Bisbee daily review., 1902-11-15
Regarding the Modern


 northern extremity of the great War ren copper belt in Cochise county. The big Tombstone properties are sil- yer, tending to run into copper as they go down. From there to the Modern the great mineral belt is trace able. tending more and more to cop per. all the way through to Bisbee. The Modern is about eight miles from Bisbee on the old stage road to Tomb stone and near the old stage station. It is in a northwesterly direction from our great copper camp. The Modern embraces twentyeight claims, as reported by MT. O. H. Briggs, the original discoverer of the property and now high officiat in the company. The property. or the most of it was located by MT. Briggs in 1896. After the usual discouraging experience of the average prospector, Mir. Briggs succeeded in enlisting men of means in organizing a company and devel- oping the property. The company in- corporated in April, 1901, with N. A. Centers, president; O. H. Briggs. vice president and manager, J. T. Hood, treasurer and secretary.
 The board of directors consists of N E. Celters. o. H. Briggs, H. c. Harshaw, Attorney Bateman and Ma ior Ryan. the three first mentioned gentleman being residents Of Bisbee and the two last named residing in the worlds copper center. Calumet, Michigan. The property was capital iZed for one million dollars. or one million shares at one dollar per share, 475,000 shares were voted to the treas ury. of which about 1S0.000 have been sold. The big property embraces twenty eight claims. Sixteen in one group and twelve in another. The two groups are slightly separated, bu. are in compact form and as near ly as experience and mining science can determine are Squarely on the grea. mineral belt traceable all the way from Tombstone down through Bisbee to the international boundary. The prevailing mineral deposit in the Modern is copper. The red metal ap- bearing in fiattering bodies all over the property and assaying exception ally high, but strange as it may ap- pear. the highest values all the way through were in gold. while silver and lead appear in paying quantities throughout the entire camp.
 The generl formation in the camp is granite along with all incidental properties in rarest profusion, the same formation being traceable all the way to Bisbee, without a break.
 Every claim on the group of six teen has assessment work to date be- sides the main development work. Mir Briggs is authority for the asser- ton that there is not ten-foot hole on the sixteen c'aims but what shows good mineral and plenty of it
 On the fountain group We are au- thorized to say that out of forty foot shaft and a twenty-foot drift, forty tons of ore are on the dump, practically all of it coming out of the drift, the breast of which is solid ore, the forty tons running thirty-two ounces in silver and 7-10 per cent copper and $3.60 per ton in gold.
 4 gentleman from Tombstone and a thorough mining man who recent" visited the Modern asserted that far less promising propositions in and around the county seat were produc- ing tremendous excitement and most profound interest among the mining fraternity in tht locality.
 Then a twenty-foot hole on a lead lead in the Fountain carries 10 per cent lead with some silver all the r ay down. The croppings on the surface at this point are about forty feet across and the ledge on which the shaft is sunk is four feet six inches. The main shaft is on the Iron Noun. tain No. 1 near the center of the Iron Mountain group. A hoist of 2,000 feet capacity is in operation. The hoist represents fifty horse power. The shaft is down 230 feet It was the cal culation to sink in the country, then drift to the ledge but from the char acter of the matter encountered all the way through in the shaft and all the drifts they would appear to be on the ledge all the time. In the bottom of the shaft the outlook is exceedingly promising carrying an abundance of copper pyrites.
 From the 2O0-foot level a drift has been run intended to ccosscut the contact. The drift has cut a deposit Of ore al the way, being richer in the breast at last accounts than any where else.
 A forty-foot drift at the ninety-foot level has been run in direction op- posite to that of the 1O0-foot drift, and carries the same promising ore conditions all the way through.
 The camp is fortunately situated in regard to water. fuel and other facil- ities. Sufficient water being devel- oped in the big drift for the use of the mine, whIie water in any quantity can be developed at from twelve to forty feet in several places on the property. Wood is on hand in any quantity at three dol lars per cord The wagon road down tn Banning etation on the Fl Paso