Arizona silver belt., 1904-01-28
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.

The director of the United States hints accredits Arizona with the pro ductiOn, during the year just closed, S5,7S4, 900 in gold and $l,l95, ,215 in silver.
 Recorder Thos. G. Fey ton and wife visited Superior this week and he was shown through the company's mines by the superintendent He says it is great property and shows mammoth ore bodies. Florence Blade.
 The Morenci Standard announces that the Arizona Copper and Detroit Copper companies will build d dam be- low their concentrations, and store the talingS from their plants, which will stop ths flow of the tailingS down Case creek After the water has evaporated from the tailings they will be elevated aud conveyed to the mines aud used for filling in old workings.
 The Dos Cabezas Gold Mining com. pany has received at it's camp in Gold gulch two large boilers, which the company expects to have installed and running within three weeks. The Range News states that the dirt is es timated to run about $5 per ton, and that when the boilers are installed, the present machinery will handle from 100 to POO tons per day, running full capacily.
 The principal producers Of gold and silver in Arizona are the Congress mine in Yavapai county, the Com mOnweal mine in Cochise, the Fortuna in Yuma, the King of Arizona in Yuma, and the Octave in Yavapai, whose combined production ss esti- mated at S4,jO0,000. Some heavy ship. mentS have also been made from the Consolidated mines at Tombstone, whose production for 1901 will doubt less be heavy.
 Fred P. Clark, of Clifton, chemist and metallurgist of high standing, will have charge Of the construction of the new blast furnace to be erec ed by the Empire company at Benson. The material for the furnace is expected to arrive within week, and MT. Clark Wall get things in readiness for it's in- stallation. When the smelter blows in, MT. Clark will hold the position of head chemist and metillurgist.
 Sheriff Lovin transported another big bar of gold bullion from Gold R pad Tuesday to Wells Fargo. Those weekly visits of glittering bars are assured for long time to come. Som ,times the bars go to Needles and oftensr to Klngman. Tnis dividing up of the wealth is to fool any prowling footpad that might so far forget himsslf as to attempt to add one of these golden products of Mohave county to his other hard earnings, Oar Mineral Wealth.
 J. T. PendegaSt, of the Prescott Arizona Gold Mines company, received another shipment o. fine gold and nuggets from the men in charge of the works today. The gold is very fine. and the nuggets range in size from 10 cents to sS. The company owns valuable placer aud qnartz prop erty in the Hillside section and is working steadily. Pete Sorenson, who designed and manufactured the big dry washer, works the machine to charm saving the finest of gold some. thing unusual for dry waIher.- Prescott Herald.
 The Detroit Copper company, under the management of Superintendent Hunt, of the concentrating plant, is now installing an oil concentrating machine, the success of which will be hailed with interest throughout the southwest. Concentrating by oil is not exactly an experiment., as it has been found to work successfully in Utah and some other sections. If sue. cesSful in this section it will eventu- ally do away with the expense of pumping water to the Detroit Copper and Arizona Copper concentrators at Morenci, which is heavy item. Cop per Era.
 For some time there has been movement on foot by the Bradshaw Mountain Copper Mining and Smelt- Ing company, which has large mining interests at Middleton to purchase the Val Verde smelter for the purpose or reducing the ores of the company aud also for custom purposes. The deal has finally been consummated and the Bradshaw Mountain Copper Min Ing and Smelling company will take charge of the smeter some time next month. There will be very little change made Tn the management of bNe lnstitu tiOl but there will he addi-