valelys of the Supersti- tion range. This region was once inhabited. according to the lndians with a strange race of little men possessed of magic powers and filicd with strange spirits, which spelled death for any foolish or adventurous warrior who dared enter their dor0'-7 The legend runs that the spirits of this former race stiI naulIr the heights and canyons of that vast country The redskin stays far away
 Ire mineral development of the Expectations has proceeded but slow F.. and althought there are eyidenves of great deposits of gold and other minerals, no riches in paving quantl- ties have as yet been developed. At Goldfield on the northern edge Of the range, and about 90 miles from Phoenix. there has been much initial development work carried on Gold values abound in greater and leser degrees, and one property, the Mann meth mine has had expended upon it in development large sums of money pr Hole, of Globe Arizona, physician at the Old Dominion mine. first took hold of the property in
 1908 on a bond and lease from the original owners. He. operated and
 developed the property until April, 1909. when Geo. T.. Young. of Phoc- nix, took over the property. which has been under his control since. | There are large deposits of low grade gold ore in sight, but the property
 has never as yet become a dividend i payer. The distance from the rail- road and other difficulties have to
 date precluded mining at a profit. ;, Tie owners, however, have faith in the property and the district, and cling consistently to their task of
 endeavcring to develop a real dividend ! payer out Of the property.
 l Oh're prospects in the district are ! the Big Six group, owned by C A. Warrington. the Big Six contains large deposits of low grade gold ores
 in disseminated quartz, somewhat similar to the vast copper deposits of | the Miami and Ray districts, with their disseminated porphyry bodies. 4 Then there are tho Bull Dog group,
 owned bv the Schill Bros. The South | Mammoth. owned by George Garfield.
 and the mary claims of George Irwin.
 Along the southern edge of tho Expectations are to be found differ ent mineral characteristics. here are i the veins. lodes and Assures similar i to the Pioneer district. carrying high
 values in silver, lead and copper ores. \ new company. the Gila Pinal | has recently been formed to exploit
 the minerals on a group of claims in 1 this vicinity. Behind the Gila Pnal
 are men of known and financial worth | as vel alS experts in the mineral
 wealth Of the country.
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
HAYDEN HOME UT SHELTER

The town of Hayden. although not in Final county, lying immediately over the line in Gila. stil must be considered as an adjunct to the great Pinal mining district At Hayden are located the mammoth mills of the Ray Consolidated Copper Com pany. the reduction plants at which all the ores are treated after being mined. At Hayden also, are located the great shelter of the American Smelling and Refining Company which treats all the ores from the Ray Consolidated mines. the ores from the Magma, tho Ray Hercules and many other smaller and larger producers far and near.
 Although not a mining town itself, the mill and shelter town of Hay den contains the same varied popula- tion to be seen in any mining town of the state There are the Mexican, Spanish Slav. and all the other homogeneous races which go to make mp the population of the mining dis trict of this great state. The popu- lation consists of several thousand souls ard the great monthly payrolls of shelter and mill make for the town of Hayden a steady prosperity which never dimin.shes.
 Among the live business firms of the town may he mentioned the Knight Thompson Company, of which C. L.. Knight is the active head. The Knight Thompson Company are en- gagged iH the general merchandise busi- Aes ana are an incorporated com pany, having been engaged in their present line for the past three years They have a large following through their policy of a squar deal for every one and endeavor to give satisfaction to che and all
 The Hayden Supply Company which. four years ago in 1912. en- gagged in the ladies ard gents furn- ishing business, also is one of the live business firms of the town and deserl es the support of the public which ir fact it has. C. r. Steven son. the man in charge, Is the man who makes the wheels go round His ready smile welcome all, both young and old Hayden is to be congratu lated upon the progressive qualities of its principal merchandise houses It is st d in the region about, that when the travelling men thing of l new suit of clothes. they immediate arrange their schedule for trip tC Hayden where the livest line of mems clothes in the country, rivaling the great shops of the east and the coast cities. is Co be purchased. Hayder
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23

