The Arizona copper camp., 1920-06-19
tBy Nettie Penny
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CONTINUED from last week.


Continued from last week.
1t is interesting to take look at
another side of the life and doings of
this English company, it would make
an interesting magazine stors. On
the flat north of Kelvin were the polo
fields; farther down we find the beau
tiful cement tennis courts; the Off
cials could be seen driving around in
their wonderful tandem dog-carts.
To the natives it was quite wonderful
and remarks like this could be heard:
Grown men in short pants, whacking
little ball back and forth across a
net, yes, sir, think of it," 1t is said
that the commissary was one continu-
Gus celebration after another, game
was shipped on ice from New York,
the finest wine sparkied on their ta-
bles, and, in fact, nothing was too good
or too high-priced
One incident amused the old-timers
immensely: Six gas engines had been
the mill, and not until one of them
had broken its belt did they discover
that it had been set to run in the op-
posite direction and the others had
been dragging it along IN spite of its
protests.
The company that had taken the
mortgage sent man, Mr.. James D.
Hague, to examine and report on the
property After sampIing and care
fully inspecting, he reported that "un-
der present conditions, per cent ore
could not he handled at a profit, and 3
per cent ore could not be touched ex-
cept at a loss" He'also advised sus-
pension of operations, but he also re-
marked that sometime, with improved
machinery and favorable conditions,
that there might be possibilities at
Ray.
In 1905 the Arizona Eastern con
nected Kelvin with Phoenix, which
meant that from that time on the
problem of transportation was solved.
The next year the Calumet Copper
company was shipping forty tons of
high-grade ore per day.
The following, year, 1907, Mr.. d. c..
lacking of the Utah Copper company
was attracted to Ray, and the Ray
Consolidated Copper company was or
ganized 1t took over the holdings of
the old English company, capitalized
itself at $6,000,OO0, and started to
work. The chuln drills were started
under the direction of Seeley w.
Mudd Philip w. Wiseman had also
much to do with the early work of
the Ray Con. The drills were kept
going until $50 holes were drilled to
an average depth of 41S feet.
Up to March, 1911, when actual pro-
duction by the Ray Consolidated Cop
per company began, there had been
AN expenditure of about 100000 900.
The railroad TO Kelvin had been made
standard gauge; thirty miles of drifts
and cross-cuts had been made; two
main shafts had Leen sunk, and
equipped and the mill at Hayden was
partly complete. 1t might be men
TONED that the change in mill location
had been made from Kelvin to Hay
den on account of the mad desire on
the part of the real estate ones at
Kelvin to get rich quick.
The Arizona Hercules Copper COM
pany was organized September 15,
1906, with capital of $10,000000.
Other smaller companies were organ
lied One OF these was the Ray Cen
tral, which came under the control
of the Ray Consolidated about April
of 1912.
The Ray Consolidated at the begin
ming planned things on stupendous
scale. This was necessary to make
a low-grade proposition pay, and as
the, engineer had assured them that
there were at least 50,00O,00O tons of
ore. We are told that the early plans
and policy of the Ray Con. have never
been materially changed, that the
changes made in the early plans have
been merely in details made necessary
by inventions and improved machin-
cry
There are many interesting figures
in connection with the Ray Consoli-
dated Copper company, the second
largest in the world, but the reader
is undoubtedly familiar with all this.
We would note but one or two facts
that we think should be considered: ::
Since the beginning of production in
1911 there has been 125 pounds of
pure copper produced by this COM
pany every minute of the time, TWEEN,
ty-four hours per day, day in and day