The copper era., 1903-01-15

SmeItlng company nave landed thclr
 iirst installment Of machinery. This
 c)mpany'7 claims adjOIns those of the
 Black Diamond company and have
 been developed to such an extent as 10
 justify the expenditure of capital for further operations. MT. George M.
 Henry, formerly superintendent for
 the Black Diamond company, is in
 charge Of the operty.-Kange News.
 IL is stated in report from Bisbee, Arizona, that the supreme court of the State or Sonora. Mexico, has rendered a decision in favor Of the Indiaua-S -So- nora Copper Mining company, in the suit brought against it by two Of its stOckholders--Mr l.. Lindsay and E. Curtis, over certain cOpper-mining
 properties in Sonora, and in which the two stockholders mentioned disputed
 the power Of the Indana-SOnOrd to con
 vey the property to the Copper Queen
 Consolidated company, Of Bisbee, Ari-
 zona. This decision will permit the Copper Queen to rc-cnter upon thu
 properties and resume mining oper- ations upon them.
 Quite q number of mining claims in
 the Gold Road country were relocated
 on the night Of the 3lst of December.
 On several of these abandoned claims many rcIocatCrs met and agreed that they would pool issues, giving to each share in the mining claim. It was reported that the millsite of the Gold
 Road Mining company had been relO- cated under title to ledge claim, but this has been cOntradicted. It does not seem to be the right thing for
 jumpers to go in and hamper the work of mining company that has gone upon vacant ground in good faith and made extensive preparation for the erection Of big milling plant, and the mine owners of the Gold Road country ought not to couutenances such pro- cceding. Miner.
 Dr.. J F. Wallace and wife arrived from the east q few days ago aLd will 1dll ldht up llltlI ItSluCuNC lsl hlIR- man. Dr. Wallace will commence the construction of road from the Big Sandy to the Burro mines at once and as soon as this work is completed he will proceed with the development Of the property The mines are now owned by the Monmouth mining con- pany and it is the intention Of the company to put in smal! milling plant for the experimental handling of the ores. When the proper method has been asccrtaIned it will be adopted and d large tonnage plant installed. The Burro mine is one of the oldest properties in the southern section of this county and has always been re- garded as one Of the good things of that part of the county.-kingman Miner.
 There was shipped from the Peca- cho mine, in Sonora, through Douglas, Tuesday night, d solid trainload Oi gold ore. The train consisted of ten large Santa Fc cars and contained some thing over ,0OO sacks. The total value of the orc is understood to be close to d ion dollars. One car was valued at $50, GOO and did not nave the richest ore in it. The ore was shipped from the Pccacho mine, located at Bacoachi and owned by some of the directors of Phelps, Dodge X Co.,, New York. The mine has been in legal tangle for over a year and only re- gently clear title was obtained which gave the New York owners full and complete possession Of the mine and allowed them to make shipments to the United States For a number of months the Phelps-Dodgc people have been taking the ore out of the mine, sacking it and storing it in large warehouse near the mine, which was always under constant guard, as the ore was known to be very rich, and the Mexicaus could not be trusted to keep at safe distance without some official proteotion.-Belt.
 While the work on mining claims in the various districts in this county has been uniformly done for the year just past, there were many that failed to perform the amount necessary to hold such property under the laws of the United States and many such have been relocated, thereby involving the mining property in disagreeable dis pute. It has been the custom among miners to keep hands off mining claims on which the old owners have done or performed work or made show Of holding as its relocation would involve a lawsuit to maintain adverse right. The past year brought in men who have exhibited no regard for the rights of others, and in many places they did not even await the ar rival of the first of the new year to make their relocations, but went upon properties upon which hundreds of dollars worth of work had been done for the year 1901 and made their loca- tions, in the hope that tho old owner would drop out and give them the property sooner than have trouble over il. This class of gentry will run up against something warm some day that will take from them all desire to posses mining property belongiug to