Arizona silver belt., 1901-12-12

The United Verde Copper Co hs'
 paid regular monthly dividend o' a cents share for October.
 The Old Terrible, near Cochise sta ton, is now working forty men at the
 mine and the company Is looking fol
 more men Republican.
 One hundred and fifty men are now employed in the erection of the shan
 non smeting plant The work is being
 pushed as rapidly as possible. Era,
 A burro loaded with ore from the Last Chance mine, Grand Cany on,
 slipped and fell 500 feet into the can yon, last week, and died of heart tail. ure.- Courier.
 Many pruspectprs are outfitting at Kingman and going into the hills. This week at least dozen outfits de
 parted from Kingman to hunt the Tickle goddess in the hills of the Mo have. -Kingman Miner.
 A report from the property of the Bisbee West company says the water recently encountered on the 500 foot evel has risen two hundred fec m the shaft and flooded the six hundred
 and seven hundred foot levels. All the big mines of Tombstone, Ariz., are united under the name oi
 the Tombs tone Consolidated Mining Ompany, limited, with Frank NJ. Murphy as president and E. B. Gage as general manager Journal of In vestors.
 Measurements of the work done on the Gro Grande, made last week, show ' 300 feet. all of which is in ore, witl
 the exception of 50 feet. The ore Is Fnow being blocked out on the one, two and three hundred foot levels. -
 News Herald.
 It is authoritatively stated tbat s2 0OO. 900 has been offered and refused for the South Bisbee copper mines The mines are SO intimately connected
 with the great Phelps Dodge proper ties that the latter wishes to consoii date. Journal of Investors. The Rambler Copper Mining com pany is pushing development work "I Il its group of claims, located about sl' miles from Mayer, two feet of higf
 grade copper ore is exposed. Severs Il distinct and strong veins of ore rui through the gronp.-Courler Colonel Thos. Ewing, of Los Ange les, has bonded the T. B. Reed au' Ben Harrison mines in the Gold Roa' district, Mohsve county, Arizona, fo T5,OOO. They are situated two mile east of the Gold Road group, and nea to the Treadmil mines Minera Wealth.
 The cyanide plant at the Sheeptrai mill is giving big results. Since tn plant was started up there has bee taken out nearly 5000 worth of auro l cyanideS. The product gives over sl per pound. Only few men are a work at the plant and the profit l the leasers, Messrs. Avery and Dayi
 is very great --Kingman Miner
 Clifton has been full of mining me
 for the past few weeks, and man
 mining deals are on the tapls, all c which promises much for the futur greatness of the camp. It begins l look like the district is going on big boom, or perhaps more correctl speaking. an era of rapid develop ment. Clifton Era.
 Ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey | in the territory looking after som mining matters in which he IS intel
 ested, and to investigate other mir ing properties with a view to purchas for himself and others. He iS also 1T
 terested in building a railroad freI
 the Picacho to the Colorado river
 The output of the Arizona. Coppe
 Io. for last month was l335 tons Be'
 IlltI NAlBptl VT bNOl 'b BNA tthNs 'N'' 4 This is a large increase over the pr' duct of former months, which Is du \ to the new smelting plant rece ntl completed. The output in the futur will most likely range from 1900 1900 tons per month. Clifton Era. | The large copper mines of Arizon are nearly all associated with i'm
 stone; those of Butte, Montana, are
 granite; those of Lake Superior
 oonglomerate sandstone and diabas
 those of Ducktown, Tenn, in mic
 shist; those of Iron Mountain, Shasl
 county, Cal, for the most part
 rhyolite; those of Idaho mostly
 diorite. Los Angeles Review.
 Doc Donovan, the owner of the ID
 Monte copper mines, has been en)o.
 ing the fine climate of Tucson for se