The copper era., 1905-08-24
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NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Yuma has the only quicksilver mine within the territory. The mine is at Cinnabar, fourteen miles from Ehrenberg. The property is being developed.
 The contract to sink the Cuprite shaft for the Copper Queen has been let. This shaft will be located not far from the Spray and will be a double compartment shaft. After the first fifty feet are completed a hoist will be installed.
 A shipment of twenty-five China men was made from Tucson last week to San Francisco for deportation. They were under escort of U. s. Marshal Daniels. The Chinamen were collected i'll different sections 4f the southern part of the territory. -0>-A few days ago a body of exceed ingly rich ore was uncovered on the 7OO-foot level in the big shaft of the Tombstone Consolidated Mines com pany. The ledge is said to be four feet wide carrying good values in both gold and silver. An eighteen inch portion of the same ledge is said to assay over S25OO per ton.
 The sawmill of the Gibson Lumber Co.,, A. Trojanovich, manager, on Graham mountain, IS now turning out 10000 feet of native lumber daily. The blaming mill annex is also in readiness for operation, so dressed and surfaced lumber will soon be on the market. John Pascoe, of this city, is experimenting the construction of a log chute three quarters of a mile long which will save great deal of expensive haul ing and permit operations at all sea- sons of the year.-Belt.
 The I5O-ton smelter of the Saddle Mountain Copper company was blown in last week. The plant is about seven miles from Dudleyville, Pinal county. The company owns large group of copper mines at the junction of Disappointment Valley with the Gila river, and has large amount of ore that can be quarried out. There seems to be no limit to the ore in sight and there should be no question as to the success of the smelling plant, as the ore is self-fluxing. The Spresent- terminus of the Phoenix X Eastern railroad is only eight miles from the property and the proposed Arizona Eastern railroad will pass within a mile of it. There is no doubt as to the construction of the latter road.
 The real pioneers of Arizona are growing scarce. There are but few remaining in the territory who came before the organization of the terri tory, but in Douglas today is man who first came through this section of the west in 1857, five years before the Territory of Arizona was cut from New Mexico and given sepa- rate government. This man is Col. EdePeck, the discoverer of the fam ous Peck mine in Yavapai county, which proved to be one of the rich est silver mines in the Territory of Arizona. On his first trip through what is now Arizona, Colonel Peck, then mere boy, was with party from his native State of Missouri en route to alifornia.-Douglas Amer ican.
 Superintendent Seymour, in charge of the construction of the Laguna dam, near Yuma, has arrived from California and gone to the contrac- tors camp at the dam site to take i'm mediate charge of the work. MT. Seymour stated that everything per taining to the work was progressing satisfactorily. Enough of the ground at the dam site is now cleared of tim Der and brush to admit of an increase of the force of scrapers, and there are now forty teams at work. Ma chinery will begin to arrive in three weeks. The ground where this is to stand is now being leveled off, and other preliminary work will follow, so that it can be set in place fast as the parts are recieved. Before leav- ing Yuma for the dam site MT. Sey- mour made an inspection of the steamer Cuchan and her barge, with a view to purchasing or leasing for use in transporting machinery and ma terial.