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July 26, the skip was installed, and sinking was resumed, with compress ed air as the power for driving the hoisting engine. The hoist has du- plex cylinders, each 6xS inches, and is adequate to sink to the water level and explore at that depth. It is the intention ultimately to raise the shaft through from the Holt tunnel level tc the surface on the crest of the mountain, a distance of probably 200 10 300 feet, and the permanent hoist ing engine will be located there. al though the Holt tunnel will probably continue permanently to be the ave nue through which the ore will be dis charged for transportation to the reduc- ton works, dump being provided to the intersection of the shaft and the tunnel The tunnel is perfectly straight and well adapted to such a purpose, while it's portal is convent ently located for transportation.
 In a letter from Superintendent Sic. both he stated that in excavaung the chamber to permit the erection of the head frame over which -the hoisting cable travels close to the engine, con siderable ore was exposed. This is similar in every way to the ore ex- posed in the main drift from the Holt tunnel
 Upon resumption of sinking in the Holt shaft on July 26 two air drilling machines were put to work simultan- eously in the shaft, the object being to carry the work forward with the great est speed possible. By August 1 the Holt shaft had attained a depth below the surface water level of the country, as manifested in Queen creek, but there was TO interference from this source, no water having shown in the bottom of the shaft. On August II Superintendent Sieboth wrote to the Calumet office as follows:
 T am pleased to report splendid progress in the sinking Of the Holt in-
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cult and expensive undertaking to prosecute.
 Therefore it was determined to dis continue the work there temporarily and develop the oxide and chloride ore bodies above by enlarging the winze then being opened to connect Holt and Carlton tunnels into a permanent full sized working shaft, extending it downward from the Holt tunnel on the incline of the vein at least to the sub terranean water level. This work is now in progress.
 The vein which the Lake Superior & Arizona is developing is in the con tact between a lime hanging wall and a quartzite foot wall. The Holt in clined shaft is being sunk in the hard lime hanging wall.
 This policy was given deep thought, and it was decided that since the quaTtZite was extremely hard and ex- pensiye to break, and since Superin- tendent Sieboth said the shaft could be made permanent and stable ia the hanging wall without interfering seri- ously with the extraction of ore. that the lime, which promised rapid sink ing, should be utilized for the course of the shaft.
 On June 12 the connections between inc Hclt and Carlton tunnels was com pleted and sinking below the Carlton tunnel level was started. Only windlass was available at that time for hoisting the dirt to the Carlton tunnel level. In the meantime the timbering of the shaft between the two tunnel levels was carried forward and a chamber was being cut out, pre- paratory 10 installing a hoisting engine ln the Holt tunnel at the collar of the shaft.
 On July F, after sinking 50 feet be- low the Carlton tunnel level 1t was nee essary to suspend this work until the hoist in the Holt tunnel should be completed. This was accomplished on
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clined shaft. If we can keep up this speed we shall sink at the record rate of 900 feet per month. Water alone can stop us, and I am pleased 10 note that none has appeared.
 "The mechanical equipment of the shaft is all that we can ask. and in fact t permits Of the fastest sinking have ever been connected with
 The Calumet office will be satisfied with a slower speed than the unpre- oendented rate that Superintendent Sieboth has predicted, and will be well pleased if the subterranean water lev el. at a depth of between 500 and 400 feet, is reached by the first of Ooto- ber.
 Two raises are being put up from the Carlton tunnel which are develop ing important ore bodies. They were started in the middle of July, and are known as B" and e." Raise A" was opened some months ago from the Carlton tunnel to connect with the the Anderson tunnel above, the object being to provide an avenue through which 10 drop down the rich ore which had a short time before been discovered in the Anderson tunnel This raise is 50G feet from the portal of the Carlton tunnel and is put up on the incline of the vein, opening thdough ore fer it's entire distance
 Raise B" starts from the Carleton tunnel at point 200 feet beyond raise A and hence 700 feet from the DOT tai. This is also to connect with the Anderson tunnel. IL was opened along the line of further development of the ore bodies already discovered. but at the point where it started the ground was barren, the object in raising there being 10 make developments under the point in the Anderson tunnel from which a good grade of shipping ore comes, and provide by this means ID avenue of egress through the Carlton tunnel.
