The copper era., 1904-12-29
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The Blue Ridge Mining company Is having q site for q ten stamp mill graded out at the Tom Reed mine. Nearly one hundred thousand gallons of water is being pumped daily from the mines and as work progresses it is expected that this volume of water will increase rapidly. The mine is showing great improvement with recent development. - kingmdn
 Says the Nogales News: 'Passen- gers on the Sonora train report d ghastly sight near Torres. num- Der of Yaqui Indians have been hung by the neck and their bodies, prey of vultures, sway with every motion of the breeze. The silent forms of the dead men are plainly seen as the train speeds past the place of their executition."
 Two prospectors have discovered d vein of ore on Mob Hill, near Eldo- rado Canyon, that runs 450 ounces silver and one ounce gold. The men have been shipping regularly to the shelter and report has it that enough ore is in sight to make them wealthy. The ore is similar to that found in early days on the Techaticup and is still richer. IL is probable that when the new mill is erected at the TcCha- ticup IT ores in that section will be milled therc.-K -Kingman Miner.
 At the smelters of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company at Douglas there is much activity and preparations for an increase Tn the number of 350 ton furnaces from five to eight. This will make it the second largest copper smelting plant in the world. It is turning out 6,OOO,OoO pounds of blistered month. and is treating all the ores brought to it from Bisbec, the entire output of Nacarozi concentrates and some other ores that run through the sampling works.
 Grant Brothers construction com pany has taken q contract to grade 
 lS Santa Fe railroad west of Congress. The road is now in operation nearly ten miles and this contract will carry the grade south of Signal. The road is to be eighty miles in length and will cross the river at or near Parker, at what is known as the Earrows. From the Colorado river the road will continue west to q connection with the main line of the Santa Fe. It is expected that the road will be built as far as the river this winter, but that the extension will not be built for some time thereafter. great mineral country will be opened up by this road in south Mohave county and northern Yuma county Kingman Miner.
 The report of the production of the mines of Nevada during the year 1904 shows an increase of but 492, 900, which is quite small when taken into consideration with the supposed out put of the Tonopah mines. It has been currently believed that the mines of the Tonopah district pro- duced several millions during the year, but the report of the govern ment agents does not show this. Ne vada during the year 1905 was devcl- oping large number of mines that produced considerable ores of gold and silver and the Comstock mines Il. th,. nrn1nrpr- nf the two metals. There is no doubt but that Tonopah has one excellent mine, but it's production is limited to few hundred thousand dollars yearly and should not be the occasion for rush to that section.
 The announcement last week that Judge R. 0. Johnson, of this city. had been indicted by the Federal grand jury in Tombstone, was a surprise to Douglas citizens, as it had not be- come known that there was a proba- bility of such result. Johnson evidently got wind.of the indictment, as he left Douglas and went to Tomb stone, where he arranged for bonds for his appearance in court when wanted. The indictment charges complicity in the bringing of prosti- tutes from foreign country to the United States. This is charged in connection with Peppers. who brought Mexican prostitutes from Agua Prieta and married them to Rowland, Cummings and Alexander. with the intention. of avoiding the United States law against allowing people known to be of. immoral character to enter the United States.-Douglas American.