Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-15
ment of reliable men that only about

ment of reliable men that only about one-hall of the gold bullion pro- duced m the state reaches Uncle Sam $ assay office in this city. The Cripple Creek output so far this year has been sufficient to form 566,- $50 pieces of S20 each, the weight of
 which would be 200 tons. All Alas
 ka last year produced but one ton of gold, according to the highest
 estimates worth considering. Grip
 pie Creeks twenty tons, if coined into so pieces, and the pieces set edge to edge, would make contin-
 uouS line of double eagles F 7l-lOOO
 miles in length. They would con
 stitute apile 6SS5-l00O of a mile
 high. The camps output for the eleven months, if the estimates
 thereof compiled by reliable citizens of Fl Paso county are correct,
 would form a block of pure gold
 containing 3l 2lS-l0O0 cubic feet.
 This cube would be almost six feet
 high, six feet long and six feet wide,
 and represent the concentration Of
 the energIes for almost one year of
 thousands of men, steam engines, electric dynsmos, chemicals and en- zines, electric dynamos, chemical and engineering achievement and millions of capital.
 The Old Dominion Company, operating at Globe, has its shaft down to a depth of $50 feet, which Is said 10 be ths deepest copper mining shaft in Arizona by over 300 feet. The editor of the Globe Silver Belt, who recently descended into the bowels of the earth by means of this shaft, has the following to say concerning the mIne: The shaft has three compartments, two four feet by four feet thee inches each, in which the cages run, and the third compartment, containing the col umn pipes, six feet by four feet three inches The mine has not been exploited below the seventh level (although some development work has been done on the eighth level) and 1t is calculated 1t will re- quire two years to open the ground between the seventh and twelfth levels. The shaft force is now en- gagged cutting out the twelfth level station. The tenth station was completed some time ago. Stations are I3 feet high at tue shaft, extend back 36 feet, and are l5i feet in the clear between posts. From the tenth station a double drift, sui iiciently wide for two car tracks, will be carried on a curve to the south until 1t strikes vein matter, which possibly will be within 100 feet. This Is, however, uncertain. because the foot wall diorite en- countered in the shcfu above the tenth station seems to have a sleeper inclination than in the higher levels of the mine. The same policy will be pursued on the twelfth level as fast as circumstances will permit. On the eighth level two large wInzes are being sunk, one abou, 2O0 feet easterly, the other about the same distance westerly from Inc shaft. These winzes will furl ist connections with the lower levels for the purpose of additional means of ingress and egress, air ways, handling the materials of the mine and exploitation. They will proceed vertically to an intersection with the foot wall, in the horizontai plane somewhere between the ninth and tenth levels. The eastern wiuze is now being formed and active sinking will commence shortly. The western winze is now down about forty feet. Small aux Hilary engines will handle the ma terial from these wiuZes when a depth of sixty feet Is reached. The eleventh station will probably be prospected after these winzes are through to the twelfth level. The water Is being handled without any difficulty. The pumps are being overhauled. 4 compound Worth ington will be operated from the tenth level, and very large Knowles sinking pump will be in- stalled at the twelfth level, where for the present a No. Cameron handles the water that is not deliV- cred into the tenth level. The Knowles pump will come into play when the vein matter is tapped and an increased flow of water is e1- pected. No. 9 Cameron sinking pumps will be so installed as to take up the work of the pumps regularly in service in case of minor delays and accidents. We did not go into the upper levels, but understand that the general condition of the mine is satisfactory to the manage ment. 4 force of seventy men is