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Within 20 feet after the raise was started in barren ground the working with faE values of gold, copper and had entered ground of good condition iron, and a promise Of steady improve. nent.
 Raise ."C" was started in the Carl ton tunnel at a point HOO feet from its portal CT about half way along it's entire length. This is 175 feet further into tho mountain that the end of the Anderson tunnel. If the ore cOntin- Ues of the same favorable value to the Anderson tunnel level as it is at the Carlton tunnel, the Anderson will immediately be extended the neces- sary distance to connect with it.
 Short drifts are also being extended from the raise half way betweeen the two tunnel levels and the vein is being crosscut in order to es- tablish block of ore. The object at present IS to make as extensive exploitation as possible, for the pu-- pose of positively blocking out ore bodies but with the minimum of ore extraction, because the dump room is congested and the teaming of the production in large quantities is both impracticable and undesirable be- cause of the bad roads and the ex- pense.
 The summer rains began on July IS, but to the present time they have net interfered with operations The. work is now all being conducted eith- CT above the surface water level ar co far back into the mountain that in- reference from this source is not like-y. The returns of carload No. l4, yielded net values of s2.O414S, that being the amount of the smelter check sent to the company. h letter written August Il Superintend- ent Sieboth says: Raises B and e are doing well in their ore 1si- ton, which is materially strengthen ing the property"
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this before. The statistics and devel- opments of previous years are value less for comparison or guide now. Of course there will be copper enough to go around; but I really don't know where it is coming from"
 The only company that has a con siderable amount of copper on hand is the Calumet & Hecla, which is un- derstood to have brought over 29.000,- 900 pounds from its last fiscal year which ended April 30. I understand that this supply is being smelted and sold as rapidly as possible; but as the company has a considerably increased current supply to take care of, the sur plus accumulation can not all be put on the market at once. It is said in trade circles that Calumet & Hecla was a very heavy seller of copper a short time ago at 15 1-4 cents, and that it has recently seemed to be all sold up and out of the market.
 The outlook for the future is ex- ceeding1y bright. Tine price of copper should average fully 15 cents per pound next year.
 Speculation and investment has at last turned to coppers. The securi-
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George Walker says in his weekly letter in the Boston Commercial
 Copper is selling for 1G 1-2 10 16 3-4 cents for nearby delivery, and 16 cents for December delivery, and l6 cents is now the price for deliveries the first of next year. Practically all of this years copper has been sold, and my prediction of a 15 cent copper market for 1905 has been more than sustain ed. It is believed that the average price will prove to have been close to 15 IA cents per pound.
 The export movement continues heavy, the prospect being that more than 20,000 tons will go abroad this month. The price of Standard has advanced about s3 in the last week, and Best Selected jumped s2 on Thursday, keeping step with the mar ket on this side of the water. There is practically g famine in the cash copper market, both here and in Eu- rope, and 20 cents per pound for Sep tember deliveries need surprise no one.
 A leading metal man says: "I have been selling copper for twenty years, an ! never saw anything like
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ties that represent the most prosper ous branch of trade and industry are beginning to receive the attention they deserve. The sharp advance in prices during the past two or three weeks has brought prosperity to the holders of copper stocks and helped to broaden the trading; and the sensational rise in the price of the metal is advertis- ing the investment merit of copper mining stocks all over the civilized world. It would, indeed, seem that all factors gre cooperating to bring about a growing and broadening spec ulatiOn in the coppers- a speculation that will be backed up and sustained by tremendous net earnings and sub stantial dividend increases.