On a beautiful Arizona fall day, November 13. 1875 a prairie schooner of the type used in those times swung slowly over the rough and broken country to the east of the Queen Creek mining district which at that time was the center of great. excit- ment. following the discovery of the Silver King mine
 On the drivers seat was a littla man Who piled the whip and urged the tired animals steadily forward in- to the heavens, to the west the little outfit topped a rugged rise and a wild and desolately beautiful View broke before the eager gaze of the trave.er.
 rough and tremendous gorge. at whose bottom the gurgling waters of a rushing stream wended its furious way. tumbling here and there between masses of gigantic rock and huge houlders thrown indiscriminately about In some vast rush of waters in the past ages. The sides of the canyon were extremely rough and broken while far back the precipitous cliffs frowned upon the adventurous being Who thus SO daringly invaded the long silence known before only to the red man in his restless wanderings
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
RAY COPPER

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 The company finally passed into the hands of a groIp of Boston and Tucson capitalists. George Sargent of Boston was made president and Louis Zrckendorf of Tucson. secretary and treasurer. ZeckendOrf also took over the active management of the prop erty. The principal mining was done on the Ray and Poorman claims from which large amounts of native copper was shipped.
 Many of Haleys claims were in cluded in the Ray Central group although in one. the Calumet, ne re- taineC one quarter interest wkich later he sold for s40,00o.
 Desultorv prosecuting continued in the district from time to time until the year 1887. when the Ray Central Copper company was formed control ling rich group of claims in and on the sides of Mineral Creek hitherto held by several of the old timers in the district. who had located in the gulch from time to time. The Ray Central company was composed of q group of Philadelphia capitalists who had been interested in the properties Dy W. B. Twitchell. Twitchel also retaiaed an interest in the new com plny and considerable development and exploration work was carried on.
 Up to this time. however, no great body of commrcial or had been un- covered in the district. That there were great deposits of copper beneath the surface awaiting the Coming of .capital, and men. with nerve enough to back their judgement the old timers all felt sure but capital was wary and several great engineers had re- ported unfavorably on the district
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23

The town of Ray has at present population of about one thousand Americans and white foreigners, several thousand Mexcans, who have their own town of Sonora, however, and several hundred Spanards who also have their town, Barcelona. Ray has a steady monthly prosperity induced by the large payroll of the Ray consoIi- dated Copper Company and that of the Ray Hercules company, the total amounting to about S200,o0o0o a month. The town is situated direct ly in the wash of Mineral Greek close on the bed of the stream. which runs the year round throuqh the canyon. There are adequate stores of every description, all beinq located upon the ground owned by the Ray Consolidated Copper Com pany, which gives the company con trol over the class and number of business houses in the town. There are fully equipped grade schools and high school upon the mesas above the town. Several churches of diff ferent denominations, and a com P'SNSJ SHulPPeu noSpltdl WniCn IS maintained by the company. Ray at the present time is on the verge of a large boom according to the opinion of mining men from all parts of the country who have wit messed the booms in other camps of days gone by. The streets and hotels are full of newcomers, minino men, investors and others, while upon the atmosphere floats the talk Of big things doing in the near future-new mines here and there on all sides of the town. A new era of increased prosperity, increased business, and greatly increased pop ulation-for Ray.
 There is daily train service con- meeting with the Arizona Eastern at Ray Junction for Phoenix.
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
MIN ERAL CREEK

