Arizona silver belt., 1904-05-26
ARIZONA MINING NEWS
Active Development and Important
 Discoveries tn Many Districts

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 The Black Diamond Copper company whose property is in the Dragons, are shipping weekly thirty three tons of 70 per cent matte that carries a good showing of silver, is the report made by Manager E. Kennedy, who is now in the city.-Star
 The Star says that the Morgan shaft of the Twin Butte group of mines is bsing put down to the 200 foot level. It is all in ore on the 100 foot lead. A cross cut was made 30 feet both north and south of the shaft ar d drift 30 feet east and west, all in ore and all of rich value, which indi- cates somewhat of the large strike.
 A. G. Hubbard recently sold the la- nous Harqua Hala mine to an eastern corporation for 40,000, one-fourth of which amount was paid down. The new owners are now pumping the water out of the mine and putting it in condition for extensive operation when cool weather sets in. The old mine is believed to contain good bodies of high grade ore which can be found by little systematic prospecting
 The Morenci Standard states that work recently done with the settling tanks below the concentrator by the Arizona Copper company has demon strated that successful operation of the system is assured. When the. loo gal lon a minute pump is installed the system will be ready for final judg. ment. The tanks as they stand have capacity for handlengs of 300 tons Of tailings.
 The Federal Mining company has received this week, a large amount Of machinery and material for it's smelter north of town. As soon as this ma. chinery is in place the smelter will be put in operation, The company has a large quantity of ore on hand, and the smelter when started will probably be kept in operation long time. It is now thought that the smelter will be blown in about June 1. -- Stafford Guardian.
 The shaft started few weeks ago by the Detroit Copper company in the Molder coal field is now down about 40 feet. The vein on which 1t was started went down at an angle of about 20 degrees for the first b feet and then turned straight down. It has since continued that course. The vein has gained in width and quality since starting down. There is now better than eight inches Of good coal in the shaft. Standard.
 Work on the Chase Creek Copper company IS tunnel is ',eing pushed rap idly ahead. The tunnel has already cut through two good veins. The work of opening these up will soon begin The Longfellow vein, it is expected. will be cut into any day. This strike will undoubtedly prove bonanza for the company, as it is more than a feet wide, and 1t IS from this vein that the Ariz ma Copper company has ta- ken most of the ore from which their large production of copper has been made. .-Morenci Standard.
 It should be sad to the credit of the Calumet X Arizona, says the Bisbee Miner, that after sustaining tremen- dous expense for improvements and development work all over the system, and shipping ore from the Irish Meg alone, it has recently declared divi. dend of $50. The Irish Meg is ex- ploring extensively in the direction of the Pittsburg x Dnluth and the Oli yer. The ground between the shaft and the Copper Queen is growing more phenomenal in richness and extent every hour Drift t, the Pittsburg & Duluth on the S00.foot level is nearly completed.
 It comes direct that the master me chanic of the Copper Queen smelter has been informed that the old shelter in Bisbee is on it's last months run. In the meantime it is running full blast, which means the reduction of a 900 tons of ore day and the pro- duction of sixty tons of BeSsemer block or blister copper At Douglas four furnaces are now in operation, with capacity of 300 tons each. The fifth will be blown in shortly, which will give the plant total capacity of 2,500 tons every twentyfour hours. The Douglas smelter has encountered ! inconvenience from those circum. stances which surround the starting of of a new plant. -Bisbee Miner.
 Lee Troxel came down from the Oklahoma Mining company'S camp, at Mineral Hill, this week. He says