Arizona silver belt., 1902-01-09

Andy Griffen, an old settler is apending few days in Bisbee. Andy aavs there are plenty of prospeetors Xp the Uuachucas and a lot of work Xeins done on different mining claims.
 Review.
 # The Lincoln Mining company made
 5 second payment on the mines It Purchased, located near Stevens anch, in the Sierra mining district, The third and last payment will fall 6ue January l5.-Star.
 The dry wall, which is nearly com ,o, ,eted at the Spray shaft, is one of the st of it's kind built in Arizona, It is
 fee. high and over 2l0 feet long, End no mortar is used to cement the Book together. Bisbee Review.
 ]. E. Crawford of New York, treas brer of the Copper Belle Mining com kanv. was at Gleeson last week, in- epecting the cOmpany's property. It N said, the slump in copper will not Aflect the operations of thlS company. # Judge NJ. Redman, Henry Lovin "a nd II. L. Harris and another gentle 81ln last week made wonderfully f ch discovery of gold ore in the Se- Bret Pass country. The vein is 20 feet A ide and carries from Sl0 to $50 in saIues wherever opened - Mohave Miner.
 & Charles w, Gregg, representing the Gregg Investment company, of Dem x CT, made a second pay yment Jan. 3, on 4he Keystone mine, recently bonded From Patrick Sullivan and Pete O'Day. Alr Gregg has been in the city for the last fsw days and will visit his prop erty in the Santa Catalina noun tains befure returning to Denver. Tucson Nitizen,
 The force at the Tombstone Con- eoiidated company $ mines is at work 8gain after Iay-oT of a few days. 4rifts are being run while they are saiting for the machinery. Some ore $ encountered, but none is hoisted out, Mir. Gage expected the machinery sould arrive by February l, so the 4me is now short before operations Nill begin On a large scale,-Corres- pondenCe Range News.
 The Engineering and Mining Jour. bal is authority for the statement that 3he dividend payments of 36 compan- les identified with the mining and tnetallurgical industry of the United States aggregated, during the month Bf November, Sl3,5S4 ,294 In the
 Eleven months ending November 30,
 he dividends reported by 5l5 com fanies aggregated over S145, ,0O0,000.
 The Lowell shaft has reached a Nepth of l,l44 feet and the ore still khows in the shaft and the ground is eoft and easy to drill. Another l0C Feet will be sunk, which will make the
 Lowell one of the deepest shafts in
 he Warren district. The men al ~Ork are not brthered by an excess pf water, A bucket is used to bail il but and keep the bottom dry. - Bisbee Review.
 Superintendent Pickrell, of the Go Id znd Copper Consolidated Mining com Iany, las twenty-seven men at work pn the President mine, near Prescott l. fThe shaft is down 300 feet, with 4 fee of ore in the bottom of the shaft which averages S2O per ton gold. The com Pany's mill is running steadily, and s tleanup of about S2, ,jOO from recent
 len days rnn on the mill is reported
 Courier
 s Pat Haney, a young man about sev- tnteen years old, met his death few tlays ago at the Blue Bell mine. Ht
 Tas engaged in timbering the shaft RYith a man named Andrew Riley anC
 lost bis footing, failing a distance o
 20 feet to the bottom of the shaft l Ills neck was broken in the fall ant Neath was instantaneous, His fathe esides in Prescott and the body wa Drought here for burial. Journal-Mi ner.
 A dispatch from Jeroma, Arizor a dated January 8 says two hundred M men have been laid off by the Unite, # Verde Copper company. There i # much apprehension among the miner [ and smelter men, who fear that tn, \ cutting down of the United Verde 8 force has just commenced and vii only end when the production of tn, < mine IS rec uced from eighty tons 0 & copper daily to forty. The general i'm X PreSsion of the miners is that the Uni ' ted Verde company has an understand X ing with the Metals Selling compan. and that this is an effort to steady tn \ market No one believes that there i