Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-20
CHLORIDE DISTRICT
 FORGING TO FRONT IS CLAIM OF NORTHERNER
Camp In Mohave County De- clared To Be In The Midst of a Great Mining Revival. Future Assured There Is Statement.

From expressions made by J. Fred Richards, secretary of the chamber of commerce of Chloride, and editor of the Chloride mining district and the New Weaver mining district, which lies thirty miles west of Chloride, as well as the Stockton Hill. Cerbat and Golconda sections, northwest lof Kingman, Arizona, are undergoing re- markable development.
 There are now forty-eight or fifty mines undergoing process of develop ment," said Richards, "and our most serious trouble is securing a sufficient prompt delivery of machinery and mining timber to enable us to carry out the development which is already planned. The policy of the chamber of commerce is giving no publicity whatsoever to any mining proposition until the project is assured of proper financial backing has resulted in com paratively little being heard of Chloride up to this time.
 Best Class of Investors
 But it has also resulted in attract ing the very financial class of inves- tors, those who come to the district, to secure the services of competent investors to go thoroughly into the merits of the various properties there and then arrange for a treasury which is ample to carry out proposed development.
 "So many strikes are being made in different parts of the districts, par ticularly in Chloride district, that it is considered there unwise to make them public, as the reports would not be believed.
 Within the last six months l may say five or six different properties have been sold and machinery is now being placed. Miles of road of the best construction are being built at the present time. Chloride will soon have a custom mill at work and the Chicago owners of that mill have al ready made arrangements to double its capacity the moment its wheels turn over, which will be about June 10. Requests for milling privileges have been made from properties suf- ficient to keep busy five mills of the size of the one which will start it's operations next June.
 Lack of space would forbid a list of those properties now working, but among the most prominent ones which are showing very heavily are the Tennessee, which is an old es- tablshed property; the Hidden Treas ure, Elkhart, Arizona Butte at Stock ton Hill, the Rigley at Stockton Hill, and numerous other properties of like standing, which now are proven as to their merit and no longer repre- sent experiments Thousands of dol lars worth of machinery is being placed every day in the district and it is considered by the most conser- vative investors who have visited Chloride that the section lying adja- cent to the town is the most remark ably mineralized one in the country. The town itself has been undergoing very rapid growth, the population now being 200O of better, ard the most significant characteristic of the field is the determination of those who are developing the section to keep away from over-boosting."
 Not a Bonanza Field
 When asked as to the value of the district to the small investor. Rich ards made it clear that Chloride dis trict represents not bonanza field in which fortunes are made over night, but rather an industrial mining section in which comparatively large amounts of money are necessary for the development of property. but in which again the returns when their money is invested are just as sure as the returns fom a steel mill or any other sound business or industrial proposition, which lacks money for its development
 "The average mining proposition III Chloride district would require any where from twenty-five to fifty thou sand dollars to develop and get to the ore,~ continued Richards. and we also advise those who are seeking to come into the field to arrange for anywhere from a $10,000 to $50.0OO treasury. because obviously it would be better to have s25.O00 too much than s25,OOO too little in developing the mine. Of course, as a leading property, there are numerous mines which were worked by the chloriders in the old days when the ore ad to be transported on burro backs 10 the Colorado river and fioated down to the Gulf of Lower California and thence around to San Francisco. be ing later shipped to Swansea. Wales, which propositions offer to the leaser with his gasoline pump and his small compressor very favorable pr)posi- ton.
 High Liberalization
 "A fact that is not generally nown is that Chloride district has been known as a highly mineralized belt for the past thirty years. having been worked. as said before, by the