Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-03
More High Priced
 MEN WILL
 Go Underground
COPPER QUEEN TO INCREASE ITS
 FORCE IN THE MINES.
Instead of Twenty-eight Foremen in Charge of Miners-Stopes Will Have Under Foremen Who Will Have Account of Timber, Powder and Storing Of Ore.

An innovation is shortly to be in.
 augurated in the Copper Queen com.
 pany's mine. pertaining to the man
 her in which it's employees in the sev
 eral shafts are to be managed. The
 change Will necessitate the addition of
 a large force of high-salaried and ez-
 rert men. whose duties will be to
 oversee and direct the work to be
 done at the many stopes throughout
 the mines. The under-foremen are to
 be known as straw bosses" A con-
 seryatiye estimate of the additional
 lumber of men required to fill the
 positions would be about fifty. Thus
 it is very apparent that the change is of great importance.
 The proposed change in the man.
 agement of men and work in the
 mines is made in the interest of econ. omy and the company, will doubtless. profit largely by it. Each straw boss" of The additional force to be
 employed will have charge of either
 twelve or fourteen men and his duty
 will also be to direct work in the stopes where his men are located.
 Besides. he will be required to see
 that the timbering is properly done. , that powder and fuel is used with
 economy, and that ore is in no man Ter wasted or neglected. The bosses
 will be expert men and will work
 with the men under them.
 The change, as stated in the forgo- ing, will go into effect at a very early date, possibly within a weeks time. The plan has been definitely outlined by the company so that the alteration in the former mode of conducting the work in the mines can be effected on l short notice and without trouble. Heretofore. twenty-eight was the number of foremen who had charge of the underground workings at the vari- ous shafts. When the change is ef- fected the number will probably be in creased to total of sixty-five or more. An increase of not less than forty well paid men will consequently make their homes permanently in Bisbee
 The city will thereby receive a sub
 stantial benefit which is one of the innumerable benefits received at the hands of the magnanimous and al.
 ways considerate Copper Queen com pany
 STOCKS IN DEMAND.
 There is a continued active de.
 mand for the Bonanza Circle stocks
 these days, with but few shares of
 ferred. Holders seem to be satisfied and are hanging on for investment in-
 stead Of speculation. They will all I.expect the several properties in ques- ton to be dividend payers some day, and not so very far in the future eith- CT. The demand for Calumet &
 Phtsburg and Lake Superior & Pitts
 burg continues brisk and all cheap of fers are being snapped up quickly. There is more or less inquiry for Junction, Duluth & Pittsburg. Calu- met & Bisbee, Hancock & Arizona and , Lake Superior & Arizona
 Superintendent A. c. Seeboth. cf the Lake Superior & Arizona and the
 Hancock & Arizona, who was in the copper country last week conferring with the directors in regard to new machinery and other equipment, stat red before departing for his home at Globe, Arizona, that the Lake Supe- rior & Arizona will take care of itself and that the prospects at the Hancock & Arizona were of the most encourag- ing. The L. s. & A is now down 40 feet in its newt shaft, having passed through vein matter for a dis. tance of thirty feet. At the 140-foot level large pump, now on the way to the mine, win be installed and it is expected that it will take care of the twater until tte next level is reached. A crosscut for the vein will be started after the pump is in po- sition. Much water was enceunt- cred in the vein. but the pump is ex- pected to drain at As the next level is reached at the further depth of 125 feet another crcsseut for the vein will
 be started, and the drifts to follow will give the property sufficient open ings to plan for a reduction plant. The mine is already fairly well opened, but the directors desire to be ,certain of the permanence of the val ues. The ores encountered to date are of values sufficient to make a paying mine.