The copper era., 1905-03-02
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Y. L.. Amstcr d Company express
 the belief that the Arizona Conner
 cial Copper company will be enabled to earn from B to 34 per annum, but
 people buying the stock should not expect dividends for two or three years.-Belt.
 A branch territorial prison farm at or near Benson is talked of. This for short term convicts, who could be put to gardening. It is claimed the products of 1O) acres of garden truck annually would net the territory SJO,00O.
 From the lowest point, of 1901. twcntv-threc leading copper stocks have increased $I25, 463, ,7J0 in market value, the average gain being 21 points including Calumet & Hccla, or r. points excluding that stock. Calumct's gain is 242 points, repre- scnting an increase in capital value of 32i. .2OO,O0O, while Amalgamated's 's gain of 3l! points. amounted to $lS,- 2lO,OO0.
 Range riders last week found an old man wrapped up in his blanket dead in an old stone house near Coy otc Hoc, The evidence showed that he gone to bed and the human ma Chincry run out of fuel and stopped. A cantccn of water and provisions were fouud wilh him. He was cvi- dcntly proSpector and had been dead pcrhap, ten days. Mineral Wealth.
 1t is given out from Boston that the January output of the Old Do minion amounted to lOG3 tons of bliS- ter copper 2.I2G,OOO pounds, d record production for the company. Had it not been for the railroad wa>houts which intcrfered with the securing of supplies of coke. oil and sulphidc ores Il third furnace would have been in commission the latter half of the month. and the production would have been considerably largcr.-Belt.
 The official figures of copper pro duction of the United Verde Copper company for the year ending DcCcm- Der 3l, 1901, are JO,7j0,oOD pounds of refined copper. Included in this out put is about l,5DJ,0OD pounds, repre- scntiug the prOduc tion of the Equator mines, which are owned by Senator Clark. Estimates on the an nual production of the United Verde have ranged all the way from 2o.o00,- GOO to 42,000,0oO pounds.
 Arizona expended on her public school system during the year l9ol the sum of Si57 ,52l.97. pretty nearly half million dollars. Can any state in the union show q better record than that? And this with less than 2O0, ,OO0 population, including In- dianS not taxed. The large sums paid by the people far the education of the children of Arizona k q most eloquent tribute to our people and their carncstncsS in the business of education. Tucson Star.
 Reliable information come, from Silver Bell. that the value of the ore bodies of the Imperial Mining com plnv, now developed. measures up to over SS.21). 900. This beats any show ing for the amount of development of any copper mines yet discovered. or which are being worked. This k not all bv any means. Some of the most promising properties of the Imperial Copper bonanza have not vet been developed but simply scratched.
 The Salt Lake railroad manage mcnt proposes to establish line of stages from Las Vegas to Tonopah. Goldfcld, Bull Frog and Kawich, all lively and prosperous mining camps. The stage will be run every day. Las Vegas is not the closest point to the mines, but there iS abundance of water at Las Vegas, and it is also q good outfitting point. hence the Selec tion of that point. We are told that aS soon as the passenger line is run ming that a freight line will be es- tablished, thus really making South
 
 supply point for all those rich camps. -Citrograph.
 The Anderson Metals Extraction company started work last week grading for cyanide plant to be erected at McCabe for the purpose of working the large pile of tailing> that has accumulated during the past three years. There are about 25,000 tons of tailings, and the average is from S5 to B per ton in gold. There is also between one and two per cent. copper in the pulp. Ten men are grading for the foundateon of the