 The market is now broad enough to trade in, and those who are careful and conservative in their operations will be the largest winners in the end. Profits should be taken in the most active specialties on the sharp rallies, and the substantial dividend paying stocks must not be overlooked in tbe scramble to buy the low-priced issues. While there are a lot of cheap stocks with big prospects. there are also lot
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it to point beneath that where the vein is intercepted by the Holt tunnel. Again, at an altitude of so feet be- low the Anderson tunnel, and there fore 160 feet below the Holt tunnel, is the Carlton tunnel. This also enters the mountain on the vein, and hence it's portal is down the slope immedi- ately below the Anderson tunnel.
 The Carlton tunnel extends to a point below that where the vein is intercepted by the Holt tunnel, and it was to make air connections and thus provide ventilation that the opening which is now being transformed into the Holt inclined shaft was first plan ned to be holed through. It was also included in the original plan that this opening, which is inclined to conform with the incline of the vein, should be developed into a permanent working winze. through which the ore from the down 10 the Carlton tunnel which was calculated to be the principal working tunnel.
 The three tunnels already described have developed an extensive and prof itable area of oxide and chloride ore above the water level of the country, as t is manifested in Queen creek. flowing through the channel at the base of the mountain, and hence, of course, above the subterTanean water level which always overlies the perma- nent sulphide ore bodies.
 An attempt was being made up un- T-- IL Al phide ore bodies at depth in a shaft started near the base of the mountain. But the surface water resulting from the unprecedented rains of that sea son, combined with the flow of subter- ranean water, rendered the work ex- tremely expensive. The shaft was started not far from Queen creek, and while this wsrk would not have inter fered under uarmal conditions, the ab- normal rains rendered it a very diff
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Jhe Lake Superior & Arizona mine in Arizona has new reached @ stage in the development Of the Holt incline shaft where much more rapid progress is looked for. Two months is expect ed to see it opened to a depth core spending to the depth of the old shaft, which was interrupted by water, part ly because of the close proximity of Queen creek and partly by the sub terranean flow.
 Extremely satisfactory results have also been obtained in the development of the exposed ore bodies recently by means of two raises which are in pro- gress, and an excellent showing has been secured at the two points where the principal attacks are being made.
 These two phases of development have been the center of the Lake Su- perior & Arizona's operations ever since last June, and they will contin- ue to absorb all the attention for at least the next two months. The poli- cy after that will have to be indicated by subsequent trend of developments.
 As announced in the Mining Gazette at the time, the Holt incline shaft was started early last June. It is a blind opening, not being extended to the surface of the earth, but extending downward from the Holt tunnel.
 This tunnel is at higher altitude than any of the other Lake Superior & Arizona workings, and is not driven on the vein, but penetrates the noun tain as a crosscut through country rock, reaching the vein at considera- ole distance from the entrance to tun- mel and at a point of very satisfactory enrichment.
 At an altitude of so feet below the Holt tunnel is Anderson tunnel, but this is driven into the mountain on the vein, the point of entrance there fore, being on another face of the slope. This tunnel lacks a long dis tance of extending far enough 10 bring
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holders and the public have a demon stration that Mir. Paine is working solely for the Copper Range company, while h.s opponents in the present controversy are trying to saddle the company with debt it does not owe.
 It is understood that Copper Range company has succeeded in preventing the sale of 4,400 shares of it's stock, part of the 10000 shares, and that the total borrowings on this is $35 per share. A Copper Range interest ex- presses confidence that the equity in this comparatively small lot of stock alone will within three or four years te sufficient to pay the entire $54O,- GOO remaining unpaid on the Trimoun- tain debt. This amounts to a con- fident prediction tEat the stock will be worth and sell at s155 to s16O per share. The equity in this stock at present must amount to about $155,- GOO.
 A week ago I thought that the stock would be raided, and l recommended Its purchase on reactions. At present know of so many strong investors and traders who are waiting to buy tens of thousands of shares at lower
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of investment coppers that are now earning enough to entitle them to sell considerably higher.
