Arizona silver belt., 1904-09-15
items About the Mines and Min eraI Development Culled
 From Exchanges.
TREASURELAND OF AMERICA
Reports From rlany Districts In the
 Territory, Telling of Important Discoveries, Active Operation and Organization of New Companies

Phers0n, wno mas contracts t0 put ore
 op the cars for the Tombstone Con- ,olidated, in sixty days loaded 2Sl cars, or more than 300 tons day. The Dragoon Mountain Mining com pany, the Chinese company, nave let a contract for 100 feet of tunneling at the following figures: sl2 for the first 100 feet, SlI for the second 100 feet and sl6 per foot for the other POO feet. -Prospcctor.
 The Equator smelter, which was 1 idle for several weeks while the plant
 was being changed from a coal to an 1 oil burner, was blown in again Sep.
 tember :, and the Jerome News says l it is running smoothly. There are l over 100 men employed at the Equa- l tor which force is to be increased. Last Fridays Prospector says: One l of the largest trains that ever went out of Tombstone, rolled down to Frairbank this afternoon loaded with ore from the different dumps belong ing to the Tombstone Consolidated. The output is steadily increasing, making 1t necessary to bring more rolling stock into requisition every day.
 The old shelter at Nacoza7i is now On its last run, making general clean up around the plant. It is expected
 that this smelter will close for good
 within the next ten days, after which all the smelting for the Moctezuma Copper company will be done at the Copper Queen plant in Douglas. The
 concentrating mill will be continued at NacOZari and the output sent to
 Douglas to be reduced into bullion.
 The Kingman Miner says: Work on
 lbe mineral cairD, or monument, near
 the depot has been commenced and
 will be rushed to completion. About
 twenty tons of ore from all over the
 county will go into the cairn, which
 VIII AudhC lO OhC VI tht itiNob @SStoS
 tive m,neral exhibits in the territory.
 MOhaye county has greater diversity of ores than any section of tue coast
 and all classes and grades will go into
 this exhibit.
 he Tucson Star says letter has
 been received from B. l.. Worthen
 saying that the Kemp oil burning
 copper smelling furnace at Copper
 Fields, Vermont, which he went east
 to set up, has been tried and found an
 unqualified success. On very re0ell-
 iouS ore a matte of over 50 per cent
 was produced of better grade than
 the company had ever been able to
 produce before, and with a saving of
 over One-half in the fuel expense.
 Work at the smelter has progressed
 at "a lively rate during the past week.
 The dust chamber is nearing comple-
 ton, and, the lumb Der having arrived,
 the carpenters are busy on the mix.
 ing platform, etc The blower, weigh
 Ing ten ton, is here and will be in it's
 proper place in day or two. Other
 machinery and material is expected
 to arrive at any time and construction
 work is going ahead without delay
 thus far.-Benson Press.
 A. S. Mcclellan, who has been re.
 modelling the shelter at Chloride, is
 ID klngman, says the Miner. He states
 that he has the work on the plant so
 far advanced that he is ready to re-
 celVe the new machinery as soon as the railroad can bring 1t in. The
 Smelter will be run on lead ore when blown in. A lead smelter in Chloride
 camp will be blessing to the mine
 owners who have large bodies of low
 grade ores of this character.
 The Federal Mining company, oper- atlng the San Juan mine near Stafford, Is making good time in development work. Plans have been submitted by the El PaSo Foundry & Machine com pahy Tor a 100.ton smelling plant which have been forwarded to the New York office of the company, for Inspection. It is likely that con. tract will be at once entered into by the company for the erection of the new plant.-Era,
 The Review says; Word has reached hlSOee that the deal which has been on TOT some time for the transfer of the ESmeralda mining property tC hdnsas City capitalists headed by E n' Tucker has been consummated ne Kansas Uity people made the pur ondSe through Charles Hanson, oi
 Douglas. The property is located IS
 niiies southwest of Cos and is said tc 'e oi much promise. Only shallow ourIace workings exist so far upon 1t T 'nese have yielded ore running higt