Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-22
MINING NOTES.

to employees in March, 1897, S2000 more than in February.
 The mines of Butte, Montana, use I,500, 900 pounds of powder yearly the Anaconda mine nearly two, thirds of this amount.
 From every section in Arizona comes news of rich mineral strikes. The ter ritory will ere long be known as the greatest mining region in the world.
 When completed the United Verde Copper Company's shelter will be the second largest producer in America, the Anaconda, of Butte, Mont, being the largest.
 The Jerome Mining News says: The Etta mine continues to give up the yell low metal in paying quantities. Super intendent w. K. Riley took in an eight pound bar to Prescott, the result of one cleanup at the mill.
 The copper shelter erected by Jos. Backstein in the Lone Star district, Graham county, is running success fully. The enterprise has greatly stimulated mining in the district and number of excellent prospects are being developed.
 The improved and modern processes of handling ore with the reduced cost of supplies, transportation and every thing pertaining to the mining and handling of ore, while gold retains its old price per ounce under all condi- tions, make it not only possible but profitable today to handle lower grade ores than at any previous time in our mining history.
 The Boston X Montana Mining Con- pany, owned by the Bigelow-Lewisobn syndicate, has already declared its sec ond dividend this year. It is for S3, payable on May 20, to shareholders of record April g. This makes total of S6 per share so far this year, and the total of dividends declared to date amounts to S5,s25,O ,O00 In 1896 this company declared Sl0 per share in dividends; in 1895 it paid S7, and in 1894 il paid s2.
 Frank Prothero has made a big strike six miles from Adonde pump, this county, and if surface indications count for anything Frank has rival for the Short Horn mountains bonanza. Twenty feet of shaft shows a we'll de- fined ledge five feet wide, ranging in value from s25 to SI50 per ton free milling ore. Phoenix parties are in- terested in the new strike and force of men will be put on immediately to begin developing the Yellow Log, the name of the new strike. -Yuma Sen. tinel.
 The Montana legislature has passed an act which provides that when any mine IS worked by means of vertical shaft more than 300 feet deep only iron-bonneted safety cages, enclosed by an iron, steel or wire casing can be used; that the doors shall be five feet high and shall be adjusted either on hinges or rollers. The bill further provides that the safety dogs shall be inspected and kept in proper order, and that any one failing to comply with the law shall be fined from Sl00 to $500.
 Work your mine on the same prin- eiple as man would build building for business he had in view, being sure of his business before he built. Make mining legitimate business and not speculative one, and the reward will come in increased work, good living and time of prosperity. Those who make business of mining intelli- gently, succeed, while failures as rule come from want of knowledge and bad management. Develop the mine first; find out how to work your ore, if good enough, then put in your machinery Western Mining World.
 Judge Knowles, ia the United States court at Helena, has refused to grant the temporary injunction against the Montana Ore Purchasing Company asked by the Boston & Montana Com pany, in which it was sought to stop the defendant from working the Michael Dewitt and Pennsylvania claims. The Western Mining World says As soon as these cases are decided it is said that the Montana Ore Purchasing Company will at once begin an action against the Boston X Montana Company for dam- ages which will aggregate the largest sum ever involved in suit in the state. This case will be instituted for damages in the sum of $2,332, ,000, which it is claimed is the net value of orc extracted by the Boston & Montana Company through the Mountain View shaft from the west 300 feet of the | Rarus veIn.
 The Idea: Panacea.