Arizona silver belt., 1901-03-28
ARIZONA MINES.
Items About the Mines and Mineral Developments of the Territory,
 Culled From Exchanges.

Developments of the Ierritory,
 Culled From Exchanges.
 The Kingman Miner says large amount of Mohave county turquoise is now being handled in Los Angeles. The stones are harder and take much finer finish than those from many other sections of the country.
 Frank Brownell is in from the Qui- jotoa country, says the Star, where he is mining. He brought in some fine specimens of ore from the Century mine, which he is operating. One of the pieces assays 400 ounces in silver, and the best of it is there is lots more just like it.
 The Los Angeles Mining Review says: It is rumored that Senator Clark hss purchased the copper claims of the Lowell and Arizona company, at Bisbee. Arizona. fhe property has always been considered a very valu. able one. The report is denied in Bisbee.
 An important mining transaction was closed on Wednesday involving the sale of well known copper prop erty near Tucson, says the Star. The amount to be paid is S40,000 The first payment has been made and the others will follow in a short time. The sale was through Councilman Wm. Reid.
 There are a large number of mines being sold in northern Arizona, which is causing something of a boom in that section. Large sums of capital are going into Yavapai county mines and q large amount of bullion is being shipped from the same county, so that things are kept pretty evenly balanced in old Yavapai, which is bringing much material prosperity to that sec tion.-Star.
 Colorado people are looking Ari- zonaward for new mining field, and right here let us say that there will be found mines richer than King Solo mon ever dreamed of. The mountain ranges traversing this country are ribbed and scanned with veins carrying every mineral known to science. The veins of gold, silver and copper ores are especially rich. MOhave Countp Miner.
 Work has been commenced on an incline for the shannon Copper com pany, which will connect the mine with the narrow gauge railroad at Metcalf. The incline is located about one-third of a mile north of the Met calf incline. It will be l.jO0 feet in length with an average inclination of 36 degrees. It will be the first double tracked incline in this district. Clifton Era.
 Tuesday the directors of the Shan non Copper company advanced the price at which it will sell treasury stock from SIP to Sl5. It is an almost unheard of thing for treasury stock in mining company to sell above par pciOAO Nho SoLhPthy Ado SouuicnCtu to produce metal. The shannon com- pany has done this because of the enormous bodies of ore that have de- veloped in the mine by recent work Lordsburg Liberal.
 The Minnesota Conner mines show 35-foot breast of ore in the lower workings, and the ore is of grade valuable for milling purposes, says the Mohave County Miner. In this ore body the richest kind of ore is found, some of it being laced together with wire silver. The mine is one of | the biggest and best bodies of ore in the county. A l00-tOn milling plant l will he installed at the mine in the l near future, as the haulage to the Mer- rimac mill can be obviated and that | much freigting saved.
 Wiley E. Jones returned from Ft. | Thomas Wednesday, bringing with 1 him specimen of copper ore weigh ing 250 pounds from the Harrisburg group belonging to Jack Neal, w. Wood and Wiley E. Jones, situated in the Black Rock mining district about twelve miles from the railroad. The ore is a fine specimen, full of pyrites and oxide of copper. It was taken out of the shaft at A depth of S7 feet, the body at this point showing three and half feet wide.-Guardlan.
 c. H. Mcclure came in from the Grand Canyon mining district Satur- day, says the Flagstaff Gem, and re- ported the mining outlook in that dis trict much better than ever before since the discovery of mineral in that region. He says that the Eastern Star and one other mine have vast amount of mineral in sight and that his com pany has about 80 tons of ore ready for shipment as soon as the roads dry out so that it can be hauled to the rail road in wagons. He returned to the mines Monday.
 The hoard of directors of the Queen of Arizona Copper company, in meeting at New York, has elected ex ~ "A L..