Arizona silver belt., 1904-09-08
Items About the Mines and Min eraI Development CuIled
 From Exchanges.
TREASURELAND OF AMERICA
Reports From rlany Districts In the
 Territory, Telling of Important Discoveries, Active Operation and Organization of New Companies

hope at the prospect of the early blow ing in of the big 200'ton smelter which ia rapidly nearing completion. Both inc sampler and blower are en route to that city. Masonry work on the dust chamber progresses apace.
 In the Paradise mining district the CochiSe Consolidated company under the management of Mr. Anderson is working some thirty men. It is re. ported that Mir. Anderson has con tracted with the Copper Queen smsl- ter in Douglas to ship them one thou sand tons of ore for reduction.
 The concrete walls for the new con centrator of the Detroit Copper com psny are nearly ready for the iron and rafter work, and the timberS are be- ing placed on the ground ready for be- ginning the erection as soon as the men have gotten through the erection of the trestle work at the smelter.- MOrenci Leader.
 The latest mining company formed in Graham county is the Michigan Arizona Mining company, with head quarters at S,tford, says the Guardian. The mines that are now being Uper- aied by this company are located about fifteen miles south of here in the Ora hams. The principal values iu the ore being gold and silver.
 J. Malon of Los Angeles, represent ing Burton Gaylord, of Boston, spent Friday in Phoenix, and While here closed mining deal with Dr. Charles H. Jones and B. Matley, of Tempe. Mir. Gaylord thereby becomes the owner of their Cerro de Plata mine near Magdalena, Sonora, the purchase price being s5O,OOO This is the second mine Messrs Jones and Matley have sold within Republican.
 A letter has been received from B. L. Worthen saying that the Kemp oil burning copper smelling furnace at Copper Fields, Vermont, which he went east tO set up, has been tried and found to be an unqualified success. On very rebellious ore matte of over 50 per cent was produced of grade better than the company had ever been able to produce before, and with saving of over one-half in the fuel expense, Star.
 A big flood is reported to have struck the Starlight luine last Monday night, caused by heavy rains higher up in the mountains. The water came rushing down the gulches m mad swlrl, carrying everything before it. The eating house at the Starlight mine was demolished and washed away. The engine house was also quite badly damaged and partly filled with debris. No lives were lost.
 Jim Chambers is in from Beanyille, on the Hassayampa. He says that MessrS. Rutledge and Briggs, who are working on the newly discovered old channel of the Hassayampa previously referred to in these columns, have been taking out half an ounce of gold day and have hired three men to help them-among them old Bill Mil- Ter, the veteran placer miner of the HaSSayampa. There is an abundance of water for all purposes. Prescott Courier.
 It is officially stated, says the Michi- gan Mining Gazette, that the heavier stockholders of the Calumet lS Bisbee snow decided disposition to take up their share of the special issue of StOck to which they were recently asked to subscribe. The management therefore looks forward to the success Iull exploration of the Calumet X Bis pee property with large measure of confidence, this being accentuated by Vhe encouraging nature of the ground which was recently penetrated by the diamond drill.
 The Leonard White Gold Mining company Is another company which is operating in the Wickenburg section, udVlng property about twelve miles rom that place. The property is To- odOed On the banks of the Hassayampa "'er' and during one of the big fl )ods when recently coursed down that o'redm' l5O tons of fiue ore was washed ,'oul the dump down the stream and ''HC' It represented value of sey eral thousand dollars. This has all the 'uu'catl0ns of making one of the larg- o'' properties in that section. The o'uipany has just ordered new hoist
 'o Wi'l also soon erect mill. Leon "'u white is the president of the com p"hy'-Prescott Journal Miner.
 A mining deal was consumated at "s'V'n last week by which Philadel.