The copper era., 1904-05-19
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The copper output for April Of the old Dominion, Arizona, is reported q, 10000 pounds, the largest in it's history.
 United Verde has declared another dividend Of 75 cents per share. Since last Novembe- the company has de. clared 7j cents monthly.
 The United Verde Copper company continues to keep three furnaces turn- ing out bullion. The necessity Of roasting ores from thi- -r;"n has been brought down to point where it looks a. ii roasting
 done away with.
 -FIiYetter & Harve" 'i the Keystone mine, last .eF ished de- livering about forty tons of ore tC ,-o Old Dominion shelter. They are pre- paring to take out another lot of ore. We are informed that their mine never looked better than iL does at the present time Belt.
 Gibson & Gibson continue sending ore to the old Dominion smclte~, and have delivered to date consider ably oyer 200 tons of d. fine ore a. was ever seen in the district, or anywhere else The ore Is coming from the drift on the 200-foot level above which there is large stoping ground Belt.
 Figuring upon an average of , per cent. of copper in the ore, it Is esti mated that the Copper Queen will put out at it's new shelter at Douglas, when all of its five furnaces are at work, Sj. GOO, GOO pounds Of copper q year, which would be greater than Calumet X Hccla's output and well up to Anacouda'7.
 The Casey copper property, which has been worked until recently by the Chicago ard Arizona Copper company, has been bouded to John Brocl:man, general manager of the Com mon- wealth Mining and Milling company. Mr Brockman will put q force of men to work at once and sink. It is the general consensus of opinion among local mining men if Mir. E"ockman goes deep enough, he will uncarth bOnauZa.-Rangc News.
 Right-of-way agent, C. A. Randall, of the Phoenix X Eastern, took some samples of gypsum and siliciOus clay, from the san Pedro, near Mammotia, to Florence. Experts testing he ma teri;:i say it will make the highest grade O. Portland cement. A large belt ot it exists in the locality, which has been located, and d company will be organized to utilize the material in making Portland cement Consider able of the same material k found in the vicinity of Benson, and it i5 poesi- hle tO develop enough to justify the erection of mill.-Eenson Press
 The Pinal Parannc Oil company finished putting in new easing in ito well several days ago and has resumed drilling. While the Arizona news papers are full Of reports of alleged oil discoveries the Pjnal Paraifine company is the only one that has made any substantial progress in the work Of drilling for oil. The company = well in Hack berry wash, near Kelvin. is down over l600 feet and has already pcne etrated several stratas of ui, bearing sand. and until the we'll was ca,ed there was d moderate flow of gas. The bottom of the well k now in the finest kind of brown sandstone and shale. giving excellent oil tests-IIel. John Casey, the pioneer mining man of Dos Cabezas is dead. Uc was sum- moned Saturday, May ., while at the. Sisters Hospital of Tucson, where h, has been at different intervals for the past few months under the care of physicians Mir. Casey with his brother came to Arizona many years ago. Ills brother died at the same hospital some two years ago. Mr. I Casey was native oi Ireland and leaves Il married sister residing there -tS}-nloGrn his loss. He was 70 years Of age and leaves valuable mining property in Dos Cabezas, now bonded to John Brockman and (. NJ. Roberts. Range News.
 The once famous Harqua tIala lOt Bonanza) mine was sold few days ago by A G. Hubbard. of Redlands. for SIG, 900. Hubbard & Bowers once sold this mine 10 an English syndicate for Sl. 2O0.0 .00O, and at that time it was un- derstood to be d great producer-one ot the great mines of the southwest.
  mine did not prove profitable to he English company, and Hubbard alter