Arizona republican., 1899-05-10
THE BLACK WARRIOR MINE.
A Great Copper Property Soon to Be- come a Producer of Bullion.

Globe. Ariz., May 8.-(Special corre- spondence of The Republican. )-The Black Warrior copper mine is so nea- to Globe that this camp feels per sonal interest in its development. For several weeks freight teams have been engaged hauling the equipment which is flo make this new mine a producer of copper. Seven carloads of machi1- cry have arrived and but a small DOT ton of it has thus far left the railroad. As rapidly as possible the great east ings and boilers are being transferred from the cars Ito the new camp and in a few weeks the machinery will all be on the ground ready to be placed in position.
 s. W. Trayior of the Coloraodo Iron works, with an assistant from the works, is experimenting the prepara- tory work of constructing the build ings which will contain the ore crush CTS. the teaching plant and smelter. At the camp an office building and store room has been built a comfort able dining hall has been pressed inso service, a laboratory and the residence of the superintendent are being built and the camp is beginning to assume an air of substantially. The location of the camp Is over mile from the mine and but shoIld distance from the site selected for the works. A wide gulch provides a good location for the new camp, and the buildings hug the sides of the gulch to escape the dangers of high water. A tramway 5000 feet in length connects the mine and the smelter site From the mine a two per cent grade has been obtained so that the loaded cars move to the works with scarcely any exertion on nhe part of the animals which provide the present motive power. Later on it is proposed to equip the tramWay service with dynamos, or perhaps liquid air, which is a more recent dis covery of science, will be pressed into use by this up4to-date company.
 The tramway ends at the side of mountain which slopes to the gulch be- low where the camp is situated, and the principle of gravitation which be- gins in the development of the mine does not end until the base of the mountain is reached. The teaching plant will be located where the track ends and the ere will there enter its first progress, toward refinement. When the values contained in the ores have y location the precious product will move on down the slope of the hill to the sme!ter to there receive the final treatment
 The plant has been constructed for the treatment of the oxide ores of the Black Warrior at the minimum ex- pense, and nature has favored this property to that end. From the farthest workings of the mine there is a continual slope which does not end until the scales which are to weigh the bullion are reached, a dis tance of over a mile. The tramway skirts the precipitous slopes Of the mountain, and Webster gulch follows it in circuitous windings until the mountain bends toward the camp. The tunnel out of which the tramway comes is the lowest workings of the mine. and the great bodies of ores which lay above this tunnel are mined and dumped into chute which takes it to the cars in the tunnel.
 
 The development of the Black War rior affords an interesting illustration of the value of good guessing. In the first organization of capital for the de- yelopment of this mine Dr. J. M. Ford and Colonel James A. Fleming were associated with eastern investors. A superintendent from the east Twas sent out to take charge of the mine He prosecuted his work with the honesty of his judgment, but it transpired after $50, 900 had been spent that the wisdom of the easterner was at fault In the meantime Dr. Ford took an opportu- nifty offered to dispose of his stock, the nisdirected efforts of the superinten- dent having discouraged him. MT. Fleming went east and new organi- Zation was perfected, new superin- tendent was engaged and new work was begun. In the lower workings the customer had groped about in the dark in search of the ore which was known to exist somewhere. He drifted in every direction and when he got into the mountain hundred feet he did not appear to know whether he was going in or returning to the place where he started The serpentine undulations of the tunnel recall the story of the reptile that "wiggled in and w1ggled cut leaving the beholder stil in doubt as to whether the snake that made the track was going in CT coming back.
 
 - When the new organization was made Colonel Fleming telegrapaed from Philadelphia to the new superin- tendent instructing him to continue the tunnel thirty-two degrees to the west and he thought that the ore would be found. The day Colonel | Fleming arrived at the mine the rich | ore was found which has made the | Black Warrior one of the greatest cop per prospects in the southwest. As soon as this ore was discovered I ! crosscut tunnel was driven into it and 1 this tunnel is now forty-five feet in i ore with the same high grade metal | penetrated through this entire length | still staring 1t in the face. How much 1 farther it goes no one knows, but ] since Colcuel Fleming has established ]