Show ARIZONA morenci leader The Shannon copper company has let ia a contract to local men to build a railroad to their mines at metcalf the survey is made and act ve work will bean june first the time of completion is 1 limited to nine months the cost Is said to be some and everything will be first class bouse times contracts for a smelter that will cost TI have been let for its erection at parker ane construction of buildings will be begun as soon as a spur track now being lad from A C yards to the smelter site is completed the smelter will be located one and one half mines above the new railroad bridge across the colorado river wilcox news it is announced that in a few days the little butte and adjoining mining perty owned by the Ariz arizona bouse company will pass from the control of the present management into the hands of a syndicate of phoenix men who wh are preparing pre to exploit it on a much larger scale the transaction is engineered by president meyers and secretary bishop of the arizona bouse company kingman miner the first dividend of the union basin mining company the only zinc company operating in the territory has been declared the distribution to take place on the of this month the property operated by this company is the golconda mine in union basin this mine has been developed only feet in depth yet there is not fiot an opening t that bat does not show great bodies of ore at present a car of ore goes to the smelter every day which nets a nice little sum to the management it is the expectation of the company to place heavier machinery on the property and sink to a depth of GOO or feet while a mill will be erected to handle the lower grades of ore john boyle jr the promoter of the company has been working hard to make of this venture a big success and from present indications he is far on the way to that end |