Arizona silver belt., 1903-12-31
ltems About the Mines and Min eraI Development CuIIed
 From Exchanges.
TREASURELAND OF AMERICA
Reports From nany Districts in the Territory, Telling of Important Discoveries, Active Operation and Organization of New Companies.

It is said that tne harqua hdl
 mines, at one time large gold pro
 ducerS, are to be operated,
 Arich strike has been made in tn,
 Rincon Mining cOmpany's property
 twenty.two miles north of Benson
 says the ProSpectOr. The strike Wal
 made in a tunnel at l30 feet from tht
 surface, and the claim is made that il
 runs 23 per cent. copper.
 A wel-known Yavapai county min
 ing man is quoted by the Prescott
 Courier as saying that the completion
 of the Poland tunnel meant an in-
 creased payroll of from 5000 to $500
 day, which would prove great ben.
 eft to Prescott and surroundings.
 This, of course, is to be brought
 about by increased mining operations
 made feasible by the cOnyenienceS and
 saving afforded by the tunnel.
 The Calumet & BiSbee, at a uepth of
 960 feet, is showing too much water for c0nvenience and almost any day it is expected that Superintendent Fur ner will discontinue hsS sinking opera
 ti0ns and Slart to drifting with every assurance that he will not have to go far before he will encounter the ore body that lies only few hundred feet from him in the Lake Superior X Pitts burg property, better known in this locality as the "Old South Bisbee. J. Review.
 8outh of Copper canyon and near Little Squaw peak, II J. Allen, gen. eral manager of the United Verde Copper company, is working group of claims and has a force of men building a wagon road to same. The ore from these properties carries a high percentage of lead and some gold and copper. Several thousand dollars have been expended in development work. Some very rich ore has been taken from these laimS.-Courier.
 The Tombstone Consolidated com pany are gradually increasing their ore bipments to the Fl PasO smelters. Plenty of good ore is being encounter. cd in the development work of the various mines of the company and when the work of attacking the ore bodies below water level begins, Tomb. stone ore production will undoubtedly be a Revelation and ArizOna'S precious metal production for the coming year will receive an impetus from Tomb stone district. Prospector.
 A6O.tOn concentrating plant is now being installed at the Yeager Canyon Copper company's property in Yeager canyon. It will consist of No. ? Austin crusher, set of l4X27 ruling rolls, q set of high speed 3OxG rolls, tNo 36-ioOt elevators, ,one Bartlett con- :entfating table, one Card table, three Df tbe latest improved Wilhey tables, three Wtlfley sinners, four improved lmpact screens, Challenge belt driven feederS, and an S0-horse-p power Frost snRine, and will comprise the latest md most up-tO.date plant in operation n thiS part of the. country Prescott Herald.
 q. w. Hull passed through Prescott )n bis way to Jerome from a visit to 1is mining properties in the southern part of the county. He informed the Jenrnal~Miner. that the smelter at Jerome is now running full blast again and lots of coke arriving. Over fifty ;ars arrived Thursday from Pennsyl- | 7ania with several hundred on the way, Two 50O-ton furnaces arc in 'peration and the. third one is being Aurried to completion as fast as it is 'ossible to do'So. This will give the 'melter 1900 tons per day capacity.
 A correspondent of the Journal uiner writing from Harrisburg says : 'Qnarizite presents very prosperous 'utlook. Several sales have lately 'een cOnsummated and others are on ne tapiS. Merchants say they are 'uying gold dust every day, which is 1ot surprising when one remembers nat over 20,000,000 have been taken rom the dry placers, within a radius T twenty miles from Quartzite, some 'uthorities even place the output at nore than the above figures. Large 'odies Of pay gravel are known to ex- st and will some day be worked when 'apital can be found to place machin- 'ry On the ground for that purpose. | rne socOrro mine will again begin op- | 'rationS after the holidays. They have iarge body of ore good hoist and ! 'qoipped with fine twenty stamp nil, with an up-tO date cyanidinp 'lant attached, with large amount of | vvod on hand and there seems no req. onaole cause for such property to be