Arizona silver belt., 1902-01-30
TREASURELAND OF AMERICA.
s.o,rts From Many Districts h the Territory, Telling of Important Discoveries, Active Operations and the Organization of New Companies, ausurins Prosperous Year.

,r..s One piece of the machinery wprshed qJ,OOO pounds.-Clifton Era
 Mayor J. II. Nuttall signed a deed s las, Friday, transferring all of Block 32 Pima village survey, to the Union s sCogper Smelting company, who were Rrepresrnted in the deal by II. w. & WrrnSe, of St. Louis. Mir. Wernse said Atbat the property was secured for a &smaItrr site, and that a large shelter xw,uId be erected there at once. Corr. ABuuettn.
 k An Indian came into the city yester &day with a chunk of ore weighing sev- kersl pounds and which is believed to be nugget of gold. The Indian 4stated to friend that the ore came Efrum the mountains north of here, but Hdid no, locate the place exactly. He &eNnlblted the find to only few before &he departed for his home on the reser- &vatIOn.-Phoenix Gazette.
 x The Copper Queen company has let 8coutracts for the sinking of three arte- Xsian wells near Douglas. The wells are To be sunk to a depth of one thousand &.f-et. if flowing water is not sooner de- #voloped. This great copper company 4s the owner of the Nacosari, Morenci, &B. bee and other large copper proper Rties, and the development of suifi- &cIvnt water supply means the erection < kUt another large smelter near Douglas,
 A party of surveyors are now engag- S Sed surveying and plating the grounds Nfor the Cammet X ArzUna Smelters. &Tue works are located about one mile Aaud tnree-qIarJers west Of Doug las, # This i, very fortunate for the residents &Ui DJugId,, ds at that distance the su puur lumeS from the furnaces can $nDJ pulule the ar at this place, and &belng sU near It cannot possibly inter fgre wlIh the growth of our young city.
 -BlsDee Review.
 The old Planet copper mines, situ. & aJed on Bill Williams Fork, this coun. &ty, ljO miles northeast of Yuma, near X the MohiYe county line, are to be #Opened up and operated by an eastern M udIuate. Supt. J. A. Carrow has &lauled from the rIver to the mines two x Es.eam hOIsls, each of 22.hOrse power, 3and the company proposes to sink x #two-compartmgut shalt to a depth of
 5JJ feel, and work will be commenced
 aJ once. The Planet mine was one oi &the first copper mines operated in the A AterritOry, having been producing and < pay ing property in the '60s.-Yums %Suu.
 AJ Clifton and NJ )rencii thsre are # #numberS of the Arizona Copper com Np4uy employees who have for yeari x Oeen investing in Arizona c jpper com &panY stock and have realized hand &some profits on the investment. Those #"no bougnt early, five or six years Aasor have doubled their money many MtImes. The stock went tO $jS 50, bu | is now with the decline of copper anC ~ general furry of stocks, dropped tC
 but the best judgment is that il
 .Ilt recover and even with copper nc & higher than it is now, the stock will gC
 back to figure even higher than it ha. a lever been. There are those who know # Inc conditions, do not hesitate to pre- & dict that Arizona Copper company # sJ'ck will go to $lOO per share. Thus, % who own stock are not worrying owe ' the decline, and all are confident tha < they have really lost nothing and non, & nave offered to unload. -Bsbee Re # View.
 In the Uaited Verde copper mine &one of Senator ClarS'S Arizona proper z tIe', the manufacture of copper pip, f has been introduced into operatlv, $ economies. Tie metal passes from tn, s converter into the pipe mauufactory X and leaves the premises as a manufac
 Cured article instead of as a bar of ray
 material. In the Keswick smelterS ~ conYerters have been installed to ge q rid of the drJss in the matte to say, z Iho expense of transportation to tn
 rehnery. The same thing has beel X done in the Delamar smelters. In tn < Hidden Treasure aud Red Point gray q ei mines in California the drainage i
 being used to furnish the power fo E hauling the gold material from tn < lace of the drifts to the sluices. In tn
 case of the former the drainage is con
 Verled into electric lightand power; il
 the case of the latter into compresse
 alr, Both systems add immensely t N the economy of operations and ir | f 'ease profits correspondingly. Every # where in the mineral belts of Califol