Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-26

of the Keystone Copper company was held in this city on the 18th inst. when directors were elected to serve the ensuing year as follows: L. F. Wightman, J. N. Porter, J. J. Keegan, S. F. Sullenberger, l.. l.. Henry, H. P. Wightman. H. H. liar vey, J. K. Finletter and S. A. Ark ills. The articles of incorporation were amended to permit of the in crease from $75,000 as limited by the original charter, to s100,000. A proposition made by J. B. Newman to take up the mortgage on the property and also other indebtedness, was fayorably considered, and New man paid into the treasury of the company $6,000 pending the com pletion of the contract.
 Arizona Commercial.
 Rumors are rife of a change of Arizona Commercial, which has been partially effected by the retire ment of Mine Foreman Carr and the by Mir. 0'Neill. late of Butte, Mont.
 Jerome District News.
 As work continues on the Cleo patra, the amount of ore grows lars- CT and larger. MT. Hull informs the News that on the first day of May he will start men at work taking ore from wherever 1t has been exposed in the Cleopatra This means that hundreds of tons of high grade ore will be ready for the smelter within a very short time. The Cleopatra shelter is ready to blow in just as soon as the material necessary to reduce the ores is on the ground.
 Reports from the Syracuse are to the effect that the diamond drill is working without hitch, and that the cores taken out are full of mineral high in gold.
 J. J. Shaw, accompanied by A. H. Lyons, visited the property of the MaZatzal Copper company, in Tonto Basin last week, returning home Sat urday evening. He reports that they are now drifting in 1-2 feet of ore assaying 1-2 per cent copper, 5 52-1o per cent lead, 2 ounces silver and 40 cents gold. The indications are so encouraging that an additional 30 h. D. boiler has been purchased and, at this writing, should be on. the ground. This will give ample power to continue the main tunnel to the next cropping as well as to explore the new ledge by drifting and sink ing. Mir. Shaw brought back with him about twenty pounds of the ore and surface croppings, placing it in the window of the Bank of Jerome for inspection. Thursday, MT. Shaw received another lot of samples from the property, sent in by his superin- tendent, which are much richer than those he brought in. It now looks as if the MaZatzal is going to make good.
 At the Verde Grande, Superintend- ent Scott continues to rush work on the deep shaft There has been an- other change in the formation, and a most encouraging one. Mir. Scott is very conservative miner; one whom it is hard to get an opinion out of regarding his own properties, but he is at all times ready to say good word for his home district. Read what he had to say to a Journal Miner reporter: Business is in healthier condition and mining is more active than ever before in and around Jerome this year. While 1t is true that the United Verde Copper company reduced it's force last No vember, yet that reduction is more than offset by the number of men employed by other companies oper- ating around the United Verde. In the last two years seven different concerns have installed plants and are now conducting large develop ment operations. Until these con- concerns started, there was very lit tie mining of any consequence in the district outside of the United Verde mine. It is a cinch that some of the new concerns will make inn portant mineral discoveries as all are conducting operations in a minerlike way, confiring their operations, in the main. to sinking shafts to great depth.
 ''The strike made a week ago in the Cleopatra mine is showing good" he continued The ore is a copper sulphide, samples of which assay from twenty to forty per cent in copper. The crosscut broke into the Cleopatra ledge at a depth of 300 feet from it's apex and it is the opinion of all miners familiar with the district who have examined it in the last week that the pay streak extends into the Sunny South claim