Bisbee daily review., 1903-10-25
AROUND TOMBSTONE.

During the past week considerable !. headway has been made in cutting cut the big station ua fine seven hun Jrei s0ot ,evel cf ihe Consolidated ccmpaDy's shaft. IL is expected that ihe holes drilled by snc Burlishs today will he the last to be put in on wha. is the station proper. or where the pumps are to be placed This station will be I6 feet wide. 14 feet high and S3 feet long, while the stump into which the water will be pumped will be 10x12x40 feet. The work on this part of the station will be started in is of the opinion that the work will be completed by the first of November So that the work of putting the pumps in place can be commenced.
 The ore bodies recently uncovered still continue to increase in size as depth is reached and the usual shIp- ments have been made during the week.
 At the Emerald, the work of clean ing out the shaft is moving along nice ly, and from 25 to 30 feet was made since our last report. It will not be many weeks more before Foreman Clark and his men will reach the bot ! tom of the old shat. The worn ,.as progressed rapidly considering tue condition that the shaft was in and the obstacles that the men had to con- tend with.
 At the Comet the men under Fore man Pritchett are rapidly getting the ! three hundred foot level in good shape and will soon be ready to start stoping | out the ore from there. Four cars of | ore have been shipped from here dur | ing the week.
 At the otner properties of the com pany everything is reported as running i smoothly. At the Silver Thread an. l Tranquility the men are still working ! in the ore bodies and shipments will soon follow. The ore bins at the ior- mer have been repaired and the ore Is now loaded directly into the wagons
 which saves shoveling, that being done when the shipments first commenced. | The flow of water in the big shalt
 as been about the same through the week, the pumps handling about g.
 '5o,O0O gallons daily, and are slowly nut surely reducing the water ievel oi he camp. It Is now stated -
 las been lowered some sixty odd .eeI 5ince the pumps were started and a, he present flow they have not the east trouble in handling that com
 ng into the shaft.
 Considerable activity has beer shown in the camp during the pas, l week on properties outside of ths Consolidated company's. Several nor.
 men have been put to work on tht
 Brown property and are taking ou considerable ore.
 Ben Rybon and his associate, MT
 Nilhgap, have begun the development
 work on several claims near the olt
 Stonewan and in the vicinity of tn,
 Little Devil and have shipped two car
 of manganese ore during the pas
 week. They have a small force O
 men working at present and hope t
 make regular shipments to the smelt
 CTS.
 The Benton company are still a
 work on the Little Devil and are en
 countering some strong ore bodies an,
 expect to begin shipments before long
 The Nesslerodes company which ;i
 working the Benton Wilson propert are still at work drifting on the thre
 hundred foot level to the north an,
 are finding thai the ore body extend
 in that direction, and is about tn
 same extent as was found in the bot ! tom of the shaft Superintendent
 Johnson, who is in the east, is expect ed back shortly and upon his return : T:il then be definitely known whethe 'he present bond on .ne property fo [ s50,000 will be taken up. The bon } has but a short time to run.-Pros pector.