The copper era., 1905-07-27
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 Smelling company is erecting at Va Verde, Yavapai county, Arizon, will cost, completed, about S400, 1000. Ii will have a capacity of 500 tons ot ore day.
 Papers filed for record in Prescott show that the Arizona Smelling com pany has secured the loan of $l80, 900 from Frank M. Murphy to carry on the erection of its Val Verde shelter.
 The best news Phoenix has had fol some time is the report which comes from Prescott to the local Santa Fe offices that work on the Arizona and California road has been resumed and that the line, now. some sixty miles from the Colorado river, will be pushed at once to Parker, river Town. The report became current since Mir. Murphy's return from the east, and no doubt the order to re- sume work was made by him.-Phoe- nix Enterprise.
 United States Attorney Nave has received bunch of abstracts of land in the neghborhood of the Tonto dam site. He will examine them carefully to see that the title to the land is good. The government will then purchase the land. This dam will be the largest in the world. It will cost between $3,000,000 and S4, 900, ,OOO and will be 245 feet high. It will cover 14,OOO acres and will have a storage capacity greater than any other three artificial bodies of water.
 Chief Engineer Thompson, of the Twin Buttes railroad, is in the city accompanied by his wife. He stated that the railroad camp is now estab- lished on the ruins of an ancient vil- lage about fifteen miles south of Tucson. It. is supposed that this was an Aztec village and was perhaps founded hundreds of years ago. Among the workmen at the camp, a Papago Indian who is fairly intelli- gent, states that while the Papagoes had long known of the existence of this village, their traditions say nothing about its founding Citizen.
 The Octave Gold Mining company has filed trust deed to the Common wealth Trust company, of Pittsburg, to cover loan of S200, ,OO0 which it is nSaid will be available to push work at this well known mine. The deal is in the nature of bond issue authorized at the February meeting of the board of directors of the mining company here, having block of 4OO0 bonds ordered issued at par value of $500 each, the same to draw six per cent. interest during the time they remain as collateral for the loan.-Phoenix Gazette.
 James Finch, of Cananea, has sold to the American Steel company of New York his Veta Grande mine, which is situated about ten miles south from Bacoachi, in the Arizpe district. The ledge measures fifty six feet across and the values are surprising for ledge of this size. It is silver proposition, carrying good values in gold and copper. From all the assays ever taken of the ore the lowest general, assay has paid $56 and the highest $19,000 to the ton. These values are most sur prising for a mine the size of the Veta Grande. There have already been immense bodies of ore uncov- cred, and this property is no longer a prospect but a big rich mine.-Can- anea Herald.
 One of the greatest bars of bullion ever produced in Mohave county was brought in from Gold Road last week by Henry Lovin and Deputy Sheriff A. F. Harris. The bar, which was cast in the shape of a cone, weighed 2954 ounces, and was valued at S65, 900. This mass of gold was taken from the plates and tanks in ten days. It is the intention of the com pany to make still larger bar than this one in the run to be made next week, a small bar being made be- tween the big cleanups of the tanks. The mill is being crowded with ore and the stopes on the lower levels are opening up big. AS the vein is penetrated further and further on the 600 level the ore body shows won derful improvement. - Klngman Miner.