Arizona silver belt., 1899-04-06

largest and most valuable bodies of copper opened in the district if not in the territory.
 Mir. James A. Fleming, president of the company, has contracted with the Colorado Iron works of Denver for a teaching plant of 200 tons of ore ca- pacity per day, the plant to include loo horse power Corliss engine, two J0 horse power Marine boilers, one large Blake crusher and two sets of rolls. All this machinery is to be delivered within three weeks. The teaching plant WAS designed by MT. Fleming. who has applied for patent on his process
 The company is now building track 6lOO feet long from the Dadeville and mines to the site of tho teaching works in Lost gulch. The Black Warrior company Is expected to add materially to the copper output of the district.
 THE LIVE OAK COPPER co.
 The group of mines owned and operated by this company is situated about seven miles from Globe in . westerly direction, and are under the of Mir. Forrest J. Kalden- berg and Mir. John Kssser, the latter as superintendent. The mines are fairly we'll developed. with about 2700 feet of drifts and tunnels. A crosscut, 5S9 feet, stikes the sulphide ledge, which runs 40 per cent in copper aud sS per ton in gold. The ores of the Live Oak mines are high grade sulph- ides and carbonates, and the lodges are large.
 The Live Oak company is now pro- duciLg and shipping to Fl Paso and Silver City smelters two carloads of ore per week. A contract for q shaft Is to be let shortly asd the company con the erection of teaching and plant.
 THE CONTINENTAL MINES.
 This group of mines lies 16 miles west of Globe on the main copper belt which extends west from the Globe mines through Wooster gulch to Pinto creek. The Continental has always been regarded as being oue of the most promising propositions in this section, but owing to the great depth nt which the ore is found aud the expense of de- velopment, the miue has not been adequately open d, although tine work ings have reached depth of several huudred feet aud considerable ore has been encountered.
 The property is owned by Boston and New York parties of large meaus, and upon the return of Superintendent N. l.. Amster. now in the east, 1t Is expected that work will be resumed on the property and actively prosecuted.
 WEBSTER GULcH CLAIMS.
 To William Beard, w. H. Woodson and Charles Hulzmap belong the Col umia group of seven copper claims in Webster gulch near the Black Warrior mines. There ure several strong lodges of carbonate and sulphide ores ill quartzite formation. A tunnel 225 feet Tn on the Carvile claim, 100 feet below the surface, cuts numerous strata of ore and the last work done was through 1j feet of the best ore yet encountered averaging from 10 to II per cent in copper.
 On the opposite side of the hill from the Columbia mine is the Copper Hill group, owned by J. R. Finletter and J. Harvey, on which 400 feet of work has been done, showing up the same of ore as IS found on the Columbia mines.
 PINTO CREEK REGION.
 No part of the mining country trib- utary to Globe has attracted more at. tention locally of late than Pinto creek and adjoiniug gulches. There are more than 1U0 claims in that region, many of which have been more or less devel- oped. The whole country there is strongly mineralized and the lodges