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IH recoutly purchased by the company and Is a valuable one. The big lime and iron belt which passes through the company 'a property adds groat value to It for tho reason that irou and limo are ilu x in the reduction of the ore This lime and iron belt also passes through the property of the Old Dominion company, and it lias been near tho lime contict th it the biggest and richest bodies of ore have been found. D. Ii. Whitburn, the company's mine foreman, is an all-round good miner and concsientious man, and has a good force of men under him. George Hrovv is hoisting englueer on day shift, and 'Dure Harris night engineer Dave Qlenn Is tlinberman and useful In several capacities. The successful installation of the machinery and completion of improvements has relieved President Force of tho strain under which ho has been for the past month and he has reason to feel gratified by the showing made arid the very promising outlook for tho Arizona Colorado company. Tlio financial condition of the company Is excellent and there is an active demand for the stock, which was advanced on September 1 to 10 cents a share. The company Is well and ccono miciilly managed and there is good reason to believe will bo successful. LOCAL MINING NEWS. A compromise has been ellccted between the ban Carlos Copper company and deurgo I) Chittenden, and the threatened litigation to quiet title to certain mining claims on tlio segregated strip,abovc Oudloyvllle.claimed by botli parties, has been avoided, through an agreement by which the San Carlos company has bonded all of Its mining property In that district to tlio said Chittenden. Frank Beston, who has represented tho Han Carlos compiny on tho strip for the past several months, returned toll lobe several days ago. Frank Klepetko, of Now York, a well-known metallurgist aud mining engineer, arrived on Tuesday and wont out to I'into creek in company of 11. Q Jackson to oxaminc mlnlug property In that district. Mr. Klepetko is an authority on the metallurgy of copper, and the great plant of tho Huston & Montana Copper company at Groat Falls, Mont., is ids creation. At present lie is consulting engineer for the Cerro de I'asco Mining company of I'eru, ltoston & Montana of Montana, and the Michigan Copper Smelting compiny of Michigan. Interest awakened In the territory west of Pinal creek by the locations made by the Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting company has not abated, as evidenced by the location of nine claims in that immediate vicinity by Anton Trojanovich and J. J. Cramer. These locations commence at thesouthcastcorncr monument of the Old Dominion locations and run parallel with them in a southwesterly direction 4500 feet.and 1S00 feot southeast along Pinal creok. 1 1 Is said that ore has been found in several places on these new locations, arid the ground in that direction certainly has great possibilities. It would not be surprising if in another year that locality would be the scone of active developments. T. A. l',iscoo has Bold his ranch on upper .Salt river, at tho Tonto to tho government, together with the cattle, hoga, hay, grain and Implements on the place, TERRITORIAL AND GENERAL General Manager Cutting, of Troy-Manhattan, has opened a fine body of ore in the Alice, below the fourth lot el. It was opened by a winze sunk from the fourth level and has been blocked out ready for stoping. The smelter will bo started up about September 1. Work on the Alice tunnel is progressing rapidly. The Ii'loronu! Made says : " The Phoenix & Eitstorn railroad will be completed as far as Kelvin this fall, and many mines that have boon idle for some time will then commence shipping ore to the custom smelters. Smelting men havo been looking over tlio Held aud speak well of tho many good prospects that have been opened in that vicinity." Dr. F. W Force, of the Gila-Pinal Mince company, returned from California Wednosday. His wife and daughter will come out to Prescott on the lirst of next month and remain there till tho hot weather in this section is over. The doctor says he does not expect operations to bo resumed at the Bobtail mines till the railroad reaches Kolvin. Illade. The copper produclngcompanics are practically without exception having aveiy posperousyear. At the cud of the eighth month wo tind tho metal market firm at closo to 1-1 cents per pound, and are forced to the conclusion that tile average price of the entire year will prove to bo about the present quotation, which Is almost 2 cents per pound highorthan last year's average. This difference of 2 cents per pound means $13,500,000 moro in earnings for the copper producers of the United Mates this year than would have bcon secured had tho auerago price at 12 cents, where It was ,ast year Walkor's Coppor Setter. SOME COPPER COMPARISONS Figures Concerning the Three Great Red Metal Districts