Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-09
Busy Bisbee Is
 BuSIER THAN AT Any Previous Time
MORE WORK BEING DONE THAN AT ANY TIME IN THE HiSTO-
 RY OF THE CAMP.
Gradual Increase Being Made in the Number Of Men Being Employed in the Mines-Deveiopnnent Properties Now Mining Companies Win Ada Largely to the Number on the Pay Rclls.

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 At present there is more work be- ing prosecuted in the Bisbee camp than at any previous period in its his tors despite the. fact that in the course of the past several months a large number of the development compa- mes have suspended great amount of work in the way of sinking shafts and drifting by substituting the diamond drill machines for the purpose of ex- ploring their properties. The substi- tuticp of the drill machines in the work of exploring properties that have good surface showings. in the place of sinking shafts and running drifts, has reduced to a great extent the force or labprers at the respective properties. but this has been more than made up by the additional work that has been commenced in number of the other and older properties whose future as producers in this district has already been assumed. Furthermore, in the months that are near at hand there will be a gradual increase in the en- rollment of employees at several mines, those in what is known as tn e"Bonan- "a Circle especially. and the culmina- ton of it all will be that in not so very many years the production of the Bis bee camp will be increased two. three and possibly four-fold
 Those properties which are now just commencing to give evidence in a small degree of the wonderfully large scale in which copper mining is to be done here are the Lake Superior & Pittsburg Calumet < Pittsburg. Pitts burg & Duluth. and Function. It is possible that outside of this Bonanza Group" there will eventually be devel- Oped a number of ether properties that will add their quota 10 the activity and permanence of the Bisbee camp. The most likely among the latter are the Wolverine & Arizona. Calumet & Bisbee. Calumet & COchise, Bisbee West and Saginaw Development, with fair chance of success also for the Higgins.
 The really big things that are being done in the way of developing mines hat will reach the production stage n the least possible time are conducted by the Lake Superior & Pittsburg and Calumet & Pittsburg companies. At the former it is expected every day that a connection will be made be made between the No and No. 3 shafts by means of drifts run from both. Approximately the tunnel con meeting these two mines will be 2.30O rect in length, and in each instances are run from depth in the shafts over 900 feet. The connection once com pleted. conditions will be greatly re- lieved in both mines. as the tunnel will allow of a free circulation of air. while at the present time the ventilation is very poor
 One thing which the L. s. & P. will be required to do before commencing on an extensive productive career is the work of increasing it's Nos. 2 and 3 shafts. At present there is a one and one-half, entirely too small for turning out regular production in the most economical manner. It is not reasonable to expect the company to attempt producing copper. even though there si in sight and blocked out in it's mines thousands of tons of rich ore, until the above-cited improvement has been made. To raise these shafts 10 proper size, say three or four com partmeEt. will consume a long. Ssriod of time. but after the work has been accomplished the l.. s. & P. will sure y commence on record-breaking ca reer that will not fall short of aston ishing the mining world
 Calumet & Pittsburg will also ac. complish wonderful things and in the long run become as important and as large a producer as the L. s. & P. Il has extensive resources in the way oi valuable ground from which to draw for an indefinite period large quantities Of ore, and it's magnificent shaft-the best equipped and largest in the entire southwest-wili be the scene of extra ordinary doings. and most probably this mine will be the second of the Bonanza group that will enter the pro ducing list. as l. is nearer that poini than any of the others at present. Ma chineTy of the most approved and i'm proved pattern is being installed at tht mine to handle the large amount o water that has been encountered. ant besides the mine will be equipped in ; short time with the very best hoistint apparatus thus far employed in thu district. The site of the C. & P. il most magnificent. and in the near fu ture it VII be cited to the visitor tt this vastly rich district as the beautl spot of the mining industry of th' camp.
 Keeping iu stride with the rapid pro sress being made by the above name' mines are the Junction ard Pittsburg { Duluth This week the former com rlenced cutt.nr a station in it's fin shaft at the 772-foot level. from whicl point a drift will be run toward tn Calumet & Pittsburs's shaft. The dis tance between the shafts of the proI critics is in the neighborhood of 300 feet. A considerable stretch of thi distance has already been cut throug by the drift running from about tn 9OO-foot level of the c. & F.. and thi drift win connect with the one tha has been started this week at tn