This rough and winding guleh was the now famous Mineral creek, well named for its vast deposits 0i miner als which nature has so liDeraily formed for the coming Of the white man. The man was Tom Haley, original pioneer and adventurer. pros pector and miner. and one of the rug ged men to whom the great state oi Arizona owes its present prosperity and wealth
 Haley who was an Irishman. as the name evidently indicates. had driven Into Arizona from the Bingham can Son district of Utah upon hearing oi the great strike at the Silver King near Picket Post Arriving in the King district Haley who was d pros pec;or and not a miner, decided that If tbere was mineral in that district 'hore must be just as much in the great ranges to the east, which were Practically continuous flOm ;re King, vast series of broken hills, valleys and mountains, with great outcro9- pings showing here and there on the surface. evidences Of min sralization apparent on every hand Pushing on over the hills for a distance of about eighteen miles, Haley came upon the Mineral Creek country. which to this time had been visited by probably one or two white men. One man, Dan McCallen. having visited the region the year previous and then departed. McCallen returned later and remained m the district up to the time of his death a couple of years ago.
 Haley upon his arrival, spent the following weeks in a careful explora- tion of the district. great outcroppongs on the surface. heavily stained with mil n NEIFH uI dot nI q his interest. surface ores were appar- ent and abundant on every side. The indications of copper deposits were very evident, but in those days silver and gold were the objects of searcn and copper deposits failed to attract the interest as in the present era Of the red metal.
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23

much smaller than at the present time and it is comparatively recently that the company came into a position to produce 75,000,000 pounds of copper when running to capacity, from the be- ginning of it's operations to December 3l last it's output had reached the great total of 7,061, ,S2l, not including some carbonate and leasers' ore which was shipped in addition to that amount which at a price of l5 cents would give a value of $ll250 900. And the vast ore reserve of S0,000, 900 tons of 2.25 per cent copper had been proved. F1gur- ing the content of sue. reserve at 2.Z5 per cent this great reserve would give 3.6OO. 000, 900 pounds of copper for pro duction without developing further ore bodies and on basis of E per cent copper it would have a valuation of $540,000, 900. It is when computations run into such figures as these that the mind begins to grasp the vast magni- tude of such an enterprise as is Ray Consolidated.
 ROSTER OF COMPANY OFFICIALS
 The officers of the company are:
 Sherwood Aldrich, president. No. 25 Broad street, New York.
 D. c. Jackling, vice president and managing director, 1900 Hobart Build ing, San Francisco, Cal.
 Charles Hayden, vice president, 25 Broad street. New York.
 F.. F. Shove secretary treasurer, Colorado Springs, Colo.
 K R. Rabbit. general counsel, 25 Broad street, New York.
 The operating officials in Arizona:
 l.. $. Gates, general manager, Ray, Arizona.
 W. $. Boyd, superintendent of mines Ray. Arizona.
 C. A. Smith. assistant superintendent.
 D. D. Moffatt, superintendent of mills, Hayden, Arizona. w. T. Mcdonald, assistant superin- ltendent.
 R. L Ezell. cashier Hayden Arizona
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
WHEN TIE RAY CON GOT |TSSTART MARVELLOUS GROWTH IF NINE YEARS

The holdings of the company at Ray were derived from the Ray Consol- dated, Ray Copper company and Ray Central groups. At Ray Junction, where the Ray and Gila Valley railroad with the Arizona and Eastern, it has l29 acres used for millsite residence and business purposes. now used for the terminals of the railroad and the townsite of Kelvin. It's lands at Hay den form a solid body consisting Of about 3S00 acres.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF ORE BODY
 "The main ore body is q dissem- mated deposit in schist and porphyry formed by secondary enrichment. Its existence was proved by chlrn drill ing. and it is at present one of the largest proved copper deposits in the world. The ore body itself covers POS acres, with an average thickness of 121 feet and occupies a definite belt which has northwest direction. Its length is approximately 5000 feet. The width varies being about 1000 feet at the west end and about 250a feet at the east narrowing down irreguiarly from both ends to a few feet in the center The thickness of the body varies great 1y slong the line of lode. ranging from few feet up to 40 feet thick.
 The ore horizon is not constant. but varies following in a broad sense the
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23

THE GENESIS OF THE RAY CONSOLIDATED MINING co.

