The copper era., 1904-03-03
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Ata meeting Of the board Of direct
 oi.- o' tine Calumet and Arizona Min
 ing company held at Calumet, Michi
 gan last week it was decided that tn,
 capacity Of .he conpany's smeltel
 plant. now in operation at Douglas
 Arizona. should be doubled. The di
 rector5 declared the first quarterly
 dividend for this year, giving to the
 stockholders $1 90 per share.
 A party Of young men, who are OK
 pcrts on the placer mining business, are in Wickenourg looking up some good placer locations for the new ma chimes that are being brought in for the operations Of placer mines on a lar0e scala. z--------a--~-- or efre e 7ove mentioned young men are R. M. Me Cormack, w. F.. Ridetake, Louis and C. l.. Appy Herald.
 The Mulato5 gold mines, Of Sonora, are producing large amount of bull lion. Last week Harp Smith trans ported oyer land into Chihuahua City two hundred pounds of gold valued at SEQ OOO The MulatOs mines have never created much oi a stir but they are among the greatest gold producers Of Sonora and upon completion Of the Nacozari road will be tributary to Douglas.
 J. NJ. Bryant and partners are get ting ore that runs about $3OO tO the sack from their mining claims, near the old Sheeptrail. They 50 far have shipped several thousand dollars worth Uf this ore to San Francisco. The vein is about three feet in width and carries high average milling ore, the rich streak occurring by itself in the vein and little trouble being required to assort it out-Kingman Miner
 Mr. Karney, who recently sold the Coppcropolis mine in the Chiricahuas to the people who bought the Shat tuck claims in Bi,bee, left last night for the north. He said that there was much activity in the Chiricahuas. A new town will soon be laid out and sev- cral mining companies are developing good copper mines which will begin to !. produce ore within a very short time | The Chiricahua Development company | is making good progress at that camp. | American.
 X letter from New TIuvou, >ouu., informs the Blade that the Saddle | Mountain Mining company, promoted | and managed by George E. Chitten- den. has taken over the San Carlos l copper mines and made q $lO, 900 cash 1 payment therefor. The development work prosecuted on these properties l for six months past has revealed bodies 1 of sulphidc ores in the lower workings l as great as are the bodies of oxide | ores revealed on the surface. The | same company has shipped a diamond l drill to Dudlcyville to he used in pros 1 pecting the coal claims.-Arizona Blade.
 Freight teams loaded with a ll,0OO pound pump for the Superior mine passed through here this week. The ! company also has on the way one of the largest air compressors ever brought into the territory. It will l probably reach Casa Grande next week. There are about 30 men at work on the mine now and as soon as the new compressor k ready for opera . tion this force will bc doubled. The 1. company. under the sound advice of General Manager Sieboth. will pursue l the wise policy of thoroughly opening 1. thcIr mines before installing reduction machinery. Florence Blade.
 Charles NJ. Love. president of the . New Nulturc Mining company, which | owns the old Nulture mine, is in the . territory from Chicago. He and G. . Osgood aud J. NJ. Jamisou of Phoenix ! went out 10 the Vulture mine from 1 Wickenburg on Monday morning | Mrs. C. w. Sanders accompanied . them. George F. Sanders, son of the | late C. w. Sanders. Is expected from ! the east in few days, and the mat tcrs nthe estate of Mir. Sanders will ! be ari ,.ged. Mr. Love stated to a Ncws- nld man that something ] would bc doing at the Nulturc before 1 long. We hope so. for there is no doubt but that when there is anything doing 1t will be the means ot putting money in circulation in the country And when the Nulture starts up in earnest once more, it will make things hum in that neck Of the woods. as our opin on is that it is yet as good mine as there is in Arizona.