Arizona silver belt., 1901-03-14
ARIZONA MINES.
Items About the Mines and Mineral Developments of the Territory,
 CuIIed From Exchanges.

$ done through Naco, a representative \ of the Greene company told the Pros
 pector reporter that business in all lines with them was away above their & expectations, and that they are crowd i ed to their utmost capacity right now, and nothing is more badly needed than proper transportation facilities to and from the mines. Just at the present moment they have lS2 carloads of merchandise and coke along the line of the A. X S. F. railroad from Benson to Naco.-ProSpector. Si Bryant, one of the old Tombstone miners, last Saturday received a check of sS6, ,OO0 the final payment on his mine in the Turquoise district. Mir. Bryant left to join his wife who is vis- ting friends in California. Pros pectOr.
 The New Comstock Mining com pany has been organized in Los An geles by $. c. Bagg and other promi- nent people of the Angel City. Mir. Bagg was for years a prominent figure in the affairs of Tombstone and Co chise county, where he was engaged in mining and newspaper work. The mining claims proposed to be operated by this company are on the Colorado river, in the vicinity of the Sheeptrail mill, and are said to be big bodies of gold bearing rock. Mir. Bagg located the mines last summer and did enough
 work on them to ascertain their value and then concluding they were too
 big to work with limited capital de-
 eided to organize company to operate
 them in a legitimate manner. The
 company will begin work Oh the prop
 critics in the near future -Kingman
 Miner.
 Brosso X Mcdonald have located
 one of the old mines near the Golden
 Gem, at Cerbat. and have q shalt on it
 60 feet in depth. In the bottom of the
 shaft there is a foot of fine looking
 ore. It is the Intention of the owners
 to sink the shaft to depth of 100 feet
 and then crosscut to another nearby
 veln.-Kingman Miner.
 Mining men are looking toward
 Tombstone, where preparations are
 said to be in progress for the opening
 up of some of the old silver producing
 mines of that camp. While no active
 work is being prosecuted just now,
 yet there are grounds upon which the
 Tombstone people feel safe in predict
 ing great things for the future. There
 are now about 500 people in Tomb
 stone, and during the operation of the
 mines there were about 5000 there, and the camp was the liveliest in the
 southwest,
 Seldom day passes but letters are received inquiring about certain min ing companies operating under char ter from some eastern states and SUD- posed to be doing business in the ter.
 ritory. In nine cases out of ten these companies have never been heard of in this section. No one knows any thing about them, they have no mines, al least nothing worth calling a mine, and yet they seem privileged to operate under the law and are flsecing the eastern people right and left. and Arizona takes the odium therefor. The Clifton Era makes an excellent suggestion to curb this evil and says there should be territorial law passed requiring all mining companies to take out charter under her laws, with board of local directors. lhIs might not entirely prevent iilegiU- ! mate stock deals, but it would not be . sU easy for fake companies to organize | and operate as homo men With good . names do not care to mix up with eastern stock jObbers. The people of . never make dollar out of . these wildcat schemes, yet Arizona IS given credit for these nefarious enterprises. Our legislature now in session should pass some law to cor rect this evil.-Enterprise
 The report of the Ray Copper Mines, Limited, of Arizona, as issued from the London office, covers the year ending June 30 1900. The amount paid for the property was e2lO, GOO, and the expenditure to the euu of the year was 9ll7,4 ,4C5 There was f3. .3g3 cash on hand at the close of the year. The report of the directors says: The result of the past years working It the mines has been satisfactory, in 70 far as large bodies of ore have been 'u6ed out, and that in all the workings me average copper contents have been We'll maintained. Unfortunately, with 'egard to the mill, nothing satisfac- ory can be reported up to the present. The machinery for supplying the ''wer for the mill, in spite of it's hay ng been most strongly recommended, las turned out complete failure; lence the mil could not be worked m