The copper era., 1905-07-20
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The Calumet 6 Arizona produced 1886 tons of copper for the month of
 May. This is about the average of
 production since January l and it is
 given out that this amount will be
 kept up for the year.
 Of the Copper Glance property the stockholders are left with. the
 patented ground, the machinery has -Tbeen taken off of the property. The
 machinery has been sold off piece meal. Operations, for some reason,
 have failed to realize expectations.
 On the 70O-foot level on the Shat tuck & Arizona fine body of dre has been eIcduntered which is expec ted to run i'd td F per cent. copper. The main shaft is. down 75O feet. The pumps are now in operation. Supt. Pattison will resume work in the bot t n of the shaft as soon as the water some 50 feet, is gotten out of the shaft.
 Charlie Ritsch and Andy Denier write back from central California that they could not find any land for sale at less than S4OO per acre, and they went further north to see if they could not find cheaper land there. It is safe to predict that the boys will come back to the land of sunshine to invest their hard-earned dollars. Land that can be bought for S10 per acre here at present, will, when we get the water problem solved, be worth as much as the California land in dollars and cents and far surpass the latter in produc- tiveness. It is a mistake to leave here now.-Blade.
 c. B. Bell, one of the joint owners of the Reina de Cobra mine in So- nora, has a couple of curios which cannot be duplicated in Arizona, and possibly not in the world. In the old workings of the Reina de Cobra, when he bought the mine and began work, he found two old drills which had been used many years ago, and left when the working were aban- doned, laying on the copper ore. In the years that passed by the the steel corroded and passed away, it's place being taken in every instance by native copper. Every particle of the drills are now pure copper, made 50 by natures transformation \ Douglas American.
 HThe famous Fortua mine, near (Yuma, Arizona, a property that has yielded millions of dollars in gold, has "passed out" About year ago, while still in rich rock, the miners came upon ''fault," beyond which they have been unable to locate the ore vein. The keenest of experts have directed the work of tracing the lost vein, but without success. Immense sums have been spent in this work, as it is appreciated that the vien will be worth still more millions of dollars if found. The Fortuna cyanide tanks, with capacity l for 100 tons a day, have been sold to Los Angeles company. The cyanide plant will be enlarged to the ca pacity of 200 tons a day and placed | on the tailings of the Grand Central l mill near Tombstone. The Grand | Central, now part of the Tomb l stone Consolidated company's hold | ings was bonanza in the early sos. The tailings are estimated at 125, 900 | tons, and assay from S4 to $5 a ton in gold and silver. The Tombstone fhi output.-Yuma Sun.
 The board of equalization of Co chise county made some startling ad i vances in assessed valuations turned | in for stockmenof the county. In all | a total increase of Sl73,790 has been | made to date. It is expected that | before the board is through the in- creases put on Cattlemen will aggre- | gate more than S200,000. Those with l whom the board dealt and the | amounts for which they were ad- vanced were as follows: Chiricahua | Cattle Co.,, $500 head of cattle ad- detional to the number turned in to | the assessor; total advance in assess ment, S4S,5OO. Cummings & Co.,, Swisshelms, 4.760 head additional. | Mrs. Ruck, San Simon, increase of | S9,370. San Simon Cattle Co.,, 370 head of cattle additional: total in- crease in assessed valuation, S3S, 700. | Munch Bros, 450 head additional; | total advance, S7,30O. Four-Bar ranch, 25OO head additional; total in- crease, S26, 300. There are yet sev- eral cattle companies and cattlemen to be reached by the board, and it is on these that it is expected ad ditional values will be put that will raise the aggregate advance to more than S200,000.