Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-09
M'CABE EXTEN=
 SION COMPANY Progress Made on the Proper ty During the Ten Months Which Have Elapsed Since Commencing
 Operations. A Valuable Acquisition to the Com pany's Holdings by the Purchase of the Famous Gopher
 Group of Mines.

10 make a NlSlt 70 the property or Int
 McCabe Extension company. Nearl,
 a year ago he visited the property
 just about the time they commenced active operations in the development
 work. One cannot but be impressed
 favorably with the progress which ha:
 been made during the intervening period as well as with the substantial character of the work. At that time the shaft was down about 60 feet At the present time there is well timbered shaft over 260 feet deep and drifts extending along the vein north and south of the shaft a total dis. tance of over 150 feet.
 Good sized bodies of ore has been found in these workings, some oi which has been taken out, although in one place a large sized ore body on one of the walls had been per mitted to remain in place. The de- velopment at this depth has more than come up to the expectations of the managers of the company, and has exceeded the representations made when the stock was first offered to the public.
 Making their estimates from the history of the McCabe mine as well as from the contour of the sur tbe surface of the claims, it was fig ured that at least 300 feet or more depth would have to be made before any important ore body might reas- onably be expected to be encoun- tered, instead of which ore of a value sufficient to pay to work was encoun- tered at depth of about 200 feet, and below that depth has made satisfac- tory improvement in both quality and quantity. Work on the drift on both sides of the shaft is being pushed as rapidly as possible.
 The mine is equipped with an cleo tric drill which makes rapid progress in the development of the property. This machine is little wonder. By its use two men can cover the face of a drift with a series of holes from eight to ten in number during each shift. While the result of the shots from the face of one drift is being removed the ma chine is moved and is operated by the next shift on the face of the other drift. Two shifts day are worked and as the holes are drilled from four to five feet into the face of the drift, an ideh can be obtained of the daily progress made. As time saver and labor saver the electric drill stands in the front rank of mining machinery. The cost of installing as well as the cost of operating is very much less than that of air compressing drilling apparatus with results equally as good.
 Judge R. NJ. Ling, who has the management of the property, goes on the principle that the best is the cheapest in the long run even if first cost should be a little greater and acting on this the equipment of the property is of the very best. He has installed one of the most complete friction hoists to be found any. place. With a capacity of hoisting from depth of 700 or 1000 feet it is practi cally as noiseless as a sewing machine in its operation. He has also two electric dyuamos, used for generating electricity for running the drills, lighting the mine and buildings of the company and has also extended the lighting system to the town, and is now supplying over 100 lights to citizens of the camp.
 Since the previous visit of the Journal Miner editor there, a good substantial building has been erected, the basement of which is used as kitchen and dining room for the boarding house, and the next floor is occupied by the office of the company and number of sleeping rooms.
 This building, as well as everything III anu olOunO tA4C AuluC, hdo dll tue appearances of permanency and solidity, and Judge Ling is certainly to be congratulated on what he has accomplished within less than a year since starting work on the property.
 The company a few months ago also acquired by purchase the famous Gopher group of mines which has greatly increased the valre of its holdings. This group consists of two claims, the Gopher and Little Treas ure. 4 shaft on the Gopher is down -265 feet and on the Little Treasure another one is down 230 feet. These shafts are 2S5 feet apart and are con nected by drifts at the 100 and POO loot levels, and another drift is being run from each shaft to connect them at the 250 foot level. The bottoms of the two shafts are practically on the same level owing to the surface of the Little Treasure Eeing from thirty to forty feet lower than that of the Gopher. A continuous ore body has been opened up the entire length of the drifts between the shafts at both the 100 and 200 foot levels, the rich est ore being at the deepest level. Richer ore still has been encountered in the work done on the 250 foot level showing that the ore body not cnly extends to that depth, but increases in value with depth. At the 100 foot level a drift has also been run 50 feet north of the Gopher shaft and at the 200 foot level one has been run 20 feet north of the shaft, both of which shows a continuation of the ore body in that direction.
 Three car loads of ore from this property, with a small percentage from the McCabe extension has al ready been shipped since the pur- chase of it by the McCabe Extension company. Only first class ore is shipped, which is about one-third of the ore taken out, the balance being permitted to remain on the dump to be treated when the company erects its own plant. This property has produced considerable ore which gives values up in the hundreds of dollars per ton, while the average