Arizona silver belt., 1902-06-12
Items About the Mines and Min. eraI Development CuIIed
 From Exchanges,
TREASURELAND OF AMERICA.
Reports From Many Districts In the Territory
 Telling of Important Discoveries, Active Operations and the Organization Of New Companies, Auguring Prosperous Year.

l l is believed that very little old Domiu- ion could be purchased around present prices. Some people believe that at the present price of copper Old Do miuiuu can actually earn more than | OsCeOlan
 Visitors to Phoenix from Wicken- burg report big gold strikes in the Pi- chaco Blauco country. The largest strikes were made in the Exposition | group. The ore from these mines is very similar to that of the Orc Grande mine, and no doubt they will prove bonauzas to their owners.
 i Coppers are dull though the under tone is firm. One of the best judges of the copper situation, a gentleman who was exceedingly pessimistic when copper itself was held nominally at l1 cents, says he thinks the worst features are now known. He looks to see a gradual bettering Of conditions from now out, both for the metal and the copper sharCs.-BoStOn News Bureau
 The Buckeye Mining company, in the Tevis district, now have the 50.ton concentration about completed and ready to start up. The mill is about seven miles from Bowie and is near the mine. In this camp there are now employed about thirty men. The ore to be worked bears silver, gold and lead, and it is said that large bodies uf it have been prospccted. Supt Billy Larson, of the Buckeye, is now east Bulletin.
 George B. Upton, of the Orc Grande mine, and Geo. F. Sanders, who is in- tercSted in an adjoining property at Wickenburg, have gone to Bisbee, Ca nanea and Clifton to secure iufurma- ton that may be of value in installing machinery at the Gro GrandC. Mr. Upton says there is no diminishing Of the ore body in the later workings of the Orc Graude. On the contrary, there are frequent new strikes of re- markable richness.
 The Verde Smelling, Developing & Ore Purchasing company has com menced the development of it's prop ertles in Tonto Basin. It is proposed to run tunnel 800 feet below the pres ent workings of the mines. It is ex- pected that large body of sulphide ore will be opened up in this tunnel, which will greatly facilitate the work of smelling the ore. These properties have produced some phenominally rich ore, going as high as 4j per cent. in copper and $sl9 in gold. Journal Miner.
 "A t the site of the Douglas reduction works" the International says, "the excavating of one of the huge ore pits is fairly under way and will proceed more rapidly now that a steam shovel IS to replace wheel SCraperS. The first building of the smetcr plant to be erected will be the machine shop, This will be a massive building of brick and structural steel 2lGx794 feet in size, This building will be divided into two departments, one of which will be used for the ovcrhauling and repairing of locomotives. There are now on the ground fourteen carloads of heavy machinery, which will be put in place and be put in use as soon as a place can be made ready for it.
 Reports from the Jerome claim property of the Consolidated King De velopment & Columbia Copper Min ing company, backed with samples O extraordinarily high-grade ores, art that in sinking the winze in the 65t drift on the ore body, that the or, hody is not only increasing in size bu in richness. The wOrkmen from tb, mine inform the News that they ar, satisfied that the future of this prop erty is now assured; that there is m doubt but that the company has strucl an immense body of ore which vii call for the buildingo another smelte ? in Jerome in the near future. Thi strike, at depth of about 400 feet, i of great interest to the business mel and property owners of Jerome, and in fact, the whole district MT. G, w Hull, president and general manage i. of the company, says that the compa ny can develop enough water on ad iacent claims, which it owns, to run
 large smelter. er.--Jerome News. c Day by day development work o opening up bigger and richer ore bod
 es in the c. O. D. and Golden Ger mines. On the 300 level of the co. r the breast of the west drifts in an or g body ) feet wide, 2 inches of whic gives an average value of 2 ounces C gold and 160 ounces silver. The drii