The copper era., 1904-06-30
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The Wilcox Range News says thu
 Copper Belle Mioing company, q
 Gleason. has received the balance O
 the machinery for it's shelter. Thi'
 enables them to run day and night
 and the production of copper matte
 amounts to something like 250 tons pei
 month.
 The rumor continues to circulate that Joseph WhortOn, Of Philadel phia, has purchased the O'Dea :. Dempsey group of mines Chas Gracey promoting ,Iu deal The price stsssd-,S Jv s25O, ,O00 No papers have yet been recorded.-Kingmau Mineral Wealth.
 r.. w. Clapp writes that he is having d great time on his vacation. He has tO get up at half past five, In order to ret at his vacation work on time, and does not get pack home until half pas: seven in the evening. Some people have queer ideas about good time, but as long d. it is their time and their fun, and they are satisfied no one else has any business making com plain 5.-Libcral.
 Phoenix is to have an independent telephone company. It will reduce rates about thirty per cent. from the start. The new co npany which Is headed by II. N. Joy, of Los Angeles, will invest S5O, 900 in competition with the Sunset company. The new com papy proposes to connect at Tucson with the Solomon lines whicii will build into Tucson from Benson as soon as they get the local franchise for which they have applied.
 A disastrous and much to- be-de- plored cavc-in has taken place in the Calumet X Arizona mine that will mean heavy loss to the company, and possibly result in q considerable de- crease in its production during the next month. The exact extent of the cave-in is not known, but it has caused work in the ninth and tenth drifts of the Irish Meg shaft to be abandoned hht TT Ohh 'p''C P''''o ''"'C "NS' taken great amount of the ore turned out ny the mine. The ground that has caved in amounts to hundreds upon hundreds Of tons Of mineral between the eighth and tenth levels of the Irish Meg.-Miner.
 When the work Of building the spur that is now being run from the main tracks of the Fl Paso X South :. estern road toward the Calumet & Pittsburg mine is completed it will not only con- meet the locality of Chat mine with the railroad, but will ultimately extend as far as the Lake Superior & Pitts burg mining company's property near where Is located its No. , shaft. Su,- veys for the extension of the road from the Calumet & Pittsburg to the Lake Superior X Pittsburg are now being made. The work Of stalk ing out the route will be completed long before that spur will have reached the Calumet X Pittsburg so that it is most probable that the work Of build ihg the road to the Lake Superior X Pittsburg will continue without inter- ruption.-Miner.
 I; l.. Gibson returned to town last week from a business trip to Paradise mining camp. Things are brisk down that way, he states, and the outlook cons sidered Gcod for lively times in the course of few months more Devel- opment work is going on steadily and with satisfactory results at the several properties being opened up in the camp. Railroad talk continues and continued satisfactory results in de- velopmept work will undoubtedly bring the much desired rail connec- tion. At present Paradise camp is fifteen mics from the F.. F. X & w. track. A route that has been picked out for rail entrance would put the road over comparatively level grade | to within six miles Of the mines, and Mir. Gibson states, would, so far as most Paradise people have expressed themselves, be most satisfa.ory.-Re- view.