Arizona silver belt., 1904-09-15

'h gold and silver. The new owners VIII at once begin active development ana will install such equipment as may be needed to carry the work along to best advantage.
 GThe Imperial Mining company is now shipping 100 tons of ore daily to the smelting works of the Copper queen company at Douglas. The ore olns are well filled and the mine is be- ing systematically and rapidly devel- oped. It is expected the output and shipment of ore to Douglas will be constantly increased. The Imperial mine seems to have an unlimited sup ply of ore and it is the purpose of the company to turn 1t into money just as rapidly as possible.
 Prescott people are stsll moving in the enterprise of building the monster tunnel through the Black Hills range, near Jerome, connecting Lonesome valley on the Prescott side with the Verde valley on the Jerome side of the mountains. The proposition is still speculative, as described some time ago, but is believed to be entire. ly feasible if the project can be financed. The tunnel will be oyer six miles long, however, instead of five, as previously estimated. It's grea test depth below the surface will be about 1900 feet.-Herald.
 Work has been resumed on the pro- perty of the Coronado Copper com pany, and will be pushed with vigor. The company owns a valuable group of claims in the Coronado mountains near Metcalf, adjoining the great Coronado mine of the Arizona Copper company. In fact, the company owns a considerable territory between two of the Arizona Copper company prin- cipal claims at Coronado, and 1t is upon this ground that the company is now doing development work. Work will be continued until the ground is thoroughly tested.-Era.
 A correspondent of the Internation. al-American says Paradise has now two producing lead mines which are sending lead ores every day to Fl Paso Tho Zinc Af aod lncatal ,nar th. Sullivan property, is being opened up by eastern parties and there is already enough rich lead ore in sight to con. tinue shipments for great length of time. The Leadville, owned by Mey- CTS X Waler, aud which has already shipped nearly fifty cars of rich lead ore,is now leased to Messrs Brownlee, Weeks x Wells, who have force of men at work taking out the ore aud shipping it to the El Paso smelter.
 Work at the Ohiricahua Develop ment companv's property is moving along very nicely. A more complete equipment for quick and economical development work is not to be found in the southwest. The machinery is running like clock work. The main shaft on the Mars claim is now down 2l5 feet in blue lime. for the past 90 feet the ground was in soft ledge mat ter and the air drills could not be used Since the striking of hard ground the drills will again be installed and set to work. This company now has about seventy-fve men c c)nstantly at work only white labor is employed aud it is strictly white mans camp.-Inter- national. American.
 Over near the old Moss mine an i'm mensely rich strike of gold ore has been made in the outcrop of one of the small feeders running in to the big Moss vein. Ore taken out so far runs up into the thousands of dollars in value. Many prospectors are rush. ing there and hundreds of claims have already been staked of. Some time ago rich ore was discovered in that vicinity, but the dscoyerers were unable to get the ground they wanted and are now in possession of it by req son of location. The new ore is solid masses of gold, similar to the rich out crop found years ago on the Moss. - Mohave County Miner.
 Report comes from Gold Road that { wonderful strike of ore has been made in the croSscut from the 300 level Drillings from the vein on the foot wall run $400 to the ton, and eighl feet of ore now penetrated by the crosscut show wonderful values. It is expected that the vein will show ( width of twenty feet at this point Work is being rushed on this lower level and several machines will be put in to drive the drifts ahead and oper up the ground. The new strike al this depth shows that the ore bodies of the Gold Road mines continue t, t,,,r xAifh |