Arliona'a Fine Showing I submit tho following facta in ro gard to tho thrco greatest copper producing states lor the year 1902, says "A Student" in the Boston Transcript: Montana produced one-third of tho total copper for tho United States : Michigan and AriJ zoua In the last decade Montana has increased cop5 per production 1 9 per cent (mining since IbSJ 20 years); Michigan lias Increased coppor production 43 per cent (mining since lb44 50 years); Arizona lias Increased copper production 240 per cent (mining since lh,si,,!20 vearsj. Montana copper production and Increase was made by ten mines; Michigan by 13 mines ; Arizona by six mines. Michigan produced in 1901 at tho rate of 10,.i(!7,l.ll pounds copper per mine; Arion.i produced in 1901 at the rate of 21,030,i21 pounds per mine Tho "going" mines of Arizon produced twice as much per mine as those of Michigan. Arizona copper mlno dividends exceed those of Montana and Michigan. Montana Dividends for 1902 : Anaconda . . $1,200,000 Boston it .Montana 900,000 Montana O. P. Co. .. 224,000 Parrot 115,000 $2,339,000 Michigan Dividends for 1902 : Calumet & 1 1 eel i Ouincy 700 000 Wolverine 210,000 $.1,110,000 Arizona Dividends for 1902: United Voido. ?1,MX),000 Arizona 1,115,000 Copper Queen and Dotrolt 2,5CO,000 -. 115,000 Michigan copper mine dividonds were obtained by 20 per cent of the "going" mines paying prolits. Arizona copper mine dividends were nearly twlco those of Michigan, and were obtained by CO percent of tlio "going" mines paying pro tits. The Metal Market. Now York, Sept. 1. Copper advanced 6s in London, spot closlng.it .CVJ 5s and futures at 58 7s (id. Locally coppor was quiet. Lako at $13 75 (m 13.b7j : electroly tie at $l.l.(2j ., 13.75, and casting at f 1.1.37 ($ 1.! 50. Exports of copper for August were 10,250 tons, a decrease for the month of 1,123 tons. The exports for the cluht months this ycr amount to 82,49( tons, against 117,825 tons last year. Lead decliucd lu 3d in London to 11 2s t!d, and was also easier In Now York, closing at 1.23. Spelter was quiot aud unchanged locwlly at JO 00, but declined 2s Od in London whore it closed at 21. liar silver 57J. Among tho arrivals on the delayed train tonight were Mrs. Geo It. Hill ana Mrs. It. II. Ilarpham returning from California, LOCAL NEWS OF THE WEEK A Budget of Interesting Items Gathered for Silver Belt Readers. A DOG'S REMARKABLE FAST Slity Days Without Food, Shut up In a Magazine. Pinal PararTinc Oil Well Full of Gas. Officers Confident rhat Oil Will Soon be fftrut. other local Mertlon., There were eighty Indians on the payroll of tho geological survey last moot, building roads at and near the Tonto reservoir site. Thero is talk of increasing the force of Indian laborers at an early day It looks very much as though the summer rains were over, which Is to be regretted, as the rainfall In this Immediate section as well as In. some other Idealities in Gila county has been dolieient. Tho weather Is gradually moderating, although the afternoons are still quite warm. Judge C L Moorman brought his wife up from Solomonville last Friday and she will romain here with their daughter, Mrs. F. P Soiglitz until her convalescence Is pronounced. Mrs Moorman's illness has beon severe and protracted and recovery will likely bo somowhatslow The judge returned to Sotomonvlllo on Monday. Engineer C. It. Olberg, of the geological survey, was here from the Tonto reservoir site for several days Mr Olberg Is one of tho most capable and energetic engineers In the service and tho part which he has performed in the preliminary work at the reservoir site has been important and highly creditable to him. F b Badger, constructing engineer arrived last Sunday from Wadsworth, Nov., under orders of the geological survey, to report to Arthur P. Davis, engineer in charge of construction of tho Tonto irrigation works. He was met here by Mr Davis, and togethor they wont out to the reservoir site Mondjy. Mr. was uccompanicd from Nevada by bis wife, who will make her homo In Globo for tho present. List Sunday afternoon, wliflo D. James was adjusting tho electric light wires near the top of the big pole at tho Mlvkr IJKLTcornerthc guy wires broke and the pole snapped oil' at the ground and fell against tho front of Bki.t olllce breaking live window lights aud the sash. James saved himself by jumping, aud aside from the jar received in alighting, was not in jured. Examination of othor poles along Broad street disclosed several of them to be rotted at the ground and consequently unsafe, and tjioy havo been replaced, urstrongthcucd by additional supports. A. IKKincald, who Is stopping at tho fyiifrr Gold Mining company's cai!iNXMli (i. W. Hamilton, went to tho magazine on August 27 to got some supplies, and upon unlocking the door found a dog within, gaunt from starvation and so weak that ho tell to the ground after coming out of the magazine. It Hashed upon