The copper era., 1905-09-28
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Advices received from Dos Cabezas are to the effect that there is con- siderable activity in mining circles in that section. The strike made recently by Thompson, Gardner and Grimes is very promising. There is a 14-inch lead on the surface which is widening with depth, and main taining values in gold and silver at from $500 to $500 per ton. They are working diligently to open up their property, and refuse to bond to par ties who desire an option.
 The Tombstone Consolidated Min ing company. has announced that it will at once begin the erection of a forty stamp mill on Toughnut Hill in ores, and also will begin the construc- tion of a standard guage railroad to , the main line to handle the output. The idea that there would be profit in deep mining has been verified. The mill will use both concentrators and cyaniding processes, and thus every particle of ore brought up will be properly worked and financial re- turns increased.
 Cochise county is now the richest county in the territory, having a val nation of O,9S7, ,493.53, while Mari copa county, which>has occupied first place for a long time, has an as sessed valuation of Sl0, ,237 100000. And Cochise county is only getting d good start, her vast resources only being developed to a limited extent. No county in the territory can ever catch up with Cochise for the very good reason that we have varied re- sources that, when developed, will add vastly to our present wealth, and they are of a permanent nature that will produce wealth until the time when the hills about Us crumble away.-Review.
 Reliable words comes from Pearce to the effect that the management who are now working the Common wealth under lease, will soon start the other forty stamps and increase the number of men employed. Con- siderable ore is being stopped out near the surface in the vicinity of where the big cavein occurred. From two to three bars of high grade bullion are being shipped each month as the of he ,-la of ha John Metcalf, formerly connected with the Copper Queen company at Bisbee, is acting as foreman of the mine. With the bringing into com mission of the forty stamps now idle and a corresponding increase in the working force, Pearce. will soon re- sume her place among the thrifty mining mps.-Tucson Star.
 We notice that the republican edi- tor of the Phoenix Enterprise, organ of the Kibbey administration, talks about 'chattels" in connection with editors of newspapers in mining counties, and then remarks that abuse is not argument. That is fact, is it not: and yelling about making a handful of producing mines pay more taxes is no answer or ex- cuse for the infamous donbling up of taxation on hundreds upon hundreds of non-producing mines, which in many cases practically amounts to the confscation of the property of poor men. A more damnable and outrageous injustice could not be perpetrated and the republicans who imagine that they are making political capital out of this matter (the Enterprise editor among them) will find that they have political capital, but not in favor of them selves.-Prescott Courier.
 w. K MaulI, of the Shines Failing company, who is operating a plant at the old Grand Central mill, was in the city last week. In conversation with Prospector reporter MT. Maull stated that his company had com pleted six of the big tanks and com menced to handle tailings, and five tanks have been filled. Work on the other tanks, twenty in number, is be- ing rapidly completed, a force of thirty men being at work on them. These tanks are thirty-one feet in diameter and seven feet deep and are capable of holding 3O,OOO gallons of solution or about POO tons. When completed it will be one of the largest cyanide plants in the west, and the company will handle from POO tons to 800 tons per day. MT. Maull stated that the work of cy- aniding the entire tailing bed would consume some time, as the bed is in some places fifteen feet deep and