Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-18
Items About the Mines and Min eraI Develop nent Culled
 From Exchanges.
TREASURELAND OF AMERICA.
Reports From Many Districts in the Territory Telling of important Discoveries, Active Operations and the Organization of New Companies, Auguring a Prosperous Year.

price or leau naS bteH reuuceu ioh H' to SS So and the mine perators look for still further reduction
 The product of the La Fortuna, in Yuma county for the year 1900, was Sl,26S, 900 in gold, which is sll4,OoO per month or S3, per day-not a bad showing for an Arizona mine.
 The Black Rock district, eight miles east of Wickenburg, is one of the bus fest mining sections in Arizona. Sev- eral large mining steam hoiSts have been hauled to that district and many new and promising claims are being worked.
 In the district court at Prescott G., W. Hull got judgment against the .le- rome Copper company for S23O lSl This is the first step taken by Mr. Hull to wind up the affairs of that company, and by virtue of said iudg- ment the property will pass into the possession of Mir. Hull.
 The Easter sunday Mining company has bonded their property, about four and one half miles east of Bisbee, for one year to A. M. Tong and associates. The consideration named is s250,000 The bond is working one and goes into effect April lst, after which date Mir. Tong will enter upon possession and at once put force of men at work on it.-Cochise Review.
 The Jerome Power company, in which II. J. Allen and other Jerome men are interested, proposes to run nine miles of ditch, Hume and pipe line to take water from Oak creek and convey it to power plant, where four water wheels will produce 900 h. D. each. Here an electric light and power plant will be installed to supply the mines and smelters at Jerome, twelve miles away.-E. X NJ. Journal
 Several of the miners here are think ing seriously of taking up the bet re- gently offered by Frank Knapp of the Great Western, to back one of his miners against any miner in the coun- ty. Felix Yowell will undoubtedly be the Bisbee man. On the 17th he and q miner named Conn are to strike for fifteen minutes straight for a purse of S25O. - Bisbee correspondent Pros pector.
 The Penn Gold Mining company is working the Mudhole mine near Walker, in Lynx Creek district. An incline shaft 800 feet deep shows a vein from five to fifteen feet wide carrying lead, iron and zinc sulphides. The vein is a contact between granite material. At the forty-ton mill eight to ten tons of ore are reduced to one ton of concentrates. r. w. GirouX has charge of the mill.-E X NJ. Jour nal.
 w. c. Greene, before he left Phoe- nix, instituted suit against !. II. Cos tello for sl3O, 900, money said to be due for stock in the Cobre Grande. An attachment followed the suit of ESQ., GOO Of Costello's money, which is m the Phoenix National bank, recently paid Costello by Greene for his share in the stock. MT. Greene is d fighter and he is very mad at Costello and this suit may be for the purpose of harassing the New Yorker-time will tell.-Star.
 Tom Treadwell, an old time Arizona miner and prospector, arrived in phoe- nix from C. Il. Gray 's mine, 45 miles west from Ehrenburg, where he has been working for some time. He says the mill IS in active operation and a recent run of considerable length made showing of from s6O to SllO per ton. On his way in he took a little bulIion bar to Danby, Cal, the nearest rail road station, which was valued at ST, 00O, nice little nugget by itself There is every reason to believe that others of equal or better value will follow Republican.
 Jesse L. Wetmore was in the city Thursday. He comes from the Col. ony mines in the Sierritas, where he is putting up a concentrating plant for the Colony mines of which there art 57 claims. These mines are located thirty-seven miles southwest of Tue son. They are very promising. Con- siderable work has been done which shows up tho district to good advan- tage. The ore of the respective mines carry in greater or less quantity cop. per, silver, gold and lead. The veins in the respective claims average from six to twenty feet, the smaller veins being much the richer. Citizen.
 D. L. Murray and R. w. Baxter, merchants of Wickenburg, were in