Mr. Kincaid's mind that during the latter part of June, when Mr. Hamilton and ho wore lust at the magazine, a stray dog had followed them, the animal must huvc gone inside to escape the heat, was forgotten and locked up, and remained a prisoner for sixty days with no nouiishmcnt except what little oil he could lick from tools stored thero, and a modicum of water that may have seeped In on two or threo occasion when it rained. Mr. ca.rre'd the poor animal Intocamp and 3j is recovering under the good treatment given him. STRONG FLOW OF GAS Natural Gas Exploded by a Blast In the Pinal PararTinc OH Well. All accident tint happened at tho Pinal Parafllno Oil company's well a week ago hst Monday, news of which reached Globo only September 1, Is regarded with great satisfaction by tlio olllcers and local stockholders of tho company. Mr. Parker, tho drlllor, in relating tht Incident in a letter to Secretary F. L. Jones, stites that after he had worked all day to set oif a blast In tie well, several hundred feet under water, without success, he pulled the charge of powder up to tho surface of the water and turned on tho electric curront. Immediately there was a violent concussion incroased ten-fold by tho explosion of natural gas, which blew rocks and tho wire to which tho pow dor was attached out of the well with such force that they were Imbedded In tho timbers of the derrick; copper wire was driven half an Inch Into tlio crown blocks at the top of the derrick. "Talk about earthquakes," siys Mr. Parker; "well they aro not in it with the gas explosion In the Pinal Oil company's well." Mr. Parker says ho then lighted a piece of papor iind dropped it down the well to try and see where tho break in the conductor was and it Ignited the gas which burned for a few moments. The explosion caved the well for some disUnco and tilled tho hole 100 feet with loose dirt and stones, which had to be drilled out. Tho tools wore alsT buriod in the well, but subsequently recovered. Tho explosion did not injure the well aud reaming will proceed as before. The violence of the explosion is ovidence that there is a heavy How of gis in the well, and that it has increased since it was first noticed a month or more ago, and tho conclusion is irresistible that too gas must come from a subterranean reservoir of oil not far beneath the present bottom of the drill holo and which it will not take long to reacli with the drill after tho reaming and casing of the holo has been completed. Opposition to the Tonto Dam Mr. Vernon Clark is in receipt of a i letter from Mr. 15. A. Fowler in which Mr. Fowler urges tho people of Phoenix to send a strong delegation to the Ogden session of the National Irrigation Congress. Mr. Fowler states that thero are persistent rumors to tho effect that an effort will be made to pass a resolution condemning the Tonto Basin project as a speculative scheme for benefit of lands in private ownership and fears the effect this will have on tho secretary of tho Interior. A strong delegation from Phoenix, assisted by Messrs. Fowler and Maxwell, will probably be able to prevent the passage and possibly introduction, of such a resolution. This is an important issue with our people aud they should not sit supinely still and leave a loop-hole of this kind for our enemies to creep in. Mr. Fowler Intimates very strongly in his letter that these outside people arc being encouraged by people who are interested here In order to create the Impression that there Is a division hero. Enterprise. Kingman Gold Strike Said to be a Fake Later reports In regard to the Kingman gold excitement arc not so roseate as the first accounts so widely published. A reputable mining man, superintendent of a proporty in Mohave county, writes to a friend Iwrein reply to a letter of inquiry: "The reported goldstrlko Is very much exaggerated. In fact, I doubt if there is a single gold mine lu the strike. I behove it is simply a stock deal. 'Ihcy have located about ten miles square. It is a granite formation. The Denver people, Sullivan ot a! have bmght and located about 00 claims. They claim to havo gotten high retiiriiM from all their assays, but nobody else has been ablo to get more than a trace of gold." APACHE INDUSTRIAL WORK Exhibit Made by the White Mountain Indians Received Honorable Mention. The Indian industrial school .it the Fort Apache Indian agency, of which Judge C. W. Crousc is the superintendent, and disbursing agent, lias received honorable mention by the commissioner of Indian affairs and Superintendent Reel of the Indian schools of tho United States. Of all the schools which contributed to the recent exhibit of Indian schools at Indianapolis, the Fort Apache school was especially singled out for Its shore of the exhibit was pronounced to compare favorably with the best lu the service. Tho exhibits wero taken from work on tho farm, in the sewing room and the school rooms. The