Arizona silver belt., 1904-08-25

the water situation under control. About one car of ore per day is being shipped from the big shaft, and some- thing over three cars from the dumps, making in the neighborhood of four cars. In the shaft on the west side they are % feet below the water level without the slightest inconvenience. On the Silver Thread stoping and drifting proceeds steadily. In the big shaft, on the lower levels, considerable exploration work is in progress in the hope of opening big ore shoots, the existence and extent of which are practically established
 Assays are showing the recen 1t strike made at the Higgins to be making values of $I0S to the ton. The only question now regarding its making property a great winning is its stay ing qualities. The tunnel going in to tap the vein atabout 200 feet will dem- onstrate what Is at hand to deal with, and the progress of the work of the double crews pushing this develop ment is being watched with deep in- terest. In the surface working which caught the vein the latter continues to widen. Some magniti ticent specimens O. ore have been displayed oa the streets during the last few days. The character of these specimens incline many to the belief that the surface deposit is merely pocket and that if 1t develops stringer to regular vein the latter will deteriorate in value. Development alone, however, will tell this. .-Bisbee Review.
 Several Chicago capitalists are in Douglas as guests of T. A. Lewandow- ski, the mining engineer After spend ing six months in Chicago in the inter- est Of mining proposition, MT. Lew andowski succeeded in getting these gentlemen to visit the mines. As a result of their visit, the company known as the Savage Gold mining company is handsomely capitalized and launched forth upon the mining world. This property is situated in Paradise and consists of thirty claims. The claims contain gold, silver and copper, the latter metal predominant ing. While not very much develop ment has been done, nor many assays have been made, the ore samples shown and the assays that have been made, together with thorough in- spection of the property, was suffl cient to make the visitors believe they have great mine. As the company has ample capital, and as the mine has not yet been developed to great extent, no stock will be placed on the market for time at east.-Bisbee Review.
 For more than twenty years 1t has been known, says ihe Clifton Era, that rich lead-gold ore could be found on the head of Sardine creek, about seven miles from Metcalf. Last win ter some very rich ore was struck in that section, which attracted the at. ten tion of Col. Ben Crawford and Duke walt, who secured bond on the property and at once commenced development work, which they have continued since that time. A suf- ficient amount of work has now been done to establish the permanency and value of the ore bodies beyond ques- tion, and 1t is now generally conceded by mining men who have visited the district that new camp with a bright future has been opened up. The ore exists in contact between dolomite lime and shale, and so far has proved along which it has been uncovered, either by open cuts along the vein or by tunnels. The pay streak has an average width of three feet, with oc- casional swells. The ore is mostly a heavy chloride of lead, with native and carbonates, and carries gold val. ues ranging from one to three ounces. Every sample from the mine or dump will pan long strings of gold. Two tunnels have been driven in on the vein, one for a distance of 225 feet and i the other for about POO feet, from either of which considerable amount of ore has been taken.