Arizona silver belt., 1901-10-31
Items About the Mines and Min. eral Development Culled
 From Exchanges.
TREASURElAND OF AMERICA.
Reports From Many Districts In the Territory, Tsilias cf important Discoveries, Active Operations and the Organization of New Companies, Ausurins a Prosperous Year.

stone is down 5tI feet and a station Is being cut for the pumps.
 James Douglas, superintendent Of the Moctesuma Mining company, re- ports every thing running smoothly at Nsposari and the company producing in the neighborhood of fifteen tons oI copper per day.
 There is report in circulation, sa, , the Bisbee Review, that an Easter, company, with unlimited capital, is about to take hold of the property m the Cochise Copper company, whic adioins the Copper Queen claims o' the east, and will do large amour of development work.
 X shipment of ore was made by th. south Bisbee Copper company lasl week to Fl Paso, Another shipment will be ready soon. The South BiSb'' company is satisfied they have vaiua. ble copper property and do not seen in any great hurry tO close deal will the Scotch syndicate Review.
 A Butte, Mont, dispatch of Oct. p, says It is the announced policy ot the Amalgamated Copper company 10 curtail production, in order to keep the price of copper, now at i7 cents, in force. Both mines and smeiters of the AnacOnda, Boston and Montana mines are closed down, but 1t is said the suspension is only temporary. Six thousand men are thus thrown out of employment.
 Messrs Elder and Neimann, of Kel- win. Ariz., recently received letter from eastern parties asking the price of their gold properties in the River side district. They replied that the properties could be bought for Sa.W This week they received dispatch from the parties saying that the $50 oo' tO pay for the mines would be placed in bank at once.-Iazette.
 The Clifton Era says: When tht shannon Copper company gets to pro ducing copper, the output of the Giii ton -Morencl district will be about sl,OO0, GOO per month, which is mor' than the entire output of the klondikt country. The klhndike country h boomed in the newspapers from ont ,,1 ,f fl,.. a, tp tho nthar hul h., Clifton Morencl district is seldom evel mentioned The Klondike country il on the decline while the Clifton Mo renci district is inst getting started.
 An electric power plant to operate twelve drills arrived this week, and Il now being put in place at the mines Q the Clifton Consolidated Copper com pany. l.. A. Dunham, general mana ger of the company, informs the Er that it will be the most complete plan of the kind in the southwest. Whei it is ready for business Mir. Dunhan expects to drive his main tunnel, whicI Is KS feet, into the mountain at tn rate of 350 feet per month, which vii be lively work. Clifton Era.
 Some enthusia stic miners have pre- dicted that the Groom creek sectio was destined to become the Crippl creek Of Arizona. It looks as if thei predictions might be realized, as or running as high as S3,WO per ton | gold is reported to have been encour tered in the Midnight test mine whic is being operated by George Wood. is said than Sl 900 worth of ore was ta ken from the bottom of the .W-too shaft in one day recently. This IS tn mine which sold last winter for so Oe and which could not he bought tod" for less than Sl,OL0,000. It is locate only about eIght or ten miles fro' Prescott. The ore body is said to b i've feet wide, and it increases in rici ness with depth.
 Messrs Charles and Porter w. Fleu ing and party returned yesterday fror the big gold find in the Galuria lnouI tains, and the Star is pleased to repoi that the find is larger and richer hy ia than has yet been reported. Develop ments which they are making are prov ing the volume of orc to be tabulou both in quantity and richness. Tn fact is the Galuria gold mines seer fair to prove by far the greatest gol discovery yet recorded. As one part who has seen the mountain of ore gay "The thing is so big that it almo' scares one to look at it." It is evidei the Flemings have myriad Of To tunes under their control, in this grou of mines, which promise to make u Galuria mountains famous region
 Star.
 The lewiston mining district is 8 tracting more and more attention @