work was excellent and merited all tho praise It received and showed that the Apache youth is oasy to train. The exhibit had hardly been returned from tho national teachers' association at Boston beforo it was called for at Chcmavva, Oregon, where it will remain until the latter part of tho mouth. Judge It. M. Koreo left for the east yesterday morning. He expected to stop in Kl Paso to buy some mlno for the Arizona-Colorado company ; then go to Santa Fe for a short visit with his family, after which he will visit Denver and Chicago and points in the far east. Col. W. C. Greene's palatial at Cananea is nearlng completion. It Will cost $100,000. Kii, i rrp1 iTATE y ' (i- JH-8-- '$& . "i " 7 ' 5 LIBRARY R - - ---- VT i .i -.? Storlul T.hr.uy I Arizona J ARIZONA SILVEKTBELT VOLUME XXVI. No. 18. GLOBE, GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, L903. Established It I fr THE ARIZONA-COLORADO CO. " A Drnmlolrtr. Minnt DnlntT flolpl. riUMUDIIIg IIIUIU 'UUiiiB oped on the Globe Copper Belt. PROPERTY WELL MANAGED A Steam Hoist and Other Machinery Installed and Man; Desirable Improvements Made Development has Been Actively Resumed Managed in the Interest of Stockholders. Tho Copper Holt nml Gold Mining and Milling company Iiuh reicntly installed a powerful steam hoist and made substantial improvements on the Idi May mine, tli.ree miles mirth of Globe. Ou Tuesday last wo wont out to the property with .Indue U. M. Foree, president and general manager of the company and found that the favorable reports which we had heard regarding tho Arizona Colorado equipment were fully warranted. Thoshafthoutecnveringthoholstand bailor Is roomy and well constructed of Oregon pine with corrugated iron roof, the deuioniiions of the building being H.s feet and height to celling 12 feet The hoist is a Jackson, double geartd sotun stone foundation dressed willi concrete. Tlio hoist is eompnet and built for business, and is by the manufacturers to .sink 1000 t l.'oo loot. In the purchase of a boiler, the so often mane by companies in the development stage of buying one too smill for requirements has been avoided '1 he boiler at the '.dorado mine, made by tho Iloudrlp, IttilUioll Mtiuufaeturing company, of Denver has a capacity of 100 horso , .vfnch v. ill; b ample for some time to ( nine. 1c is .eilsetand bricked in Geo I Ilrlggs having done an exit llent job. Water Is supplied from tho mine and there are two tanks to r i eie and store it, a woodou tank of 't)H i'-. Hi ma capacity set below the ulli f tho shaft, into which the water 'I from the sli ift ruus by iiul a galvanized Iron tank of gallons, located on tne hill east of me sliat't house, into which the water fn m the supply tank Is raised by a sin., nam pump. 1 Ik bead frame, 10 feet high, Is Htrom.'l built and will meet every re-1 it 1 1 1 moot. I hero is .iIho a blacksmith shop Biipiibi il witli everything needed, in-i hilling a good supply of Bteol and in o t nls not oftou found In the i iiiipinentsof nuw companies. u iespt.clion of the doublo com-1 irtmiiit working shaft shows that it was pui down and timbered by men wli ir i porls .it suoli work. Tho wai s ui the shaft are as true as a die 4inil t unbend with eight by eights ,n.l I.. . l.w.l. I ...irlnf. tlw. lir.llHn.V i 4"" i , . iiiv.ii mbK'i'hl " "'tH te 1,1111 .artiiient being lined with inch (In-.-., i lumber. Oregon pine has ii i im il in all the uonstriictloti. nkiiiir was resumed only a few il.is i, wous to our visit with two sIiiiih and owing to tho incroaso of w i to i h is been somewhat slow. A No it micron pump was being overhaul! d and will bo installed ill the shaft in a few days. It has capacity to handle all the water that is iiki H to tie encountered for several hundred feet in depth. It is the intention of tho to work thrco shifts and 100 feet a mouth ih the sinking record alined at. The working shaft on tho Ida Muy claim was started at a point 50 to t0 south of the hanging wall of the main ledgo and it Is calculated that tho lodge will bo cut at a depth of about I i0 feot. At .V feet down a two-Inch streak of oro was struck, which at DO leet has widened to about two feet. The diameter of tho oro is load-silver and .1 Dumber of unsays show the average value in those metals to be ?30 to tho ton. Tho ore is beginning to show popper stain. The main ledge of tho Arizona-Colorado, which the shaft will develop is upwards of 100 feot in width at the surface, and crops strongly on six of tliecompiny's claims or for a total length of bOOO feet. This ledge has been partially proved by a urosptot shaft on tlio Little Beauty claim, 230 feet east of tho working shaft. This prospect shalt was sunk on the ledge on an Incline corresponding with the (Ho of the vein, and was In oro from cop to bottom, 153 feet, and at places in Ibis shaft tho .solid oro vrna two feot wide red oxide carrying from 15 to .'SO per tent coppor, and some of it assaying