Arizona silver belt., 1903-11-26

strike will not seriously interfere witl
 the operation of the Jerome shelter as coke has been ordered from Penn sylvania. It is possible there may bt a shutdown for a week or ten days
 which will permit of needed overhaul
 ing of the machinery
 The shannon company will soon be
 ready to install the second half of it' concentrating plant, which will enable it to handle about 300 tons per day over it's vanners The company has been running twenty concentrating tables for some time past, and will add eighteen more. Copper Era.
 A deal has just been made through c. F. Potter, of Minneapolis, giving E. w. Williams, two bankers Of Mou- tana, and ]. IL Bennett, of this ci ty, control of the Virginia Belle Mining fScOmpany whose properties are in the RinconS. Gardiner, Worthen X GoSS &bave been given an order by Mir. Ben #nett for a large hoist to be installed on the Virginia Belle property at once. Tucson Citizen.
 J. B. TOmlinson, of the Yeager Can. yon Mining company, has gone to Denver, where he will purchase 90. ton concentrating mill for the Yeiger Canyon property, which is more famil' iarly known as the Sloan property. A force of men are now grading for the plant work has also commenced on a Poo, 600 gallon reservoir to be put on the top of the hill above the mill. It wil be rock walled and cemented. Prescott Courier.
 Ata meeting of the Modern Mining cOmpany, whose property is in the Warren district, near Bisbee, the fol- Rowing named officers were elected: President, Geo. A. Fris5ie, of Utica, New York; yice-president, Washington s. Scott; treasurer, Philip Owen; sec retary, J C. Breen. Tbe directors are all well known business men Of Utica. lr is announced that the work Of open ling up and developing the mine will De pushed forward at once.
 O. B. Steen was Tombstone visitor pn mining business connected with the Negotiations for financing the Eureka Mining company properties in the HuachucaS of which company he is president. These properties have been well.k known producers and large ore Reserves have been opened by the Company. With the erection of con- templdted machinery, the property will be added to the list of COchise bounty dividend payers. .-PLOspectOr.
 Word comes from Twin Buttes that at the bottom of a 130-foot working shaft a large body of ore has been Struck The entire shaft, jX7 feet, is in good ore and some of it is of very Nhigh grade. Thirty-llVe men are now Employed by the company. A gasoline . hoiSt, air compressor and lngerSOll | k drill are in use and the shaft is going . . Three shifts are at work and 1t is ex- Ipected that water level will be struck lat 6OO-foOt depth. Tucson Star
 George Hamin, superintendent of the Relief uine, located twenty-three miles north of the city, has arranged . a mineral exhibit for the worlds fair, The ore was brought to the board of trade yesterday, there being about loo pounds in all. The rock is probably | the finest specimens of gold ore that . has been seen in Ariz ma for some . time. There are several different form atlons, but in each free gold can be Been as large as d pea. According to Mr. Hamlin the assays average 5000 to the tOn.-PhOeniX Gazette,
 John A. Clark, financial agent of the Angel Consolidated Mining company, has issued the statement that on December l work On the cOmpanYs property at Wickenburg would be re. sumed, A force of fifty men will be ehlplOyed tO Slnk the main shaft, al- ready down 200 feet, to a depth of 300 feet. Geo. E, Sanders, president of the company, who visited Tucson re- gently, has gone to New York to attend the annual meeting of the \ 5stOckhOlderS. He will return and as- NSume charge of the work at the mine. A Calumet, Mich,, dispatch to the lfiSbee Review, says Calumet x Ari- zpna has declared dividend Of two dollars per share, payable on December l9, 1903. The announcement has made a most favorable impression through ont Michigan and Minnesota. The hne results at South Bisbee and other properties are bracing things here.