The border vidette., 1903-08-15
IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA. The AZurite Copper Mines In PiMa County Sold for $5OO.OOO.

of deals includes that of the Azurite properties of thirteen claims, a forfeit being paid and arrangements concluded for the first payment to be made Octo- Der 1. It is understood that these copper properties were allowed to go at a basis somewhat below $50 900, a de- cided drop from the figures asked less than three years ago, by the Azurite Copper Mining Company of this city, which demand S5OO,OOO, and an offer of S4OO,OO0 was all but closed. The owners of the Azurite properties for two years past, are Zeckendorf X Co. of Tucson, who have acquired several properties through foreclosure proceed ings
 In 1898 the Azurite Copper Com pany began active work, installing two small smelters. NIT. L. w. Morgan of Los Angeles was employed as superintendent for time, but the in ternal workings of the company were so peculiar, and so totally devoid of good business management, that the entire works had to be shut down. The Zeckendorfs established their mortgage lien of S13,0OO. and some two years ago the properties were knocked down to them at sheritfs sale, the interest and costs added, making the total about $l9,OOO. A number of creditors holding claims varying from S100 to $3000, were left out in the cold, and are still waiting. The limitation If time in which the properties could be restored to the Azurite company has long since passed. One of the stockholders of the company had sale almost closed recently, but it was baked through relative, who was also an Azurite stockholder and director, who "knocked" the properties, because his relative, the promoter, who had an option for certain period, refused to agree to dividing the con- missions that would accrue in the event of 8 sale There are "knockers" here without number, and this ca,e of knocking" as local paper expressed it, was the monumental knock out of the century"
 Hon. Charles M. Shannon, who owns the largest interest in the Hotel Santa Rita, an edifce for this city, that will cost Sl5O,0OO when com pleted, which will be next December, in a recent talk with your correspon- dent. said that the Shannon Copper Company at Clifton, in this Territory,
 was now turning out twenty tons cop per bullion daily; the Arizona Copper Company from fifty to sixty tons, and the Detroit, at Morenci, thirty-fve to forty tons. He added that the New
 England Company and Dunham, who
 represents company also operating on the Frisco River, would shortly con- solidate their interests. MT. Shannon
 has received good reports from the
 headquarters of his company, at Boston.
 Prof. w. P. Blake of the University
 of Arizona faculty has been selected
 by the St Louis Worlds Fair Commis-
 sion of Arizona to secure the minerals
 for exhibit. He tells me that he is endeavoring to find the precious specl-
 mems and the greatest variety ot them.
 Mir. Charles R Wores will transfer the contents of the Cabinet he installed
 this year at the Chamber of Commerce, to Los Angeles, and the Chamber IS
 endeavoriug to secure from mining men minerals to place in the Cabinet,
 which is the largest collection ot Its
 class in Arizona. Tucson possesses number of cabinets, including one , owned by Prof Blake, one in the re- sidence of the Catholic priests, one ! belonging to Mir. Chas. E. Udall, Mrs J. Knudsen at the Windsor, and the one at the office of the Pioneer His
 torical Society.
 Colonel w. l.. Johnson was here . last week en route from the Ajax Hill F mines, near Tombstone, where he em- , blows about twenty men, among whom f is Mir. Walter Wakefield, son ot the F ex-sheriff of this county. Celone a Johnson is now en route to Chicago or n a business visit to his poole who art interested in the Ajax Hill mines.
 Through Superintendent C. . s Sroufe of the Southern Pacific office II Tucson, I learn that his company wll Q build line, or spur, from the mail
 line at Red Rock, thirty-three mile
 west of Tucson, to the Silver Bell dis !, trict, wherein lie the Old Boot coppe l. properties Sixty claims,l purchased b 7. Messrs. E B. Gage, F. M. Murphy.