 Copper Range stock has been nearly as plentiful in the market as it was ss- sumed it would be. There has been very little real selling, the big lots changing hands at low quotations re- gently apparently having been bought and sold by the same interests. The price recovered easily from the low est, and everything now seems favor able to a considerable advance. Cop per Range should soon sell higher "ex- Lawson" than it ever did Lawson on." There is multiplying evidence that Lawson and Burrage and sub stantially all their friends have sold their Copper Range, and also that their only present interest in the company is that forced upon them by the court proceedings recently instituted.
 President Paine has brought suit to recover the 70,0OO shares of stock re- gently sold and to enforce the payment of the Trimountain debt of s540,000. Mir. Lawson issues a public statement to make known the intention of him. self and associates to avoid the pay
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prices that I feel satisfied it will not have any material decline, and be- lieve it should be bought at present quotations-$70 to $75-for much higher prices.
 The Copper Range properties are in excellent shape. Baltic is now stamp ing nearly 2,OoO tons of rock daily with three heads, and its fourth stamp is crushing Champion rock. The Baltic will show net earnings of ful-J $1,000,00O this year, and Champion should considerably lead Baltic in this particular. Trimountain is showing gradual improvement. The work of sinking the new shaft on the recently optioned Globe property is making un- expectedly rapid progress. The new shelter is continuing to handle the entire mineral output of the Paine Stanton mines with most excellent re- suits. the saving in costs fully meeting early expectations.
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Last night a sorry looking old terra pin came in to the refreshment depart ment of the Naco Hotel where Frank Abrams and his estimable better half look after the wants of the tired and thirsty public. He reeled off a pair of yawns and a couple of groans two sizes too big for him. The agree able bartender asked him what was the matter. He said he was hungry and dry and homeless and sick and wanted to die The accommodating bartender offered to loan him a six shooter if he desired to blow out his gray brain matter. The stranger hesitated a moment and said, 'lTl jist call you pard if you think am bluff in %. The bartender did not back down so he handed the stranger a 45
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were, I believe our readers will give me credit for sincerity so far as my observation may extend and my jUdg- nent in the premises stand the test.
 The leading properties in the Whet- stone District are the Larrieu aud Chadwick group, the La Rita Develop ment, the Gallen combination. the Hare properties and an excellent fire clay proposition which is in the north end of the range.
 This group consists of eight claims, the nearest and most accessible prop erty in the range, being connected with Fairbank, on the Fl Paso & Southwestern and also the Southern Pacific by splendid wagon road, at s distance of about fifteen miles.
 The topography of the group is dis tinguished for rug1d aspect and ip nearly cTsry iastG-ee level work nay
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The Naco horse is a plunger. There is a certain officer here who owns just six Of them. He has one he calls the sheep. He says it is the tamest one in the herd. If so, don't want to perform on the quarter deck of the widest one. Yesterday morning he took the sheep out for exercise. He has broken that horse every mornng for three years to my certain knowledge. Yesterday he had to break him twice. He said the horse was as gentle as a lamb After that horse throws him over a 'dobe house he will arise, brush his Overalls, gath CT that horse in and feed him sugar. Yesterday morning he started out Cn that dOve-eyed creature just to air him out. l followed along to see the gentle quadruped perform. He per formed promptly. dlergetically and
 to the point. He bucked till I was afraid the telegraph wires were not high enough. First ! picked un Jeffs gun, then his hat, then a cartridge belt, one spur, his barlow knife, a plug of tobacco, S2.75 in silver and a sus- bender buckle. Being an experienced placer miner I thought l detected a particle of gold lying on the sand. I was correct. It was a piece of filling
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tion exists, one who has never visited the district may draw conclusion from the facts as gathered from personal observation.
