Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-29
Arizona Silver Belt
MINING NOTES.
A rich gold strike is reported to have been made near Harqua Hala.

which tlmc there will be present som,
 of the largest operators and owners o
 copper mines in the world. Director,
 will be elected at this meeting.
 Professor Ricketts, who has been
 doing quite little exporting work for
 the Copper Queen Company. returned
 from short trip last evening. He
 will not remain in Bisbee very long
 but will probably leave in three or
 four days for Colorado, where he will
 investigate some promising properties.
 --Prospector
 About S5 men are employed at the
 Pearce mine, Cochise county. but the
 larger proportion of these men are on
 the surface engaged in putting up
 buildings and getting ready for the 40-
 ton mill which is to be completed be-
 fore long. A depth of 300 feet has
 now been reached on the vein and no
 diminution of the ore is perceptible.
 A blind lead was uncovered in the
 l200-foot level of the Anaconda mine one day last week. says the Western Mining World, which is considered one of the most remarkable instances in connection with mining that has oc- cured in this camp. It is said that the character of the quartz is similar to that above, but richer in copper and carrying more gold and silver.
 The machinery for the King of Ar;- zona Mining Company, which Messrs. Gleason and Duncan went to Los An ge!es last week to purchase, arrived here Wednesday night, and Thursday morning was taken to Tacna, from where it will be freighted to the Gila river. The milllsite is at Mohawk. The mills are two in number, a five stamp mil and Q three and one half foot Huntington. As fast as the mines are opened more machinery will be added. Yuma Sun.
 A Clifton correspondent of the Globe-Democrat, writing of the plans of the Detroit Copper Company, says: Changes that will more than double the output are to be made at once, and the management of the camp is to be remodeled upon the plan of Bisbee, which IS recognized as the best gov erned camp in the southwest, as Mo renci has been notorious for the oppo- site condition. At present water for the smelters must be pumped, with more than l5OO feet of lift, and there are many difficulties attending trans. portstion to and from the mines over 20 inch gauge railway and steep sur face inelines owned by the Arizona Copper Company, of Clifton, whose mines adjoin those of the Detroit com psny. It is understood that these difficulties will be overcome by the construction of gravity and electric railway down the mountain from the mine distance of twelve miles to the San Francisco river. on the line of the Arizona < New Mexico railway. Sul- phnric acid teachers will then be erected for the treatment of the re- bellious ores.
 During the past winter the pros- pector has done good work in Arizona, New Mexico and in Southern Cali fornia, and as a result there have been more reports of the discovery of valuable mines and the opening up of new dis tricts in that part of the country dur. ing the past three or four months than there has been for several years be. fore. What is best about it all, says the Mining < Scientific Press, is the fact that capitalists or representatives of capital have paid attention to these reports and followed them up, and as a | result great deal of development work l is being done and the prospector's labors will not go in vain so much as they have in the past decade and half, during which the mining industry has been in the dumps and men of means have sought other sources for investment. For many years back the reports have not been noticed-even when he hes made val lable discoveries. He has been neglected, looked upon as about played out" and treated with scant courtesy by capital. Now this is all changed. Capital keeps an eye on the prospector and is very glad to give leed to him.
 The mines and reduction works of he United Verde Copper Company, at Jerome, are at present employing over 100 men and are handling sprroxi- nately 400 tons of ore per day. The principal shaft is about 5C0 feet deep md from different levels tunnels have ,een driven, and the underground workings are extensive. The engine 'apacity of the plant amounts to 20OO- iorse power, whicE is utilized in hoist