The copper era., 1904-03-03

passed through Douglas last wee bound for Boston, New York, Wash ington and Florida. He said that th work Of opening up the property whic
 Is generally called the South Bisbee
 was rapidly progressing and that hun
 dreds Of thousands. if not millions O
 dollars worth Of ore is now in sight
 He had with him a sack Of sample
 which were exceptionally rich in cop per sulphides and oxides. He believes
 that this mine is as rich a5 the Calu
 met & Arizona. As soon as possible
 duced at the c. & A, smsiter. TTc
 and perhaps three new furnaces are tt be added to tbIs plant very soon and when they are ready for business the
 Lake Superior & Pittsburg will have thousands Of tons of high grade ore
 ready for them. Mir Hoatson was very enthusiastic about his property
 and said he had some surprises in
 store for the eastern stOckholders.-
 Douglas International.
 J. II. Knowles, the superintendent o'
 the Chiricahua Development company operating in the Chiricahua noun
 tains, spent the day looking over
 Douglas and the big shelter plants
 which have given Douglas the name of
 the "Smclter City" The property
 now owned by the Chiricahua Devel-
 opment company has attracted atten-
 tiOn for years as one of the most prom
 ising prospects for big copper mines in
 the Territory of Arizona. These
 mines were owned for years by Cap tain Thomas Burns. who did the rcgu- lar assessment work and some Gevel- Opment work on d small scale. Last year Captain Burns succeeded in get ting Mir. Knowles to visit the property and through him Michigan com pany, including some of the promi- uent Calumet and Arizona people, was interested. with the result that now eXtensiee development work is in hand. Mr. Knowles stated that he was now working forty men and as de- velopment work proceeded he would soon be able 10 double his rce.-Wil- cox News.
 Report comes from Gold Road that William Kennedy and Jo Perizzo, who have lease on the Billy Bryan mine, Sra ta,>tnc ou; ara ;tet ..-.. more than Sl0,O00 to the ton and that they now have tons of the ore under lock and key at their camp. The ore is taken from the outcrop Of the vein in the canyon to the south Of the town of Gold Road and d great streak of it raises up to considerable night above the bed of the canyon. The leasers are running in on the ore and getting out several hundred pounds per day besides which they are knock ing out tons of lower grade ores. Al though they have been at work but few weeks they now have more than S5O, ,OOO in sight in the lease. The Billy Bryan mine is the property on which was found the first rich ore of the Coli Road group of mines It lies to the southeast of the Gold Road and passes up a rugged mountain. It is in one of the ravines where the vein outcrops that the ore was found and here the richest ore ever taken from gold mine in the county k be- ing extracted The vein Is about three feet in width and is yielding hundreds of tons of high grade mill ing kingman Miner.
 l.. D. Rickctts. M r. assistant to Professor James Douglas. Of Phelps. Dodge X Co.,, and who has been ap- pointed superintendent of the Old Do miuiou Copper Mining and S2elting Co, to succeed F. w. float, arrived in Ricketts informed the editor of the Silver Belt that he bad come To take charge of the old Dyminion property and that his relation to the company would not be atected by the failure or success of the proposed consolidation of the old Dominion aud United Globe properties. He has come with full authority to perfect the plans and carry to completion the Improvements now under way, and others to ba made among which is concentrating mill. Dr. Ricketts' coming has been delayed bv reason of having had to go to New York to draw and submit plans for the concentrator. the early construction Of which is desired From New York he went on an urgent business call to California and thence to Cananea. where he is supervising the construc- ton of q 20OO-ton concentrating plant for the Greene Consolidated. Dr.. Ricketts informed Us that the new smelter and other improvements now under way at the Old Dominion will be carried to completion with all possi- ble dispatch, and barring unforeseen obstacles the new works should be completed by June or July and the smelter in operation.