Arizona silver belt., 1904-01-14
Items About the Mines and Min eral Development CuIIed
 From Exchanges.
TREASURELANO OF AMERICA
Reports From rlany Districts in the Territory, Telling of Important Discoveries, Active Operation and Organization of New Companies.

The United Verde Copper MinipI < company has declared it's regula
 monthly dividend of 75 cents. Plans and speciti tications for the nev mil at the Detroit concen trator ar,
 under way. It will double the present ca pacity of 500 tons yer day.-Moren ci Standard.
 The production of the Calumet X
 Arizona Mining company for Decem.
 Der was 2,S7S,000 pounds of blister
 copper. This copper will approximate te
 go percent pure.
 I. N. Curtis, general manager for
 the Globe Exploration company, is re- ported to have returned to the Mowry mine, near Harshaw, with the int
 LiOn of inaugurating extensive devel.
 opment work upon that valuable prop,
 erty.-Oasis.
 w. $. Fletcher arrived here Wednes
 day, and Thursday left for the Golden
 Culver group at Mineral Hill with two
 gentlemen skilled in ore treatment.
 They will examine the ore with view
 to determining the best method of
 treating difference Blade.
 George c. Gill, president, and John
 K. Erskine, secretary, of the Shannon
 company, arrived from the east and
 went up to Clifton last week, says the LOrdSburg Liberal. Mr. Gill expects to give his personal attention to the affairs of the company at Clifton dur ing most of the coming year. He is very anxious to be able to recommend the declaration of a dividend this year.
 The Tombstone Prospector learns that the Commonwealth mine at
 Pearce, which owing to general col lapse, few days since, was compelled to cease operations, will be re-opened immediately, and with that object in view several prominent stockholders of the company are now on the ground discussing the matter and devising methods as to the m ost expeditions | manner of reopening the great mine. It is stated that new shaft has been | decided upon and will be hurried to | the ore bodies as rapidly as possible.
 The Empire Smelting company at Benson have decided to erect another furnace at their plant, and according to the Benson Press it will be ready to blow in by the commencement of spring. The new furnace is now under construction in San Francisco by the Fulton Iron Works, and will be ready for shipment by the first of February. This furnace is of the most modern blast type and will have capacity of 200 tons daily. This will give the plant total daily capacity of 300 tens.
 A new S500,000 corporation is to be organized by Wm. K. Ryan of New York, and associates, to merge their interests Tn Arizona and Mexico. It is to be called the Continental Ex- ploration company, and it is said that Mir Ryan is to be the president It is that the properties to be taken oyer are worth s5,0OO,O0O Mir: Ryan is son of John Ryan, head of the Ryan syndicate, which has an option Dn the Portland mine and other prop critics in Cripple Creek, Colorado 
 w. E. Brizzee came down yesterday from the Troy country and reports the mining outlook in that section good. MT. Brizzee has been in that section for nearly six mon ths past and is only nere for few days. He has been de- Veloping a group of fourteen claims near Troy, in what is known as the Dripping Springs district. His prop srty is the Copper Queen group, and IS its name indicates, is "a copper prop DsitiOn. He is developing by means of cross-cut tunnel to tap the main edge. This tunnel is in 300 feet and ( will require as much more work to each the ore body it is headed for s The Minnesota Connor is again at work. Their mill man arrived Mon- lay and set to work putting the big in shape for operation. Men were put in the mine drifting both ways on the 300. After things Ire shaped around the main shaft will le sunk on down to tho 1000 where it h0uld have been sunk ID the first 'lace. There is water and ore down here in abundance. Large ore shows 'n the 800 and on the 400 and above U hat point about a half million dollars !, were taken out. Every is on ! arge scale at the Minnesota -Connor nd when it starts up right it means U