Arizona silver belt., 1878-10-24
Arizona Silver Belt.
GLOBE DISTRICT.
DeseSopnserss and asEe~ai MsnAne
 News fsr she Week.

ore into sight
 The new incline in the Imperial tunnel is down IS feet, and q smooth hanging wall IS exposed.
 Prof. Martin, of the McMillen Company wss at 4nmA ten days ago, and is expected here soon.
 The West Richmond is still doing well, and several tons of high grade assorted ore are on the dump.
 < visitor to Tombstone district in- forms us that there are several good mines there; bat the belt is quite narrow, anu wool anu water scarce.
 Alr. Yhelan Is pounding away on the Jeb Stuart clam. He has good ore at the tunnel mouth, and is very hopeful as to the future of the ledge
 The owners of the Centennial mine have struck ore in drift 50 feet from the surface. What the quantity may be has not yet been aseerrained.
 
 The connection has been effected between the Buckeye shaft and tun- mel, and sinking on the vein will be pushed ahead.
 Mr. Mllner has started work on the Silver Era and Etna mines. Within the last six months the pro- duct Of these lodes has been from S25 ,000 to S30.000.
 4 small veln of good looking spar has been cut iu the Chromo tunnel As three shifts are at work the lode Rill soon be reached.
 The first class ore from the Helen niue pays $6 day for the man ex- tracing 1t, and the second class is clear gain. The veia is small, but rich.
 In terms of the district laws, the annual miners meeting wllI have to be held toward the end of November. The recorder wiil, no doubt, issue the necessary notices.
 The owners of the Flora Temple lode, near the Cox t Coplin mines, have res med work upon It. It is an old location, bat was not va.ued at much until important discoveries were made in the vicinity.
 We learn that the Happy Jack claim of the Isabella Company is not looking as we'll as 1t looked two weeks ago. The rich ore streak has nar- rowed, but will, no doubs, widen again as depth IS attained.
 Donald Robb is busy making ex- periments with small reYerbrating furnace. His object is to find out the loss sustained in the roasting pro- cess, and also to try the teaching system in place of amalgamaaOn in the saving of silver.
 The second and third class ore from Cox 6 Coplin's mines, snelted last week at the Mexican furnace averaged about SIS, ,OO0 to the ton. We saw 467 ounces of refined bullion at Shryock < Hlse's store, the pro- duct of the above ore.
 Drifting has been commenced on the Silver Queen mine at the depth of 80 feet. rY promising little veins nf ore have been cut, and 10 doubt need be entertained now about the Queen being a mine. De- velopment is all that is required to make 1t 2 larpe paying property.
 The Hannibal shaft is 15O feet deep, and srringers of vein matter ! found indicate that the lode is not far of. The only water encountered celnes out of the rock some distance below 1he surface. The permanent water-li line. where suIphuret ore wall be fonnd, has not been reached as yet
 Several nice adobe cottages are about completed between the Han nibsl hoisting works and the McMil len Co s boarding house. It looks ss if there will be lively town in that locality sooner ttian in the rayine farther north where McAilIen is situ- ated, but both will grow, and prob ably ultimately unite.
 4 gentleman who recently visited the Santa Rita mountains, tells us that the reports published from time to time in certain San Francisco l evening paper, about the great wealth l of the miaes ln that region were helnous exaggerations. He says there is a fellow out there who can create far bigger mines thon ever Nature was capable of creating. If he sees D Ride quartnse dyke with an occasional seab of copper-stained 1 rock on the surface, he forthwith ! names 1t the Empress of China lode or some other equally great name and then ii 3 series of letters to the