Show STATEMENT ON CHLORIDE chlorides G S holmes pioneer investor in the district gives personal views of section gus S holmes well known mining and hotel man inan of salt lake returned to this city last week from the chloride district of arizona where he and associates have extensive mining interests mr air holmes was the pioneer in the reopening of the famous district and to him probably more than to any other man is due its present prosperity and promising future his views of the section are interesting he says chloride is a poor manst mans as well as a rich mans camp but it seems that moneyed interests favor the base metals more than they do gold nearly all the properties taken over by outside capital have been secured by millionaires and men who have made their money in mining As for my own interests in this district they are varied and I 1 have a number of properties chief among them being the keystone consolidated the mill on which should begin operations within thirty days we have a wonderful showing of high grade ores in large quantities some of well known men are interested in the district and are highly pleased with what they have seen among the utah men in chloride at the present time are ralph hoag adam patterson H williams roy eccles harold perry T H fitzgerald W 0 kay john pingree john schnider A M 11 mcdonald and others mr holmes secured his keystone properties before the chloride boom came concerning the most important properties now being worked he says the tennessee 1600 feet de deeland epand deep and golconda 1200 feet deep are the only deep mines in the district there are many others who have opened up fine large paying ore bodies from the surface to a depth of feet nearly all of which were trenched on the surface for native silver many years ago when the sulphides sulp hides were reached at depths which varied from fifty to feet all such work was stopped A 31 mcdonald a well known utah ik engineer and mill builder has just returned from mineral park and chloride district having spent some time there he is very enthusiastic over what he saw and has purchased five claims east of and adjoining the tennessee between the midnight and tennessee and will return to the camp immediately after christmas to install a large operating plant the property shows large bodies of fine ore in the present workings there are today probably seventy five properties working in the district six months ago it would have been hard to have found a dozen then the railroad leading into the camp was writing its balances in red ink today the little litile branch of the santa fe is earning full capacity long trains of lumber machinery and other mining equipment arrive in the camp daily huge compressors and engines steel rails poles and whatnot what not else block the railroad yards scores of automobiles dash here and there along the main thoroughfare to the camp their occil occupants pants striving to get a foothold the real rush is yet to arrive the time is near at hand when chloride mineral P park ark and the surrounding district will no longer ibe be able to conceal itself from the crowds of investors who will flock to that section chloride may well be called the section it is rising purely on its merits all the companies with one or two exceptions are closed corporations and for that reason advertising has been superfluous and no flamboyant advertising is being sent out for the public |