Arizona silver belt., 1906-06-07
CLIEToN-mORENcI DISTRICT
The Mining News of Eastern Graham
 County 90 Reported by tho Era

The Mining News of Eastern Graham
 County as Reported by the Era
 President Palmer, of the Shannon Copper company arrived Monday last on a tour of inspection of the com pany's property and will remain another week or longer. His trip has no par ticular significance except that it is his policy to keep in touch with the affairs of the company at the mines.
 Last week three cars of ore were shipped from the San Jose mine, owned by the Standard Consolidated Copper company, to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas, which was rich in silver as we'll as in copper. There was one car of first-class, which will go about 40 per cent copper and from 40 to 50 ounces in silver. The other two cars will average from 15 to l7 per cent cop per and about 20 ounces in silver. The shipment will bring returns of between S40OO and $5OOO. This is the best ship ment ever made from the San Jose mine which is now opening up in good shape. The shipment was made to Douglas for the reason that the Detroit Copper company at Morenci, where the ores of the company are usually treated is not prepared to handle ores car rying precious metals.
 F. O. Bacon, of the Independent as- say office, who returned last week from an inspection of the property of the Ash Peak company, at Ash Peak, in this county, stated that he was sim ply astounded at what he saw there. He had heard so little of the camp that he expected to find but little, but in this he was most agreeably disap- pointed, for he found well developed mine with thousands of tons of ore on the dump and many more thousands stopped out and ready to be broken down. He states that not pound of waste has ever been taken from the mine as the entire dump shows good milling values if treated on the ground. He carefully examined the new strike recently made and frequently referred to in the Era and says that for the amount of work done upon it he consid- CTS it the biggest and best he has ever seen during his experience of many years in the mining regions. A shaft 6xl2 has been sunk to depth of $ feet when he was there from which he estimates that at least $80O0 worth of ore has been taken running in both gold and silver. Much of this ore will run $4O0 to the ton, while the lowest grade goes $50. The entire bottom of the shaft is in ore and it is going down at the rate of IS inches per day. Mir. Bacon states that had this strike been made in Nevada there would have been sever- al thousand people in the camp by this time, but Arizona well, it's different, that's all. The people here are not so excitable, or perhaps it is because they are so accustomed to big things that they do not get excited over new strikes
 Trout Season Opens.
 The trout season opened June l and the excellent fishing for mountain trout is now being enjoyed by the pat rons of Isaac Walton, to the fullest extent.
 Thursday the following anglers left for the Thomas ranch on Oak Creek for ten days outing: Professor Percival Lowell, Judge R. E. Sloan of Prescott, J. B. Jones of Williams, E. A. Sliker, J. c. Verkamp, E. M. Doe. Yesterday the party was joined by K. M. Ling of Prescott, and l.. F. Verkamp and George Babbitt. Hon. Mark A Smith, who was expected to have been one of the party, was delayed in Washington on account of the statehood bill. - Co conimo Sun.
 ] HEAVY TRAINS ON s. P.-Longel and heavier freight trains have decreas ed the number of trains on the road al the preset time than at the same time