Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-25

The Copper Belle Mining company's smelter is about completed and will be blown in now in few days. s.-Range News.
 President Mckinley will visit the Congress gold mine and see for the first time in his life grand gold mine in active operation.
 It is reported here today that an eastern syndicate has offered S35O,OOO for the Bonanza mine of Wickenburg, but that the owners had refused the offer.-Enterprise.
 Mike Nugent arrived in Yuma last Friday with gold bar to the value of S45,0O0, representing the month s cleanup of the King of Arizona mine, which is becoming one of the big gold producers of the coast. The King is very valuable property.-Sentinel
 The turquoise mines at Mineral Park, give greater promise than ever towards making good producers of the precious stones. In addition to the Haas mine, there are now opened up and at work two others that have begun to produce the little blue stones.
 The Courier believes that no less than 2,OOO miners will be at work in Groom Creek and Hassayampa dis tricts within the next eighteen months Both districts are rapidly coming to the front as producers of precious metals, and people are becoming in terested who have money enough to mine.-Prescott Courier.
 Some asbestos has been found in various localities in Arizona. The best that has been found so far is said to have come from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The fibre of that, however, was rather short for com mercial uses. The fibre of the best asbestos is about six inches long and such grade is worth $50 ton.
 Nothing more clearly indicates the REOWbh anu POP- ularity of the mineral industry of the United States than the fact that of the S39, ,O6O,O42 paid in dividends by the mining and metallurgical indus tries of this country for the first quar- ter of 1901, ss, ,125,770 were disbursed by sixty gold, copper, lead, zinc and quicksilver mines.
 A report reached town of another great gold strike near Wickenburg, and not more than half mile from the Hatfield or Orc Grande mine, says the Phoenix Republican. It is said that the prospect of the new strike is more promising than that of the Orc Grande. There is a great deal of ac tivity in that section now. George w. Morgan has hundred men at work on his properties, on which huge shaft is to be sunk.
 In the Bland mine, in the Salero district, eight miles west of Patagonia, Tn the foothills of the Santa Ritas, Messrs. Wm. T. Powers, George c. Clark and w. c. Heck have been running tunnel to cut the ledge at point 167 feet below the croppings. They have recently cut the ledge and found a fine body of copper glance, running eighteen per cent copper, twenty-eight ounces in silver and eight dollars in gold per ton. They are drifting both ways upon the ledge, in good ore, and running to reach the other wall of the vein, upon which they expect to find another ore bed.- Star.
 The most important rich silver dis covery near Chloride, Mohave coun- ty, Ariz., in recent years is one just made by Fred Mitchell on his claim about one mile southeast of town. The shaft in which this remarkably rich body of horn and chlorides of sil- yer WAS found, IS down about thirty five feet, and the ore body is more than fourteen inches wide. No assays of the ores have been made, as it so rich that it is useless to put it to this test. All the open ground adjacent to the new strike has been hurriedly located, and work begun on the new claims, which has resulted in great activity in the new camp.
 D. B. Sanpry of Cripple Creek, has gone to White Hills where he will have entire charge of the White Hills mines. Mir. Sanpry is recognized as one of the brightest mining men in the west and at one time had charge of the famous Aspen mine, which during his management produced l2,000,OOO. He will make the White Hills pay, If there is any pay Tn them, and we believe there is. At the bottom of the main shaft of the Occident there is body of ore far richer than any ore taken from the surface of the property. The change recently made by the company