Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1905-07-20
CLIFTON AND M0RENCl
Items Of Interest From Graham County's
Big Copper Camps

From the Boston News Bureau.
At recent meeting of the Arizona
Copper Company, Limited, in Edin-
burgh, it was stated that within another
month improvements will be completed
enabling the handling of 1850 tons of
ore per day through the concentrators,
from which it is expected that 1900
tons of copper will be produced per an
mum. The company proposes to erect
another concentrator to handle 700 tons
per diem and produce enough to bring
the output to 2l.000. 1t is estimated
that 1880, 900 tons of ore are in sight
at Clifton. New development work
will be done and the Coronado is ex-
pected to furnish still larger reserves.
Lower grade ore can in future be treat
ed at a profit.
From sanord Guardian.
The Starlight mine, on Kelly noun
tain, is permanent producer. A lode
of more than 20 feet has been encoun-
tered in the shaft on the hill. This
shaft will meet the upraise from the
tunnel at depth of 700 or 800 feet and
at a point about 1900 feet from the
mouth of the main tunnel. A lode 8
feet in width where the upraise begins,
and gradually increasing in width, has
value of 30 per cent copper, besides
gold and silver. Superintendent Weats
has all the ore bins filled, amounting to
many carloads of ore, on which he will
realize at least $1,000 per car.
From the Clifton Era
The New England g. Clifton company,
which has been in a comatose condition
for the past year or more, will doubt
less soon be in position to resume ope-
rations on an extensive scale. This
company has some of the best mines in
the territory, with vast tonnage of
high-grade ore exposed in the work
ings-ore that will average 10 per cent
and why it has not been more active in
the development of the property is a
mystery not easily explained. That the
company is composed of some of the
wealthiest men in the United States is
a conceded fact, and yet there has been
a drag to the enterprise which is most
annoying to the stockholders, at least
to those residing in the district, and
who know that the mines are the most
promising in this section of Arizona.
From the Morencl Leader.
On themorning Of June 30, the work
ings in the upper level of the Yankie
mine began to give way. Strenuous eff
forts were made by Superintendent
Church to arrest the work of destruc
tion, but on it becoming evident that
such efforts would be abortive. Mr..
Church wisely withdrew his men. At
noon a series of reports were heard.
the ground on the Yankie and on part
OF the adjoining Longfelow mine
cracked for distance of several hun
dred feet, and large volumes of dust
were emitted from the various cracks
and partings on the ground. 1t being
evident that the subsistence had ceased.
an examination was made of both the
Yankie and Longfellow mines. The
Yankie shaft was found to be so crushed
and damaged as to be useless for fur
ther service. 1t was very evident that
the damage had originated in or very
near the Yankie shaft and in the Yam
kie workings, as the whole hillside, in
sinking, had moved slightly toward this
point. The damage on the Longfelow
mine is, SO far as known, confined to
the old workings, which adjoin the Yam