Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-05

| VI uhO SoPPti GuOtb company have long worked only eight hours day. Last week the company put the workers at the smelters, both in BiSbee and Douglas, on an eight. hour schedule, putting on three shifts.
 A rich strike is reported in the prop critics of the Howell Mining compan located near Bill Williams fork, on the Colorado river, in Yuma county. The ore is high grade gold ore. Six hun. dred pounds of the ore has been ship ped to Dsnver which is estimated to carry values over 5000.
 The Morenci Standard states that at
 the Detroit Copper company's concen-
 trator ground is being prepared for a
 75.foot steel extension to the big
 building. The new engines installed
 to give the increased power required
 for the plant are now running steadily and giving high satisfaction.
 A two-inch vein of gold.carrying quartz was found recently at the head of Ash creek, near Saddle mountain,
 which, according to the Florence
 Blade, assays near the surface as high as 5000 per ton. The discoverers claim that the vein at + feet in depth
 has widened to five inches.
 The double-com oirtmeut sh fit Of the Copper Butte Mining company, has reached depth of POO feet and is still in ore. It will be carried down to 300 feet before level is run. Two stockholders from Wisconsin visited the mine last week with Capt. P. P. Parker, the general manager.
 Wm. II. Beard and his nephew, Henry c. Beard, of Shawnee. Okla, have taken over the Troxel and Beard. Cansler miring claims, in the Mineral Hill district, and have incorporated d company with Kansas and Oklahoma capital to develop and operate them. A shipment of two carloads of ore is to be made as test.
 The Tombstone Consolidated is ship ping from 1000 to 5000 tons of ore per month to Fl PaSo. The Fl Paso X Southwestern railroad has made a rate of Sl.50 per ton on ore from Tomb. stone to Fl Paso and correspondingly low rates fro n other points, which is expected to stimulate ore shipments
 Report has it that an immense dredger is being built in San Francisco to be installed on the Colorado river, near Eldorado canyon. The river bed and bars for miles up and down the Colorado, from the canyon, ar said to be rich in gold, and if dredger can be made that will save the gold it | would look as though there was mill lions in it.
 The Arizona Copper company has paid It's regular ssmi-annual dividend, | amounting to 6 shillings and pence a share. The stock now pays 60 per cent on the par value. The Lordsburg Liberal says that the shares pay so well and are at such high price that sales are not as free as the officers of the company would like, and they exchanging the present issue of stock into new issue, giving four shares of the new issue for one of the old.
 Every miner coming from the Moss back mines has the same story of the immense wealth of that property. If the ore is one-half as rich as reported it is one of the greatest mines on the Pacific coast, or, for that matter, in the United States. Dr. Slocum has been rushing work on the mines and is getting them in splendid shape. The vein has been exploited to width of 40 feet, and it is found that values are carried clear across. Large streaks are found to run over five ounces gold to the ton, while small streaks run well up in the hundreds of dollars.-King- man Miner.
 What is said to be another rich strike is reported from Pearce. The is P. S. Simmons, who is also one of the discoverers of the find bonded to Col W. c. Greene. The ore carries gold and silver, assays showing values of from Sl00 to 5000 per ton. The Prospector says : "rhe latest find is about four miles from the Greene on line with the Common wealth mines. All the vacant ground between and contiguous to the finds have been located and some more good finds are expected, as diigent pros pecting will doubtless result in the of other rich ore bodies" !"