Arizona silver belt., 1904-06-16
nsms About the Mines and Min. eraI Development CuIIed From Exchanges.
rVFASURELAND OF AMERICA
,,orts From rlany Districts In the Territory, Telling of Important
 Discoveries, Active Operation and
 Organization of New Companies

The old Copper Queen smelter at
 ,shse IS on its last months run. In
 bs mCaLtIme 1t is running full blast,
 d bicb means the reduction of so tons Al RpsSemer block or blister copper
 nsr day. All five of the furnaces at
 sbo smeIter here are now blown in,
 living daily capacity of 2500 tons. - lpternational-American.
 Investors of the Lake Superior dis r.rt and their associates have poured Al to the Bisbee district, within three
 ,ears, more than Si,0oO,oOO for the Purchase and development of mining ,.opertv, and it is estimated that the e,ntra,ts to be completed will require he outlay of half as much more with ir tbe coming 24 months.
 The Calumet X Ariz ma prod uced sst month 3,O50,0OO pounds of copper, Inc largest run for any single month sp to the present date. The dividend Inst declared payable on stock on rec .eri June |, makes the third dividend sfv this company since December l3. Ag3, lust eighteen months after the frst furnace was blown in, with the Brightest prospects, of passing like
 smount ere the year is closed, Tbe Bunker Hill company is ex.
 Q,cted to resume operations shortly,
 Says the Tombstone Prospector.
 9ThiS property is conceded to be an ex- aeptionally meritOriOus one. With a
 laSt record as handsome producer
 sud with good ore reserves in sight
 bod rich virgin ground for further de h heiopment, the Bunker Hill property,
 bod its suOstatial equipment, will be s0ntinued in the bonanza class. 3 saturday last Frank Weaver ship
 n ed another car load of his gold, sil-
 ser and copper ore to the Fl Paso
 sneter, which will be followed by two more shipments during the pres
 but month. The returns on these ship snenlS are entirely satifactory to MT
 Neaver, paying all expenses of min IinI and transpDrtitio and leaving a lice mIrgin besides. MT. Weaver
 bow has his property on paying
 @lsS, and certainly no man in tue
 sistriCt is more deserving of success.
 Copper Era.
 An assessment of Sl per per share
 waS Icyled on Higgins, payable last
 Friday This makes S7 paid in alto
 gether. or the purchase price S675,- MOOo there has been paid Sl00,000. M The BISbee Miner says that nothing Mpermanen, in the way of ore bodies # having been located through quite # #eSlenSve workings has, however, &evdenty shattered many hopes an l # there lS now but little demand for
 ths stock Small lots of the stock
 were recently offered at as low fig.
 ure as one sl per share.
 # The first furnace of the Calumet &
 ArIz)na was blown in November, 1902, f and In the IS months since then the
 company has paid of debt of some
 ''7'O'o, and paid 5000 in divi- IA dendN with $3OO,O)O more due June
 ''' and has accumulated surplus of a THr |.
 aoout < Hl,NOO,OOO. It's net earnings are R o'JIer than 5000, ,OOO d year, The en-
 Ofe alyIdcndS from the Cripple Greek NJ 'esIon ID Colorado with all it's large N auu important producers were $1 ,S00,- "a "O' 10 I'oj and so that this single cop # per mne in Arizona is d bigger prop. & o'lton by comparison.
 N The reported sale of the Billy Mack M property, near Bill Williams fork, to M ''S Angeles par ties seems to be liable N v, result in a celebrated law suit, says # "e Needles Eye. The Lbs Angeles # "'C''aNerN sent d mln to close the N Dsa' and when the representative of- W ' NlcCh UO NIT. Mack It was M reused. The check was to be the first M @ r"' u''"' on the purchase price of $5l,- M ''' o"t be informed them that he had # 'Iu deal with Ben Blanchard, of # wy, "'"H, for the purchase of the prop # ,''' 'O M-5,OOO, It is now threatened M ,"'' Voe question of title will be taken Y ,'O' 'oe courts. but Ben Blanchard
 possession of the property and M '' oolng work upon it.
 & The Bulletins Clifton correspond. N y", says The copper com pauies are # ''"'"s iull handed and will show an NJ p,,.n ,n'He ID production this year. The # gn".. 'H, increase will probably be N nv |n m oy the Detroit Copper compa
 rt. ,'oush its gain will be important.
 s,.I. ,~ increase however, will be the
 to "','eot S. for the reason tha. chang qes
 ,oLa made at the concentrator will
 o,a,, erns "' least a month from it's full op
 I'a'.DE fo, time, The concent ntrator build |M TVS nl'' pc dOuhled in ei,o ou.t,i.,,