Arizona silver belt., 1904-03-24

tor or the bismuth mining business of the Saxon company, came on to exam ine the mine about two weeks ago, and returned to New York with very favorable report. A little work opened up vein of pure bismuth eighteen inches wide of ore which would run from $40O to $500 to the ton. The Saxon company, who control the bismuth output of the world, wanted the mine aud have wired their acceptance of Mr. Webb's offer of s75 900.
 John McPherson discovered an old mine near the Black mountain, last week, which may prove to be bonan. ga, says the Florence Blade. At the time of making the discovery he was short of water and did not stop to make an extended examination of the claim. He found an old shaft that had been sunk to depth of about feet on the vein. In tho center of this shaft stands palo verde tree which looks to be at least twenty years old. From the dump at this shaft John picked up piece of copper stained quartz, showing liberal amount of virgin silver in wire form. He will make a further investigation of the tind next week. About twenty years ago, when we were publishing the old Arizona Enterprise, the discovery of rich silver ore in that vicinity was re- ported but the finders could not re- turn to 1t. It is probable that John McPnerson has redscovered the lost mine.
 The Gold Nugget mine is one of the Ohiricahua mountain properties which will, from all appearances, soon be coming prominently to the front among the enterprises in that district. At present the company has nelrly two hundred sacks of high-grads ore ready for shipment to the reduction plant and this amount Is steadily be. ing added to. Latest advices received from the property by the secretary and treasurer, J. G. Pritchard, are to the effect that development work on the New Year claim has resulted in the opening up of a line streak of rich ore. As yet not enough work has been done to determine the extent of the ledge, though alreany consider abe pay ground has been exposed. The company is now making arrange ments for building a i've or ten.stamp mill. It is expected the plant will be completed and ready for operation be. fore the end of the coming season. Ia the meantime ore from the mine will probably be treated at the plant now in course of construction by Ed Hoop. CT. This plant is located about two miles from the Gold Nugget mine and a E )od road connects the two locations. Bisbee Review.
 A fue showing is being made at the Bisbse West mine in the way of de- velopm ent work, and the miuige- ment expects that within a year the property will bs on paying basis aud selfsustaining, says the Review. The company has accomplished a great deal of work, and has bsen re- wardea by the fuding of ore in such quantity and of such quality as to warrant re orgau!z ltion into min. ing insterd of development con- pany. The first ore ca the property was opened up during the month of January and was encountered at 60 feet depth. Thus far in the neigh borhood of 27O0 feet of drifting and sinking has been done on the claims There are four shafts, No. 1 being down depth of 60 feet; No 2, 750 feet; No. ,, $50 feet, and No. A. 640 feet. Drifting is being done from the several shafts and at right angle, so that the character of the inter- vening ground will be pretty thor oughly tested. The Bisbee West is admirably located being situated be- tween the Red Jacket and Bisbee property owned by the Copper Queen company. The same contact of DOT phyry and iims traverses through the Bisbee West lands, and it is di rectly on this contact, or as near as 1t is expedient for best results, where development work Is being carried forward. The company owns twenty two full claims. or 40 acres.
 At the Iron King nina in the Big Bug district, owned by the American Copper company, quite force of men are at work building the six new 60 ton steel tanks for the cyaniding plant which will give the plant suffi cient capacity to handle the product of the mill with six additional stamps or close to 100 tons of ore per day, says the Journal Miner. The concrete foundations for the six additional