The copper era., 1905-10-19
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

All 1O-luCu NCIu O1 SOIIu SdISIld Ids
 been opened up at a depth of D feet
 in the Pacific claim of the Fletcher
 group in the Mineral Hill district by
 miners doing assessment work on the
 operty.-Florence Blade.
 Probably the finest wagon road,
 leading to mining camp, in Arizona
 has just been completed by the Stan ley Butte Consolidated Copper com
 pany, connecting their mines with the railroad at San Carlos. The road is fourteen miles in length, runs along the top of the mesa all the
 way, is hard as a macadamized road,
 without one steep pull. It has taken three months to build, with force of eighty men and cost S5, 5,OOO.-Belt.
 Calumet & Arizona is producing at the rate of about 3O,O0O, ,000 pounds per annum, and on the present cop per market the company should be making profits of at least SIP per share on its S2OO,OOO shares outstand- ing. The present dividend rate is over S2 every three months, and there are possibilities of ''extras'' if the price of copper continues at r cents per pound. The stock is not selling unduly high at it's present market price of s98 per share.-Bos- ton News.
 John Quaid and Edward Anderson were killed at the Copper Queen shelter last week, when car laden with a heavy casting on which they were riding left the track and turned over. The casting fell on Quaid lengthwise, crushing his skull and breastbone and killing him instantly. Anderson was also struck by the casting, but lived about two hours and died at the Calumet and Arizona hospital. Quaid is apparently un- known in Douglas. Information con- cerning Anderson is being looked up at the shelter, but nothing definite could De learned. An inquest on the death of Quaid was held by Judge Mcdonald and a verdict of unavoid- able accident was returned.-Ameri- can.
 At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Greene Consoli- dated Copper company, President W. c. Greene and the management of the company were unanimously en- dorsed. At the meeting of the direc- tors immediatly afterwards, Col. Greene was reelected president. George s. Robbins, secretary, and Alfred Romer, treasurer. The con- pany's balance sheet shows net profits of nearly S3,OOO, ,O00 for the year end ing July 31. Col. Greene said the ca pacity of the plant at Cananea was being considered and that plans are being enlarged for the installation of electric power from the Yaqui river, 12O miles distant, for use at the copper mines in place of steam. This would effect a saving of about Sl 100000 year.
 Few people perhaps know that Yuma county has the only quickSil- yer mine in the territory. The prop erty is located at Cinnabar, fourteen miles from Ehrenburg. The mines are being operated by the Colonial Mining company, which has been car rying on development work on a con scale for the past year. The results have been very gra tify- ing. A double compartment shaft has been sunk to depth of 1S0 feet. The ore extends the width of the shaft, six feet, and how much further is not yet known, but there is a large body and the ore averages per cent. pure c;nnabar. The company has in- stalled the most modern machinery for economical mining, and will have a new reduction plant in operation by March l.
 J. w. Jackson arrived in Kingman last week, from the Big Sandy, with another shipment of tungsten ore. The combined weight of the two shipments Is over 1000 pounds. val ued at Sl POO. The owners of the property now have an arastra and jig in operation, and are getting out d great deal of ore. The main work is on the big quartz dike on the summit of the range and the best ore is found embedded in mica. The metal has tO he freed from this matriX he fore shipping and it is for this pur- pose that the arastra is used. Should the mines open up as big as surface outcrop indicates, mill will proba- bly, be put in and the ores that now have to go over the dump will be handled. The boys have a better thing than a gold mine.-Kingman