Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-26
take Superior
 eoAp MINING AND
 Milling Company STATEMENT MADE TO MAR. oUETTE MINING JOURNAL. Company Has Decided to Abandon It's Claims in the Maedalena District, Having Come to the Conclusion Thatithe Property Did Not Warrant Thorough Development.

Th%oiiowing statement was made tO the Marquette, Michigan Daily Min sng Journal by an officer of the Lake Superior Gold Mining and Milling 'company, whose property is located uear the Greene Consolidated mines, an theiCananea district. to which place 2. H. Begole and Captain Hooper have gone for a visit of inspection. Men Oon of Messrs. Begole and Hooper's xisit to the Cananea district. as also te the ,Chiricahua, district, was made sn The; Review few days ago. Be- Cow is what the Mining Journal says:
 The Lake Superior Cola Mining and *iilling. company is no longer working che claims in the Magdalena district. state of Sonora, Mexico, but has defin- dely abandoned them. The present operations are progressing in the Ca aanea district, about sixty-five miles from Magialena, and .ccnsist of ex- eleratory work on group of claims comprising about 900 acres and lying directly south of and very close to the Famous Greene Consolidated mine. The Lake Superior peoples new claims are a copper proposition, and AO attention IS being paid 70 gold.
 Work in this region has been in progress for several months, since short time after Captain Hooper, Jr., Tent south to assume charge of the cDmpanys operations. He decided after a thorough inspection of the claims ip the Magdalena district that fhere was nothing to be sained from exploring them, or endeavoring to de- gslop them into paying mine The formation, 1t is said, is a. blanket form ation. The stuff near he surface carried gold in varying quantities, but there was little promise If profitable territory being opened up with depth This determined to Captain Hooper's satisfaction and that of the directors, do time or money was wasted on the Magdalena claims. but the operations were transferred to the Cananea dis @ict, where the promising property now being explored was picked up on advantageous terms.
 In the interval Captain Hooper has eeen in personal charge of the develop nent, and has been making excellent GroHess, ...., He has started. no less than three shafts at different points. cn tte claims. and has also undertaken Two tunnels. One of the shafts is HOW down a. depth of. about 175 feet. tt is being sunk through. an iron cap pang, and there is no reason to believe that the hoped-for ere will not be found when the proper depth is at fained: A good sized force of men is employed at the property. pushing the various Explorations, and the Mining ,J0ufna1 is informed that the pay roll yuns as high as s1.5O0 month in kofd. or about $4,000 in Mexican 1hdfsy ''f '"I ocal officers of the company are convinced of the wisdom of theil move in deserting the Magdalena dis frict for the new group Of claims neal the Greene Consolidated, and they ex S5ress a hope that the exploration. COW in progress will have favorable results. Their claims are well situ 1ted and ought to, from their location garry the formation that has made x6e Greene Consolidated such won Aerful property. All indications tt Hate are favorable enough.
 "rhe forthcoming visit of MT. Be gole and Captain Hooper to the prop suty win re the first visit paid to 1t bl zny of he upper peninsula stockhoid srs or officials. and the report Of then personal observations at the claims uill be awaited with much interest The company, as its name indicates ia largely a Lake Superior concern and much of the stock is held in thu city"
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