Arizona silver belt., 1904-09-01

the mine. The narrow gauge railroad
 to the Hack berry mine has been com
 pleted and will soon be in operation transporting ore from the mine to the smelter. Machinery for the new smell ter is arriving and work is progressing
 rapidly on it's construction. The smell ter is being built alongside the OH smelter and will have an average ca pacity of 250 tons of ore per day. The oil smelter can be utilized in connec' tion with the new smelter for smelt. | ing Hue dust.-Journal Miner.
 The United States customs service has established new service in Doug las that will put more work on the government assayer in EI Paso. The new office is that of ore inspector at the Copper Queen shelter at Douglas. c. O. Thompson has been appointed to the position. His duty will be to take samples from every car or lot of ore shipped to the smelter from Mexico and send them either to Nogales or to El Paso for assay by government assayer. On the lead in the ores by these assays will depend the amount of duties to be collected. The inspec- tor will also keep an accurate account of every pound of ore imported. I'm portation of Mexican ores is increas- ing so rapidly that it will soon be necessary to station at Douglas gov ernment assayer similar to those at El Paso and Nogales. Bisbee Review.
 A good deal of interest is now being taken in Shattuck X ArizDnt, wlere extensive development is under way, says the Bisbee Review. An 80 horse power engine and marine boiler are now being installed. I5 is prop )sed to go 1000 feet with the shaft aud then drift. Report is that at 92 feet in the shaft being sunk ledge matter has been opened that leaves no doubt in the minds of the operators as tD cer- tainty of the shaft catching large body of ore. The situltion is ex3eet ingly encouraging. While there is little Shattuck x Arizona stock out, it being practically a close corpora tion, there is some held by ou tsiders, mostly Bisbee people. These are hold ing on to what they possess with de- termination, believing that the pro- perty is oue of the very best things the camp has ever brou yht out.
 The Michizona claims are on the Holmes property in the close neigh borhood of the Great Western, Copper Belle and Gleason. The locality is highly promising one, and those fa- miliar with the Michizona property feel that the work planned for it will make valuable mine. A. J. HOule, formerly of Globe, a mining man of much experience, is in charge of the property as superintendent. George ]. Mass, of Neguanee, Mich, is at the iiNhd hA NAAC Nph Rau9s Anls A'l1oo 10 widely known in Michigan mining cir cles, and k said to have large capital with him in the Michizona enterprise. The Bisbee Review says: "The Michi- zona company has just completed in- stallation of 35-horse power gasoline engine at it's property. Drills are on the ground. So are three carloads of lumber, to be used in the erection of bunkhouses and other necessary build ingS for the accommodation of the ex- teusiye work decided upon and the care of the considerable force of men that is to be steadily employed in carrying out this work. HOists and other equipment are to be added to that on the ground so soon as needs develop for it."
 The Higgins has now about com pleted approaches for the tunnel it will drive in the hoOe of catching the rich ore deposit it caught near the surface two weeks ago. IL is expected that this tunnel will reach the ore at about 12o feel. The shaft in which the surface ore was caught within a few feet of the top of the ground has been discontinued at depth of 90 feet, due to determination to concen. trate work on the tunnel. Where work was stopped in the latter the ore was not as rich as the very high grade stuff got at the surface, but the forma- tiOn was much more pleasing and promising to the eye of the practical miner. At 30 feet the ledge matter in the shaft is between Q and 10 fee wide, and looks exceedingly good. Kidneys of very rich ore are scattered throughout this ledge matter. Should the tunnel strik this ledge at the depth to which it is to be drived to hitch with the surface showing, it will | make world of difference in the