Arizona silver belt., 1901-12-26
he ton. Captain Tevis has had several

Hattering oilers on the property ano
 has now probably closed with New
 York parties for developing and work
 ing the mine. The Buckeye Mining
 company, also in the Tevis district,
 has recently encountered new and un.
 expected bodies of ore which further
 assures the success of that company
 winch is an eastern one. This compa-
 ny has already ordered concentrating
 plant, which is now expected to arrive
 in Bowie any day. Bulletin.
 Writing from Congress Junction, @
 correspondent of the Republican says:
 "The preliminary arrangements for a
 gigantic project are well under way,
 the proposition being to construct a
 dam across Bill Williams Fork of the
 Colorado riyer at a point below great
 box canyon. By means of a tunnel
 water can be run by gravity from the dam on to vast area of agricultural land, and the idea is also to supply wa ter for extensive placer mining in the great Harcuvar district. These placers have been known of for many years and are said to have been worked by the Aztecs or other aboriginal miners hundreds of years ago. They have been worked more or less of late years by dry washing, but with an adequate water supply it is claimed that the Harcuvar placers can be made to yield miliionsn
 Wiley Holaday was passenger on the Gila Valley train last Friday on route to St. Louis. He is superintend- ent of the Montezuma Copper com pany and had number of samples of rich copper ore recently encounter, d in that property, consisting of red and green oxides and native copper. Mir. Holaday says this ore will run not less than 90 per cent. and that he has sunk shaft twenty-six feet into a solid body of the ore. He goes to St. Louis to confer with the owners-J. E, Baker, J. F. Rutliege, S R. Fay Tor and others-concerning the pur- chase and erection uf suitable reduc- ton works for the mine. The Monte zuma property is located in the Tripp X Underwood canoon about four miles from Cedar Springs Bulletin.
 The double compartment tunnel at the Poland mine, Bigbug district, is now reported to be in 500 feet. When the tunnel is completed it will be about 5000 feet long. It will contain a double track over which au .electric system of ore trains will be run. A spur of the Bigbug railroad will be run to the mouth of this tunnel and another spur to the quartz miil-all of which will greatly reduce the cost of handling ore and bring into mar ket great deal of low grade ore which could not be handled save by such reduction in cost of handling. This tunnel will connect Bigbug and Lynx creek districts, both highly min eralized districts. It is foregone conclusion that tunnel of such length through such highly mineral ized section will cut number of rich quartz veins. IL Is a great undertak. jug, and one which will add mucG wealth to this section. .-Presco tt Courier.
 The Heating group of eIght claims, situated in the Cornado mountains, near the COrnado mines of the Arizo- na copper company, was this week sold to W. II. Alexander of New York, who will at once organize a company for the development and equipment of the property. The property was located and partially de- veloped by W, J. Keating, one of the of the old time prospectors of Arizona and New Mexico, who has made success of his property through his individual endeavorS. The group covers 4500 feet of the Keating vein, which parallels the Cornado vein, upon which some of the best mines of the entire district have been devel- oped, The property shows vein of rich glance ore, averaging about 30 per cent, which has been uncoyered for several hundred feet, and from which large amount of ore is ready for stoping. Shipments made by Mir. Keating to the Silver City reduction works returned P per cent. copper, s4 gold and B silver per ton.-Clifton Era.