Arizona silver belt., 1904-07-28

lllllN NlbStu auN EEduN will rest on their Ray lease till they can get returns from lot of rich ore they now have ready for shipment They have a lot of red oxide of cop per that will go so per cent. It is almost bullion.- Blade.
 The Florence Blade states that NessrS. SchiIliug and Weeks are run. pIpc tunnel along the lime contact m one Of their claims lying east of the Ray and have encountered four feet of good ore. They are now con 6dent that they have a good mine and they certainly have good grounds fOr the confidence.
 Mir. Fogg promoter of the Black Hills tunnel project, has employed Civil Engineer Fisher to make the preliminary surveys, and the work will be started as soon as possible. Many of the business aud professional men of Prescott are interested in the scheme. As planned it is the biggest tunnel project in Arizona.
 The Bisbee Review was shown a drill core from the Calumet and Bis. bee mine which contained a free sprnkling of copper carbonates. The drill is now in 800 feet west from the shaft at & depth ot 1000 feet. T @ appearance of carbonates has strengthened the belief that the Calu. met and Bisbee will yet make good.
 All reports from the Twin Buttes and Imperial Copper camps, south and west of Tucson, are favorable. Fol. lowing President k ise's visit to this locality late in August, arra 1gements will be entered into for the installa tiOn of a smelting plant of 200 tons capacity. Some delay has been oc caSiOned owing tO desire to learn what results were obtained by tes s made with the Kemp Semelter. The results are now known. .-Oitiz
 General Manager Seiboth, of the Superior company, was here this week looking for more freight teams. He has lot of more freight just now than the company's teams can handle. The ore bins at the mines are all full of ore awaiting transportation to the Florence depot, and at this end of the line there are several carloads of ma chinery and supplies awaiting trans portation to the mines. Florence Blade
 R. A. Boggess was in Tombstone today, says the PrOspector. He is president of the Empire Smelling company of Benson. He states that his people, in addition to their other improvements will put in 200 ton water jacket which will be ready for business very shortly, part of the ma chlnery already arriving The com pany has been thoroughly reorganiz sd under the name of the Southwestern Smelling & Refining company and the total smelting capacity of the en. terpriSe is 300 tons per day.
 Frank ODea, who is leasing on the Oro Plata mine, is having a carload shipment of ore hauled out to Minerai TOT the pupOse of forwarding it to the Smelter, says the Mohave County Min er This ore is said to run mor than ten ounces gold and sixty ounces sil- yer to the ton. About $lO 900 is oIOcked out in the stopes in this lease and Will be broken down and shipped right away, while the main drift will oe orlYen ahead and new ground opehed up. It is thought that rich ground will be found ahead of the present workings and that the leaser VIII make big cleanup.
 The principal work at Paradise camp IS being done by the Chiricahua development company, with James h' Knowles as superintendent An uP'o-oate hoisting plant has been put n operation at cost of nearly $l00,- VoV' Two shafts are put down, one a 'nree compartment. la one of these o"a' VS cross cutting las already begun ana athirtY'two foot vein of sulphide ore has been cut. The vein of this ore body is not definitely known but Tuo"e Who have talked with men from ardulse say that they estimate the '"'ue 'ariouSly from six to eight per eeht'-Bisbee Review.
 mere IS much hlnging just now on 'ue oan Juan mine. If it's phenomenal "'ueS continue, number of new plopetties will speedily be put under
 A'enSive development in the neigh, 'noou' Strong capital has been in
 crested and is closely watchip, the i0'nity' The San Juan is, so far, only
 uo"h little more than forty feet. I,
 -"' uVe foot vein, a fat streak 1T