Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-14

discovery was made in a new district,
 which prospectors hitherto have ne
 glected.
 The Arizona Copper company is
 now taking down its old smelter- of
 300 tons daily capacity and installing
 new plant of 1000 tons daily capa-
 city, says the Era. Their new con
 centrating plant at Longfellow will
 soon be completed and will handle
 300 tons of ore daily. The Detroit
 Copper company of Morenci is pre-
 pairing to double the capacity of its
 concentrating plant, which is new
 treating an average of 400 tons daily.
 The same company is also installing
 new stacks in its smelling plant, and
 will most probably double the capa-
 city of the plant before the first of the
 year. Its smelling plant has been
 handling an average of about4 45O tons
 of ore and concentrates daily. The
 machinery and material is now begin
 ming to arrive for the Shannon com
 pany's smelling plant, which in few
 months will also be turning out cop
 per. From present indications it
 would appear that the output of the
 Clifton MOrenci district will most
 likely be doubled by next year. Quite a number of new companies are now opening up most promising proper
 ties in various sections of the district,
 but it will be eighteen months to two years before they are outputting cop per from their own plants. Itrequires much time as well as vast sums of ready cash to open up copper mines
 Arrangements were completed in this city this week for the develop ment on vast scale by American and French capital and engineers of eleven hundred square miles of gold, silver. copper and platinum bearing mineral lands in the south Ural mountains, Russia. The track IS on 1 the railroad leading from St. Peters burg to Irkutsk, near the latter place ! and has beOn reserved as crown min ! eral lands by the czar's government. | The parties appearing in the trans action were Professor Geo. A. Tread | well, a metalurgist living at the Wal dorf-Astoria and friends of Paul Annasaff, one of the builders and at present an associate manager of the trasn-Siberian railway. The ear himself has taken a deep interest in the negotiations as the development of the imperial mineral tract IS eS- pected to have an important bearing on mining enterprises throughout the entire Russian empire According to Professor Treadwell, who has spent the greater portion of his life in the western portion of the United States, the company will pay 2S00,000 in cash and a tax of 1 per cent on all the gold produced. He says it will re- luire S25,000,O00 to carry out the plans of the syndicate.-N. Y. Fri Dune.
 John Roberts is in town today from he Santa Maria country with soTae of splendid looking ore, from he is interested in there. A portion of the ore is a carbonate with native copper in large quantities through it, and other is sulphide, but III is quite rich, carrying a high per l ,ent of copper. MT. Roberts and ( others interested in that section have lnder way the incorporation of a com ,any to be known as the Copper 1reeA Consolidated Copper company. The owners of a number of claims will l Iced their property to this company i n exchange for its stock. Prescott people are also interested in the in The ore all carries con iderable gold and silver in addition o being rich in copper and all that is , leeded for its success is capital to development work, and for he erection of a plant to reduce the . res. Water in the vicinity is highly mpregnated with copper also. Mir. ( Roberts and other claim owners in he vicinity have been staying by heir property for a number of years, developing them as rapidly as their means will permit and the move they re now taking towards consolidation f interests and incorporation seems to ,e the proper one and one which will esuit in making them producers. Some men of means, it is said, have I he matter under consideration of | aking large amount of the stock nd pushing the development work on [ he properties.