Arizona silver belt., 1904-04-28
ARIZONA MINING NEWS
Active Development and Important
 Discoveries In Many Districts

The new Cananea concentrator has capacity of 200O tons every twenty four hours.
 It is reported that the new smelter at Benson, which was constructed along experimental lines, is failure.
 The Minnesota- Connor mill, Mohave county, has begun shipping ooncen- trates, which have been accommodating for some time.
 The San Cloud mill, Mohave county, is ready to begin dropping stamps. The Kingman Miner is informed that the thine shows large bodies of very good ore.
 At Gleason the Copper Bell mine has been started again, after having been tied up in the courts for more than a year. Considerable ore is being shipped It Is hauled to Pearce and there loaded on the cars.
 The weekly shipment of bullion from the Gold Road mill arrived, in charge of Sheriff Lovin, Tuesday last. It weighed S22,O00 and represented seven days run of the tanks King. man Miner.
 About the first of the year many of the development companies around Bisbee installed diamond drills for exploration work, and great things were expected. The results thus far, however, have been disappointing.
 The new copper camp of Paradise in the Chiricahua mountains, is at tracing attention, and it Is predicted that the two Michigan companies de yeloping mines there will soon em ploy several hundred miners. Another camp has been started five miles from Paradise.
 w. S Fletcher, of Pasadena, Gal, , who, it ia reported, will erect smelter on the Glla river east of Florence, is at present looking after his invest msnts in Mohtye county. He is de- veloping mines at Stockton Hill, and h Is shelter at Needles, to which he will probably add lead stack.
 Harry Shaw and Lawrence Citidini were down from Ray this week ook- ing for freight teams to haul in a crushing plant, says the Florence Blade They are interested with Frank Schilling in working lease on the Ray mine and will concentrate the ore not rich enough to ship as it comes frlm the mine.
 Frank Alley states in the Bisbee Miner that the old smelter Is running full blast apd seems determined to make record breaking spurt in its old age. It is reported that the two new furnaces ia com m issiou in Doug. las ran out seve lty-five tons of Besse mer block in twenty-four hours one day last week.
 c. H. Harn, representing Los An gsies parties, has had force of twelve | to fifteen men at work on La Fortuna claims situated near Silver King, which were bonded from Dr. Chas H. Jones. The main ore body has been intersected b. a tunnel 700 feet long. The intention is to increase the force and get out ore for shipment.
 Sam King, who is experimenting the development of the recent dis )very near Pearce, on which ". c. Greene and himself have bond, states that the property is making an excel lent showing for the limited develop ment, and that he will be disappointed if 1t does not prove equal to the Com mongealth. Work is now being di- rected in shaft on the ore body.
 The Mining World publishes the re- port that the Bisbse West company's property, comprising P claims, has been bonded to eastern men for 60 days. There are three shafts, 560, TAO and 70 feet, respectively. An ore body recently found in the 70 foot shaft is said to be l5 feet wide. This property IS between the Red Jacket and Bisbee. The bond is reported to be for $2, 300, GOO.
 The Tucson Post states that the rich strikes recently made at the properties of the Imperial Copper company at Silver Bell, and the Twin Buttes Min ing company, at Twin Buttes, twenty eight miles south of Tucson, and the working of these two properties on a large scale has drawn the attention of outside capital to other mines about Tucson, and there is much develop. meLt now going on.
 Recently we published the report of | an important strike of silver made in i the Great Peck mine, Yavapai county, ! by Frank Groux. Last Friday'S Pres |