Arizona silver belt., 1904-07-07

Cu', WnICn ne IS SatlBned VIII pay the entire expense of the great undertak- ing. Prescott Courier.
 Mir. John Stanton has been telling his friends recently that the demand for copper, so far as his own compa- nies are concerned, has within the past week increased greatly, and he is once more talking in the most con tident manner regarding the future. Indeed he believes that the price of the metal has reached the lowest level that it will touch for several years to come and even goes so far, it is claimed, as to intimate that copper famine with in the next twelve months is some thing more than possibility.
 The Mohave County Miner states that J. w. Gerritt has discovered one of the greatest bodies of quartz ever seen in the United States in the neigh borhood of the Katherine mine, and abont two miles from the Colorado river. No assays have yet been had on the ore, but it is reported that it shows some gold on the horn spoon. The quartz forms hill 600 feet wide, several hundred feet in neigh tn, and running back toward the Blue Ridge mountains more than 5000 feet. Should it be found that this great mass of quartz carries values of 8 or $i to the ton it will be greater bonanza than the Treadwell mine, on Douglas island, Alaska, Samples have been taken of the whole mass and are in the hands of reliable assayer.
 One hundred men are now employed by the Fletcher Mining company in the Stockton Hill country. This num- Der is being augmented daily, ,and with in a month it is expected that fully l50 men will be on the payroll. The com pany is working large force Of men at the COD mine and large ton mage is being shipped to Needles daily. Cross & Brown have ontract to haul 10 tons daily from the mines to Kiugman. They have fitted up a number of big teams aud are making daily trips to the mines. The ores now being brought to town are of good grade of smelling ores. - Kingman Miner.
 A Bisbee man writing to friend at HOughtOn, Michigan, said: The Lake Superior X Pittsburg looks like sure winner, They have cut through some large bodies of very rich ore, several veins of leached ore, manganese, iron, etc., and in this dis trict good ore has always been found under leached ore, if leached ore lenses have been followed. There Is preliminary work for four compart. ment shaft already being done There is continual exploratory work being done with favorable results so far and if it continues it will prove the Lake Superior X Pittsburg ground to be better thau anticipated. "The Oliver shaft is hardly deep enough to prove the value of the ground, but for the last 100 feet they have encountered some punches of very good ore and ia their drift they have cut through a Tense of leached ore which proved that the ore is not tar distant. The situa- tiOn at the Oliver shaft in regard to its two nearest producing neighbors, the Irish Mag aud the Galena of the Queen, are ideal and the general in. formation of the country iusures 1t to be a producer in the near future.'
 An Era representative this week visi- tied the property of the Chase Creek Copper company, and inspected the strike made by the crosscut 'nnel. The tunnel is now in about 600 feet, with vertical depth of 500 feet. Sev- eral stringers of ore were cut by the tunnel, but as 1t was being driven to cut the Longfellow lead, they were not developed. Last week the casing to the L1ngfellow lead was struck after passing through which the lead was entered. At the time the writer visited the property the tunnel had been driven in seven feet ou the lead, which is a porphyry gang, carrying sulphides, which SD far are of low grade, but when it is considered that the lead averages from to 60 feet in width on the surface, this is not dis couraging, because richer ore will cer tainly be found in the vein, or on the other wall. The important fact is that the vein has been struck at last, and It's outer wall is as true as the side of a brick building, with casing of tale several feet tnick.-Copper Era.
 New life is being infused into the big camp at Poland gradually, but the quickening is nevertheless being felt, and the people are feeling cheerful ac