Arizona silver belt., 1904-04-14


 tion with capacity to sink 1000 feet.
 It is said that the workmen in the
 tunnel who have been working on an
 upraise have just broken through.
 The tunnel is in between 400 and 300
 feet. The property is showing up in
 most satisfactory manner.-Prescott Journal Miner.
 The output of refined copper by the Calumet& Arizona mine was p, ,535 357
 pounds in 1903. No other copper mine
 hae ever been able to secure such an output in the first years production.
 The mine will make between 30, ,0O0, 900 and 35,000,000 pounds of fine copper this year, but cannot greatly increase
 It's ou tput until second shaft permits
 the hoisting of more ore. The fact
 that four-year-old mine can make
 more than LOGO, 900 pounds of copper
 in one year, from single shaft, comes
 as something of revelation to many
 persons considering themselves good
 judges of mines.-Houghton, Mich,
 correspondent of the Bisbee Review.
 J. Fred Cleveland, editor of Fl
 Obrero, of Morenci, who has been in
 Bisbee several days, returned to his
 home yesterday. Before, leaving MT. Cleveland said "that the Morenci smelters would not be closed down,
 but would be enlarged instead. The concentrating plant is being doubled and large additions are being made to the power house at the smelter New gas and steam engines are being in. stalled and the boiler plant is being increased" This from Mir. Cleveland, who is in posi- ton to know what he is talking about, should silence the rumor that MOrenci ore is tO be ship ped to Douglas. .-Bisbee Review.
 The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bsnnie Gold Min. ing & Milling company took place at the office of W. J. Wilsey, retary, in the Bank of Arizona building, says the Prescott Courier. There were rep resented about 500, 0J0 shares. Reports of the secretary, treasurer and super intendent were rad and approved by the stOGShnl2ors. These reports show the Bannie in splendid condition. The company owns about 200 acres with four ledges running the entire length of the property. The total cost of development on the property to date is over s35, 900, and a fine body of high-grade ore is blocked out. The board of directors are now consider. ing proposition for equipping the property with reduction works and pushing the development work
 The Morenci Stcndard says 'The Arizona Copper company's tunnel at the Longfellow bins, 1t is now UT der stood, Is to be driven straight in, it's ultimate destination, it would appear, being the Arizona Copper company's properties in Morenci. The tunnel was originally started to quarry silica for use by the Arizona Copper compa' ny in making converter Things. A little ways in rich body of copper ore was encountered and is still being worked. This body of ore, at a depth of nearly 1000 feet under the Morenci mines of the company, told it's own story of ores of the camp going down. The tunnel driving will have depth of at least 800 feet below the deepest Arizona Copper company's workings at present in Morenci, and if followed in will be able, after connection with the shafts above, to sake out by gray ity to the Coronado railroad every pound of ore now hoisted from the Morenci mines of the company and hauled over surface tracks to the in- cline. The saving in cost of mining and delivery to the Clifton works would be large. The tunnel is being made wide enough to carry large ore cars and that it will be extended un- derneath Morenci for the purpose out lined there is hardly room for doubt.n
 The manner ia which the commence ment has been made on the new shaft for the Copper Queen would indicate, says the Review, that the company'S intention is to have the undertaking and in readiness for the of ore from the virgin ground that will be tapped through this working, at the earliest possible period. A force of twenty-five men are busily engaged on the site selected for the new shaft and pro gress is being made in so favorable a manner as will in short time warrant starting gang of men at the work of sinking. The location of the new working point is on the south side of hill on an elevation about one hundred feet higher than the Bisbee Improvement company's ice