Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-28
THE WHOLE TRUTH AND
 NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

As intimated in yesterdays issue, an ample review of the facts. figures,
 conditions and outlook in the Modern
 mine. which is of great interest to the
 whole mining community. is herewith
 published. being contributed by our
 talented friend, Joe Chisholm, after
 a careful personal examination of that property:
 During a recent visit to the Modern the Reviews rock man was impressed by he genuine sincerity Of it's owners and managers. the men who are stTiv- ing with such UnAagging zeal and confidence to wrest from the worlds treasure vaults the wealth their min CTS instinct and experience tells them is almost within their reach. There were no. spread eagle" locations of great ore bodies just uncovered, or other vain glorious boasting. On the contrary. the quill driver had it firm ly obstrued upon his sensOTium that il was their desire he should eXagger- ate in no detail the actual condition of the mine. "The Review is always
 honest in its mining news" said fore
 man JCe Miller, but We wish to be certain that the MOdern's exec lent
 prospects are not injured by any over
 drawn statements. Companies organ ized merely 10 fleece the public ilVaTi- -ably are represented. as containing enormous exposed ore bodies. h con sequence the shrewd fellow with capi-
 tai 10 invest in legitimate property will pay no attention to the obviously iIaudulent boomer The development of a good prospect may be retarded by anything that would produce an impression Of OversjateU eut."
 To describe the Modern in few words. il is a splendid prospect. And | the amount of work done is eyinciVe of the economy and intelligence with i which the modest fund al it's manage mems disposal has been applied. Its main shaft has been sunk through 200 feet of hard porphyry, interspersed with adamantine granite. The i'm | mense flow of water. although always
 welcomed as an unfailing cOncOmitant
 of ore in his region is, for the nonce,
 a complete check to farther sinking.
 Without pump of goodly dimensions ! the Modern could not hope to make
 satisfactory progress in the shaft; so
 they have discontinued sinking until they can secure the necessary funds.
 In the two drifts, however, there is enough encouragement to satisfy the
 most exacting investigator. In the
 200 foot level drift, running to the west. the same stiff rock through
 which the shaft has been sunk lasted
 until within about forty feet of the present face of the drift, when a schist formation was encountered. The | drift is being driven towards an iron blowout on the surface of the noun tain. Under that iron an ore body undoubtedly exists, as it does beneath
 every similar outcropping in the ex- plored portions of htis mining district | During the last eight of ten feet the ! drift has assumed an aspect that has
 made the Modern people cheerful as crickets. The formation heretofore irregular. has straightened out until | the hanging wall runs in the direction | of the blowout as true as if erected ] by human hands and smoothed with | jack plane. Within the twenty four hours preceding the Review mans visit. the whole breast Of the drift had turned to glistening iron sulphide. and exactly in the center of the face.
 cutting it perpendicularly from top to
 bottom, is a two foot ledge Of gold ! bearing quartz. The value of the ledge is not yet known, it has not
 been assayed, but it's significant forma- 1 ton inspires the belief of its develop
 ment into an ore body beneath the iron outcFeppings. Thirty or forty
 feet back from the face of the drift
 the writer's attention was attracted
 by vein of ore cutting across the drift and inclining backward towards the shaft at an angle of about 70
 degrees. Closer investigation showed
 a ledge. about four feet in diameter
 of quartz and porphyritic formation
 along whose west contact nestled a
 few inches of green carbonate and sul-
 phide of copper. When asked why a cross-cut was not driven on the string