Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-12
IN SONORA.

Aside from the preparations which will soon increase the output at Na- cozari, there is little to report for the week from the country south of Doug las. The Belen company is continu- ing the operation of the small fur mace, blown in two weeks ago, and reports are to the effect that the re suits are satisfactory The Belen mines are located twenty-eight mfres from Cumpas and have continued ope- ration during the slump in the price of copper. Before starting their fur mace the company was shipping aoout two cars of ore per week to the Cop per Queen smelter in this city.
 H. C. Beauchamp, superintendent of the Transvaal Mining company, has returned from the east. He gives no indication as to the intentions regard ing the Transvaal property. which in- cfudes a well equipped smelting plant at Cumpas. When the Southern Pa cific shall have completed its line and Is ready to handle freight from Cum pas, 1t is believed that the Transyaal can resume production with a profit. which under present conditions is not possible.
 During the past week the stock holders of the Arizona Mining and Trading company, owners of the Los Angeles mine. located eight miles be low Nacozari, reached a settlement of their controversies over the proper ty. The Los Angeles mine made a good record during the development so far as 1t has proceeded.
 Divided into eight books, covering 2300 typewrttten pages, alleging 260 ,lf 900, a bill of exceptions in the Lost Bullion Spanish mines case has been filed in the federal court at Denver by Attorneys Franklin and Tedrow. thus carrying 1t to the United States circuit court of appeals, says a Den yer exchange. It is the largest docu- ment of the kind ever filed in the federal court there and covers each could be based
 The promoters of the Lost Bullion company were fined various amounts and given short jail sentences. Not dannted by the results of the trial a special committee was sent by the stockholders, the majority of whom live in Baltimore. and assays taken. The report was so favorable. it is alleged, that it was decided not to drop the matter. and plans were made to reorganize the company
 Now the case has been appealed and the result will be watched with interest by all mining men. Mum erous exceptions are taken to re- marks of Judge Lewis during the trial. which. it is claimed, influenced the jury in arriving at a verdict The most important point taken up re gards the testimony of Paul V. Key ser. assistant attorney general of the postofice department, who advised the issuance of fraud order when the case was heard in Washington. He testified in the. federal court be- fore Judge Lewis as to what the wit nesses in Washington said, and the government was allowed to introduce in evidence papers and affidavits used In issuing the fraud order. The de fendants contend in their appeal that testimony taken in a civil action can not be used afterward in a criminal action. Another claim is that the situation in the case was not such as to justify an indictment The Lost Bullion company says it's mines. which are located in Grant county, N. M., are valuable to the extent stated in literature mailed to prospective buyers of stock and that while the government placed men on the stand who testified that the proposition was fraudulent. they were not mining ex- pers capable of passing on the merits of the mine.