Arizona silver belt., 1902-04-17

pany of Michigan Is reported to have
 recently bought claims adjoining the
 iamous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee.
 Keep your eye on Arizona,--E Paso News.
 A Houghton, Mich, dispatch says lt is estimated here that the product. ion of copper from the Lake mines during the current year will aggregate 20O,OO0,000 lbs. Next years figures will probably establish the maximum for the immediate future.
 Capt. P. P, Parker has returned from the Copper Butte mines. These mines are located in Pinal county, near the famous Ray group Exten- sive development work is nov In progress on the Copper Butte and Captain Parker believes it to be one oi the best properties in Arizona --Phoe- nix Gazette
 Work was commenced Saturday last on the concrete foundations and walls for the Copper Queen store building A large force of men is employed and this portion of the building will soon be completed All the other material, including 200 tons of structural steel, has been ordered, and if it will arrive on time work on the building will be carried forward steadily until it is finished.-DOuglas International,
 The Roosevelt Mining company, op- erating on the San Carlos reservation, Ia running a tunnel to cut the ledge and have thus far run twenty feet without reaching the foot wall This company has done over two hundred feet of development work and the property is steadily improving. MT. Mcdonald, one of the principal own. CTS, will visit the property soon, wheI he will put a larger force of men to wOrk.-BIsbee Review.
 The Vulcan shelter people have de- cided on Chloride as the proper site for their proposed plant. The select ion is undoubtedly a good one as there is lots of ore in the district to mak. the venture a complete success. Mr. Armstrong was ir the city this week and is credited with the statement that the smelter will go up immediate ly. This practically assures the future of Chloride and everyone will be glad to hear of renewed activity in that rich mineral belt.-Kingman Arrow.
 Judge John Blake, of the Williams- Blake Ore Leaching company, informs the Bulletin that their experimental plant at Stafford is success. In order to raise money to pay debts outstaud- ing and to meet the expense Of enlarg. ing the plant to 20 tons daily capacity, it has been decided to incorporate a company with a capital stock of $jO,0O0. The owners of the teacher have an option on the Horseshoe mine which they claim Is able to supply 20 tons of ore, averaging over five per cent. copper, daily.
 An important strike is reported in the property of the George A. Tread we'll Mining company, known locally as the Cliff group. Twenty-two feet of rich ore has been gone through with DO walls yet in sight. Assays of the ore run from s to 70 per cent copper. The Ore was encountered at depth of l6O feet. The group is located about three miles south of Jerome, and about half a mile nor h of Equator hill, on which are located the Iron King and Copper Chief mines. On this same mineral belt is located the Brookshire, Decatur, the q. w Hull, Black Hills, Venture Hill and Lucky Verde groups. Jerome News.
 New York adVices to the Boston News Bureau, says; The feeling ID the trade concerning the future of the copper market is divided, but pushing aside sentiment the facts appear to warrant expectations of a much greater production of copper especially during the last half of the current ear. By that time new mills for stamping copper will go into commls- sion at Lake Superior and if dividends are maintained with copper around l2 cents they must be earned partly by increasing output. New mines are being developed in the West, and Mexico Is coming to the front as never before, while recent operations in Peru reveal enor nous quantities of copper.
 The big two hundred ton smelter O o" Black Diamond company is expected to be ready for operation by June l't' About all the machinery for the shelter, power, tramways, etc, is on the ground and being erected in place as fast as possible At the mines the