The copper era., 1905-06-29
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY

Last week Charlie Parks returned from Globe, where he and other par ties delivered about 1000 head of beef cattle. The trip was made without incident and with very small Ioss.-Bulletin.
 Judge Campbell allowed Attorney Charles Blenham $2500 as attorneys fees for the Zeckendorf-Steinfeld re ceivers. The original bill was ST. 900, but Judge Blenham himself modestly stated that he thought this was too high.-Citizen.
 Just now there is a great scarcity of mine laborers in the northern part of Arizona. This is particularly so in Yavapai county and especially about Jerome, although there is no denying the scarcity in all the camps prac- t4cally. It is claimed that more than 2AQO miners can find employment at from Ss to S5 per day in the north ern part of the territory.
 pr. E. B. Perrin, owner of the onyx quarries, forty-fve miles north west of Prescott has made a contract with the Denver Development com pany to do SS0,O0O worth of work on them, and other contracts with Chi cago people to take the entiIe out put. A narrow gage railroad is to be built from Seligman on the Santa Fe railroad to the quarries.
 
 town railroad is said to be under water. This is the part of the road between Speer's Lake and the Colo rado river. Mail and light freight is ferried across the river to the high banks of the lake, whence it is car ried three times week to Vivian. It is expected that the river will be- come normal within a month.-King- man Miner.
 We have before us at this writing list of 237 dividend paying mines of which the shares are at premium, and in all of which the first cost of the shares was away below par. "Nothing venture, nothing have. " This does not signify that any in- vestment presented will pay out big, but it means that a proposition pre- scented should be carefully considered before being rejected.-Ex.
 l, Twelve years ago SlOO invested in NtAe Upited Verde Copper mine of gArizonaIcost Sl a share and was worth ,SlOO; today that $1OO worth of shares is worth S30,0 and the returns are S4 200 per year. One hundred dollars invested in the Home Stake, South per share, is now worth S2O,OOO. Jack Pot mine in Cripple Creek in 1894 is now worth 1,5OO, and $75O in divi- dends has been received by the hold CT of the shares in the interium.
 Charles H. Ovitt and C.. w. Good win, of Chicago, with J. StOneman, have incorporated the New England Arizona Copper Gold Mining com pany. The property owned by MT. Stoneman is in the Saddle mountain district on the Gila river, in Arizona and adjoins the claims formerly own ed by Goshen brothers of Douglas, but now the property of the Colorado Gold and Silver Mining company. The new company is capitalized at s OOO,OOO.
 The Tombstone, Ariz., Prospector is authority for the following: It is understood that the Tombstone Con- solidated Mines company will shortly start work on the old Girard mill and remodel the 20 stamps with an addi- tional capacity of 20 more besides building a concentrator thereon. This is being done so that the ore can be crushed here and concentra- ted and then shipped to the smelter at Fl Paso at less expense, whereas for every ton of ore shipped in its natural state, four or five times as ,-fnuch can be shipped after the waste is distracted.
 There has been a great scarcity of Mexican labor at the Copper Queen and c. S A. smelters since last pay day. Tom Osgood, boss of the slag SduS tI IHC OOPPCl &uCCh; Helo DSSH short forty men and the briquetting gang and the coke gang and the ore gang have also been short. Quite number of Mexicans have gone to Roosevelt to work on the Tonto dam where they get S2.50 per day for ten hours work, another considerable bunch have gone into the Chirachuas to work in the development of the Cochise Consolidated mines and oth CTS have been taken out of town to work at various points. The short age has been occasioned by outside people drawing on the Douglas labor supply.