Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-25
THE OLD WORLDS FAIR.
 IN BISBEE'S FRONT YARD

IN BISBEE'S FRONT YARD
 Away back in the early sos McCor-
 mick, a worthy frontiersman, locat-
 ed the ground now comprising most
 of the Worlds Fair. He did consld-
 erable work on it, but as the job in
 front of him was big and his resour-
 ces were small he was compelled to
 abandon it. He was subsequently,
 murdered by MeXicans near where the
 South Bisbee hoist now stands. Bob
 Stevens came into possession of the
 property which went from him to old George Hill then Lem Shattuck and Ed GTenfell took it up and went 10
 work in earnest The property now
 consists of II claims about a mi @
 beyond the cemetery, and about two and half miles easterly from the heart of Bisbee Near Pee Hanson s
 place, known as the Beer Garden, the big black formation constituting Sacramento hill. would appear to
 branch. one branch going to the left and crossing the property mentioned. The formation is iron. lime and shaIe. about as favorable surface conditions as one could ask in this district. Ar irving at the dump expecting to find an ordinary prospect, you observe an amount of waste and ore indicating operations of considerable extent. nor are you disappointed on closer in vestigation. The whole dump is to some extent, minera ized. while sev. eraI tons of select ore ornament the landing with blue and green carbon ates, malachite, azurite and almost every beautiful form of the red metal.
 The shaft which is in splendid condi- uon proved to be 400 feet deep. l. is a steep incline with a preceptible turn to II. The incline is not uniform and just how that old horse managed 10 hoist the material out of tha, shaft along with several hundred feet of ] drifts, is a wonder At I20 feet they have 50 foot drift running west which shows some high grade car i Donates an no end of iron and silicate | Fifty feet be ow that. the shaft struck an interesting cave from which large i blocks of high grade iron were taken.
 At the 200 foot level. considerable | drifting has been done. some nice
 carbonates being found on the west
 and drift on the east showing lean ore all the way. From the 300 they
 ran drift 175 feet under the sharr
 hill above them without any percept ible change in formation Besides
 this they drifted extensively in. other
 directions on the 300 and caught some good copper ore. At the 38O short
 crosscut is run developing a respect
 able body of low grade ore. At the
 bottom, little. drifting was done, but
 the formation had undergone a great
 trans formation, being distinguished by the presence of a liberal showing
 of carbonates and black manganese
 ard what was more suggestive, the
 preEence of mud. On the top there is
 an abundance of shale which profess
 or Prout, an acknowledged authori ty on the question, asserts will run l into low grade copper deposit of cor,
 responding size with depth. and all indications tend to corroborate his prediction. This is a brief descrip-
 ton of one "Old Timer" and there
 are many others. They are not mines
 in the sense of a mine. but they are
 in almost every instance. excellent
 prospects. with most a of the devel
 opment work already done. They
 will certafnly be brought into the
 mighty procession of Cochise county's mining progress i1 the near future.