Arizona silver belt., 1904-06-09

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 nominally rich gold finds. They are good for chloriders but generally short
 lived producers. The large low grade ore bodies are the long flied profitable producers that command the attention or companies. s.-Florence Blade.
 William Kemp, superin tendent of l the Copper Belle shelter at Gleeson and inventor of the Kemp shelter, which uses oll as a fuel instead of coke, has gone to Vermont where he will spend month experimenting the working of smelter erected after his plans by the Westinghouse people for trial run. The Range News says: The test is to be made with a 300 ton smeller, and if it proves success, there will be millions of dollars coming Mr. kemp's way before many days roll by.
 A representative of the national Cop. per X Gold Mining company of Ariz 0na, was here last week from his home in Indianapolis, to meet G M Fowler, of this city, who has been in cores. pondence with him for sometime re. spectng the requirement of the Rog. CTS Spring group of copper mines, thirty miles north of Phoenix. The mines are owned by W, E. NJ lriar of this city, and it is announced that the National company has taken bond on the property for $50, 900, and will begin development work upon 1t at once. - Phoenix Republican.
 The Republican says: Deputy Oscar Roberts returned yesterday morning from Skull Valley where he saw a mug get of gold of sucn a size as fsw meu see in this lie. It was found few days ago by man by the name of Iapeda, who has been operating some placer ground about three miles east of the Skull Valley station. The mug get weighs Fl ounces and is worth $379 Iapeda in the course of several years has found great many nuggets in the same grounds, but none approach inS this one in size.
 The Copper Belle Mining company at GieesoD have received the balance of the machinery for their smelter. This enables them to run day and night, and the production of copper matte amounts to something like 250 tons per month. The Norton Morgan Commercial company hauls the matte to Pearce, where it is loaded on the cars. Superintendent Kemp recently informed Mir. Morgan of the Norton. Morgan Commercial company, that the shelter had to run 2+ hours to keep the ore cleaned up Wilcox News.
 The Florence Blade states that Lee Troxel received the returns from a test sample of ore he hipped to El Paso from the Oklahoma Mining com pany's properties at Mineral Hill. The sample contained l33s pounds and net ted him S20. at the sm elter. The re- turns were g per cent. copper, l5 oz silver per ton and s2 90 gold per ton. This is good enough for anybody who does not want to get rich ia day. As soon as the Pnoenix & Eastern railroad shall have be5n c)m pleted this ore can be shipped to E Pasl at a very hand. some profit as can be seen by the fact that little over half ton of it netted s2O, al the shelter after paying a SIP freight charge. Mineral Hill will fur niSh the Phoenix X E lsfern a large amount of traffic after it reaches it's E Paso connections.
 \. II. Mellor, superintendent of the Saddle Mountain Mining company, was a visitor at Florence. He brought down R. J Goodenough, one of the prominent eastern stockholders Of the com pany, who had bsen at the mines on d tour of iuSpe e:tiOn H, is we'll pleased with his investment and will report faYorably on the enterprise to his fellow stockholdsrs By the time tn, Phoenix & E lstern reaches their ground the saddle Mountain com pan y will hays their copper properties at the mouth Of Disappointment valley in shape to yield shipping ore. They are now down about ls0 feet and are opening up levels along their ore bod ies. The diam )nd drill in operation OF ther coal properties is making good progress and is now nearing the coal stratum the company set out to prospect. Blade.
 One of the properties in this county which has come into prominence dur ing the past year, and which has been added to the bullion producing and dividend paying list, says the Journal Miner, is that of the Tiger Gold com pany, in the Bradshaw mountains II I s.l IL |