foot percentage for the hole was ob tained. Proceeding in a like manner the foot-percentage of each hole at the four corners of a block was found. Then after adding all the ore footages tore in each hole) of the four holes together and dividing this total into the total of all the foot percentages, the assay value in copper of the total tons of ore in the block was obtained; next by finding the average thickness of the ore in the block (thickness of the ore in each of the four holes added together and divided by fOur) and null tiplying it by the area of the block and dividing by the number of cubic feet to a ton G2K) the total tons in a block was arrived at.
 By this method the tonnage and the assay value of each and every block of ore were determined. Then by adding the values for all the separate blocks, the total tonnage and the average assay for the entire ore body were ob- tained. As a check, the total tonnage was also figured by planimeteting cross sections of the ore body at 200 foot intervals and computing the num- Der of tons contained therein.
 Of the 353 holes drilled to date, only 23S are inside the ore body and con- sidered in calculating the ore tonnage they represent 106,97l feet of drilling. It is gratifying to note that all the un- derground development and prospect ing thus far have checked with ac- curacy of churn- drill results both as to assays and tonnage"
 SYSTEMS OF MINING
 owing to the heavy overburden and the low grade of the ore, caving sys- tems have been devised and adopted which consist in weakening a block of ore by means of series of shrinkage stopes of ore filled rooms Then after undermining and shattering the re- maining pillars the ore is drawn sys- tematically. the capping crushing and settling gradually over il. Through out all the work at Ray two systems have been used. The sub-level or motor haulage system employed in thick uniform blocks of ore, and the hand -tramming system, used in the shallower portions. From the accom- panying sketches it will be seen that the method of carrying up the stopes and the manway arrangement are practically the same in both systems, the essential difference being in the method of handling the ore.
 HANDLING ORE AND WASTE
 "On each motor level a three car tipple placed directly over an ore pock ct has been installed. The tipples are similar to those used in coal mining and are arranged to receive three 5-ton motor cars at time. The 5-ton cars, iu trains of twelve cars, are brought to the tipple by motors which weigh ten tons each When three cars have been spotted in the tipple by the motorman. the tipple operator turns on the cleo trical power and the tipple is rotated and the cars of ore turned completely over allowing the ore to fall into an ore pocket The pockets are usually l0N2Sx25 feet. holding from 250 to 300 tons. From the pocket the ore is fed through air-dropped gates to measuring pockets, size 4X4x12 feet
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
THEYNERE EOVERFORTYYEARS|N
 SEARCH IF THE PROMISED LAND

valley where the soldiers were then stationed. About two years later the pioneer determined to return to the district. where he felt sure wealth awaited the determined prospector.
 Upon his return to the district. Haley located many claims in the creek, and on the rough sides of the sulch above. while in the district previously, Haley had made several locations. one of them being the Key stone claim. later renamed the Calu- met, which is now under lease to the Ray Consolidated Copper company and from which they are taking large amounts of high grade copper ore.
Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
PIONEERS OF MINERAL CREEK

PLUMBERS OF MINERAL GREEK
 Following the return of Haley to the district, other prospectors appeared in the country and settled here and there along the creek. In 1876 a man by the name of Scheneheck located further down the creek. below the Haley claims, one of his locations be- ing called the PoOrman, which later was one of the principal claims from which the original Ray Copper com pany shipped much of it's high grade ore.
 Tn 1878. William Supperine. another pioneer. ventured into the district and associated himself with Haley in the exploration and development of the district Today. a few hundred yards up the creek from the present town If Ray. in a little green painted house in the gulch there reside two little old men. bent and grey. but still vigorous and hearty. Tom Haley and Bill Supperine, through the vissitudes and trials the privatons and the toll. the joys and the rewards of forty years, they have waited to see their dreams come true. At present where years ago. when first Tom Haley top ped the rise and looked into the rug ged gulch below on a scene of peace md quiet, broken only by the tumult of the waters in the swirling creek below there stands a mighty little town. a scene of tremendous industry. hurrying mer, and the shrill whistle of the locomotive as the long train of ore cars leaves the yards for mills below. The hills are covered with shafts and workings. the valley with stores and shops. and all the great paraphanalia of mighty industry. Where once the lazy lizard stunned in the afternoon rays on rocky hillside, now the steady chug of the churn drill in the ceaseless search for gerater riches breaks through the atmosphere both day and night, a never ending search for the hidden deposits of min erul wealth.