Arizona silver belt., 1901-09-26
Items About the Mines and Min. eraI Development 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, Augurins a Prosperous Year

whicu udu d oohu oh sTbup ui cop- per claims in the Clifton district, has surrendered it after doing consider able development work on the prop. erty.
 The Prescott Courier is informed that Barkdall S Spaulding have their sl0O,000 steam shovel at Walnut Grove ready to start up and are now looking around for the richest gravel bars whereOn to work.
 The Courier says At Octave the 10 stamp mill is running steadily and 250 men are at work. The Fools Gulch properties will start up soon The great Congress gold mining camp keeps up it's bullion output and all wheels are moving there.
 The Black Canyon Hydraulic and Electric Power company owns and controls 4,S00 acres of gold bearing gravel in the Black canyon, Yavapai county, and proposes to construct three storage reservoirs to supply wa ter for hydraulicing and to generate electric power. The gravel is said to average 75 cents per cubic yard
 The Liberal reports the arrival in LOrdsburg last week of the officers of the Union Pacific Mining and Smelling company, who announce that they will push the work on their new smelting plant as rapidly as possible. They were delayed in their opera tions a few weeks but are now ready for business. Lords burg is also soon to have public sam bling works.
 Tuesday last H. J. West purchased of Messrs, Holmes and McMahon,. a one half interest in turquoise mine in Providence mountain, about seven- teen mies from Fenner The outcrop is immense, with veins of turquoise showing all through it. The locators bru uught to Kingman samples of the ft'ne that looked good. They report that the entire mountain side is cov- ervd with fl pat from the outcrop, from which good gem stone can be had. They will return to the mine in few days and will begin development work On the property. - Mohave County Miner.
 l. N. Stevens was down this week from the mines which he and his broth. CT Charley are now developing, says the Clifton Era. MT. Stevens expresses himself as well pleased over the fail ure of the General Electric people to take his property. Since the deal fell through sufficient amount of ore has been developed in various claims of the group to justify the owners in ask ing three times as much for the prop erty as it was bonded for to the Gen. eral Electric people. They will go right ahead developing their property, and expect to be ready to ship ore by the time the new smelter is running at Lordsburg.
 The Consolidated started up again last Monday after a shut down of couple of months. The new machinery arrived last week and was put in place There seems now to be no question but that within the next sixty days that developments will take place proving exclusively that the Consolidated is ono nf tha oraat ocppar ,,,;,na of A.; zona. The Pearl Mining company, operating a mile or so north of the Consolidated. at Dos Cabesas, has struck It rich. Two weeks ago we re- ported that they had five-foot vein of copper, silver and gold, assaying s60 per ton. This is an error. The vein IS five feet across, and carries princi- pally gold, and averages sSO per ton. An extra force of men will be put on and further development work pusled with all possible speed. ~ Wilcox Range News.
 A big strike is reported in the Great Belcher mine, one of the Clifford prop critics, in the Big Bug district. From reliable authority it is learned that at the 700-foot level a crosscut, started last week opened body of high grade ore five feet in width. The exact value per ton is not as yet known, but from the character of the ore it is estimated that it will go high in gold values. The Great Belcher now promises to be one of the big mines of the county, and as the ore discovered is the vein proper, it is more than probable that a big ani permanent chute has been encoun- tered. Several months ago the stock holder sent Mir. Knox, well.known mining engineer of Colorado Springs, to re port on the property, and upon his ivice it was determined to sink to tho ,000 foot level and then cross