 The prevailing formation is distin- guished for the presence of granite, lime and porphyry in approximately equal proportions.
 The average expert with a mighty understanding of ''ites" and a slen- der knowledge of practical conditions, might indulge indefinitely in rhythmi- cal mention of formation, trend, con tact, fusion, fault. erosion, precipita- tion and a thousand other inocuous expressions. which, after ali, in the language of the veteran justice of the peace constitute banquet of words and famine of ideas"
 The whole district, including the properties which I shall specifically mention, includes general facilities for mining operations far above the ordi-
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Arizona mining districts may be said to conform in extent in most in stances 10 Arizona mountain ranges.
 The Whetstone district is no excep ton of the majestic Huachucas, rising out of the bosom of the plains, clear cut as the Pyramids. in an incompara ble atmosphere. the WhetstOnes share all the grandeur of the mother range along with marked improvement iE imperial beauty.
 The WhetstoEes deserve a more eu- phonious handle than the one attacn- ed to the humble article which sharp ems the woodlands axe, the farmer scythe. the warriors sword and every thing from the assassiR's dagger to the workngman's appetite between which there is the broadest expanse conceivable.
 Conclude as we may. successful mining has been attended with beauti- ful and romantic history, scenery a2d
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One of our most esteemed citizens whose name ends with Blake has as certained that modern inventions are a delusion and a fraud.
 He was inveigled into purchasing shower bath contraption. It consist ed of a ring of metal hose, elaborate ly perforated which you place around the neck and shoulders after turning the water on. He proceeded to try it. His anatomy shrinks from cold water like an old maid from the game of ring a round a rosy" or kiss m the ring" After he turned the flaw cet on the key was out of his reach. At first the water from the surface pipe came streaming beautifully over his anatomy, then it grew delightful ly cold and all at once the freezing deluge from sCbterranean sources was upon him and he could not escape. He tried to call for help, but his voice was out visiting. He tried to break away, hut he was besieged with
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nary, including aU abundance of wa ter, wood for fuel and timbers, and all important adjuncts to developing, mining, reduction and smelting opera tions and facilities for transportation, being about 16 miles west of FairbanK, quite accessible, with a splendid wag- on road connecting with the E. P. & $. ". railroad.
 As regards the absolute mining re- sources of the district as they now appear. visited the leading mining and development propositions, and shall endeavor to state clearly and i'm partially what ! saw, and state from information and belief, the approxi-
 mate values involved in my investiga- tions. My humble description of the district has nothing of the character Of promotion I simply desire to sub init the first systematic mention the distric; has ever had, and when I have completed this inventory, as it
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NacO does not boast a fine haired hotel where one IS not permitted to eat in his shirt sleeves, but has sev- eral of the best feeding dumps in the Territory. It may be that some peo pie do not know that they are hungry unless they put on a coat That is a fine economic scheme, as they could give their coats away and starve to death without knowing it. Such peo- pie as a class, in the language of Tai. mage, usually put everything they make on their backs and eat when they are invited" so the coat system is very convenient for them.
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Colts. "I1l jist fool you if you don't think I mean business" remarked the stranger, and he did, for even as he spake he backed out of the door Os- tensibly to allow his life's blood to flow gracefully into the gutter, but no stunning report, no "dull, sickening thud" resulted no "lifeless form" was discovered as an aftermath and no nickle plated 45 now rests behind the Naco Hotel bar.
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Rev. StOver is expected back in a few days. Everyone likes Brother Stover, not on account of his profes- sion but because he has done such good work among the children, the flowers of NacO, to whom all loyal men and women are ready to devote the toll, the trouble, the tenderness of a sIetime, the noblest mibsion that a Christian can embrace.
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and concluded to return and restore its original vermillion complexion.
 Knotty Wilson's trade has increased since somebody stole his sawed-off shot gun and the old rounders discov- cred that his stomach pump was out of order. They have no money but their supply of gall is registering higher test every day.