Williams news., 1904-08-06
THE ANITA COPPER COMPANY
A Description of the Property, Plant and Pros- poets as Observed by the "News"
 Scribe on Recent Visit

| charge as chemist. This building
 is thoroughly equipped with all the
 necessary appliances for testing the
 ore as it is taken from the shaft.
 Nearby is the large dining hall and
 surrounding 1t numerous cottages, occupied by the miners and their families. At the present time about fifty men are on the pay roll at the camp, but it is of sufficient capacity,
 without further additions, to ac-
 commodate one hundred men. The
 buildings are all painted dark
 mineral red, trimmed in white, and
 present neat and most imposing 2
 appearance.
 Ere we had completed our ir.- spection of the camp the supper bell called us to realization of the
 fact that the inner man called for SOIuO dttFllllOll, liii dltCl dul DIG
 justice had been done to a we'll cooked and served meal, a team
 was driven up and our party started
 for the Eclipse shaft, which is loca-
 ted about three quarters of mile
 south of the camp on a prominent
 ridge or backbone. Here much
 work is being done in the way of clearing ground and cutting sup
 ply of wood for use at the hoist.
 Already a force of wood cutters
 have 800 cords of wood cut and corded on the ground near the shaft.
 One mile west of the shaft the company also has erected it's new
 Princess dam, which was completed e early nn water "a 1T in it to speak of' 10 ID l'o nhrase of one of the men: Ut
 r,;red all around on the sldes'
 hnt ,,'t not in the middle" However,
 # will fill during the present ralny an
 aao son and has a capacity of 2'9oo'-
 GOO gallons, sufficient to guaran, tee a years supply for all purposes At the Eclipse shaft we were ine hv supt. w. H. Hill, who took tn tn
 nsrtv in charge, and as the shii' ,,i had lust been changed and driiiin ; was then in operation, sugges'e u :a that we descend and see the a Is sL ar;us at work. boring holes Tn y. y the exceedingly hard formation 1' alcareous sandstone), throu' ID ID which they are now passing l h ha work is being pushed rapidly ooH he ward, four six-hour shifts 0perat' '.'
 .mo machine drills in the bott' '. '1 of the shaft. During the past !" 'se 'n; tv days eighty-nine feet have p | m M sunk below the old workings WI o on, makes the depth at present , ,,an w feet. At the 25o foot ievei d u lie" Ls. heen run in some thirty :u n n e and shows good indications oi n'p' nresence of a body of ore at no s :'.a .na distance. The shaft is Of large
 '''o ,ort;ons and will be a three-'
 "o p. rtment. 5x1O feet in the c , we requiring broken ground 11io .,ho m Heavy sets of timbers are De,h' ..:a s in as the work progresses ana t d;s7 thing done in first class n'l ''' Mr Wentworth informed us as , 1,;ns ~s they have encountered the fiji. frs 'ilie tact expected and sought for > n ''% aoo foot level, comprising qu' o norp}vrv. As sinking pros t. ia. tbev expect to encounter co a at and find the main hssure ''N m from which the surface o '1 , p'o were derived. The work at " ,,h has more than verified the u '"oarlr .aur and deductions under whlef The inaugurated, the last 'hif'y ,, ,. civ. sinking showing strong m
 in all, zatloh anu Io have never ,n ' sonm ~S,, q mining shaft and w'tne ne .a the operation of machine dfll. , ross a .ne npvel sight, while the CT y oli't., ;n roar m is almost deafenlng'