Arizona silver belt., 1901-06-27

WOrklng smart rom WHICH bDey VIII drift on the ore encountered. Some ore has already been encountered in this shaft. The shaft has been tim bered as the work was done. Some new claims, adjoining the old ones, have been taken up by the new com pany, and it generally believed that they will continue development work until one of the best mines in Arizona is developed.
 S. M. Rohr, president of the Pacific Union Mining X Smelling company, which will soon have under way the erection of custom smelling plant at Lordsburg, spent a couple of days Tn Clifton this week. The company has already secured l6O acres of land at Lordsburg, upon which it will imme- diately proceed with the erection of its plant, the first stack of which will 'blow in" early in September, after which other stacks and reverberatory furnace will be added as the increased business demands. The building of the Bisbee railroad, and it's connection with the Arizona & New Mexico rail road at Lordsburg, the line of which is now being surveyed, makes Lordsburg g most desirable location for smelt- ing plant, as it will have direct con nections with all of the best mining districts in the southwest, and will be the means of opening up many mines which nave been idle for years. The company has already contracted for 600 tons of ore for daily delivery rom Shakespeare and Stein's Pass, which of itself insures the success of the en- terprise without drawing on any other of the many mining districts directly tributary to that place. There seems to be no reason why one of the largest and most extensive smelting plants Tn the sou invest should not be built at Lordsburg. Clifton Era.
 Despite the fact that the attention of large syndicaJes has been somewhat deilected from mining enterprises in the west by the apparent opportuni' ties growing out of the large consolda- tions of industrials and other enter prises, it is interesting to note the gen eral activity of smaller capitalists in the intermountain region, says the Western Mining World. There has been no period in the history of the mining states perhaps when more ac- tivity was evident in the way of con verting promising prospects into mines. Capitalists of the middle west whose interests are not syndicated, and who realize their inability to sue cessfully compete with the vast aggre- gations of organized wealth that will in due time absorb the speculative op- portunities at hand, ind in the min ing fields of the west ample chances to cushion the future with velvet and quadruple the money they see fit to invest. The trend toward promising prospects and partially developed mines, rather than to the purchase of great mining properties, seems to be well initiated, and promise future of unequalled achievement in the min ing industry. When capitalists fully realize that the investment of a few thousand dollars in the development of mining property that gives every geological and mineralOgical evidence of wealth when properly exploited, is safer system of procedure than to spend millions for demonstrated prop erty that may perchance be in the afternoon of its prosperity, the min eral industry will receive momentum from which it will never recede.
 J. w. Evans, who recently visited Wickenburg, gives the Phoenix Eater prise the following information about he Gro Grande: "The ledge crops for very great distance, and is of phe. nomenal width, so common in erup- tive formation. The croppings and surface indications generally are of a character which are almost certain to lead to great mineral bodies. Upon my return to the shaft accompanied MT. Hatfield into the underground works. My surface observations had prepared me for the great ore body