as high ao $2s In gold to the ton. Thero are also numerous sniull parallel veins showing on tho surface, which gives tho hill the appearance of being almost continuously W'VUo now ovviiB eighteen claims ov er. 100 acres Hiidjou a number of these the stirfaio showing is very line. On the Commerce claim thoro Is a tunnel run on the vein 1.10 feet, and ore from this vein by several tests gave returns In copper, gold and (diver, of over $100 per ton. Tho Commerce vein is about '20 feot wide. The Baltic claim is opened by a tun uel about 250 feet long, which will have to be driven farther to cut tho vein from which ore was takonon the surface that ran $.19 in gold, 40s ounces of silver and U 6 per cont copper. On tho extreme west end of the Baltic there is a small shaft all in ore, and the showing is very lino. The values are copper, gold and silver On the Nellie M claim Is a shallow shaft. The vein is stroug and ore from the. surfaco runs well in copper, carries some gold and has given returns In tin and uranium On tho two extreme northern claims, the Franklin and Norman, aro six veins each carrying well in copper and dollars per ton in gold and sllvor. The Norman is the claim HILL IS FOR JUDGE PA They Are Said to be In Perfect Harr Political Affairs. William E. Curtis, the wr formed correspondent of the C Record-Herald asserte that Ex-S David B. Hill is for Judge Park tho democratic presidential n tlon. "While Judge Parker is n activo candidate for the presic nomination" he says, "and is notlilng personally to promot own prospects, ho Is 'In the ha his friends,' and Mr. Uill is dii them. If you will write a let Judge Parker of a political chi tlio reply will come from Mr. I you apply to Judge Parker for matlon concerning himself at political rocord the answer w written in Mr. Hill's law otlh very likely upon one of his heads. All political communli received by the judge are refer once to Mr. Hill, who passes juc upon them and dictates the rep Is considered best to make one literary bureau on Park row, York City, which seems to be n In Judge Parker's interest, to k name before the people, is und mil's direction. "Judge Parker never does c anything that concerns his p future without consulting his f There is a little irrouoof centle Albany who arc devoted lo hi afe on terms of intimacy wH Hill also. They furnish the mo pay whatever expenses are in and do whatever is necessary pedient to be done under Mr. direction. "It may not be true that S Hill has given up all ambition President himself, but he shrewd a politician not to unde tho Intense enmity cherished b Bryan and the silver faction t Democratic party throughout country, who would rather se Republican elected President Hill. This opposition cannc allayed; this obstacle to his am cannot be removed, and therefo Hill will not attempt to secui nomination at the next conven GREAT RAILWAY PROJE More About the Arizona, New Mexico rado Railroad The hnancinir of the brat dim the Arizona, New Mexico & Co railroad, which is to connect thli with the northern border of M has been completed and the w locating the line has begun, sa Denver Times. F. W. KInne. dent of the company, has ju turned from a trip cast, where factory arrangements wore ma beginning the work. The company lias secured poss of a vast coal llsid In Socorro at lencia counties, New Mexico, an primary object of the now ralln to open a route for he tdelivery i coal to the big smelting work mining plants in the northern I Mexico, tho southern part of A aud on the Pacilic coast. At the time the line will give the Sou Pacific railroad its long desirt tranco into Denver and cut off S00 miles between Colorado and ern California via the southern Tlio road will connect witl Southern Pacific in Cochise cc Arizona, and will then be extent Benson to form a connection wi Sonora railroad, which will o route from Denver to the port of mas, ou the Pacilic coast of Tuesday's Phoenix Republican "Tho property of the Arliona crat yesterday formally passoc the possession of Col. J. F. M who has all along been regarded owner. He had a mortgage on it was such a mortgage that ci him to take possession of it at The mortgage was released yes and there was passed to him a sale from the Democrat' Pub) company. It is said that ther shortly be a change in the m ment of the paper, but tho deb it have not been given out" People of the Verde valley t jolcing over the prospect of tl mate extension of the Central A railroad through their se:tii Globe and Bisbce. As many renders know, tho Central A runs southerly from Flagstaff a distance Into the pine forests, locally known as tho Rlordan being used in the past merely logging road, a feedor for the b mills at Flagstall. Prescott Coi The annual report of the go' of Arizona to the secretary of t terlor has been forwarded to W ton. It consists of 700 typew pages, embraclngHO subject contUns seven Illustrations, mining scenes,