Arizona silver belt., 1906-07-19
CLIFTON COPPER CAMP
Weekly Grist of News From the Hopper
 of the Copper Era

A train of seven wagons loaded with lumber, tanks, tools, etc., left this week for the camp of the Gold Belt Development company's property at Bonanza and Garfield gulches, where the company have been doing con siderable amount of development work for some months past. The company is now getting right down to business, and will soon have large number of men employed. The stock of the com pany has been advanced to 25 cents per share, but none is being offered at that price.
 The Era is informed by l. N. Steven who was in town last week from his summer camp at Granville, that he and his brother Charles, who have a lease on some of the mines of the Stevens Copper company are now doing remarkably well, considering the short time that they have been working under the lease. They are taking out and shipping ore to the Shannon shelter which averages about IS per cent The leasers are already making money, but expect to do much better as soon as they can get the mine in shape for more extensive work. The ore is red oxide.
 From present information it is prob able that the Shannon company will soon take it's place among the dividend payers of the territory. While the dividend has not yet been declared, it is known that the management consid- CTS that the company is now in con dition to retire it's bonds annually as they become due and at the same time pay quarterly dividends of 25 cents per share, which is at the rate of ten per cent per annum on the capital stock. During the past year the company has expended large sums in the cree ton of converting plant, the better ment of equipment and in the building of houses at the mine and the plant. At the present there is but little need ed in this line. hence it is safe to pay out the surplus earnings of the com pany in dividends. The first dividend will probably be paid on the 3lst day of August, and will come as an agreeable surprise to many shareholders who have waited long and patiently for it..
 The new concentrator No. 6. of the Arizona Copper company, which goes into commission this week. is fine ex- ample of the most modern methods for the reduction of copper ores. While rated at only 700 tons daily capacity, yet the builders are confident the out put will easily reach 1200. The mill is on hill just east of Morenci. Here are two 600-ton capacity crushers, which reduce the ore to about three quarters of an inch, to be conveyed by belt 100 yards to the mill. Power is supplied by one 250-horsepower Nord- berg engine and one direct connection lSo-horsepower dynamo, steam being supplied by three Sterling boilers, eacf of 300-horsepower capacity. The in- terior of the mill is remarkable for it's roominess and convenience. Light comes from skylights fitted with fob- leum, an oil and wire netting combina- tion, durable, poor conductor of heat, and giving restful greenish tint to the light. The usual Wilhey tables and vanners are in evidence, supplied from a single ore grader and separator The new feature about this mill is the immense settling tank which will be built below the mill From this the tailings will be removed to fill in the mines. This mill will make the total daily capacity of the Arizona Copper company's concentrators about 360C