Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-06
RENEWED ACTIVITY
 AROUND AACOzARI
Many Evidences of Revival Noticed By Visitors To the
 Mexican District.

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Feb. 5.--(Special.l ) From parties arriving in Douglas from the Sonora mining country yes terday it Is learned that many eyi- dences of renewed activity in the min ing industry about Moctezuma and Nacozari are now visible. At Naco- zari the Moctezuma Copper company is working all the men possible on the new concentrator and the work Is progressing in a most satisfactory manner. It is expected to have the first unit of this mill ready for ope- ration by April l. Some thirty-five new steel ore cars have arrived at Nacozari for use on the narrow gauge railroad, over which ore is transport ed from the Pilares mine to the re- auction works.
 Several carloads of ere have been shipped recently by the Belen Min ing company and it is reported that this company will continue to ship the rich ore which has recently been en- countered until such time when it is decided to start up the small furnace which was erected last year. It was learned this week that the Belen com pany had increased its force during January more than twenty men. This company has a large amount of ore which could be shipped at good pro fit if it could be loaded on the cars at Cumpas, but which the expense of packing it to Nacozari will not jus tify shipment. With a smelter in ope- ration at the mines all of this ore would yield profits
 Another regular shipper from the vicinity of Moctezuma Is c. C. Soto-s Nina Cruta de Monte Cristo. This mine is yielding large amounts of high grade silver and lead and has been sending ore regularly to the reduc- tion works during the past gear. At the Promontorio mine, near Moe tezuma. preparations are being made ! for the erection of the smelter and machinery for this plant is now prac- 1 tically all at the mine. This is the
 mine purchased last year by Colonel Travers of Chicago
 Work has been started on the Caro- ! dad mine, five miles east of the Pi. | Whelan of the Sonora Land and De velopment company is in charge of l this work and has employed now a 1 force of thirty men.
 I It is reported that a good body oi
 ore has been encountered on the Cop per King vein, owned by the Naco
 zari Consolidated Copper company !, This company has been working hard at development since last fall and il is the belief that good results will bt reported from this work in the neal
 future.
 ! H. L. Roper of Fl Paso. and his as
 sociates, last week went to Mocte zuma where they incorporated the Dawson Mining company. This com 1 pany was formed for the purpose oi
 purchasing the Ls Mexicana property
 lying twelve miles east of Nacozari i It is the intention of the company tt begin development at once and alsC
 the erection of a stamp mill for the
 treatment of the ore. which is said t
 be a very high grade gold and silver This sale was bona fide cash trans
 action and was brought abou through the agency of Mindon ant ] Russell, mining engineers at Naco zari.
 | In the Tabatacochi district there i. yet considerable work being done, al
 though not so much as during ths
 early part of last year. Tobe Crans shipped a carload of ore from ths Credo Liberal property last monts and is sending another car across tht line this week. The Tabatacochi nins continues regular shipments and th' Elisos is also shipping.
 I Increasing Railroad Work Below Nacozari, in the canyon, th' Southern Pacific company has recent fly increased the number of men a i work on the grade This force hat dyindled down until at one time therl
 were not more than twenty men a
 work. Parties coming up through thi canyon during the last few days sa,
 that the force now amounts to sixt.
 or eighty men.